This song is about my brother breaking up with his girlfriend.

Doug Martins - Now That You've Hurt Me

This song is about having an argument with my wife (girlfriend at the time). Sitting there in silence waiting for each other to say something.

Doug Martins - Waiting

This song was from my first trip to BWCAW, Ely, MN. The morning we left on a 4 day canoe trip, there was a thunderstorm. Laying in bed, I was thinking of this song.

Doug Martins - The Morning Comes

Not really sure what this song is about. I had what I thought an interesting riff and I wanted to use it in a song.

Doug Martins - The Fortune Teller

This was from my first trip to the BWCAW, Ely, MN.

Doug Martins - Minnesota Pride

When I wrote this song, I was in a University of Michigan Biological Station cabin. I was trying to be as quiet as possible to not wake up anyone in the surrounding cabins.

Doug Martins - Michigan Sand

Helen McAuley is my maternal grandmother. She loved to sit on the porch, drink wine and watch traffic.

Doug Martins - Helen McAuley

As part of a fellowship in college, we went to a cabin on Sugar Island in Michigan. It sits on the St. Mary's River between USA and Canada. It was owned by a former MI governor Chase Osborn who donated the cabin to the University of Michigan Biological Station. The cabin is a haunting and beautiful place.

Doug Martins - Chase River

I worked in Oak Ridge, TN for a summer. There was a man that looked like Jerry Garcia. His name was Mark Brewer. Although I only knew him for 2 months, I appreciated my conversations with him about a bunch of stuff.

Doug Martins - Brewer Man

This is the first song I ever wrote, I think. It is about my wife (girlfriend at the time). When I started to play guitar, I wanted to be in a punk band. Since I played acoustic way more than my electric, I funneled more towards folk, but this song still shows my punk influences.

Doug Martins - A Moment Behind

Going from Bozeman to Big Sky, you travel along the Gallatin Canyon. Along the way there are crosses to mark places of accidents that resulted in deaths. At the time, there were 44. Sadly there is probably more now.

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