Chuck Phillips has been playing keyboards, guitar and percussion for more than 30 years beginning in small bands near Seattle and then playing in a variety of rock, pop, alternative, R&B and reggae groups in New Orleans highlighted by the progressive urban folk duo with Susan Mack. Later in Tucson, he worked with Neil Bender in his pioneering midi studio. Now, he writes and records original and traditional songs in his Mad Mesquite Studio in Tucson, Arizona.