"A one-man compendium of avant Americana.” – The New Yorker 

A child of Memphis, TN, Doug Wamble has always been surrounded by a vast musical and cultural landscape. From listening to his mother play piano in their Baptist church to his grandfather singing cowboy songs while strumming his guitar.

After completing a Bachelors in Jazz Guitar from the University of North Florida and a Masters of Music from Northwestern, Doug headed to New York to seek a career as a guitarist and composer. Appearing on bandstands and recordings with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Steven Bernstein, Courtney Love, Madeleine Peyroux, and Cassandra Wilson. Doug was signed to Branford Marsalis’ label, Marsalis Music/Rounder Records. Doug released two critically acclaimed records Country Libations and Bluestate, and two singer/songwriter albums on E1 records, Doug Wamble and Fast as Years, Slow As Days, the latter being on his own imprint, Halcyonic Records. In 2019, he released “9 for ’19” on BandCamp, a collection of music ranging from blues, to jazz standards, to original songs, to richly orchestrated jazz compositions from 1997 to the present.

His history with Wynton Marsalis led to guitar contributions to several Ken Burns documentaries for PBS such as Prohibition, The War and Unforgivable Blackness. Doug began working as a composer for Burns’ Florentine Films, collaborating with Ken, his daughter Sarah, and David McMahon for the tragic film The Central Park Five. Wamble contributed original score pieces for Burns’ Vietnam, Jackie Robinson, The Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts, and Eastlake Meadows.

Doug has been the album producer and touring musical director/guitarist for his wife, Morgan James, since 2012. Since 2016, Doug has been on faculty as an ensemble director and guitar instructor at The Juilliard School.