 But we're going to start the show this week with a Renaissance man from Mount Holly, North Carolina, who is a study in contradictions. He's a lawyer by trade, a self-admitted high school jock who claims as major influences Kerouac and Chaucer and loves jazz and opera. He's also a poet and a painter, but he's played music since his girlfriend left him for one of his best friends when he was 18 years old.