Nashville, Tennessee
30 Years Old
Melodist, Lyricist, Songwriter

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"Days up and down they come/Like rain on a conga drum/Forget most remember some/And dont turn none aw"

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Country, Singer/Songwriter, Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Battles Wharf Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Administrative: douglas waterman

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

bongos / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / harmonica / mandolin / piano

INFLUENCES

no particular order...ROGER MILLER, ALABAMA, SAM COOKE, JIM MORRISON, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, DION DIMUCCI, JESSE WINCHESTER, JAMES MERCER, THE BEATLES, BRUCE ROBISON, TONY JOE WHITE, HUGH PRESTWOOD, JERRY GARCIA, ROBERT HUNTER, LEONARD COHEN, ELLIS PAUL, ROBBIE ROBERTSON, MAC MCANALLY, JJ CALE, ROBERT EARL KEEN, JR., LOWELL GEORGE, RICHARD MARX, MASON JENNINGS, JOE SOUTH, JIMMY BUFFETT, WILL JENNINGS, BONO, JIMMIE RODGERS, RODNEY CROWELL, WYNN STEWART, JACKSON BROWNE, JOHNNY MERCER, CAT STEVENS, RANDY BOUDREAUX, GRAYSON CAPPS, BOBBY BRADDOCK, MATRACA BERG, DAVE MATTHEWS, LORI MCKENNA, HARRY NILSSON, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, AVETT BROTHERS, TONY LANE, MERLE HAGGARD, BILLY JOEL, JOHN PRINE, BOB DYLAN, KEITH WHITLEY, MACK, VICKERY, EARL THOMAS CONLEY, HANK COCHRAN, RL CASTLEMAN, DAN SEALS, KURT WEILL, THE CONNELLS, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, FRANK SINATRA, PAUL OVERSTREET, HANK WILLIAMS, DENNIS LINDE, RANDY NEWMAN, KEVN KINNEY, WILLIE NELSON, GEORGE GERSHWIN, IRA GERSHWIN, MICKEY NEWBURY, NICK LOWE, JIM CROCE, RADNEY FOSTER, TODD SHAFFER, DON WILLIAMS, AMOS LEE, TOM T. HALL, JIM CROCE, EDDIE RABBITT, ADAM SCHLEISINGER, MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, ROBERT EARL KEEN, LARRY JON WILSON, GUY CLARK, STEVE BOGARD, ART ALEXIS, BOBBY BARE, ALEX HARVEY, BOB MCDILL, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, STEVE EARLE, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, WILL KIMBROUGH, WAYLAND HOLYFIELD, MICHAEL PENN, SCOTT JOPLIN, TODD SNIDER, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, DEAN DILLON, RON SEXSMITH, DAVID ALLEN COE

DAY JOB

sales, writing, etc.

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

When I have time

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG CUTS

none yet

SONG PLACEMENTS

hoping to compose a jingle for the next RAID bug spray commercial...

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

yea right

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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.