Born and raised in Southeast Texas (Beaumont / Port Arthur area) I've been strongly influenced by the flora and fauna of the Gulf Coast my entire life. As with numerous artistically inclined people from this area such as Janice Joplin, Johnny and Edgar Winters, Billy Gibbons, The Big Bopper and many many others I've always used the arts and expansion of mind and spirit to counter the artistic stifling by the ever present profit driven and inspiration draining petrochemical industry which tends to dominate the social direction of the region. I am often in the Galveston area which itself is a soul inspiring...more
