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Ok, so I grew up in Montana... Had the coolest life as a kid... Hunting, Fishing, Sports, Non-Stop!!.. Graduated from Sidney High School in Montana.. Play concerts at the Sidney Fair this summer for 3 days!!! Sooo Excited!!!... Hmm.. My parents bought me a guitar at age 17 and I wrote my first song the next week... I've recorded 8 albums.. CDs.. whatever you call them nowadays.... I love to write songs, i'm over the 200 song mark now... Gonna live to be 120, and gonna record 20 more CDs... living on the beach right now and absolutely love it more than I ever imagined!! Especially when the tourists go home and I have the beach and sunset all to myself!!! Very Cool!!!!

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Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: dougadkins.com
Band Members: Heiko Ahrend.. Andy Knapp..Christian Scheussler.. Heyko Mueller... Matt Wegner..Bernd Ohlensclager..Winnie Wohlbold... and more
Influences: for songwriting.. my influences are always people just talking like they do everyday.... I listen to what they say and how they say it.... and there is always a song there... Also song ideas come from life experiences... sometimes my experiences and sometimes i see other people have experiences and try to think how it would be for me... then the song comes.... oft... i am asked why i write songs... i think it is the way i process life... through words and music... so often... if i can't talk to someone about something or don't know what to say ... i write a song... helps me make sense of things...
Sounds Like: hope is sounds like really cool music!!! For live shows, my new band "4 ugly guys" really get the job done... It's more fun than cow tippin'!!! ... Put a video on Youtube from the show the other night... check under Whiskey Salesman.... The song was Peaceful Easy Feeling from the Eagles... Ok, to copy an Eagles song is not so smart, cause no one can do it like they do... but we give our best!!!
Record Label: Lyric Mountain
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Stand In The Rain

.......This past weekend, my band and I played a show at the American Western Saloon in Berlin!.... Awesome Good Time.... Very Cool Bass solos by Heyko Mueller, Christian had some fun with the d...
Posted by Doug Adkins on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:03:00 PST

Greg Platt / One of the Great Country Musicians

I guess it's starting to happen... One of my best friends ever, Greg Platt, had a heart attack... Greg and I formed the Platt Adkins Band and toured together from 1992 to late 1998 or so.... We a...
Posted by Doug Adkins on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:32:00 PST

What Was Behind The Song

Welcome to my 1st blog... A lot of people come up to me before or after a show and ask me what's behind the lyrics of a particular song I wrote, so I thought that may be a good topic!...
Posted by Doug Adkins on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:59:00 PST