Comes with a Custom 24 Page Insert/Booklet with Photos, Lyrics, and Stories behind the Songs!
From Dan:
"You know, looking back on it, the songs on ‘What I’m Lookin’ For’ aren’t just where I was ‘at’ in the past few years, but where I was headed as well. There’s a lot more of ‘me’ in these songs than there was in ‘Ash and Bone’. They say ‘courage comes in many forms’ but mostly it came from fans, friends and all the great folks I’ve met along the way who came to shows and shared a kind word or two. More than anything, that’s what keeps me going.
This collection of songs is a ‘Family’ of sorts, including some shirt-tail cousins and loud uncles that came to the annual reunion mostly for the home cooking and free drinks. They told stories that you couldn’t help listening to and laughing at even though you secretly knew they weren’t 100% true. They’re a family of doers and dreamers; mothers and daughters; bankers, brothers, welders, Texans and truckers. They’re alcoholics, workaholics, Californians, Christians, cowboys and customer service agents. And they’re singers, seekers, rogues, rodeo queens, fathers, sons and mother-in-laws who like everything from Woody Guthrie to Whitney Houston.
But in the end, they’ll always be part of the family and like the rest of us they’re either running ‘from’ something or ‘to’ something. Some of ‘em left the reunion early, some stayed longer than they probably should have, but all of them marched to the beat of whatever drummer they heard and headed in the direction they wanted to, or needed to go.
When I left the party, I backtracked through downtown, along Main Street. I stopped in the hardware store, one of the quintessential small-town varieties that sells a little bit of everything, and picked up a paper bag of loose nails, a couple packages of AA batteries and a fifth of bourbon from the shelf behind the counter. I made small talk with the gal while she rang things up, mostly about the weather and things we couldn’t do anything about. As I was talking to her I somehow couldn’t escape the feeling, that for the first time in a long time, this was where I was supposed to be.
After I paid, I walked out into the late afternoon sun, with a couple hours of daylight still left, and got in the truck and headed down the road. Guess I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet after all…"
~ Dan
Veterans Day, 2014
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Every year, I watch the weather in late Spring, for a 4 or 5 day clear break in the Northwest rain and when it hits, I pack up my trusty old ’98 Ford Ranger pickup with firewood, a sleeping bag, a blue tarp, a cooler and of course my guitar. I head across the Columbia River into the Eastern Oregon sagebrush desert—as far as you can go southeast before you hit Nevada or Idaho. I stop into Fields (Population 12---when everyone’s home), fill the tank, and have the world’s best milkshake before ‘lighting out for the territory’ as Mark Twain put it.
I wrote it this for my neighbor ‘Whitey’. He lived across the street from me for 17 years and in his house for the better part of 60. He had an old 1960’s white Ford pickup truck--that he’d bought brand new---and regretted selling it so much that he went right out and bought another to take its place, even though his eyes were getting too bad to drive. He left me with some good stories, and reminded me that our time is short, precious and in the end, it’s all were really given. R.I.P.: Emmett J. ‘Whitey’ Christianson.
I was talkin’ to my neighbor, I said “Son, do me a favor
Keep an eye on the place while I’m gone”
He asked me where I’m going; I said “I got no way of knowin’
But this time, it’s been too long
You see I need this vacation; I’m overdue in takin’
So I might be gone a while
What I crave is open road, and when I get there I’ll know”
It might take a little while but then again…
Chorus:
I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet,
No, I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet
‘Cause there’s still places I ain’t been, people I ain’t met
I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet
I told him “When I was your age, I worked night and day
Tryin’ to get ahead in this life
But that was long before I knew, what you’re bound to learn too
That all we’re given is time
But they never say how long, so it’s best I’m movin’ on
There’s things I ain’t seen yet
And that’s the funny thing ‘bout age, my vision ain’t the same
But I see better then I ever have”…
Repeat Chorus
Chorus:
I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet,
No, I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet
‘Cause there’s still places I ain’t been, good people I ain’t met
I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet
Repeat Chorus
I Ain’t Done…Not by a long shot…Ramblin’…Yet
credits
from What I'm Lookin' For,
track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Tim Connell: Mandolin
Tony Furtado: Dojo
Arthur Parker: Upright Bass
Rob Stroup: Harmony Vocals
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