Doug Seegers

Doug Seegers is an Americana singer and songwriter based in Nashville. While growing up in Setauket, New York (on Long Island), Seegers was drawn to the music his parents loved and sang: hard country music from Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Faron Young, Webb Pierce, etc. Like most teens, he fell in love with rock & roll and learned to play guitar. He was especially taken with the music of John Lennon. He attended college and graduate school in New York City. In the early '70s, Seegers' musical aspirations took him to Austin, where he renamed himself "Duke the Drifter." There he...