Original Trop Rock
These songs grew from Doug’s love of Trop Rock music, its artists, and the community that inspired the Trop Rock Inn. Doug wrote the lyrics and used Suno to create their musical settings, then turned the songs into reels—including three shared at the Inn’s grand opening.
Explore the songs below. For professional recording services at the Inn’s studio, connect with Dave Freeman.
Doug often describes Trop Rock as the kind of music that, when you hear it, you can’t help but smile. He wrote “Hear Me Play” as a tribute to Trop Rock artists—and as a way of thanking them for “bringing a smile to your heart today.”
Hear Me Play
Trop Rock Inn Studio Original Music
Trop Rockical Stars
As performance excellence consultants, owners Denise and Doug always coached their award-winning clients that Step 1 in leadership is to “Identify your key stakeholders and determine and understand their requirements and expectations.”
One of the Trop Rock Inn’s key stakeholder groups is the artists themselves — the Trop Rock Music Award winners and nominees Doug calls “Trop Rockical Stars.”
This song is a musical thank-you to the artists who keep Trop Rock alive — and keep bringing a smile to our hearts.
Hanging Out at the Trop Rock Inn
Doug wrote “Hanging Out at the Trop Rock Inn” as a musical invitation and road map to the Space Coast. It name-checks TRMA stars along the route from the Florida-Georgia line to Melbourne and leads listeners down the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway (A1A) to the Trop Rock Inn.
Hear Me Play
Doug often describes Trop Rock as the kind of music that, when you hear it, you can’t help but smile. He wrote “Hear Me Play” as a tribute to Trop Rock artists—and as a way of thanking them for “bringing a smile to your heart today.”
Just Me and You
A love song for those of us growing older, wiser, and sometimes frailer.
We come to learn that the things most important to us often fall victim to the things most urgent. Before we know it, we’re running out of time to “get on down to all those things we’ve been trying to get around to.”
When the kids are grown and raising families of their own, our roles change, but our purpose endures: to nurture love and kindness across generations. And at the end of the day, all that really matters—we’re holding on to “Just Me and You.”