My first album -- Unvarnished Truth 

I grew up on country music, especially bluegrass.  Dad had a guitar, a mandolin, a 5-string banjo, and sometimes a fiddle stashed in closets around the house. I picked up all of them and asked Dad to teach me to play.  My mother loved old-style pop music and was always singing around the house. As I grew into my own generation's music, I enjoyed folk and folk rock, which had words that meant something to me.  Somewhere between 50's rock and disco, music took on a great social significance.  Music was…

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