On September 8th 2009 Sig’s third CD “Totem Pole” was released. In February 2009 Sig was a finalist in the Portland Songwriters Association “Best Performing Songwriter Competition”. At the Gig Harbor Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, September 2006 Sig took second place with his song “If The Castle Burns” written for his wife Michele. That same month he was a finalist in the Portland Songwriters Association “Best Performing Songwriter of 2006 Competition”. In July 2005, he completed his second solo album. Co-produced by Don “Fuzzy” Purcell, “Tangled In My Roots” featured some of the best musicians in the Pacific N.W., including Patrick Lamb, Orvil Ivie, Dan Wetzel, and Kristen Grainger of True North , “Tangled In My Roots” has received international attention & sales. Sig was also a finalist in the Mary Hill Winery Songwriter’s Competition 2004. In the summer of 2003, he was headlining the Dasani acoustic stage at the Boise Riverfest in Boise Idaho. In 2002, Sig teamed with producer Julian Snow to release “Movies & Magazines”. Though produced & mixed with a more “edgy” sound there was no disguising its “Hippiebilly” roots & it set Sig firmly on the Americana path.