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DON FENCETON

SONGWRITER / PHOTOGRAPHER

About Me

My bio in a nutshell; words, music, pictures, food. Like most songwriters I've been around some and worked a lot of jobs, many of them cooking jobs. From four-star eateries to back street beaneries, from my "Sweet Home Chicago" to "LALA Land" to down South where the "meat 'n' threes" feed both the "starving songwriter" and the triple platinum diva. A buttermilk biscuit doesn't care who eats it.Been a photographer too. Still am. Got into website design a few years ago, and videography. Along the way I've written a lot of songs and had cuts by such diverse artists as Michael Jackson, The Jackson Five, Diana Ross, The Miracles and country traditionalist Sonny James. One of my songs was used on Oprah's show and another showed up on Michael Jackson's "Moonwalker" video. I wrote a children's album for "little people" actor Billy Barty and a few "concept" albums, "Pan-Fried Music," and "The Chicago Hot Dog Man." I just started an ASCAP- affiliated company called CHRISTMAS LIGHTS PUBLISHING. To hear a few of my Motown cuts and more country and Christmas songs, to read the stories behind the songs and to see some of my photos please check out my website: http://donfenceton.com I love it here at MYSPACE!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/15/2006
Band Website: donfenceton.com
Band Members: the boys who make the noise at Kenny Royster's Direct Image Studio in Nashville.
Influences: Mickey Newbury, Van Morrison, Nelson Algren, Ernest Hemingway, All traditional country writers and singers, Chicago blues, Memphis and Philly Soul. Stax writers and performers including Isaac Hayes & Rufus Thomas. Sam Moore. All the "standards" writers like Sammy Cahn and Harold Arlen. Story tellers like Leonard Cohen and Garrison Keillor. Lerner and Lowe. The one and only Ray Price. Neil Young, Dion, Tony Bennett, Jerry Butler. Folkies like Bob Gibson, Hoyt Axton & Dave Van Ronk. Big Jim Eaves. Definitely Sam Moore. Oh yeah, can't forget Leon Russell.
Sounds Like: You tell me!
Type of Label: None