Mick Overman is a west coast legend. He’s a poet and master musician. His music is best described as ”Bluesy Folk & Roll with Jazz Attitude” and his guitar playing and singing as ”Berklee College of Caveman”. He has long been regarded as one of the west coast’s hardest working (as many as 379 performances in one year) and prolific artists. He’s an ”Iron Man Of The Road”.

Mick was born the son of a rocket scientist in Ohio and followed the aerospace boom to California at age two. His earliest musical influences were listening to Tchaikovsky’s ”1812 Overture” and Chet Atkins as well as the Kingston Trio and Cannonball Adderly. His first published work was an early 60’s Haiku entitled ”Fireflies” in the Fullerton Daily News Tribune.

Overman abandoned guitar lessons in fourth grade for little league baseball after learning ”These Boots Are Made For Walkin”’ and began studying drums at age 13. Overman resumed study of the guitar around age 14 and became interested in songwriting. He became the youngest city commissioner in his hometown at age 17 when he was appointed by the Fullerton City Council to serve as youth delegate to the Human Relations Commission.

After performing and touring nonstop for 12 years Overman chose to detach from the business end of the music business at the dawn of the 21st Century for his artistic and spiritual and physical health. One of the many positive results of this sabbatical was the writing and recording of his 4th cd ”Authentic” which was released in early 2002 and received considerable national radio airplay. He also studied and trained at the Berkeley Psychic Institute in Berkeley CA during this period.

Mick moved to Portland OR in early 2004 and maintains an office in La Selva Beach CA as well as the Freedom CA address of Max Records.