Welcome

It’s all about the songs; The Americana and Country songs I write (with bluegrass, Rockabilly, Pop, historical, and even songs for an original musical showing up occasionally) and…

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Thinking about Spring

Around Mountain View, Arkansas, even with Winter hanging on, folks are popping open their instrument cases, browsing seed catalogs, and thinking about Spring. The Ozark Folk Center’s evening…

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The “Brooks-Baxter War” – a musical

Several years ago, I began to read about a bizarre moment in Arkansas history when two men had actual militias fighting over the governor’s office. Fellow songwriter Charlie…

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Songs built around characters

The four songs featured on the current homepage playlist are all really character sketches. “The John J. Pershing Veteran’s Home,” a contemporary Nashville style song for which Doug…

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Clancey Ferguson

Clancey grew out of the “Wow, listen to that cute little girl play” stage quite a while ago. She’s been an important member of the Mountain View and…

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Ozark Folk Center Teacher Workshops

The Ozark Folk Center, a state park here in Mountain View, Arkansas is adding a new programming feature. Drawing on its array of offerings in traditional music, lore,…

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Story Songs

Songwriters try to “tell the story” with every lyric, but I love the ones that are more complete tales. “Different Music” isn’t about anyone specific, but it’s no…

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Arkansas Stories/Teachers

I’m revising my professional development teacher workshops, looking forward to more of these in 2015. Using my Arkansas Stories songs as a point of departure, I try to…

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Joe Jewell

A leading citizen of our Mountain View, AR music community, Joe is a multi-instrumentalist and a master of the hammered dulcimer, proprietor of the “Little Crooked House” recording…

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Songwriters Finding Songwriters

If you’ve been writing for a while, you probably have songwriting friends; you listen to one another, critique constructively, co-write, commiserate, and simply find encouragement in knowing others…

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