One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield. I said to myself, "Sweet Rain." I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…

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

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…

...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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

A slice of a childhood transition. Enjoy! Doug

the raga malkauns,plus electricity...

are you listening tonight? or am i talking to a wall a stone wall in your heart will you talk to me? just say anything, i will hear it in my heart night after night i sit here and listen to you night after night i speak to myself day by…

deeper and deeper i fall to sleep and i am with you again i can't wake up and face the loneliness i won't feel love without you hear the shattered lines, miles and days didn't want to go away nothing i can say now the only way fall into…

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…

here we are, for the very first time is it safe to touch you or am I way out of line now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat here we are in my bedroom all alone…

A snippet from the Khachaturian ballet suite.

Based on the work of Janet Cardiff, my final is an audio walk through of the Digital building, the Brown Center, at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I weave fictions and truth, with recorded sounds and sampled, manipulated and natural. There…