The Music
Listen to the Albums
Press play and let the songs keep you company. The player follows you as you read the stories behind them.
Do Good, Be Well, Have Fun
Album two · Recorded with Dave Nachmanoff at NachVille Recording
It’s All About Love
Debut album · 2015 · Recorded with Dan Orvik
Stories Behind the Songs
Every Song Begins With a True Story
A wartime prayer, a big yellow house, a brother’s journey and a goddaughter’s laughter. Read where the songs came from, in Don’s own words.
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Gulf Coast Highway
This is the only cover song on the album but it is so near and dear to my roots that I had…
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Beauty of a Star
One day I was in Chico’s home in San Antonio and I noticed a framed, typewritten yellowed document. I took a closer look…
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Big Yellow House
When I was at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1970s, my grandfather told me about a house his father,…
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Higher Ground
I originally called this song The Gift when I wrote it some years ago. Unfortunately, alcohol and drug addiction has taken a major…
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Secret Lake
When my son Matt was in high school, he was given the assignment to write a poem in the style of Emily…
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Cobalt Fire Flower
This is a song about an extraordinary dream I had where I suddenly found myself in a scene where the devil was…
Meet Don
Singer-Songwriter and Poet Inspired by Life and Roots
Don Keeble’s roots run deep in San Antonio and Corpus Christi, and his songs draw on the people and places he loves: friends and family, recovery and redemption, loss and triumph.
His musical path began as the little drummer boy in a kindergarten Christmas show and grew through decades of singing bass in church and community choirs. In 2015 he released his debut album, It’s All About Love, followed by Do Good, Be Well, Have Fun, a collection of true stories set to music.
Do Good. Be Well. Have Fun.
What Don told his son Matt every time he headed out to play became a family saying, then a song, and now a way of life.