Influences

Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Will Oldham, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, to name a few.

Bio

After twelve years of developing his songwriting in his bedroom, churches, open mics, and coffeehouses, Doug has spent the past three years gigging heavily on the Dallas music scene, fronting the up-and-coming roots rock band, The Lonelies (www.thelonelies.com). These efforts have not gone unnoticed. The Lonelies have been nominated for a 2003 Dallas Observer music award, a 2003 Rockzilla.net Music Award. Doug placed first in the national Mark Heard songwriting contest sponsored by Silent Planet Records, Summer 2002, and took home the blue ribbon for the AAA/roots/Americana category in the 2003 International Songwriting Competition.

Artists Doug has opened for solo include the likes of Slaid Cleaves, Wayne "the Train" Hancock, Bill Mallonee (formerly of the Vigilantes of Love), Darden Smith, Marshall Crenshaw, Brent Best (of Slobberbone), Pleasant Grove, Deadman, and the Hangdogs.

The Sickle & the Sheaves, an original gospel record, was released May 2003. This is Doug's debut full-length solo project. Falling somewhere between Blind Willie Johnson and Emmylou’s Wrecking Ball, Doug describes this record as a labor of love, “A good friend of mine, in the death-throes of cancer, requested me to sing “Meet You in the Sunrise” at his funeral and I realized I needed to record that song…all my southern protestant heritage was there just waiting to get out, and I came up with all the tunes for this CD…this record is very powerful to me.”

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