After years of writing and pitching on Music Row, I sat down one day with an idea for a song called ‘I’m a-Gonna’. I really liked how it turned out but didn’t think it was a great pitch to contemporary country artists so I decided to record it myself. Little did I know then that was the first song written and recorded for what would become the album ‘Coyote’.

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Just a few months later came 'A BUCK TEN and High Wire.' Then ‘Lettin’ Go of Hangin’ On’ and ‘Bourbon & Water’. At this point, I began to think I had an album on my hands. I hadn’t intended to do an album—this was just a very organic creative process happening—and I didn’t have a concept or even a working title for the project. That’s when I channeled an old notion about the coyotes that live on the fringe of the city here in East Nashville. I got to thinking how that was emblematic of my relationship to Music Row and wrote ‘Coyote’. Suddenly, an album was taking shape.

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‘Coyote’ is arranged chronologically in order of my experiences as a songwriter. It is autobiographical without being too literal. I moved to Nashville to be a writer. The song cycle that is Coyote is the artist, Douglas Wayne, revealed.