A local teacher Peter Rogine introduced him to the music of Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams, as well as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk and coming of age with the progressive music of Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Pink Floyd which sparked a lifelong love of both 20th-century classical music, progressive rock and jazz.

Establishing himself as a rare artist that can play more than one style of music with true fluency, virtuosity and sincerity.

The album finds him confirming his reputation as an original and innovative composer / performer.

As well as recording his own music Woodall also composed and recorded music for many independent films from 1992 to 2000 and also has received two Meet the Composer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Composers Program In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Woodall found himself in the center of the cassette tape underground culture and was reviewed by the most popular underground music zines of the time such as Option, Fact-Sheet Five, Tape Op, Ear, Wired, The Improviser, New Music Journal, See-Hear, and Creative Alternative.

Woodall also pulls a lot of influence from the eclectic randomness of Frank Zappa and the sounds produced by various progressive rock bands such as early Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Yes, and King Crimson.