“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”“The Old Man and the Sea” ~ Ernest Hemingway Blog by Don WallDawg is a slang word for man, buddy or dude and a Wild Dawg is a dawg that has gone native,...
Memories and Music By Jessica Ewy “Where words fail, music speaks” ~ Hans Christian Andersen Music is powerful. It has the ability to change your mood, bring you into the community with others and help you remember long ago moments lost by time and age. My life is...
DSA CELEBRATES SONGWRITING AT 2020 AWARDS SHOW Dallas, TX - January 16, 2021. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Dallas Songwriters Association presented the 30th Annual Song Contest Awards over two shows via Zoom and live streaming to Facebook, featuring live...
My Covid Road Trip II By Don Wall “I’m Thankful That Old Road Is A Friend Of Mine” “Snowin’ on Raton” by Townes Van Zandt We left the August heat of Dallas and headed northwest through the wind farms and oil fields of West Texas and stayed in Raton, New Mexico, and...
My COVID Road Trip By Don Wall Comes a time to put sand under my feet When the days start feeling same old After all I still know life is sweet When I just get up and go That’s the first verse of a new song I’m writing after a three-week road trip in mid-June...
Music and the Spiritual world By Alexis Tapp My friend, Ben, recently asked me to write something for the DSA blog. I told him I had no idea what I could contribute to the blog or its readers, and he said, “Come on, let’s not have too many slices of Humble Pie,...
DSA GOES GLOBAL NEW MEMBERS CONNECT GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO TEXAS MUSIC SCENE Dallas, TX - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE While the coronavirus has temporarily curtailed most Dallas Songwriters Association face-to-face meetings, open mics, and showcases, the global pandemic has...
Blue Sea by Bill Kapac Morning came on easy, night fading from the sky ocean waves shinning, the color of her eyes sun rays dancing on the water, fish swimming below ducks floating in a line, just going with the flow Aqua colored eyes, invited me within to her secret...
Dying In The Distance by Michael R. J. Roth Chatting in a coffee shop With a guy who’s feeling urgentAbout getting into politicsHe insists he’s an insurgent Behind him through the window Is an ambulance across the streetThey’re hauling out a stretcher Someone...
Strawberry Moon By Ynana Rose Strawberry moon Why oh why Do you bring memories that make me cry? Why do you follow Haunting me still? I said I’ll never marry & I never will She was a beauty in a white cotton dress My kiss was a question, Her answer was...
