I just moved to Richardson, TX from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I attended the University of Southern Mississippi. I studied jazz under professor/saxophonist Larry Panella and classical guitar artist/professor Giovanni Dechiaro. I recieved a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in Jazz Studies.

I taught guitar and bass privately, as well as class guitar in public schools, in the Laurel and Hattiesburg, MS area for over five years. I also worked as a freelance jazz and classical guitarist, and performed duets with my wife, flutist Kristina Havard.

After a stint as a bassist for local blues artist T-Bone Pruitt, I landed a bass gig for Afroman in 2001. We toured the southeast for a while, mostly on the college circuit as a trio. Afroman fronted the group and played guitar, I played bass and tapped bass on a restrung 7-string Danelectro guitar that allowed me to play keyboard as well. Premo Stallone held down the drums and he and I became known as The 2 Zigg Zaggs- Afroman's touring band. Popularity of Afroman and his song "Because I Got High" grew exponentially until Universal Republic records signed on Afroman, then on independant label T-Bone's Records. I then purchased a Chapman Stick Bass(SB8) and began my career as a Stick player. The band grew to a six piece after adding DJ Mr. Mixx (of 2 Live Crew fame), and old friends of Afro, Sam and Stan Sistrunk, were backup singers. After touring nationally and internationally in support of the platinum album "The Good Times" and hit song "Because I Got High", the band disbanded in December of 2001.

As luck would have it, Cookout, a jazz/rock/funk quintet who were also on the T-Bone's Record label needed a new bass player the same time I got off the tour with Afroman. Starting in January 2003, I toured with Cookout throughout the southeast. Harry Crumpler-saxophone, Casey Robinson-guitar, Ben Maddox-keyboards and Wurlitzer, and Brad Newton-drums were formidable musicians as well as best of friends.