The Mission

Rhythm in the Word

I’ve been writing songs since around 1967 and performing them, both solo and with groups, since 1990 or so.  In February of 2014, I began this series of home recordings to do my best version of about a hundred songs, dating back as far as 1980 to the present.

This project is akin to gathering up all of one’s old photographs and putting them in a book I suppose.  Most of these songs have been played in public at one time or another, recorded here and there, and then relegated to sitting around in a stack of papers on my desk or in a box.  So I decided to spend enough time recording each song to the best of my abilities as the songwriter and offering them up to whoever might give them a listen.

Update, 2023– The first eight albums are a mix of songs written prior to 2014 and new songs written during the process of recording.  Starting with Volume 9, Way Down Low, in 2020, everything is new. 

Don Wright Songwriter

Each album is a book of lyrics with the CD included, along with comments on each song and notes (rambling thoughts, poems, etc.) and some pictures.  The concept is somewhat ‘old-school’ in this digital age but then, the music probably is too.