About Bart

 Bart lives and works on his country estate in his retirement. He’s in his recording studio for special projects like these but works on his own time between, various construction projects around the house. His career included engineering and production of over 400 album projects for public sale, as well as some 1800 radio spots, countless other demos, and books on tape. Bart’s guitar work shows up on about a third of these projects, some of which he played all the instruments in overdub fashion to fabricate the illusion of a band for a client to use as back up. He’s also had work as a composer and producer for a few national projects for PBS television. 

 Bart took up guitar in 1965, and soon found his way into a fairly successful high school dance band, which he describes as one of the happiest experiences of his life. From 1971-1981, he worked as a salesman and department manager in a music store, playing in dance bands on the weekends. 

 Beginning in 1981, Bart made playing the guitar a full time venture, playing as a hired side-man musician for various dance bands, concert appearances, and studio session dates. The session dates fueled Bart’s interest in studio work and got him acquainted with some of the techniques and procedures involved. It also landed him a job as part-time maintenance technician in a local commercial studio. 

 Looking back through his personal collection of calendars and schedules, Bart estimates that he played 2200 dances and concerts before retiring from live performance in 1993, at which time he took an audio engineering job in the commercial studio where he’d served as maintenance and repair technician from 1985. 

 In 1995, Bart began construction on his own recording studio (completed in 1997). Out of a process of hard work, perseverance, some luck, and much support from the local music community, the studio took root and has been quite busy ever since. 

 All along, a studio album of his own original guitar songs had been a hope and aspiration. Like most musicians, finding time away from work and responsibilities to write and record a full album project was a considerable obstacle. Full of many ideas for themes and songs, Bart’s musical background had taken him into such a wide range of musical styles it became daunting to build a solo album concept around such diverse experience. Bart's icredible life experiences have born fruit in the subsequent releases presented here. Peruse, enjoy, purchase if you wish. Life is good.