Rod has been performing for thirty years and teaching for twenty-five years on a total of six instruments: keyboard, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, and fiddle.  His styles include classical, pop, new age, bluegrass, flamenco, and celtic.  Over the years he has worked with artists like Martha Munizzi and Grammy winner Bruce Carroll and performed for coffee houses, restaurants, churches, hotels, civic centers, performance halls, weddings, private parties, corporate functions, and outdoor festivals.  As the founder and director of the Tulsa Guitar Society he has done promotional work for artists like Edgar Cruz, Tommy Emmanuel, and Ronald Radford.

Raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, Rod was exposed to a variety of musical styles from the age of eight when he began four years of classical piano lessons while also singing traditional sacred music in the junior choir of the Baptist church and listening to the pop music his sister played from her voluminous record collection.  At age fourteen he began playing the guitar where his interest in pop music artists like Jim Croce, James Taylor, and Gordon Lightfoot led him to develop his fingerstyle technique.  When he was seventeen he began playing the banjo and developed an appreciation for folk music and bluegrass by listening to Arlo Guthrie, Flatt & Scruggs, Eric Weisberg, and Roy Clark.  At eighteen he began studying classical guitar at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls.  In his twenties his love for folk and bluegrass led him to learn the mandolin, bass, and fiddle as well.  Later he became interested in new age artists like William Ackerman, Alex De Grassi, and Michael Hedges while also discovering jazz artists Jean-Luc Ponty, Stephane Grappelli, and Martin Taylor.  In more recent years he has returned to his classical roots on guitar while adding several flamenco pieces into his repertoire after listening to guitarists such as Juan Martin and Paco de Lucia.      

After living in Nashville for a couple of years Rod vowed to remain independent with his future musical endeavors.  He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he plays, records, teaches, and promotes the music that he loves as director of the Tulsa Guitar Society and an artist with the Instrumental Artists Consortium.