Author: doug7565
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Collaborations: David Barrett
See Substack post “One Shining Collaboration” for more. Music, like sports, is at its best when it’s a community endeavor. And though I’m a confessed introvert I still love making music with others. There’s a feeling you get when you’re groovin’ with other musicians, especially ones you know well, that you just can’t get any…
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Collaborations: Chris Barton
In the early 1990s I was performing solo very rarely, but doing lots of freelance and studio work. Several of my collaborations during that time were with popular local children’s music groups: performing, arranging and recording with Gemini, a beloved local folk duo, as well as arranging and performing on two popular albums for the…
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Collaborations: Ann Doyle
Ann Doyle and I met through Will Spencer of Solid Sound studio in Ann Arbor in 2000. David and I had just moved from the house we’d renovated in northwest Ann Arbor out to a new place near Zeeb road. (I guess we’ve been moving west ever since we got together, come to think of…
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Everything I Am
Basics Everything I Am (2025) is a collection of songs recorded and released as singles between 2018–25. Half of the songs were remixed and all but one remastered for the album. (Original singles are still available.) The collection includes ten original songs and four of Doug’s favorite covers. More details and notes below. Album available…
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Up on the Roof
Lyrics by Gerry Goffin, Music by Carole King© Screen Gems – EMI Music, Inc. Note: Released as single in 2024 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of…
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Speak Your Heart
words and music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I’m not a poet you would knowFrom learned books, from memes or quotesSometimes I find it hard to speakThe truth of who you are to meIf I could just be me and you be youMaybe…
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No Strings
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2023 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered and included in the album Everything I Am in 2025 I know it’s no goodTo hold on to each otherTo cling on and to smotherI know it’s no good Yes, I understandThat we are separate…
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There’s More
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. What does it mean to be one With someone elseAll my life I’ve just been by myselfBut then you cameNow it’s not the sameThere’s so much…
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Nothing on You
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2023 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. The stars have nothing on youOne silly grin can outshine themAnd in one glance I can findMuch more to wish upon The wind has nothing on…
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Amelia
words and music by Joni Mitchell • Published by SONY/ATV TUNES LLC OBO CRAZY CROW MUSIC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I was driving across the burning desertWhen I spotted six jet planesLeaving six white vapor trailsAcross the bleak terrainIt was the hexagram…
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Let’s Start Over
words & music by Chris Barton • © Christine A. Barton • Released as single in 2023 • Released 2025 in the album Everything I Am. It’s not so easyStarting on two sides of the streetEyes that fill with angerEvery time we meetWords as sharp as glassTo cut the heart right throughMeant for meBut I turn…
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Keep This Heart Tender
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2018 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2018 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I was hurryin’ down the sidewalkSo busy looking straight aheadI didn’t notice the sky or the leaves on the treesTill one floated down in front of…
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I Would Not Be Me (Without Your Love)
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Trees would still be treesEven if the sun didn’t shineThe sky would still be blueEven if the clocks did not keep timeJuly would follow JuneEven if…
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Oh, September
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020; remixed/released in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Sheet music available! in F • in G Oh, SeptemberWhy’d you have to come so soonJust when I finally started to have some…
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A Song Without You in It
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I’m not gonna write aboutHow I used to feelWhen you’d reach out to meWon’t write about what used to beI’m not gonna sing anymore About love…
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Do You Ever Dream of Me?
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2022 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2022 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. When I lay me down to sleepAnd pray the Lord my soul to keepI often think of you and weepAnd wonder what your dreams could beAnd…
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Hard To Get
words & music by Rich Mullins • © Curb Word Music/Liturgy Legacy • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. You who live in heavenHear the prayers of those of us who live on earthWho are afraid of being left by those we loveAnd who get…
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Everything I Am
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2015 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2018 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Sheet music available! Vocal-Piano-Guitar Everything I amEverything I’ve doneI pour it out to you, LordEverything that’s goodAnd everything that’s badI lay it down before you, Lord…
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Warning: Really Old Guy About To Release Album!
Warning! Really old guy about to release album! You know the way you warn your loved ones when your 90-yr-old parent or 16-yr-old kid take to the roads? I’m not quite 90 yet, but it has been some 40 years since I released my fifth album of original songs. And for many reasons, including the…
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Leave It Up to You
words & music by Doug Howell© 2025 Creative Measures LLC all I can seeis what I haven’t gotand all I can think ofare the things that I should notand all that I can hope forare things that just can’t beoh, I’d surely go crazyif I wasn’t sure you really loved me so I’ll justleave it…