Recent years has seen Dac study the world of Blues music with an obsessional passion, travelling anywhere and everywhere throughout Europe and the US to listen and learn directly, from the old masters, including John Jackson, Louisiana Red, Philadelphia Jerry Ricks and John Cephas, and the great modern performers including Woody Mann, Mike Dowling, John Miller and Michael Messer.


His recordings and “live” performances are constantly enhancing his reputation as


he through


delivers memorable moments his six-string and 12-string


wooden guitars, banjo and his National steel resonator slide guitars. His album “Got These Blues” has been featured on European, Australian and American radio stations and he is in constant demand for festivals, concerts, gigs, workshops and private tuition.


Dac is a founder associate member of the European Blues Association, and member of the Blues Foundation.


MY MUSICAL LIFE My earliest recollection of a musical experience is of My mother taking me as a child to see The King Brothers at a local theatre, Man I was absolutely entranced, the beat , the rhythm. The melody, the excitement… then being beeing fascinated with a toy banjo,and the sound I could get it to make listening to music radio stations on my crystal set… Hearing “Big Road Blues” on a sratchy old record by Roosavelt Holts… later on I traded a few childish things to get my first six string guitar , It was


real heavy, an action a mile high and strings like telegraph wires, real hard to hold a note down.


When I was about sixteen I bought a bright red


electric fender, learned a


few power chords, and jammed with a couple of bands,…….The Fugatives, and the BobCats nothing fancy just a few chords and a lot of passion and played the working mens clubs in the North, then work, business, life, chasing women, two marriages, and children, took over and I did not touch a guitar for over twenty years and two divorces later, I decided to go back to my first love, Music.


So I set about learning finger picking blues with an obsessional passion, traveling anywhere and everywhere, all over the British Isles. I was very fortunate in the early days when I travelled to Liverpool to meet and ettend a workshop by Woody Mann from New York, who could play the styles I wanted to learn as he learnt directly from Gary Davis as a boy and mor importantly new how to teach these styles.


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