Raised in the mountains of Western Colorado, A.J. is a multi-award winning Blues & Progressive Roots artist. In the few short years of his professional career, A.J. has won a number of awards & accolades. At the 2017 Colorado Blues Society "Members' Choice Awards" A.J. won an unprecedented 8 awards for: - Best Guitarist - Best Solo/Duo - Best Band - Best Male Vocals - Best Slide Guitar - Best Songwriter - Best Acoustic Act - Best Local Recording (“Kalamath”) He was recently mentioned in the Oct. 2018 edition of Rolling Stone (France) as one of the top up & coming artists out of Colorado. His playing style falls somewhere in between the finger picking & slide of Country Roots music, and the groove based uptempo sensibilities of Blues Rock. "... his outstanding slide ability, steaming vocals, and incredible finger-picking style, almost sounds as though he brought the blues back from the dead..." The BolderBeat / Boulder, CO. / Aug. 24, 2017