My guitar playing and singing improved greatly in that first year and so that was the beginning of nearly 20 years of playing in various bands with some fine WA musicians.
I can still remember the very first tune that we learned in the first band, and that was the Shadows ‘Apache,’ which I still play to this day and recorded on my ‘Guitar Picker’ Album.
I started writing songs pretty much as soon as I started with the guitar, but I didn’t think they were very good, however, I persisted and wrote quite a few in those band years and they were always 100% country songs.
I started taking out Jenny in my old FJ Holden when she was 15 and we married and had four beautiful children, Jason, Tania, Nicole, and Kelly, who are all good singers/musicians and songwriters so the music will carry on down the family.