Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Mark Diedrich is a singer and songwriter, guitarist and harmonicat. He blends the folk and country rock flavors of the early Byrds and Buffalo Springfield with his own original writing and vocalizing--and in his large catalog of original material you could see that he is almost Americana music personified. He enjoys playing a 12-string Rickenbacker like Roger McGuinn to capture that Byrdsy jangle which so captured him when he first heard "Mr. Tambourine Man." He also loves to drench his music in pedal steel guitar, harmonica and Neil Young-style guitar solos. When working on his first CD it seemed to him and producer, James Cardinal, that the sounds and instrumentation closely resembled that of early Byrd Chris Hillman on the latter's 1998 CD, "Like A Hurricane" (Sugar Hill Records). Mark has spent most of his life working on his music, although it took a backseat to his writing and publishing of books on American Indians of the upper Midwest region of the United States (See Amazon.com book section). In recent years he has returned to the stage of southeastern Minnesota coffeehouses, and his first CD, entitled "Something Tells Me," will be available in August 2000.