About Me

First Name	Andrew R
Last Name	Fingerpicking, Flatpicking, Finding locals to jam with, Bluegrass, Blues, Collecting guitars, Discovering new music
Nickname	andrew-r
Why I'm Here	I’ve been strumming cowboy chords in first position since I was sixteen. That was back when a mullet haircut was not seen to be a crime against good taste. Over the years my dedication to playing guitar has waxed and waned. At times I had up to seven guitars but they were all cranking out the same cowboy chords. My wife complains that I won’t play for anyone but myself in the backroom. She thinks that I sound good when she can hear me strumming away. After seeing my son learn fingerstyle guitar to a very proficient level plus five other instruments in the last year. That is right, five instruments, all proficient in one year. So seeing him do that and knowing his mother can’t carry a tune with a handle on it, I decided that I was going to buckle down and put some really effort into learning to play more advanced guitar. I’m old and don’t go clubbing or pubbing, so I have the time to put to good use. I currently have a 34 year old Washburn D24S, 8 year old Epiphone Hummingbird, a one year old Epiphone Masterbilt AJ-500RCE and a 2016 Gibson J-35
City	I love guitar music and I love guitars as works of art. I want to be able to entertain myself and family when we are together. I also want to be able to justify buying those dream guitars (Gibson Hummingbird, Gibson SJ-200) as more than beautiful works of art hung up on the walls.

Andrew R