Craig had been playing trumpet for six years when he signed up for guitar class his junior year of high school, hoping to learn chord structure and music theory.

He did not.

But he did fall in love with playing guitar and writing songs and soon enough started a band with friends, who introduced him to the music of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Jeff Buckley.

Subsequent pivotal moments are as follows:

• Craig went on to study trumpet performance at Yale School of Music, but still writing songs and performing in New Haven coffee shops and frequenting the renowned open mic venue The Space.

• While in graduate school, he bought a classical guitar for $100 from a local shop and learned a finger-picking style from a fellow student and Dylan devotee.

• After graduating from Yale with no actual skills, he lived in NYC bouncing around between few temp gigs and even fewer trumpet gigs.

• To make ends meet, he learned to roast coffee and worked as head roaster for West End Coffee in SC for the better part of a decade.

• His first love was art, specifically drawing faces and figures. Once settled in Greenville, he learned to paint and draw with charcoal, soon acquiring a studio and taking commissions.

• Discontent with his lyric writing, he took several years off before discovering Joanna Newsom, whose writing opened him up to an entirely new approach.

• In 2017, at age 38, Craig released his debut album Blue Metropolis, a thick, busy, horn-heavy work that he describes as a portrait of a city, inspired by his time in NYC.

• In 2024, Craig will release a new album Entropy in Six Dimensions, conceived as a nearly continuous work of 9 songs for voice and guitar.