MOBILE HOME BOY • 2026

MOBILE HOME BOY

Recording Artist • Guitarist • Touring Musician

I'M HERE. LET'S PLAY.

I'm Mobile Home Boy. I've spent decades making loud music, playing stages, building records and putting guitars where guitars probably weren't supposed to be. Metal, country, hip-hop, electronic — I never cared much about the label. If it needed something loud, strange or unmistakably mine, I plugged in.

This is what I'm doing now — and some of the wreckage that got me here.

Book Me Rates Hear Me

Mobile Home Boy performing guitar live in front of a crowd

LIVE • TOURING • AVAILABLE

THIS IS WHERE I BELONG.

Guitar in hand. Crowd in front of me. Available for the right live and touring project.

WHY WE MAKE MUSIC

IT'S THE FANS.

The gear matters. The music matters. But none of it means a damn thing without the people who listen, show up, and keep the music alive.

The industry doesn't make music matter. The fans do.

STILL GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE MUSIC.
ZERO FUCKS LEFT FOR THE BULLSHIT.

I spent years giving my time and energy to IT and corporations. I know the difference between making a living and selling out. These days, I make music because I want to. If you connect with it, that means everything. If the industry doesn’t approve, I don’t give a fuck.

A clip from Billy that gets to the heart of it. Watch from 0:22.

Watch Billy's clip on YouTube ↗

🎸 NEW FEATURE SERIES • EPISODE 01 COMING SOON

CABINET
WARS.

SAME GUITAR. SAME AMP. DIFFERENT CABINET.

Does a speaker cabinet really change your tone? We're putting real guitar cabinets head-to-head, starting with the Crate 4×12. Same riff, controlled settings, real-world sound. You decide which box wins.

EXPLORE CABINET WARS →LESSONS — COMING SOON

Cabinet Wars is coming soon. Check back for the first episode.

RIGHT NOW

THIS ISN'T A COMEBACK PAGE.
THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING NOW.

Recording

Writing, tracking and building new music from a working home studio.

Guitar

Guitar-driven rap/rock roots with a current rig built for recording and live work.

On The Road

Available as a touring musician and live guitarist for the right artist or project.

Sessions

Studio guitar, collaboration, arrangement ideas and project work.

SKILLS / AVAILABLE FOR HIRE

GUITAR. STAGE. STUDIO.

Lead guitar • Rhythm guitar • Guitar solos • Guitar instruction • Rock • Rap/Rock crossover • Country • Touring/live performance • Session/studio work • Songwriting • Arrangement • Recording and production.

Professional touring experience includes two years as lead guitarist with Mike Pope and the Pistols (1995–96), with Jeff Lamb on bass and production by Danny Woods of Chairmen of the Board. The surviving archive also documents dedicated guitar work, live-show projects and multitrack production sessions spanning rock, hip-hop, dance and country.

PROJECTS / PEOPLE / SESSIONS

COLLABORATIONS & ROAD HISTORY.

From touring lead guitar to digital production, remixes and cross-genre sessions, these are the people and projects that helped shape the Mobile Home Boy story.

EDDIE VAN HALENDuring the Arizona studio years, Eddie stopped by the home studio and recorded three passes for material connected to the 2006 Strummin’ with the Devil tribute-album period. Eddie also introduced James to bassist Paul Burns.

MISS KIER / DEEE-LITEA WRVU-era connection that grew into collaboration around the DJ Dan project. Miss Kier asked for heavy guitar/metal material for a track, and James supplied several pieces.

DE LA SOUL + FLAVOR FLAVSony contacted James for a mashup project bringing De La Soul and Flavor Flav material together. The recovered archive contains extensive De La Soul session elements from the project.

DJ DANJames worked on the Sony-era DJ Dan project; the original archive includes a dedicated DJ Dan session with liners and individual production elements.

CORY LEEJames served as digital producer on the recovered Cory Lee tracks, then added his signature guitar treatment to the mix. The original production project and Mobile Home Boy METALGOD Mix survive in the archive.

MENACE DA FIENDFor Menace Da Fiend, James recorded the hard guitar element himself — a deliberately extreme death-metal/grindcore collision with hardcore rap. The original ACID project and finished Collab Menace mix survive.

MIKE POPE & THE PISTOLSProfessional touring lead guitarist, 1994–95, alongside bassist Jeff Lamb. The project was produced by Danny Woods of Chairmen of the Board.

THE MOBILE HOME BOY BANDPaul Burns played bass in the 2004–05 Mobile Home Boy project. PJ Clevenger was the original drummer and was later replaced by Ian Falgout after PJ left for a drum-building opportunity.

WHY CAN’T WE GET ALONGA raw one-man country recording: James performed the entire track himself — guitar, bass, drums and vocals — showing the multi-instrumental side behind the heavier material.

The surviving archive includes original multitrack projects, finished mixes, photos and session material. Some stories here are firsthand artist recollections; surviving project files are being restored and published as the archive is recovered.

MUSICIAN • LESSONS • STUDIO

LET'S WORK.

Touring, sessions and studio time — let's talk. Guitar lessons are coming soon; bookings are not open yet.

GUITAR LESSONS

COMING SOON

One-on-one guitar instruction. Bookings are not open yet.

STUDIO TIME

$100 / HOUR

Studio time without an engineer.

STUDIO + ENGINEER

$150 / HOUR

Studio time with an engineer.

Book / Get In Touch

PLAY
TEACH
RECORD

MUSIC

WHERE'S THE PARTY

ORIGINAL MOBILE HOME BOY RECORDING • #1 AT WRVU, NASHVILLE

The most popular Mobile Home Boy track by far. “Where's the Party” was the defining song — and it's one piece of a much bigger story that's still being written.

WHERE'S THE PARTYOriginal Mobile Home Boy recording • 3:11

HIP HOP ANTHEMMobile Home Boy Featuring Flav • recovered 2005 master • 3:09

MOBILE HOMIE GUITAR SOLOCan You Hear Me? • full Mobile Home Boy track • 3:36

COLLAB MENACEJames enters at the original 2:00 mark • featured section • 2:27

WHY CAN'T WE GET ALONG

COUNTRY • ORIGINAL RECORDING

A raw 2004 one-man recording — guitar, bass, drums and vocals performed by James. The original Mobile Home Boy master and ACID production project survived in the archive.

WHY CAN’T WE GET ALONG / GET ALONGMobile Home Boy • recovered 1999 master • 1:46

Cover Your Ears EP artwork — Cover Your Ears EP

CURRENT RIG / STUDIO / ROAD

THE TOOLS I USE NOW.

A complete working guitar, recording and road system — from guitars and four half-stacks to a conditioned, cooled rack and a full home recording environment.

Guitars

Leo Jaymz Tsunami, Ibanez RG370 and Jackson JS Series Dinky Arch Top JS22-7 DKA HT 7-string in Black — covering Floyd Rose work, six-string rhythm and lead, and extended-range material.

Four Half-Stacks

Four Crate GX1200 heads paired with four GX1200 4×12 speaker cabinets — a full wall of road-ready guitar amplification.

Guitar Processing + Road Rack

Mooer GE150 guitar processing backed by a travel-ready rack with rack power distribution and conditioning, EQ, active four-fan rack cooling with variable-speed control, plus supporting signal and power hardware.

Digital Recording Workstation

High-performance Windows production workstation with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 graphics, 32 GB DDR5-6000 memory, 2.5 GbE networking and REAPER for multitrack recording, editing, arranging and production.

Recording & Monitoring

Stereo line-in guitar capture for low-latency monitoring, USB microphone input, speaker and USB-headphone monitoring, with the GE150 handling guitar processing without requiring USB audio monitoring.

Home Studio

A combined writing, tracking, mixing and playback room: REAPER workstation, guitar processing, stereo line-in workflow, USB mic, speaker monitoring, USB headphones, rack EQ and signal hardware, plus multi-speaker and subwoofer systems for playback and reference listening.

THE LEGACY • FROM THE VAULT

I'VE BEEN DOING THIS A WHILE.

Radio, records, bands, video and a lot of miles came before today. Here's some of it — preserved because it belongs to the story, not because I'm living in the past.

Mobile Home Boy Video Hits number one archive

FROM THE VAULT

ACIDPLANET VIDEO HITS #1

A surviving July 2005 archive screenshot shows “My Bio” at #1 in ACIDplanet’s Other video chart. A second preserved screenshot shows it at #3 across all genres.

Mobile Home Boy My Bio number three across all genres on ACIDplanet