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| Round Downtown Sound is an attempt at a different type of music than what I'm used to writing. Looking back, it uses the same 12 notes that all my other songs seem to use, just in a different order. Therefore, I'm not sure how different it really is. If you have any thoughts on the subject, after listening carefully to all the following selections, please let me know. Thanks. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This song was written with the intent of sounding good. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| "Revel in it" was written and recorded with a guitar tuned in an open D tuning. I very rarely do anything with alternate tunings, so this was more an experiment than anything, but it turned out being something I like. After I recorded the main guitar, I added a bass line, a shaker for percussion and then a little more guitar for the second half,,,,,this second guitar happens to be in standard tuning. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This one I wrote with Mark over a year ago. He plays the banjo, Ryan is playing the bass and I played the guitar and xylophone. For those theorists out there, it's in the key of C, but I'm playing a G chord, so it's the Mixalydian mode. Sounds impressive right? Just listen to it. |
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Credits: Doug Spears, Mark Williams and Ryan Harrison |
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| Mark Williams joined me on this one along with his banjo. Ryan Harrison handles the bass. This traditional sounding bluegrass beginning grows into a more lush and interesting bridge and chorus before reminding us again where it started.....just some good, down-home pickin. |
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Credits: Doug Spears & Mark Williams |
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| This song was idealized in North Carolina, written mostly in Pennsylvania and finished up in Georgia. It's got some mileage under it's belt. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| A smooth groove that starts from the bassline and builds as the song goes on. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| Naissur is a song....Naissur is a good song. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| John Fox wrote most of this and asked me to add to it. I added the soaking wet guitar, some strings and some organ to it. It's a very relaxing yet dramatic and emotional piece of music. |
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Credits: John Fox and Doug Spears |
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| The song is from the point of view of a guy who came down from Brooklyn with no shoes on his feet, or anything to eat. Additionally, he has no place to go, no cares, no bus to ride, nor the fare to pay if there were a bus to ride. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This song is written from the perspective of life on a farm. Naturally as a farmer, you'd want the rain to come and make the crops grow so you can, in turn, sell the crops and buy the things you need and want. Therefore, many a Rain Dance have taken place to beckon the rain to come. Susanna Turner joined me by playing the piano on this one. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| A very short Spanish sounding tune, my first one since moving to Atlanta. Two acoustic guitars, one rythm and one lead with some percussion and a piano bass part. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| The is the music of a DJ, Igor Zaramella, spinning some records with my guitar playing over top of it. This is the last few minutes of what was an hour of straight recording. We hit record and just went with it. |
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Credits: Igor Zaramella and Doug Spears |
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| This very relaxing and melodic piece of music was written by Brian Spears, my brother. He wrote this one and played all of the instruments except for the melodic lead guitar part, which I came up with and played. It's the kind of music you may expect to hear from someone that spends a lot of their time in a lobby. |
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Credits: Brian & Doug Spears......mostly Brian |
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| Just some smooth jazz chords with an acoustic guitar playing the melody over the top of it. Brian Spears played the rhythm and bass guitars while I played the melody, doubled it with a second guitar track and also shook the shaker. |
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Credits: Doug Spears & Debbie Oleska |
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| There are two reasons the title to this tune is "Part Two". The second reason is that there are two parts to the song. A reggae then a second, much different and more new age sounding part. These two parts are tied together by a strange form of musical "glue". |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This is pound for pound some of the smoothest jazz I've written. It's short but packs quite a punch for such a little package. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| A simple acoustic song that I decided to record one night and share with the whole world. It was written sometime in 2000. I hope you like it. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| Written on nylon string classical guitar. Originally intended to remain solo guitar, but some strings and even horns made their way into the final mix. Written to mimic the sounds of Spring, but an objective listener said it sounds like a city....Spring in the City. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This was written two years ago, but was just recorded.......late Dec. 2001. It's a piano song but some guitar and organ are mixed in as well. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This is another version of Above & Beyond. Ashley Stephenson plays the violin on this one and I played the accompanying piano and guitar tracks....not bad for an eleven year old girl! |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| Each nerve ending is being stimulated even though only one or two are ever on your mind at any time. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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| This song is the essence of Groove Diggler, the band that I'm a part of. So much so, we decided to name the song "Groove Diggler" as well.
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Credits: Doug Spears, David Pugh and Ryan Harrison |
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| This song was written as an overature, the opening piece of music that states the main themes of a larger body of work. The intent was to develop this into a complete "symphonic" piece, but circumstances have prevented that from happening. |
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Credits: Doug Spears and Jessica Harrold |
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| This song was written on the piano though two other tracks (both guitar) have creeped in. Overall, this consists of three different parts, the last actually taking advantage of a different tempo and key. This all is then followed by a final........conversation piece. Let me know what you think. |
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Credits: Doug Spears |
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