Connell Memorial United Methodist Church

I am a JAZZ guitarist who has worked in Nashville and Los Angeles. I would be honored to play acoustic and electric lead and rhythm and accompaniment guitar for the Dixie Chicks, with or without Garth Brooks, with or without the Carpenters, with or without Toby Keith, and so with or without Gary Sims, Ty Englund, Scotty Emmerich. I am a light skinned African American, if that matters to my guitar playing. I have worked with numerous recording groups, and perform work-shops on the internet.

Raymond Garth Brooks, we have had out differences with Toby Keith Covell in the past, but we`d like to team with him and you now, if you`ll have us. We are finally ready to try to make nice. It is a shame Nashville seems to think Toby has died of stomach cancer. We like his daughter Francine and his wife, Becky Tricia Lucus. Obviously, we could bolster the bluegrass feel of his and your band. Toby would probably want Trace Adkins to play Bass and Scotty Emerich to share electric lead guitar with Ty Englund. We would have no objection to that. Renee Costas might be an adequate first or second drummer. Superstar drummers are hard to come by. We do not know if his father, Nick Costas, can play drums, or other instruments, or not. Renee says his father is a better drummer than he is. Los Angeles seems preoccupied with belittling each other and sports, and have not promoted the Gayle LeVant, Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter, Bob Messenger, Earle Dumler, Gary Sims, Doug Strawn, Ronnie Tutt, etc., concerts the way they claimed they would. Everyone seems to claim they want to help Giles Dyer, but they all seem to be letting him starve to death.

The Carpenters have been putting on free, invitation only concerts, in New York City, which many Country superstars, and other superstars, have participated in. They deserve to be offered several recording and booking agency contracts in NashVille. They are highly recommended by Merle Haggard, Toby Keith [Covell], Lionel Richie, the Jacksons, George Strait, and me, among many others.