doug gill

I guess by now I must be what you would call a Nashville Cat. I've been in and around the music city for twenty some-odd years, played everywhere, met everybody, ate in every smoozy buffet line at every industry bootlicking party I could find, and always drank on someone else's tab. It's been fun, and even though I've never had a "hit record", the factor that defines success in this town, I have had my songs recorded by a long and distinguished list of artists from Chris LeDoux to Wynonna. And I've made some of the best friends. Nowhere but in the songwriting community of Nashville could I have found the amazing eccentrics I found here, and in this town it was our job to get as close as possible; to live a part of a life together and then write about it. It has made for intense, evolving relationships that I really do think are rare in our culture. Along the way, in the pursuit of writing new songs I kinda put myself as a performing/recording artist on hold. Now the kids are raised, I'm free to travel a little, and I'm singing and playing better than ever; so I'm chasing that neon rainbow. I've got a hot new album that only took me thirty years to finish. It's a lot of what I've learned along the way, lovingly crafted with some of my talented and aforementioned friends, and I'm heading out on the road with a bunch of gear and a stack of CDs in the Jeep. I hope you'll listen to my music and come hear me sometime if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.