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Influences
There are so many influences but I will give you the short list.
George Jones, Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, David Allen Coe, Clint Black, Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Gary Allen, Travis Tritt, Marty Stewart, Montgomery Gentry. And SO MANY MORE!!
Like I said there have been many great artists that have influenced me.
I grew up in a tiny little hole in the woods in upstate New York called Bloomville, which is about 3 hours and a world away from New York City.
No stop lights, no grocery store, no school, just two little country churches, a little country store, a one room post office and a Volunteer Fire Dept. Home was a small horse farm. I grew up working on the horse farm and the local dairy farms in the area. The county fair in Walton, NY was the most exciting thing every year, when I was a kid!! I recently decided to chase the dream to Nashville an live in a little town just east of Music City!!
My first exposure to music was my daddy's record player. Playing Hank Williams, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and many other greats!!
I am not a music writer or a musician. I am a lyricist.
The story behind "I'll never walk away" may not be that unique, but I think it is worth telling. I had never attempted to write a song and one night while on the telephone with a very special woman in my life, she said "Don, with all the stuff going on in my life, I wouldn't blame you if you just walked away from me." I replied to her, "Sweetheart I will never walk away from you, unless you ask me to." In the back of my mind I thought that sounds like a song in the making. A couple nights later I was sitting in a bar and I started writing things down on cocktail napkins. The next thing I knew, I had the song you are hearing now written! I wish I could say that this story had a happy ending, but shortly after the song demo was done, she walked away from me. I guess that is the way life goes. However, this has inspired more heartfelt lyrics, so I guess everything happens for a reason!! I hope you enjoy the songs!! "Mama Was So Right" was a colaboration with the woman who inspired "I'll Never Walk Away!" "Knoxville in the Rearview" and "She Made a Liar of Me" are the final chapter to the story of she and I. I am sure I will find inspiration elsewhere!!
"I'll Never Walk Away From You" is my first. There are many more to come.
"Knoxville in the Rearview" and "Key to Your Heart" are coming along nicely thanks to the boys from Mile Marker 5!! You guys are awesome!!
"Whiskey Women and Wasted Time" is sounding great along with a number of others I am working on with Tommy Thompson!!
I now have 10 songs in demo production in Nashville. I am having studio quality demos done for "Warrior Angel" "My Amazing Grace" "Knoxville in the Rear View" and "A Friend in Jesus." There will be six never before heard demos coming "Big Red Barn" "Spokes" "Aint been to Heaven" "Sandy and Jim" "Soul Savin Station" and my personnal favorite "Cougar" I am sure you can imagine what that is about! :)
STAY TUNED!!
And I just wrote a Christmas song that you will have to wait for the next holiday season to hear!!
There are just too many to list at this point!! I guess for a guy who never wrote a song until 7 months ago, you could say I am making up for lost time!!
I write from the heart and firmly believe that this is the only way. I am confident that my words convey the heart felt emotions that I am feeling while putting pen to paper (or bar napkin) as the case may be.
I am in search of a publishing company to represent me and get my work out there.
I am also in search of artists to record my songs.
If you are interested please drop me a line.
Just stopping by to say Hi and check out your song line up. Merry Christmas to you and your Families. Remember the reason for the season Richard McCulley The ShoalsBEAT the First BEAT http://theshoalsbeat.com updating now
Thanks for the add. I enjoyed your music! Warrior Angel is a really good song! Hope you will check out my 3 new songs and let me know what you think. Have a great weekend!! :) Lacee
hey Donny, Realy like your Drankin song spoke... Been run over a few times myself. hope you like my DRANKIN SONGS...lol Got a new one called, HIGH HEELS-DANGEROUS CURVES about them HillBilly Girls.....
hey, just stopping by to say hi - hope you're doing well.
I've got my new single Feel Good on my page at the moment, as well as a couple of new live videos. I'd absoltely love to know what you think of my songs. I'm looking for a manager at the moment too.
Just spreading some love your way - Thanks and enjoy the Christmas season! PS: the song Feel Good, should make you feel good! :o) Kevin
Hey there! If you missed my Local 269 show this past weekend, I'll be playing again this week and will be debuting my brand new Single for the Holidays entitled "Light Around The World" at Rockwood Music Hall Wednesday 12/9 @6:00 come and be the first to hear it!!
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J' looked at your small video, j' like much this homage to the missings. Moreover your musical repertory is superb and your sublime voice. Beautiful work. I wish you a very good week end animated. Friendships MAYDIE
Hi Donny, Just dropped by to say Hello and have a safe and Happy Holidays. Keeping the Video up till our Boys come home. I want to feature you on my new site when it gets up completely http://theshoalsbeat.com. God Bless
How's it going?? Just thought I would let you know about some updates
on my page. I now have my new and original Christmas single "Eleven
Crystal Angels" up for people to hear as well as a free download. This
is my Christmas gift to you:):) Just check out my new Christmas layout
and at the top you will see Free download. Click that, it will take you
to my website where you go to the next page and see flashing words that
say "free gift to you" click that then right click my picture and
either 'save link as' or save target as' depending on your computer.
This is for you to have! I hope you like the song.
Make sure you also check out the video I made for it on my page as well!!
I'm doing really well! I'm sorry I haven't talked to you lately! I've been so busy, everything is just crazy haha But I really love "Friend in Jesus" and "Warrior Angel"! Nice job! :) I have a new one up I wrote called "Step Out Into The Rain" and I will have another song up soon :)
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J' looked at your small video, j' like much this homage to the
