Adams began his foray into the arts by making stringed musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, basses, and dulcimers after he was introduced to the craft as an ethnomusicology student under Dr. Joel Maring at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

In Tower Records' Pulse!, John Diliberto, the host of the Echoes radio program, called Adams' guitar playing on Wonder Dancing on Global Bop "Willfully eclectic with scintillating fretwork immersed in Latin African rhythms."

It was a foray in to world music with Pravin Godkhindi, the Australian musician Elizabeth Geyer, and David Hoffman.

[3][citation needed] In May 2016, Imaginings won Best Contemporary Instrumental Album of the year at the Zone Music Reporter Awards in New Orleans.

[citation needed] The follow-up album, Deeper Imaginings, a collaboration with Australian musician Elizabeth Geyer, was released in November 2019.