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~ Award Winning Singer/Songwriter, active across Texas since 1980, as a Solo performer, as a vocalist/songwriter/frontman for popular TX bands spanning the rock, country, and Americana genres, including Texas Music Awards 2014 Live Band of the Year - Mark Allan Atwood & Brimstone, and MAA & Texadillo Revue, the current band, performing from a trio up to an 8 pc. band configuration.

~ MAA's Songtellers Series is a traveling all-star songswap series, featuring some of Atwood's talented  friends. Guests featured over the years include Matt Hillyer, Courtney Patton, Tommy Alverson, Randy Brown, Pauline Reese, John Arthur Martinez, Drew Kennedy, and many more gifted storytelling songwriters, for both one-off shows and established series, from D/FW, to the Hill Country, to South Padre Island.

~ 30+ yrs of support shows for gold/platinum selling national artists, spanning the rock, pop, country, and Americana genres, as both a one-off, and on multiple tour dates,.

~ Four-time Texas Music Awards recipient, including 2013 Male Vocalist of the Year

~ Texas Music Scene Television, featured in 3 episodes (2020/2022), TMS is a 15 yr, nationally syndicated show, focused on Texas Music and the artists who make it. MAA's most recent episode aired February 2022, and is linked here.

~ Four Top 40, Six Top 100 singles on the TRRR chart and three top 40 singles on the TIRC, from five full-length albums.

    A true Texas troubadour, who's dedicated his life to sharing songs and stories across the Lone Star State, and beyond, Mark Allan Atwood has been a piece of the Texas Music scene since the summer of 1980, when as a "songwriter" obsessed 18 yr old from Ennis, he began showing up at songwriter showcases in Dallas area saloons. The works of Kristofferson, BW Stevenson, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and many more, had captured his imagination as a kid, and heavily influenced his early understanding of what he wanted to say musically, and how to say it. Hanging around the songwriter haunts of the Dallas folkie scene, and Lower Greenville Avenue's nightlife, he was able to watch, listen, and learn from a community of gifted "song tellers." 

    Over the years, Atwood has shared stages, bills, and even served as tour support for a who's who of artists across many genres, including Turnpike Troubadours, Tesla, John Conlee, Great White, Joe Ely, Three Doors Down, Aaron Lewis, Zakk Wylde, and many more. 

    A 4-time Texas Music Awards recipient (Rising Star 2010, Founder's Award 2011, Male Vocalist 2013, and Live Artist of the Year 2014), Atwood has scored a handful of regional Texas radio hits from 5 full-length albums of original work, including the award winning debut How Country in 2009, the Atwood-Childs duo album Trading Pains in 2010, two Adam Odor produced albums with Mark Allan Atwood & Brimstone, Burned At The Crossroads and Alive & Well 2012 and 2013 respectively, and his latest, Old Scars & Sandbars, in March of 2023. "Happy Thoughts" and "Pedal Down Life," from Old Scars, were both popular singles, reaching new heights in radio spins and streaming numbers.

    Currently a resident of what he refers to as "Almost Mexico" (South Padre Island), since 2016, after playing over a thousand shows to tourists and visitors from across the U.S., Atwood returned to traveling the roadways across Texas and Oklahoma in the summer of '22, with songs and stories  of love and loss, right and wrong, and an occasional bit of poetry about June Bugs. 

My latest 12-track collection of original works, released in 2023. Click 

HERE for various streaming, download, or purchase options, and enjoy.

BELOW ARE LINKS TO SPOTIFY AND YOUTUBE, OF MY STUDIO AND LIVE RECORDINGS, AS WELL AS LIVE VIDEO. YOU CAN SEE MORE ON THE VIDEOS & PICS PAGE 

The 3rd radio single from Old Scars & Sandbars, Pedal Down Life, was released 2/15/23, and was distributed by Smith Music and promoted by Powerhouse Promotions. It's about that one girl. You know the one. We all do. 

The 2nd radio single Old Scars & Sandbars, Happy Thoughts, was released on 9/30/22, and distributed by Smith Music and Powerhouse Promotions. Some songs are challenging to write, but this was a response to an actual challenge to write a happy song. It peaked at #18 on the Texas Internet Radio Chart, and was in the Top 20 highest downloads by Texas radio stations, for three consecutive weeks.

Written by beloved and acclaimed Texas songwriter Mike Ethan Messick, recorded live under the production of Grammy Award* winner Adam Odor (*received for his live engineering work with the Dixie Chicks), from the live half of Mark Allan Atwood & Brimstone's award winning 2013 album "Alive & Well," (TMA Live Band of the Year 2014) this tune was the fourth of four consecutive singles from Alive & Well  to reach #40 or higher on all charts tracking Texas radio.

My highest charting single to date, One Horse was written by the most frequent collaborator I've ever had, Heath Childs, and features Bart Crow and myself on vocals. Still one of my most requested and recognized songs at live shows. From the 1/2 studio, 1/2 live Brimstone album Alive & Well.

Island Man, the first radio single, from the "Old Scars & Sand Bars" album, a 12 song collection of tunes I wanted to put on previous albums (the old scars), and ones I've written since living between the Laguna Madre Bay and the Gulf of Mexico (the sand bars). Also the first song I wrote, after becoming an "island man," in Jan 2016. Topped out at #48 on the Texas Internet Radio Chart, as a "howdy, how ya been," after not releasing anything since early 2014. 

Ghost, named one of Galleywinter's Top 200 Texas Country Songs , and one of the most requested at my shows, this video is from 5/26/11 at the Marble Theater in Marble Falls, TX alongside Heath Childs, Mike Ethan Messick, Kevin Higgins, and John Arthur Martinez. Shot by Texas Red Productions. 

Most dates listed on the Show Dates page, unless noted, are solo performances.
MAA & Texadillo Revue shows, ranging from a Trio, to 4 or more pieces, are available with adequate advance notice. 

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