solo singer songwriter
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Influences
James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Sting, The Eagles, Mark Knoffler, Merle Haggard, Johny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Max D. Barnes, Bobby Braddock, Lynn langham
Sounds Like
James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Don Williams, Alabama, Alan Jackson, Greg Brown
I guess by now I must be what you would call a Nashville Cat. I've been in and around the music city for twenty some-odd years, played everywhere, met everybody, ate in every smoozy buffet line at every industry bootlicking party I could find, and always drank on someone else's tab. It's been fun, and even though I've never had a "hit record", the factor that defines success in this town, I have had my songs recorded by a long and distinguished list of artists from Chris LeDoux to Wynonna. And I've made some of the best friends. Nowhere but in the songwriting community of Nashville could I have found the amazing eccentrics I found here, and in this town it was our job to get as close as possible; to live a part of a life together and then write about it. It has made for intense, evolving relationships that I really do think are rare in our culture. Along the way, in the pursuit of writing new songs I kinda put myself as a performing/recording artist on hold. Now the kids are raised, I'm free to travel a little, and I'm singing and playing better than ever; so I'm chasing that neon rainbow. I've got a hot new album that only took me thirty years to finish. It's a lot of what I've learned along the way, lovingly crafted with some of my talented and aforementioned friends, and I'm heading out on the road with a bunch of gear and a stack of CDs in the Jeep. I hope you'll listen to my music and come hear me sometime if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.
Tonight -- Saturday, October 24th -- is Slow Cooker music night at Norm's River Road House, and there's no cover charge! Here's the official finally finalized line-up...
7:30 Michael Kelsh 8:00 Lynn Langham 8:30 DOUG GILL 9:00 Larry Reynolds 9:30 Cheley Tackett 10:00 Annie Mosher 10:30 Warren Wilken 11:00 Don Henry
Hello Doug: I see the last comment to your good self was in June so I thought I'd drop a Howdy on ya'. I hope to see you and Lynn at the Beach this year and finally get to sit down in the crowd and Listen to a Full Set of both your Great Writes as that has not happened in the past as there's alway's been some big rush to go somewhere or do something that actually didn't mean squat when I got there . I know there'll be Songwriter's that won't be invited this year to perform as they have forewarned, but regardless (to play or not to play for pay) is immaterial to me as the Open Mic availabilty works pretty well allowing a Songwriter to air out his material (good or bad). O.K. You and Lynn take care, I'll see ya' when I see Ya' STAY IN TUNE R.C.
Doug thank you so much for accepting my friend request! Doug Lang told me about you and it is so refreshing to hear your songs. I love Stronger Back and ". . .Generica"! One of the great losses of this is the demise of local dialect (my guess is TV is the culprit) but I found some last week in rural middle Tennessee. Please keep in touch because I'd love to come hear you when I come back to Nashville (end of April will be my next trip) All the best! Charlotte
I had the time of my life at my first FBISF this year. Met lots of new friends and heard so many great songs, but "Stronger Back" is the one I will always remember.
Hi Doug! So how are you? Hope life is treating you well. I'm checking out your music and enjoying it on this calm autumn morning. All the best to ya from way over yonder. :)
There's a woman from Kenya who recently started working where I work, and I was playing your cd for her one day. Stronger Back is now her favourite song. Dang if she doesn't put it on five or six times a day. Thought you'd like to know!
This Saturday, November 1st, at Norm's River Road House, it's Monster Slow Cooker Night, and it's free! Here's the line-up...
7:00 Cadillac, Jon & Rob 7:20 John Mann 7:45 Lynn Langham 8:10 Jon Byrd 8:30 Cadillac Holmes 8:50 Nancy K Dillon 9:15 Doug Gill 9:40 Warren Wilken 10:05 Rob Stanley 10:25 Fred Koller 10:50 Diana Jones 11:20 Tommy Womack 11:50 Jeff & Vida
Enjoyed the new tracks, Doug. Nice to hear If You Stay Gone on a recording. The first time I heard that song you sang it for me in your truck as we drove along Natchez Trace, I believe. Give 'em hell for me down at the Frank Brown this November. One of these years...
