His musical journey began through chords from his father’s guitar and soon after from a friend’s cassette of Metallica and Ozzy Osborne. When he began playing professionally it was during the age of grunge rock and metal music and some of his earliest bands had names like Burner, Human Plague, Divine Empire and Raped Ape. So, how does a young person transition from thrash and death metal to become an award-winning, blues multi-instrumentalist, who incidentally is well-versed in gypsy jazz and two-stringed cigar box guitars, get to where he is today? J.P. tells me he just got lucky.