He started taking guitar lessons at a local music store. “My teacher, Russ Mumma, was a jazzer and there were some pretty incredible musicians coming through there,” Verdery recalls. “Russ wanted me to learn jazz standards and I started learning to read music with him.” The summer be...
In September of 2009 Keen released the album "The Rose Hotel." He spends about six months per year away from home performing. Keen is an avid collector of shotguns and guitars, and a visit to the Mandolin Brothers musical-instrument store on Staten Island, New York is described.Seabrook...