Craig is a natural born musician who grew up in an extremely rich musically diverse environment. For starters , his parents were both singers , his father in a Barbershop Quartet & his mother in the Sweet Adelines Chorus. The parent's listening musical tastes ranged from the big bands of the 30's and early 40's to the swinging latin Orchestras of the 50's and 60's all they way to the likes of Nana Mouskouri , Roger Miller and Johnny Cash. According to his mother, Craig began asking for a guitar from around the age of 2 or 3. It ended up that the first REAL guitar showed up when Craig was around 5 when his parents bought a nylon string guitar for his older brother.

Being that Craig was the youngest , he had to share a room with his brother who is 7 years older than him. What that meant for Craig was basically having no control over what music was played in the room. That translated to a 5 year old being weened on the likes of Frank Zappa , Uriah Heep ,Black Sabbath & a ton of other heavy duty rock and rollers. Craig's sister who was 5 years older was another completely different musical influence. She offered up a range of great song writers of popular music like the Bee Gees , Barry Manilow ,Billy Joel and Elton John… All that being said , Craig's very own influences that cultivated from that time have remained strong and true as well ever since.
" they were basically the Balladeers of the day like John Denver , Gordon Lightfoot and Glenn Campbell ".
 
From those beginnings Craig became absolutely immersed and obsessed with playing the guitar. " I used to get ordered OUT of my room to have to come spend time with the family , that's how much I was playing ". Teaching other kids & playing in a local band through Middle and High School, Craig now (fresh out of high school) caught a ride with a friend & headed out to Los Angeles. After spending years of playing with different people in LA Craig's interest shifted in to the art of recording and thus started down the road of becoming a self taught engineer.
" simply put , I was never ultimately
pleased with any result from the studios I recorded in " .

In 1997 Craig was lucky enough to take over an historic recording space in Hollywood which would later become his Winslow Ct. Studio.
" I never wanted to record other people, I got the place for me and my music ". The studio's history is said to be one of the oldest film audio recording studios in the world dating back to the 1920's. Sometime in the 60's and 70's it belonged to Liberace and then it was sold to the great Bruce Scott ( co inventor of time code ) who then formed his production company Scott Sound.
 
" basically the commercial side of the studio started because of a record I recorded. A few of my music friends were like that sounds AWESOME , will you record me? And then it began " .

Over the last 11 years Craig has become a word of mouth go-to-guy for many diverse artists as well as having a respected studio among many accredited top tier session players. " Winslow Ct. has been my best education with out a doubt , I've been a sponge the whole time & I know I've been blessed " . Working with accomplished artists from all over the world as well as a multitude of industry greats of varying styles that range all the way from Opera to Punk , Writers to Artists , Producers to Engineers, Actors to Athletes & even Motivational Speakers has brought so much knowledge to Craig's skills - production & all around artistic insights.


just a few names covering the industry :
( Jack Tempchin - Greg Leisz - Dave Alvin - Nellie McKay - Geoff Emerick - Johnny Rivers - Spooner Oldham - John Gillies - Bob Glaub - Val Kilmer - Stan Ridgeway - Rosemary Butler - Mick Rossi - Gabriel Byrne - Mark Linett - Rossie Flores - Syd Straw - Berton Averre -  Christopher Wicks - Scott Weiland - Steve Jones - Ellis Zorkin - Billy Duffy - James Valentine - Lysa Flores - Candye Kane - Don Heffington - Charles Neville - Herb Mickman - Peter Case - Gaby Moreno - Carlos Guitarlos - Les Brown - Roy Dotrice - Christopher Guest - Chris Gaffney - Diane Birch - Gokor Chivichyan -  Sara and Sean Watkins - John Doe - Exene Cervenka - Naomi Louise Warne - UKA - Liam McLachlan - Stuart Mathis - David Wilson - Dweezil Zappa - Rick Rosas - Phil Jones - Jeffrey Segal - Terrence Atkins - Jimmy Swan - David Hildago - Grant Lee Philips - Eric Heywood - Rob Muerer - Marcus Giamatti - Cary Park - Charlie Waymire - Gregory Slay - Jim Scott - Bernie Grundman - Tony Palkovic - Chad Wackerman - Brian Auger - UPO - Terry Bozzio - Mike Kneally - Stanley Wycoff - Robbie Fulks - Brett Tuggle - Doug Sax - Bob Katz - Rich Sheldon - Gavin Lursen - Joe Gastwirt - Steve Holroyd - Ian Brennan - Greg Copeland - The Jesus Twins - Novi Novog - James McMurtry - Deacon Jones - Jeff Young - Crosby Tyler - Neil Zlozower - Alex Al - Mark London Sims - Reggie Hamilton - David Jackson - Rob Burke - Dave Raven -  DJ Bonebrake - Tony Kaye - Van Dyke Parks - Michael Patterson - Brigitte Nielsen - and on & on & on…)
 

 An additional credit worthy of special inclusion, Craig was beyond honored when he was asked by Gail Zappa to mix a rare performance of Frank Zappa and his band live in 1978 at the Hammersmith Odeon for 2010's 70th anniversary birthday release.
" it's hard to describe the personal importance to me but it's a full circle of sorts , so cool , and just a phenomenal level of excellence to work with , what an honor " .

Craig is happily married to his photographer wife Maria and currently lives in Los Angeles.