Douglas Greer
Galveston, Texas based singer/songwriter Douglas Greer is a Roots-Rock/Americana recording artist with Continental Record Services, based in the Netherlands, and is a Texas-based touring artist. Greer showcases a brand of original roots-rock music heavy on storytelling and whose recordings are wrapped in electric guitar- and keyboard-infused melodies reminiscent of seventies-era country and rock.
Greer and his full band have played shows at major venues in the Austin area including Antone’s, the Saxon Pub, Poodie’s Hilltop Roadhouse, Momo’s and Jovita’s. He has played in markets ranging from Austin, New Orleans, Luckenbach, Houston, Galveston, Fort Worth, Nashville, the Southeast Texas area, and throughout the Netherlands and the Hill Country and Gulf Coast regions of Texas.
As an acoustic performer, Greer employs a unique style that mixes equal parts red dirt country, rock and bluegrass. As a songwriter, Greer often chooses to write about personal experiences he had growing up and living on the Texas Gulf Coast area by the Louisiana border. His personal storytelling style is what sets him apart in the genre. “When I was a kid, I always kept a diary and liked to write about what was happening to me at the time. As a songwriter, I like to think there’s a part of me and my experiences in everything I write,” as he puts it. He has been described as “a Steve Earle playing songs of a Townes Van Zandt.”
Greer promotes his music most heavily to the Western Europe and Eastern Australia markets. Over ninety percent of Greer’s music sales have been in overseas markets.
His 2006 debut album, “Just a Man,” has been sold in thirteen countries on four continents. The album reached the Number One spot on the Euro Americana Chart, the Americana music chart in Europe, as well as the Number Two spot on the same chart the following month, where it topped Bob Dylan’s “Modern Times,” which debuted at Number Three. It also reached the Number Thirteen spot in America on the Freeform American Roots Chart.
Greer’s 2016 release, “Baja Louisiana,” also reached the Number One spot on the Euro Americana Chart and the Number Thirteen Spot on the Freeform American Roots Chart. The album was named the Number Nine Album of the Year on the Euro Americana Chart, between releases by Sturgill Simpson at Number Eight and Lucinda Williams at Number Ten.
Douglas Greer and “Just a Man” earned significant critical acclaim and radio airplay in Holland, Belgium, Spain, France and Germany, and made several year-end lists in the European Americana music community, including Number One Male Artist (Johanna Bodde, Alt Country Cooking), Number Two Male Artist (Jos van den Boom, Crossroads Radio), Best Debut Album (Jos van Den Boom, Crossroads Radio), and Album of the Year (Francois Braeken, Rootstime Magazine), as well as being named Album of the Month on the seminal radio program, “Americana OK,” on Leith FM Radio in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has taken five promotional tours of Europe, including guest artist appearances on Crossroads Radio, Country File Radioshow, and several other programs, and was a featured performer on the acclaimed world music cultural program, “Cultureel Podium Roepaen.”
Douglas Greer has had two tours of Europe, slated for 2020, cancelled because of the coronavirus epidemic, but will be touring in Europe again when permitted.
Greer is currently promoting his new album project, “My Last Storm”, which has just been released in September 2020 in the European Union and United Kingdom through Continental Record Services, the premier record label in Europe for North American Roots, Americana and Blues artists, as well as his Spotify single and video for his new song, “My Bible and My Gun.” Promotion for the album in the Benelux region is being handled by Jan Janssen and JohTheMa Promotions, based in the Netherlands.
Douglas Greer will present a United States album release and promotional campaign and tour for “My Last Storm” in early 2021.
Excerpts of some reviews:
“Douglas Greer is incredible. He disappears ten years, and when he decides to come back, he naturally records another musical treasure, another musical gem, in ‘Baja Louisiana.’ Artists like Greer are beyond my understanding. He is so talented that he can allow himself the luxury to do what he wants, when he wants, when he can. I am really impressed with his stunning ability to release albums we can’t forget. ‘Baja Louisiana’ didn’t only make my day, it will be regarded as one of the best albums of the year.” – MIKE PENARD, ISA RADIO, FRANCE
“Any album that begins with the words, ‘So it begins, we’re drinking absinthe and smoking Cubans, rolling up in a Cadillac, Jimmy Carter sticker on the back’ cannot go wrong… Douglas Greer writes fantastic songs with well thought-out lyrics… ‘Baja Louisiana’ is a narrative album with significant, gripping songs from a great songwriter.” – PETER JACOBS, KEYS AND CHORDS, BELGIUM
“On ‘Baja Louisiana’ Douglas Greer presents American stories that stand out both by their content as well as the very beautiful way in which they are drawn musically. Douglas Greer has been operating for many years in the shadow of the greats in the genre, but with ‘Baja Louisiana’ he delivers a record that stands among them.” – FREDDY CELIS, ROOTSTIME, BELGIUM
“The songwriter Texan is back with ‘Baja Louisiana.’ The eleven titles on the album, all written by Douglas, demonstrate his qualities as an observer of the world around him and his ability to translate emotions, anecdotes or social issues into the right words and melodies. Great storyteller.” – SAM PIERRE, LU CRI DE COYOTE, FRANCE
“On ‘Baja Louisiana’ we hear eleven self-written songs. And what songs! As befits a singer-songwriter these are eleven short stories packed into a musical coat. And they also are about something… Musically we’re somewhere between better country and country rock, like a Steve Earle playing songs of a Townes Van Zandt. An excellent CD…” – ERIC CAMPFENS, BARN OWL BLUES, THE NETHERLANDS
“Douglas Greer kept us in suspense for ten years, but now it’s finally released: ‘BAJA LOUISIANA!’… No crystal ball is needed to predict that ‘Baja Louisiana’ will grace several Year-End Best-Of lists in the European Americana community.” – JOHANNA BODDE, RADIOGIRL’S MIXTAPES AND INSURGENT COUNTRY, THE NETHERLANDS
“Douglas Greer’s new record is a one of a kind treasure…” – MARK HALLMAN, OWNER, CONGRESS HOUSE STUDIO, AUSTIN, TEXAS
“Douglas Greer is an extraordinary storytelling red dirt roots-rocker… ‘Baja Louisiana’ contains very beautiful handcrafted Americana songs that needed to come out.” – JAN JANSSEN, FOUNDER, REAL ROOTS CAFÉ, THE NETHERLANDS
“Douglas Greer’s ‘Baja Louisiana’ is a must have album… [W]ith the grandiose opener ‘Back In My Skin Again’, which immediately reminds one of Ray Wylie Hubbard, the great Waylon Jennings-esque tune ‘Take My Name Off Your Facebook Page’, which has a good dose of country hit potential, and ‘Out of My Mind‘, the mesmerizing ‘Witches’, the accordion gem ‘Port Acres’ and ‘Miss Right Now’, ‘Baja Louisiana’ certainly deserves a top rating in the Euro Americana Chart.” – FRANCOIS BRAEKEN, BEALESTREET, BELGIUM
“‘Baja Louisiana’ is Americana from the top shelf. A hit in its genre.” – GERRIT SCHINKEL, BLUES MAGAZINE, THE NETHERLANDS
“’Just a Man’ is a classic example of how, in our opinion, Americana is supposed to sound. Greer is a master of telling stories and drawing character sketches.” – BENNY METTEN, CTRL ALT COUNTRY MAGAZINE
“’Just a Man’ is a real beauty; alternative Southeast Texas country rock molded into ten great songs that create the same atmosphere for which musicians such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle, James McMurtry and Joe Ely are famous.” – FRANCOIS BRAEKEN, ROOTSTIME MAGAZINE
“’Just a Man’ is a brilliant debut album; texts with ingenious character sketches that could have come straight out of a bestseller. One of the best Alternative Country Rock CDs of the year.” – JAN JANSSEN, REAL ROOTS CAFÉ
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