Shipping & Receiving - June 14, 2019

SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST, DRUMMER

For most of my life I've been creating and performing music. My mother says that I was kicking in rhythm even in the womb. As a child I was always exposed to music, hearing mama sing as she cooked our dinners, attending my father's barbershop concerts and listening to my big brother's records. For my thirteenth birthday I was given a hand-me-down guitar and taught myself to play. Long as I can remember I’ve been strumming, picking, banging and singing, trying to put sounds into the air that weren’t there before.

Along the road I've been blessed to work with an amazing association of artists and musicians. I’ve been in a couple of pretty good bands and played countless shows in restaurants, bars, music venues and festivals. I’ve shared some stages with musical heroes and recorded in a couple of legendary studios. I play songs I’ve written, songs by friends and cover tunes that I like.

These days I mainly focus on a band called Sam the Lion that I write for and perform in with my compadres Chris Allen Curtis, Matthew Williams and Rodger Harrison. Sometimes, when we’re lucky, Matt’s daughter Amanda Williams Ware brings her angelic vocals to the mix. Though it’s slow going, we’re working on recording an album and building a base of friends and fans around our hometown of Fort Worth.

I also spend a great deal of time, and derive a great deal of pleasure, doing acoustic shows with my friend Steve Long. Sometimes I get to play drums with Steve, Chris, Mike Kelley and David Clay in the band No Class.

Through it all, the thing that really makes this so damn fun and rewarding is the people I get to play with and for. I hope we cross paths somewhere along the road.

Ed Rogers

Shipping & Receiving - June 14, 2019

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