Charlie had the music bug starting at the age of thirteen growing up in the state of Maine. Then when the Beatles and the rest of the English Music Invasion started it was "hey Dad I want to play the guitar and sing like these guys." 

Upon moving to Massachusetts, it wasn't until five years later that he would actually get his hands on his first guitar and even then it was a six string acoustic which he removed the first two strings to try and convert it to a bass guitar. Then the next summer he went and bought his very first real bass guitar.

The next phase was starting a band. Of course the real challenge then was finding a lead guitar player. There were plenty of bass players around but no lead guitarists. 

Next phase was to learn how to play lead guitar. Then put a band together with friends from high school. 

After graduating high school five good friends got together and played some great music and had a lot of good times together for about five years playing music professionally with the group known as Sunny Day. That group did a lot of music from just about every genre, ranging from the Beatles, Bee Gees to Led Zeppelin and then from Elvis, Everly Brothers, Neil Diamond, Bobby Darin to Sinatra and Engelbert.

All good things come to an end sad to say, but on to bigger and better things. Charlie joined a new band and toured all over New England with a group called Gold Dust. The band had great vocal harmonizing (four parts) as well as lead vocals and double harmony guitars. 

It was during this phase that Charlie started to play keyboard synthesizers to reproduce brass and strings in a lot of material the band would play. During this time Charlie continued writing music as he had been doing since he first learned how to play. 

 Going in and out of the studios in and around Boston meeting and getting offers to play with one band which went on to become successful. And meeting a lot of other people and musicians Charlie went on to build his own recording studio and producing music by other musicians for commercials as well as writing and co-writing with anyone who had ideas and a dream. By this time learning how to play drums and the rest he became a studio musician in his own studio for a lot of other aspiring artists.

In between the recording and writing he started a new group Time Trax, which had a run of five years, followed by the group Equal Balance playing the clubs as well as weddings and parties circuit for another seven years.

During the first part of the eighties Charlie had won different awards in songwriting competitions along with Billboard songwriters. In the latter part of the eighties he went to Nashville to record with some of the best studio guys in the business and released a single on Comstock Records. Both sides written by Charlie had write ups in Cashbox and Billboard magazines upon its release. The songs had airplay on 86 radio stations, major and college all over the U.S. and was well received everywhere for a period of six to eight weeks.

Upon leaving New England in 1991 and landing in Maryland Charlie found the music scene to be a little different down here.  The difference was this time around it was country music mainly with some southern rock and some rock n roll once in awhile. The band scene was like a revolving door for all the musicians here just trying to find something that was working or they wanted to be the star in that band for this week or month. Nobody stayed with one project for more than a couple of months. Once again he started on bass then went to guitar back to bass then to guitar. 

So, like in the beginning of this bio, the wheel goes around again and as they say history repeats itself. There were a lot of great people to play with once he found the combinations of people that worked. 

First on the list was playing guitar for Mike Moore & Laredo playing up and down the east coast for about six months. Then there was a band called Kami Durkin and Smokin' Gun which had the longest run, lasting eight years with some personnel changes along the way. 

When this band ended it was back forth on bass and guitar and running sound in Midnight Rodeo, Crazy Horse and City Slicker doing fill in work for them. Then back on bass guitar into a permanent position in Crossfire. When Crossfire ended he was offered a job with Crazy Horse, which later turned into Laredo that came to a sad end in Oct. 2003. 

See what we mean about a revolving door. Playing with all these bands had a bright side as well. Charlie got to open for and meet a lot of people who are very popular in the country music scene today. They include Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Sammy Kershaw, and Terri Clarke at the Martin State Airport Country Festivals. Also on the list were Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, John Anderson and Neal McCoy at the Rocky Gap Festivals. A few others to mention were Daryl Singletary, Trace Adkins, Kevin Sharp and Ken Mellons.  But then this country phase ended and a new light on the horizon came through with Oracle.

It was a sign that couldn't be ignored after looking through about 280 ads. It was almost to good to be true. The welcome from the Oracle fans was great, and the meeting with Jeff and Glenn who preceded him was a great pleasure, as is the opportunity to become part of the Oracle family.

Unfortunately, along about the beginning of 2008, conflicts began to arise with Charlie's full time job down in La Plata, Md.  He began to have to work later and later, and then trying to frantically make his way through southern Maryland traffic to get to the gigs was becoming more and more difficult.

Finally, around the mid-point of 2008, Charlie said adieu to Oracle, with the promise that he would come back from time to time to sit in.

Charlie's 5 year tenure with Oracle was a great one, a period that saw the growth of the band from a local group playing mostly restaurants and bars to one that was in great demand throughout the area for all sorts of special functions.

For his contributions to the band we thank him, and look forward to his visits.