The musicians, Ron and Dan, met a couple of years ago while riding motorcycles with a group from Southwest Florida. The two guitar playing singers hit it off and started lamenting the lack of availability of music from the 70s in the area.

“My wife and I would look around town trying to find this kind of music and we couldn’t find it,” recalled Philgreen. “There was plenty of Jimmy Buffett, hard rock bands, some jazz, and even crooners bringing back the music of  Frank Sinatra and the like, but precious little of that great, acoustic guitar driven folk-rock from our era. Ron and I decided to get together and see what we could come up with. We really liked what we were hearing together and thought other folks would like it too. We recorded a little demo CD and started sharing it around. After a while, we started getting requests to come perform and it took off from there.”    

When Hainley and Philgreen started playing professionally around Southwest Florida, they selected the name WindHorse. Philgreen shared, “Well, a riding buddy of mine called his motorcycle his Wind Horse. The wind horse is part of Tibetan folklore and means something that takes you to a place where you didn’t know you wanted to go.” “We decided that was perfect,” he said, “because this music takes us back to a nostalgic period in our lives and we think a person walking in the door will end up enjoying going there with us.”

“There’s just so much great music from that era, “he added, “and we have a blast playing it.”