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Backdoor by Doxter S on Spotify

Backdoor by Doxter S on Spotify

Crimson Studios is proud to announce a new release – Backdoor by Doxter S.  This song was inspired by an idea given to me by my friend Bobby McDavid who’s late father was a self-taught mandolin, guitar, and harmonica player from Gate City, Virginia, and was the founder of the Munsey Bob McDavid Bluegrass Band. He was invited  at the age of 6-years old to perform on stage at Carter’s Fold with the great Bill Monroe. The lyrics I created are loosely based on notes for a song that never had a melody. I think Bob McDavid the elder would have liked how this turned out.

Backdoor (of my Heart) by Doxter S

(Refrain 1)
You Sneaked in through the backdoor of my lost and lonely heart
And you Tried to make a big fool out of me
Broke my Family and my home, left me poor and all alone
You Left my heart in pain and misery
(Verse 1)
You took Everything I had, but that’s Not what gets me mad
First you Robbed me then you tried to ruin my name
Now I Stay here in this place, I’m ashamed to show my face
I’m a Broken man, and I have you to blame
(Refrain 1)
(Verse 2)
You broke Every vow you made, girl I Know when I’ve been played
First You Promised then you cheated and you lied
But if You try something slicker on the backdoor of my ticker
You will Find that sucker’s locked from the inside
(Refrain 2)
You Sneaked in once before using the Backdoor of my heart
But you Won’t sneak in again so easily
It’s not Like it was before ’cause it ain’t open anymore
That Backdoor’s locked and you don’t have the key
The Backdoor of My Heart Won’t Open Anymore
(Attributed to Bob McDavid)
You sneaked in the backdoor of my heart,
And made a fool of me,
You broke up my home,
And my family.
You broke every vow you made,
You cheated and you lied,
You’ll not get through that door again,
It’s locked from inside.
You took everything I had,
And tried to ruin my name,
That’s why I sit here all alone,
My head bowed down in shame.
You think you can walk right in again,
Just like you did before,
But the backdoor of my heart,
Won’t open anymore.

​

Famous by Doxter S on Apple Music

Famous by Doxter S now on Apple Music

Famous by Doxter S is now available for streaming on Apple Music.

This years Academy Awards included the nomination of “A Star is Born”. This remake featured Bradly Cooper as an aging, alcoholic musician who introduces the newcomer portrayed by real musician Lady Gaga. As the talented and energetic young singer’s career takes off, his career seems to be imploding.​

Famous by Doxter S is a musical tribute to the many broken romances littering the rocky road to celebrity, featuring male lead with female backing vocals and instrumental backing including horns and drums.​

Lyrics

Baby, Baby, OoohBaby, Baby, OoohBaby, Baby

  • One day you will be famous
  • They’ll roll out the red carpet
  • And everyone will see your name in lights
  • Will that satisfy you?
  • Replace what love denied you
  • And make up for those cold December nights
  • It’s a long hard road we travel, you and me
  • And it’s easy to forget our history
  • There was once a time we made some harmony
  • And we ended every night I ecstasy
  • There were Honky-Tonks and nightclubs on the way
  • From Atlanta to Chicago and L.A.
  • Our duet was for the night, but then one day
  • I was on my knees just begging you to stay
  • You wanted to be famous
  • You had to make some changes
  • But was it your career you’re speaking of
  • There is no denying
  • I failed at satisfying
  • And somewhere on the road I lost your love
  • You made it, now you’re famous
  • They rolled out the red carpet
  • And everyone can see your name in lights
  • Does it satisfy you?
  • Replace the love denied you
  • And make up for those cold December nights
  • Now you’re famous
  • You’re so famous
  • So damn famous

Famous by Doxter S on Spotify

Famous by Doxter S now on Spotify

Famous by Doxter S is now available for streaming on Spotify.

This years Academy Awards included the nomination of “A Star is Born”. This remake featured Bradly Cooper as an aging, alcoholic musician who introduces the newcomer portrayed by real musician Lady Gaga. As the talented and energetic young singer’s career takes off, his career seems to be imploding.​

Famous by Doxter S is a musical tribute to the many broken romances littering the rocky road to celebrity, featuring male lead with female backing vocals and instrumental backing including horns and drums.​

Lyrics

Baby, Baby, OoohBaby, Baby, OoohBaby, Baby

  • One day you will be famous
  • They’ll roll out the red carpet
  • And everyone will see your name in lights
  • Will that satisfy you?
  • Replace what love denied you
  • And make up for those cold December nights
  • It’s a long hard road we travel, you and me
  • And it’s easy to forget our history
  • There was once a time we made some harmony
  • And we ended every night I ecstasy
  • There were Honky-Tonks and nightclubs on the way
  • From Atlanta to Chicago and L.A.
  • Our duet was for the night, but then one day
  • I was on my knees just begging you to stay
  • You wanted to be famous
  • You had to make some changes
  • But was it your career you’re speaking of
  • There is no denying
  • I failed at satisfying
  • And somewhere on the road I lost your love
  • You made it, now you’re famous
  • They rolled out the red carpet
  • And everyone can see your name in lights
  • Does it satisfy you?
  • Replace the love denied you
  • And make up for those cold December nights
  • Now you’re famous
  • You’re so famous
  • So damn famous

Everywhere by Doxter S on Apple Music

Listen to Everywhere by Doxter S on Apple Music

Everywhere by Doxter S is an upbeat, latin rhythm, inspirational song dedicated to a very happy new couple starting out their new life together with a dance and a promise to keep traveling and dancing together, leaving behind all the worries and complications of daily life.  Listen to Everywhere by Doxter S on Spotify

Everywhere by Doxter S is the 61st original composition by this enigmatic composer.  This song has an upbeat, latin rhythm, with inspirational lyrics. Everywhere by Doxter S is dedicated to a very happy new couple starting out their new life together with a dance and a promise to keep traveling and dancing together, leaving behind the worries and complications of daily life. 

Lyrics

 Wake up a song that the birds are singing 
 Get up and see what a new day's bringing 
 Step out and breathe in the smell of flowers in the air 
 
 Walking with hand in hand lovely weather 
 Talking about our new life together 
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere 
 
 Cancun, Saint Lucia, Saint Bart's, Tobago 
 Montego bay on to Ocho Rios 
 We swim and play in a pool below the water fall 
 
 Flying to Phoenix in Arizona 
 Driving the desert to see Sedona 
 Camping we watch the flames dancing on the canyon wall 
 
 Wrapped in the arms of my darling my love 
 Gazing at stars and the moon up above 
 
 Every day brings us a new adventure
 Filling our eyes and our hearts with pleasure
 Booked on a budget but feeling like a billionaire
 
 Visiting places with new perspectives 
 Loving the life that the one percent lives
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere
 
 [Bridge]

 Living the vagabond life is priceless
 Nothing to tethers us or deny us
 Spending our time on nobody's dime without a care
 
 Go where we chose where the moment takes us
  Nothing to lose with no obligations
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere

Everywhere by Doxter S on Spotify

Listen to Everywhere by Doxter S on Spotify

Everywhere by Doxter S is an upbeat, latin rhythm, inspirational song dedicated to a very happy new couple starting out their new life together with a dance and a promise to keep traveling and dancing together, leaving behind all the worries and complications of daily life.  Listen to Everywhere by Doxter S on Spotify

Everywhere by Doxter S is the 61st original composition by this enigmatic composer.  This song has an upbeat, latin rhythm, with inspirational lyrics. Everywhere by Doxter S is dedicated to a very happy new couple starting out their new life together with a dance and a promise to keep traveling and dancing together, leaving behind the worries and complications of daily life. 

Lyrics

 Wake up a song that the birds are singing 
 Get up and see what a new day's bringing 
 Step out and breathe in the smell of flowers in the air 
 
 Walking with hand in hand lovely weather 
 Talking about our new life together 
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere 
 
 Cancun, Saint Lucia, Saint Bart's, Tobago 
 Montego bay on to Ocho Rios 
 We swim and play in a pool below the water fall 
 
 Flying to Phoenix in Arizona 
 Driving the desert to see Sedona 
 Camping we watch the flames dancing on the canyon wall 
 
 Wrapped in the arms of my darling my love 
 Gazing at stars and the moon up above 
 
 Every day brings us a new adventure
 Filling our eyes and our hearts with pleasure
 Booked on a budget but feeling like a billionaire
 
 Visiting places with new perspectives 
 Loving the life that the one percent lives
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere
 
 [Bridge]

 Living the vagabond life is priceless
 Nothing to tethers us or deny us
 Spending our time on nobody's dime without a care
 
 Go where we chose where the moment takes us
  Nothing to lose with no obligations
 Happy as two can be we'll be dancing everywhere

Flower Girl by Doxter S on Apple Music

Flower Girl by Doxter S on Apple Music

Sometimes the inspiration for a song is a person, maybe a place, or a feeling, or perhaps a period in time. Flower Girl by Doxter S is all of these. The place is introduced in the first verse: “There is a town just south of Monterey”. Look at a map of the west coast of California and take a guess. The town has a long history going back centuries. The oldest Spanish Mission in North America is there. There is an artist colony. There was a famous Mayor. The person who is the subject of the song, “Flower Girl”, has come to this town from far away. Her mind is always far away as well. She may be a person born of a different era with different sensibilities. We learn that “Flower Girl” is “Stuck in a ripple of time” in pursuit of a lover.

There are many references to the ocean, ocean life (Sea Otters – who notoriously mate for life), and sailors (who notoriously don’t).
There are sailors out on the bay. A sailor wanders by the Flower Shop where she works. We just don’t know that “Flower Girl” is interested in a sailor. “Flower Girl” wants to be with someone who left her behind. “Flower Girl” is musically inclined, as she is depicted “gently strumming her guitar” while she sings to an unidentified man. “Flower Girl” is praying as the Mission Bell tolls when the love of her life finally appears. Suddenly we are taken back in time; as if only a return to this earlier historical period can resolve “Flower Girl’s” longing and desires. The Sea Otters swim an play.
Flower Girl was written by Doxter S, sung by a female lead, and was produced at Crimson Studios in McLean, Virginia in 2017.

Flower Girl by Doxter S on Spotify

Flower Girl by Doxter S on Spotify

Sometimes the inspiration for a song is a person, maybe a place, or a feeling, or perhaps a period in time. Flower Girl by Doxter S is all of these. The place is introduced in the first verse: “There is a town just south of Monterey”. Look at a map of the west coast of California and take a guess. The town has a long history going back centuries. The oldest Spanish Mission in North America is there. There is an artist colony. There was a famous Mayor. The person who is the subject of the song, “Flower Girl”, has come to this town from far away. Her mind is always far away as well. She may be a person born of a different era with different sensibilities. We learn that “Flower Girl” is “Stuck in a ripple of time” in pursuit of a lover.

There are many references to the ocean, ocean life (Sea Otters – who notoriously mate for life), and sailors (who notoriously don’t).
There are sailors out on the bay. A sailor wanders by the Flower Shop where she works. We just don’t know that “Flower Girl” is interested in a sailor. “Flower Girl” wants to be with someone who left her behind. “Flower Girl” is musically inclined, as she is depicted “gently strumming her guitar” while she sings to an unidentified man. “Flower Girl” is praying as the Mission Bell tolls when the love of her life finally appears. Suddenly we are taken back in time; as if only a return to this earlier historical period can resolve “Flower Girl’s” longing and desires. The Sea Otters swim an play.
Flower Girl was written by Doxter S, sung by a female lead, and was produced at Crimson Studios in McLean, Virginia in 2017.

Form a Line by Doxter S on Apple Music

Form a Line by Doxter S on Apple Music

This upbeat song has more energy and less sweetness (than my last wedding song) and will get everyone crowding the dance floor dancing vigorously singing and shouting along with the band. Listen here:

I wrote a song for a wedding this year [Everywhere by Doxter S] that was light and airy and sweet. I imagined the young newlyweds dancing to it. [on another planet]. The real wedding dances were very different and everyone was crowding the dance floor. They all knew the melodies and lyrics and sang along while dancing vigorously. I was impressed that a wedding song needs to have more energy, less sweetness, a simpler melody, and lyrics everyone would sing. After finishing this song I needed a title. I remembered John Travolta as the Angel Michael (1996) saying that when he first came to earth everyone was just milling around. Michael told them to “Form a Line”.

Listen on SoundCloud

Form a Line by Doxter S on Spotify

Form a Line by Doxter S on Spotify

This upbeat song has more energy and less sweetness (than my last wedding song) and will get everyone crowding the dance floor dancing vigorously singing and shouting along with the band. Listen here:

I wrote a song for a wedding this year [Everywhere by Doxter S] that was light and airy and sweet. I imagined the young newlyweds dancing to it. [on another planet]. The real wedding dances were very different and everyone was crowding the dance floor. They all knew the melodies and lyrics and sang along while dancing vigorously. I was impressed that a wedding song needs to have more energy, less sweetness, a simpler melody, and lyrics everyone would sing. After finishing this song I needed a title. I remembered John Travolta as the Angel Michael (1996) saying that when he first came to earth everyone was just milling around. Michael told them to “Form a Line”.

Listen on SoundCloud

Dancers by Doxter S on Apple Music

Dancers by Doxter S on Apple Music

Dancers by Doxter S is a dance fantasy with a latin beat. This song evokes the nightlife in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the tango dancing that originated there.

Traveling through the mountains in western Virginia we were listening to local college radio from UVA. As we crossed to the western slope the station changed to a latin program from West Virginia entirely in Spanish. That was the inspiration for this song. Initially I wrote something more humorous with a Mariachi style. I placed that aside and reconfigured the melody into a Tango style instead. The lyrics and title are changed as well.

The singer recalls her experience as a tourist and the lasting impression that stays with her. She carries in her memory the dancers that so impressed on her the beauty and grace of the Tango. She dreams of herself becoming a tango dancer in Buenos Aires.

Dancers by Doxter S includes the traditional instruments used for the tango. The familiar Bandoneon is an essential component, along with latin percussion using conga, wood blocks, and tambourine. A cello and acoustic bass complete the instrumental support for this tango dance.

Lyrics

Instrumental Intro 
 
It was not many years ago  
I flew away to Argentina  
In Buenos Aires for the Summer  
I found an open air Cantina  
I tasted wine and sampled Tapas  
The cobbled streets were filled with couples  
 
I watched the young tango dancers perform in the square  
They moved with beauty and grace they seemed lighter than air  
 
Instrumental Break 
 
One special dancer caught my fancy  
She was a raven haired romantic  
Her flashing eyes and pouting boca  
Made every movement look dramatic  
Her partner held her in possession  
They danced together with expression  
 
I felt the music they danced to was played just for me  
Their every movement was perfectly timed to the beat  
 
Long Instrumental Break 
 
I see that dancer when I'm dreaming 
And how I wish that I could be her  
When I was younger I was wiser  
I saw that beauty was inside her  
The music carries like a whisper  
I dream that I am dancing with her  
 
Next to a garden with flowers that glow in the light  
I would be dancing for hours the moon shining bright  
 
Instrumental Break 
 
Play the music that they dance to just for me 
 
Instrumental Break 
 
It seems so many years ago  
I flew away to Argentina  
In Buenos Aires for the Summer  
I found a open air Cantina  
I tasted wine and sampled Tapas  
The cobbled streets were filled with couples  
 
I was a young tango dancer alone in the square  
I moved with beauty and grace I was lighter than air 
 
Instrumental  
 
Buenos Aires Argentina in my dreams 
I still dream I’m dancing tango in the night 
 
Outro