When Appalachia - the best band in central PA - needed lyrics for some original songs in 1978, someone referred them to a Carlisle high school student named  Doug Sedgwick. Himself a huge Lennon/McCartney fan and already a respected bass player who had spent some time picking up knowledge (and actually recording with) Berklee grad and neighbor guitarist Mike Childs, Doug left Carlisle for college in FL that same year. From 1976 until summer of 1978, Doug was a subscriber to Guitar Player magazine and devoured every issue cover-to-cover. Fast forward one year and one academic dismissal later and Doug’s next major musical experience finds him playing bass for progressive new wave singer/songwriter Dave Molnar in the suburbs of Detroit. Despite some interest from a small Warner Bros. label affiliate and some white-knuckle studio adventures though, Doug and Dave parted ways. Before and after playing with Dave Molnar as part of “The Hurt”, there were 2 stints in bands with Keyboardist Mike Wolfe: The first being an ELP-style (no guitar) instrumental 3 piece and the second being a larger “show band” that briefly toured the FL club circuit covering Donna Summer and ELO. These bands broke up as well. Doug enlisted in the Army in 1981 and while stationed on Ft. Lewis WA about a year later, bought his first reel-to-reel from a pawnshop and began writing and recording his own acoustic-guitar-based songs. All this time, Doug would seek out open mikes and other musicians, attempting to accumulate as much musical knowledge and experience as he could gather. After being transferred to the VA area in 1983, Doug played his first paid acoustic solo gig at Gerald’s on King Street (now called the Laughing Lizard) in Old Town Alexandria. After leaving the Army with the skills and experience to work as a software engineer, Doug took work in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area where he began collaborating on songs with guitarist and industrial video music composer Mark Boardman. One Doug composition graced a video made for U-Haul, and the upgraded recording equipment he purchased allowed Doug to produce some music Boardman wrote for a soft-core adult film. Around this same time, Mark, Doug and guitar teacher / trumpet player Tom Faver began writing and recording what would amount to 3 albums worth of dense, intricate material made primarily for their own gratification on weekends as Doug began refining and developing his studio engineering skills. Leaving TX to take a different day job, Doug later briefly played lead acoustic guitar for a husband/wife folk duo in DE. (All through this time frame across Texas, Delaware and eventually South Carolina, Doug subscribed to Home and Studio Recording magazine and fortified his hands-on experience with its pages.) Next relocated to Columbia SC, Doug produced a demo recording for legendary local blues outfit Mojo Blue and while shocked at the invite following an impromptu jam – proudly accepted an offer from leader Tony Scarano to play second electric guitar and share the lead vocal chores. Doug also formed his first all-acoustic trio with Tony and Mojo Blue fretless bass player Jim Scott around the same time. For six grueling months, these 2 bands put Doug in front of audiences as many as 4 times a week, occasionally in the same venues where contemporary local Columbia band Hootie and the Blowfish played. Another quest for better day gig work brought Doug back to the Northern VA area in 1992 where he has since enjoyed success as a gigging solo musician and leader of the acoustic duo (once a trio) – BugSnakeWilly – with multi-instrumentalist Steve “Snake” Smith. BugSnakeWilly played the Horizon Dairy festival in 2003 – along with Doc Watson, Junior Brown and Bill Kirchen. In 2005 Doug won his first Honorable Mention in the Jazz/Blues category of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for his tune Cable TV. In 2006, Doug won a second Honorable Mention in the World category for his song Peace in Our Hearts. For a brief time, Doug returned to his initial loves - the bass and Lennon/McCartney/Harrison compositions as the leader of an informal Beatles tribute band that played 3 gigs Doug will treasure for the remainder of his days. Furiously gigging and recording since these successes while still continuing to sling code as a full-time software engineer, Doug put out his album: Committed in May 2008 to some very well received reviews. Songs from the album have been receiving Internet radio airplay as well as being played on Loyola College radio, CHES 101.5 FM in Erin, Ontario and Radio Upper Murray in New South Wales, Australia. More recently, Doug has begun recording tracks for a second album – to include at least ONE finished number (Words) that is a gospel/rap duet sung with first-class multiple-award winning indie songwriter hero Daniel “DiEL” Lee. Doug is also preparing to add some guitar tracks to the new album from multiple-award winning indie songwriter Vic Cook. At the same time as perfecting his 3rd person prose composition skills, Doug has ALSO assembled a band up to the task of covering the material from the Committed album live and have already played one AMAZING gig. These players would be: bassist Dan Hall (Lawrence Welk); violinist Willard Morris (Joanne Juskus); and drummer Ron Goad (Everybody in the DC area).