Rusty Cash has been playing and teaching guitar for over 18 years in the South Carolina region. He mainly plays with a thumb pick and often switches to a regular pick or hybrid picking and can finger pick if necessary. Rusty is also skilled at Chet Atkins and Travis style picking. Rusty enjoys arranging and teaching jazz chord melodies and other finger style pieces. His main influences include Brent Mason, Mark Knopfler, Albert Lee, The Hellecasters, Danny Gatton, Don Rich, James Burton, Chet Atkins, Roy Buchanan, Brian Setzer among many other artists who play country or swing guitar.

Rusty is also heavily influenced by jazz artists like Charlie Christiansen, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Pat Martino, George Benson, etc. Thanks to Riff Interactive celebrity lessons, he soon become a big fan of Jimmy Bruno.
Rusty's favorite bands include Dire Straits, Steve Earle, The Derailers, Buck Owens, The Stray Cats, Marty Stuart, Vassar Clements, Clint Black, George Strait, and anything else country. He prefers teaching country and jazz, but can teach all styles.

As a guitarist, teacher, arranger and composer; Chris Spencer has been active in the industry for over 10 years.   Currently he divides his time as freelance guitarist and private instructor.  Performing jazz and other styles in various groups and venues around Seattle, Chris is a contributing member of many Seattle based musical groups including; The Sabbatical Five, Bob Heinemann Quartet, Our House Band, Circadian Rhythms Quartet, Escape From New York, The Fabulous Roadstars and Megabopolis.

Chris teaches private instruction in Seattle and Bainbridge Island.  Current affiliations include the Music Center of the Northwest and the Seattle Drum School.  He also conducts ensemble instruction in jazz combo and improvisation at the Seattle Drum School.  Chris is actively involved within the recording industry as a session guitarist, composer/arranger and sound engineer.  Chris has performed nationally and world wide with gigs including Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Atlanta, Hollywood Jazz Festival in Florida, and many other performances in Miami, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Austin.  World wide gigs include Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Italy.

From 1987 - 1992, Chris attended  Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and received his Bachelor of Music in  Performance.  Graduated magna cum laude, he was the Chairman’s Award scholarship recipient for outstanding contributions to the guitar performance department.  From 1995-'98 Chris continued his education at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA. where he received his Masters degree in Business Administration.  Graduating with honors, Chris was nominated into both the Phi Kappa Phi and the Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies.

Chris has performed with noted artists including country music recording artist, Lori White, as well as jazz artist Ernie Watts, Mimi Fox, Gary Dial and Dick Oats.  He also has played on numerous recording projects including two full-length CD projects: one at Triclops studios in Atlanta, and the other at Masterlink studios in Nashville.  Chris has had private study in jazz improvisation with Charlie Banacos, Mick Goodrick, Bob Newman and Bret Wilmott.  Chris has also attended music recording technology courses at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, WA.

Ted Kirkendall started playing professionally in 1988 immediately following his graduation from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood California. While there, he studied with the likes of Keith Wyatt and Steve Trovato. He has been giving guitar, mandolin, ukulele, bass, and dulcimer lessons and gigging in country, blues, rock and roll, jazz, rockabilly, bluegrass, and polka bands ever since. Currently Ted sees over 40 students a week in Indianapolis Indiana. As well as giving private lessons, he teaches group lessons at elementary schools, churches, and summer camps. He also taught a group class at Indiana University for which he wrote the curriculum; the satisfaction from which prompted him to write his own method book.s Ted teaches students of various skill levels and interests. His specialties include blues, country, rockabilly, rock and roll, bluegrass, sight reading, and theory.

With his former jump blues band The Wolfpack, Ted recorded an album of original music and also appeared on two compilation albums: Live from the Slippery Noodle Inn Vol. 2 (recorded at the famous blues venue of the same name), and a Christmas compilation Santa was a Bluesman Vol. 3. The band was voted the best unsigned blues band earning them the opportunity to perform on legendary Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. The band opened shows for such notable blues artists as Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, John Mayall, Lonnie Mack, and The Yardbirds. He recently added ukelele to two songs recorded by Side Tracked/ADArecording artist Aimee Allen. Ted lists diverse influences such as Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Robben Ford, Pete Anderson, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Clarence White, Charlie Christian, and Mark Knopfler.