tomorrow i have sold my soul i saw you, you were alone i saw me, white as a bone can we feel the distance as much as the empty hearts? it wasn't too easy yesterday i tried to talk to you, but my mouth was so sore it burned with words that…

the raga malkauns,plus electricity...

A slice of a childhood transition. Enjoy! Doug

I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…

Something just broke and I think it's my heart It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart It mighta been a meter that tore it apart But, something just broke and I think it's my heart G. A bedside bomb with no alarm…

Rick Babb came to me with this song he had written thinking it might express how I feel about the person missing from my life. It did. I rewrote the verses.

I was trying to find an image that expresses how lonely and abandoned I feel. This was it.

This song tells about a guy I know named Gene. GENE AGFE C B Gene had a girlfriend. The band would play and they would dance A…

I listened to Emilie's music on her MySpace site and was prompted to write this song. Emilie She's been there. She'll be there. She's part of the landscape At old Uncle Calvin's she's grandfathered in. She'll be there when you need…

...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie. A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…

We were shooting this movie one day when they needed a song for a dance scene. I said, "I wrote a song that might fit here." The director agreed and I ended up getting to write all the music for that movie, RED DESERT PENITENTIARY. directed by…

Michael Jeffrey showed me a progression on the guitar. I wrote words to go with it.

"Burning Anna Rose" is a murder ballad. it's about a man who's love takes him out to get him drunk and in so doing, seals her own fate. Despite killing here on a snowy, winter afternoon he knows they'll always be together.

"We Know Everything (A Requiem for a Rock Band) is just what it says. It's a requiem for a rock band. We all knew, and most of us were in, that greatest rock band that no one ever heard. Those stories are full of sad clichés like the deal…