Doug Levitt

Doug Levitt has traveled 200,000 Greyhound miles writing songs about fellow travelers at the crossroads. Inspired by Woody Guthrie and the Depression-era projects that drew a fuller portrait of America through people living on the edge and the in-betweens, the Greyhound Diaries have taken him from prisons, shelters and VAs to the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Woody Guthrie Center. The BBC has followed his travels for a series of documentaries; he is a contributor to TIME, and the Museum of Social Justice in Los Angeles mounted a multimedia exhibition of the work. Before the buses, Levitt was a London-based foreign correspondent for CNN and ABC, filing from Iran, Rwanda and Bosnia. His album Edge of Everywhere was produced by multi-Grammy winner Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow). A new record with Shoemaker, recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville and mastered by Pete Lyman, follows in early 2027. "Much like Woody Guthrie… [Levitt] has captured within each of his twelve songs the very spirit and heartbeat of America better than anyone since the great dustbowl poet himself." — Americana Music Association UK "[Doug] is one of the best songwriters I have heard in the last decade or so. There are vocal performances of his that are unbelievable." — Trina Shoemaker "What a voice." — CNN He is an ambassador for Guitars for Vets.