Released SINGLES
Many have made their way to an album. The rest might eventually.
My musical commentary of cancel culture, where everything is measured through the lenses of political correctness as either good or evil, with no nuance in-between, with an 80s new wave twist.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
Released Dec 25, 2022
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Released July 1, 2022
I maintain that the Church loses its relevancy when it aspires to be culturally relevant in order to win the favor and respect of the world. The Church should be offering an alternative to the societal hopelessness of moral confusion and decay. But when it embraces the moral compromise around it, it abandons its redemptive mission, thus becoming irrelevant. Besides, can there be any respect for compromising one's own convictions for the sake of being "acceptable"? And if the church offers the same thing as any other social program or activity, why bother with it? It's irrelevant.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
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Released Feb 24, 2022
A rare video of the seclusive Boonie Brothers, based on Romans 7:14-25 & Luke 18:9-14.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
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Released Feb 24, 2022
A friend, Steve Estrada, was filling in for Pastor Edwin one Sunday morning. Before the service, he came up to me and said, "I need another dose of the Holy Ghost before I preach!" I thought, "That's a song!"
Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
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Released May 7, 2020
A fun, whimsical, and joyful musical interpretation of the 8th Psalm.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
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Released May 1, 2020
An epic musical interpretation of the 130th Psalm from the KJV.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
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Released Apr 21, 2020
Back in the late 1970s we went to a Farrell and Farrell concert at Westside Assembly of God in Davenport, IA. As they were introducing a song, they explained that, where they came from, they didn't say "business," but rather "bidness." For some reason that stuck with me through the years. Later (much later), as I was preparing a sermon about gossip and how we should respond to it to stop it from spreading, "bidness" came to mind and planted seeds to this song -- my rockin' response to gossip and backbiting. Available for download at Amazon, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.Also on the album I am not Wayne Watson.
Guest artist:Lindon McCarty on lead guitar interludes
Released Feb 1, 2020
A musical interpretation of the 23rd Psalm.Available for download at Amazon, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.Also on the album I am not Wayne Watson.
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Released Jan 16, 2020
I wrote the lyrics to this back in the 80's, but didn't like the song that I wrote with it, so filed it away. Going through some old files, I came across it and thought I could work with it again. To rid the former melody/chords from memory, I started with the drum and bass line and worked out from there. It then started taking on a unique style and ended up with this.Note: Just to clarify, this is not intended to be a rap song, but a narrative, kind of like Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean, but in a more bluesy/aternative rock style.Available for download at Amazon, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.Also on the album I am not Wayne Watson.
Guest artist:Lindon McCarty on lead guitar interludes
Released Jan 16, 2020
Juxtaposition of Jeremiah 29:11-14, Matthew 23:37, Psalm 105:4 and Lamentations 3:25Special thanks to Jimmy Wasion, Sally Wasion and Lisa K'por for the additional vocals .Available for download at Amazon, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.Also on the album I am not Wayne Watson.
Guest artists:Additional vocals by Jimmy Wasion, Sally Wasion, and Lisa K'por
Released Jan 16, 2020
I was thinking about the use of near-rhymes vs rhymes in songwriting. Taking a closer look, near-rhymes are used far more than rhymes. (A near rhyme is when the words sound generally the same - usually the vowel sounds - but do not rhyme perfectly.) So I called the near rhyme as a "rhyme that doesn't rhyme," and used that as an metaphor of a soul that is incomplete - a sort of "close, but no cigar." So this is a metaphorical blues song made up of metaphors.Available for download at Amazon and Apple Music.
Guest artist:Lindon McCarty on lead guitar noodling and Josh Murtha on bass
UNRELEASED SINGLES
Sneak peaks. They might make their way to an album eventually.
A song of worship.
Guest artists:Additional vocals by Jeremy Melendez, and Gina Estrada
We lived in a Christian community in 1975-76. It was an ...interesting... experience, to say the least! There's a story behind every line of this song.
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Another cancel culture song. And note that the skin isn't thin on only one side.
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Back in the late 70s to early 80s, my wife, Sally, and I performed in Christian coffeehouses and such in southeast Iowa under the stage name "Warmth of the Son." This was our theme song. We performed it with just vocals over my 12-string Guild acoustic, so I added some percussion, bass and electric guitars to fill up the sound a little better. On a recent visit to Palm Coast, Florida to see my brother-in-law, John, and his wife, Linda, John took me to Flagler Beach where I videotaped the sunrise for this video. It was a bit of a challenge to speed up the sunrise about 8 times while keeping the ocean waves at normal speed, while the beach lightened and the ocean reflected congruent with the sunrise.
Guest artists:Additional vocals by Sally Wasion
Clinical depression is to be taken seriously and treated by qualified counselors, therapists and doctors. But that's not what this song is about. We can sometimes get in a funk when we don't get our way or when reality doesn't measure up to expectations. And sometimes we milk it out because we enjoy the attention brought about by our moping around a little too much. Originally written in 1976, that's what this song is about.
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Thanks to my wife, Sally, for videotaping, and also playing the concerned christian.
After recording the vocals, I thought it sounded like an old, 50's-era country and western song. Rather than clearing and EQ-ing the vocals, I thought it sounded perfect for the song. So I reduced the drums to a simple, cheap snare and cymbal, added some record scratches, and presented it as a rare 45 single by Wayne "Dougie" Douglas found in a thrift store.
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Sally and I both worked at the Roscoe Company before we retired, an industrial laundry in Chicago. It was a great place to work, and is the best in the industry, consistently setting standards. I wrote, and Sally helped me sing, this jingle as our gift to the company in celebration of their 100th anniversary.
Guest artists:Additional vocals by Sally Wasion
This one's just for the fun of it. A group of us played that song for a fun Christmas video for church. After taping the video, I was taking the guitarist home (I played a ukelele) when he said, "I wonder what it would sound like in a minor key." So when I got home, I pulled out my Les Paul and turned on the recording equipment to find out. When I started playing it in a minor key, it seemed to demand a heavier style, so I went metal with it. My throat was scratchy for the following few hours after singing it.
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This came quickly. I wrote it on Wednesday, recorded it on Thursday, and mixed it Friday morning. They don't normally come that fast.
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This is not an attempt to improve upon a hymn that can't be improved upon. "Holy, Holy, Holy!" has been my favorite hymn since I was a wee boy. Even as a child, I loved when they sang it in church, raising the roof with its majestic glory! So it is beyond improvement! So this is an attempt to improve upon my own song. Inspired by RC Sproul's series of teachings on the Holiness of God, I had written this song, based on the encounters with God's holiness by Isaiah, Job, and Peter, but I couldn't come up with a chorus. I was thinking about it when the hymn popped into my mind, and it struck me that the chorus had already been written! Growing up, I always thought this hymn was so powerful that it needed more power behind it instrumentally. This is what I came up with.
Guest artists:Additional vocals by Joshua Moran, Lisa K'por, Jeremy Melendez, Crystal Gutierrez, Stephanie Martinez, & Gina Estrada