BIOGRAPHY "He's gone country" is a lyric that David Dwayne heard all too often from the side of the stage while working for Alan Jackson on the 2002 Drive Tour. "I was inspired by the quality of his voice and how he adds his own touch to the songs he sings. It's something that I would look forward to every night." With Dwayne's own album completed, he could be that guy Alan's singing about in the song because he too has also "been reading about Nashville on the records everybody's buying." "There are songs other artist's sing that still stop me in my tracks when I hear them. My mind goes to the place where I first heard them or a place in my mind that I created that will only be triggered when I hear that particular song. I hope my music will do that for other people." says Dwayne. With his first studio project entitled "David Dwayne, All Of Me" completed in the fall of 2003, his dreams are coming true these days. Dwayne's been writing for over a decade now and had a professionally produced three-song demo that included his songs of "Who Needs It," "Blue Kentucky Cowgirl," and "Till The Warm Wind Blows". With these tracks down, he's added seven more songs to the project including, "Jack And Jim", "I Dance With You," and "Change". Dwayne was equally influenced by country and rock artists. His biggest influences remain the traditional sides of George Strait and Merle Haggard, while at the same time he is influenced by the upbeats of Boston and Bon Jovi. The result of these influences is Dwayne's touch to country music that is a perfect fit for the changing times. Most of the writing of this project was completed in a small room located on the far side of his house that reminds one of an in-house studio where it's just him, his guitar and recording equiptment. "I love writing in this room," Dwayne says. "This is where I can focus on the music with no distractions." This is where Dwayne can be alone with his creative talents. "I'll go in there, pick up my guitar and start strumming and sometimes the music will bring the words out and other times the words will bring the music out, but yet it might not be the music or the words you end up with in the end. Sometimes I sit back and wonder if there is anything that is going to make sense, and then there are days that something comes out right away and you never have to change a thing. You just never know how it's going to flow." Born in Idaho, the son of a rancher, Dwayne grew up in the rural culture of the Idaho countryside that still remains important to him today. He played guitar off and on during his high school years, but never really took it seriously until he was attending college at Boise State University. There he enrolled in academic classes, but never really was sure about what he wanted to do until he went to see Clint Black who was playing a show in Boise in the fall of 1991. "I saw how the fans reacted to his performance and I knew for certain that's what I wanted to do!" Soon after that concert, Dwayne dropped out of college, bought himself a guitar and started taking lessons with a serious outlook towards moving to Nashville one day. At age 23, he formed the Owhyee Mountain Band and they played at Scrubbies BBQ on the outskirts of Mountain Home, Idaho. The band dissolved after five months and soon after that he moved to Ohio and lived with a friend, while saving money and living 1,300 miles closer to Nashville. In September of 1999, Dwayne moved to Nashville with everything he owned in the back of his truck that was pulling his camper that would be his home at a campground once in the music city. His first objectives once in town were to get a job and build contacts. "I had bills to pay," he says. So he took a job working on a warehouse dock unloading trucks during the day, while playing at songwriter nights during the evenings. "I took vocal lessons, played for other songwriters and industry people, and took all the advice I could get from others about how to make it in this business." The often sought after advice is starting to come around these days. Three years after his move, Dwayne still continues to write, play songwriter nights, and now record albums. With a studio session completed and an album composed of a collection of his songs, the final product is sure to be that album David Dwayne moved to Nashville to record. Once on tour driving one of Alan Jackson's semis and watching every night from a distance, Dwayne's own vision of having a record deal and performing for the fans is getting much closer. "I like to watch other artists perform. Sometimes I get inspired, I'll write something down, occasionally it's the beginning of another song." |
