Biography
Lawrence studied the electric guitar under bluesman and union musician Bobby Hayes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the late 1990s into the 2000s. His instrumental blues albums are composed in a traditional, improvisational style, featuring vocal-like lead lines over rhythmic backing tracks, blending a variety of blues traditions from throughout the United States and time periods, and characterized by ambience and ghostly presence.
Lawrence was born in Marquette, MI and performed frequently at the 231 House of Muses in his formative years. He performed as a solo artist and in musical groups throughout the Midwest and the U.S., even opening a show for Grammy-nominated Afro-Man and performing at such venues as the Double Door in Chicago, IL and the "World Famous" Kenton Club in Portland, OR.
He would go on to receive a BA in English from Northern Michigan University and PhD in Rhetoric & Technical Communication with a specialization in Digital Media Theory from Michigan Technological University in 2014, where he wrote the dissertation "On the Digital-Political Topography of Music," a rhetorical, materialist work on the persuasive power of music.
Later, Lawrence would become tenured Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Wisconsin - Superior and publish several books. These included a textbook with publisher Broadview Press (Digital Writing)[/i] now in its 2nd edition, and a history of disinformation (Disinformed: The History of Humanity's Search for Truth), before beginning work on a physicalist's account of the origins of technology, wherein he would define technology as the byproduct of the interaction of physical systems, thereby helping to resolve issues related to the concurrent independent development of human technologies and the multiple discovery phenomenon.
He married Kendra Elizabeth Lawrence (nee Musselman) of Ishpeming, MI in 2018 at the Carp River Gardens; they live in Superior, WI with their three children. Lawrence continues to enjoy his life as a father, husband, professor, thinker, musician, writer, and musicological oddball.
Lawrence was born in Marquette, MI and performed frequently at the 231 House of Muses in his formative years. He performed as a solo artist and in musical groups throughout the Midwest and the U.S., even opening a show for Grammy-nominated Afro-Man and performing at such venues as the Double Door in Chicago, IL and the "World Famous" Kenton Club in Portland, OR.
He would go on to receive a BA in English from Northern Michigan University and PhD in Rhetoric & Technical Communication with a specialization in Digital Media Theory from Michigan Technological University in 2014, where he wrote the dissertation "On the Digital-Political Topography of Music," a rhetorical, materialist work on the persuasive power of music.
Later, Lawrence would become tenured Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Wisconsin - Superior and publish several books. These included a textbook with publisher Broadview Press (Digital Writing)[/i] now in its 2nd edition, and a history of disinformation (Disinformed: The History of Humanity's Search for Truth), before beginning work on a physicalist's account of the origins of technology, wherein he would define technology as the byproduct of the interaction of physical systems, thereby helping to resolve issues related to the concurrent independent development of human technologies and the multiple discovery phenomenon.
He married Kendra Elizabeth Lawrence (nee Musselman) of Ishpeming, MI in 2018 at the Carp River Gardens; they live in Superior, WI with their three children. Lawrence continues to enjoy his life as a father, husband, professor, thinker, musician, writer, and musicological oddball.
