Welcome to my personal website. I have others, www.dontomlinsonlaw.com, my lawfirm site; www.solidsterlingmusic.com, my music publishing site where you can listen to demos of my songwriting; and www.desideratathebook.com, a site on which I sell a book I co-authored about the famous prose poem Desiderata. This website is where I muse about the creative endeavors that have been my lifelong passions -- music and writing and photography. So check out the navigation buttons to the left. If you see a book you wish to buy, click on it. If you hear a song you want to record, email me. The demos you listen to here or on my music publishing site may be someone's next big hit!!!
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From my earliest memories, I loved music. From standing in the front seat of my father's 1953 Ford directing the Guy Lombardo music on the radio to performing "Doggie In The Window" a capela for my mother in the 1st grade, I loved music. My first 45 rpm records were "My Girl Josephine" (Fats Domino) and "Chain Gang" (Sam Cooke). My other early influences were Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley. At age 15, I started singing in a British Invasion-influenced rock band and then started playing keyboards
(eventually a B3/Leslie) and acoustic/electric guitar. I have been performing on and off with bands and duets and solo my entire adult life. I'm now playing and singing, proudly, with the original six of us from my high school rock band, "The New Continentals." We played our 40th class reunion (Hall High, Little Rock) in 2006, reprising the music we played at the 1966 graduation dance. We since have played another event and have more coming up in 2111. It's a real hoot. I'm also a songwriter, now having written more than 300 songs. Check out some demos here.
Since I always have
been drawn to writing and speaking, I guess it's no surprise that my academic training was in journalism
and law. After working as a television reporter and then as a lawyer, I decided to write a novel. The result was Oedipus Tex, Xlibris 2000, 356 pps., www.amazon.com. With co-author Bob Allen, I wrote Desiderata: The Book about the famous prose poem. It's available by audio or text at www.desideratathebook.com. I'm writing a sequel to Oedipus Tex titled Liberation of the Secret Kind and a science fiction book titled Unfathomable Depth. I'm
also writing a nonfiction work titled Patent Frenzy: Look Before You Leap with a co-author, and I'm writing another nonfiction work titled Avoiding Life's Big Mistakes. As a television reporter, I learned to shoot 16mm film (yes, the old days) and that got me interested in photography. I've shot a great deal of motion stuff (documentaries, music videos...) and a world of stills, such as those shown above and elsewhere on this site. If you want to know more on any of these subjects, just navigate according to the buttons at the top left of any page.

Music // Songwriting
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