The Alaskan Mile
52 year old Doug Geeting earns his living as a pilot flying the mountains of Alaska delivering mountain climbers, river rafters, gold miners, and tourist to some of the most remote parts of the state. He rarely lands on asphalt, m [+]The Alaskan Mile
52 year old Doug Geeting earns his living as a pilot flying the mountains of Alaska delivering mountain climbers, river rafters, gold miners, and tourist to some of the most remote parts of the state. He rarely lands on asphalt, mostly glaciers and river bars.
On the side, Doug plays at the local pubs and gatherings recording his favorite tunes during the winter months.
His style of playing wanders from Hillbilly Country to New Age Acoustic Overdrive.
Both of his cds, 'Between Flights' and The Alaskan Mile, have flown in space aboard the space shuttle as part of the Shuttle Juke box.
Doug is the Requested Opening act for Ramblin Jack Elliott, Bill Staines, and Cheryl Wheeler when in Alaska. Doug has opened concerts for other artist who travel to Alaska such as John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Tom Russell & Andrew Hardin, Norton Buffalo & Roy Rogers, Arlo Guthrie and family, Dougie Maclean and others. He can be found playing a solo gig or with his pals, Steve Durr, Jon Durr, and Larry Zarella.
The Alaskan Mile is Doug Geeting's second solo album.
"All in all I think that The Alaskan Mile has a piece of music for every ear."
'Rancher Looks at Life' (track 1), is a lyrically simple song Doug wrote about a rancher he flew over one time in the middle of Montana. "Here was this guy on a horse out in the middle of a bunch of cows and a couple of dogs running around. When I flew over him, he just looked up and waved his hat, so I figured that was worth writing a song about."
Being a huge fan of Hoyt Axtons, Doug chose 'Epistle' (track 3) to be included on this cd. Hoyt was a big influence on my singing. More for the fact that it really wasn't singing so much as it was telling a story, and I like story tellers. When Hoyt died, I thought of no other way to honor him then to include one of his songs. The Epistle is one of my favorites of Hoyt's and I have not heard anyone else cover it, so here it is........
'Ready for the Storm'(track 2) is one of Dougie Macleans more popular songs. Doug took the song and added some thunder and rain, a long instrumental at both ends and the use of the 16 string harp guitar can be heard throughout the song. I asked Doug how he came to learn the picking style of Dougie Maclean....
.. "A few
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