It's hard to write about yourself and tell the good things without it sounding like bragging, so I'll ask for your forgiveness if it sounds that way. But I figure you might want to know a bit about me since I try to write songs about real life.

I was born in Harrison, Arkansas, which I consider to be my home territory even though my family also lived in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma before I graduated high school. I loved rock and roll as a kid, especially Elvis and Grand Funk Railroad. Then I heard the Eagles, who took the best of rock and roll and country and created a sound that still resonates with me. Around that time my parents bought me a cheap little sunburst guitar and I started playing along with records.

I played around Ardmore, Oklahoma in a duo called Knox & Nance. We won a county-wide talent contest. Second place was a little girl who cried and ran off stage. Then I was in a band called Solid Rock. We were loud.

In college at the University of Arkansas, I started playing bluegrass and country. Jerry Jeff Walker was a big influence as well as people like Guy Clark and Willie Nelson.

After college, I moved to Los Angeles and started a country band called Straight Up. We toured the Western U.S. and played lots of clubs where requests were more like orders backed up with firearms and guys named Buck. It's commonly referred to as 'paying your dues'. The best part of that tour though was opening for Asleep At The Wheel. Actually, we were supposed to open for them but a scheduling problem caused them to cancel and all of their fans had driven 60 miles up from Boise to Idaho Falls. The club owner said that we would play the whole night and the crowd was staring at us like it was our turn to be executed. Well, and here begins the tooting my own horn section, by the end of the night, the crowd had called us back for 3 encores and they were still shouting 15 minutes after we had quit. At that moment I thought this is not a bad way to make a living.

Back in Los Angeles, I began to do singing work for movie and TV soundtracks. I did lead vocal work for movies such as "Motel Hell", "China O'Brien" and "Relentless II". I did soundtrack work for the TV series "Cagney & Lacey" and an NBC movie of the week called "Combat High". I've done close to 100 sound-alikes of everyone from Kenny Rogers to David Bowie for various projects. I was lucky enough to do a couple of commercial jingles such as "Pearl Lite Beer" and "Coca Cola". I also had the honor of singing a version of acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard's "The Ballad of Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue" during an evening of cowboy poetry, with noted actors such as Melissa Gilbert, Bo Hopkins and Bruce Boxleitner at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum. And I got to open the show for Suzy Bogguss at the Ventura Theatre. Man that woman can sing.

When it came time to do a record, I was incredibly lucky to get some of the best musicians around, such as Albert Lee, Herb Pedersen, Eric Lowen, Babs Parent, Lawrence Juber, Steve Trovato, Mike Condello, Stevie Fryette, Dennis Belfield, John Ferraroto, Marty Rifkin and Nat Wyner to record Caution to the Wind.

Well, I hope this wasn't too long winded, but maybe you know enough now to listen to a couple of the tracks (coming soon). Either way, I hope you take your own chances now and then.

Thanks very much,
Kregg Nance