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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I bought a pair of emerald earrings for a girl once because she had emerald eyes and because I’m a hopeless romantic and I believed that everything would work out between us. Of course I’m older now so I know that things don’t always work out, especially not the way you think they will. That ‘girl’ is older now too and she’s told me more than once that she never takes off her ‘Emeralds’. Sometimes when I’m halfway across the country I whisper her name to the four walls of my motel room in the dead of night and think “everything’s gonna work out when I get home”. This is for You, Suzanne…
Special ‘Thanks’ to Sean McGowan and Woody Moran for the chorussuggestions. And a BIG Thanks to ALL the wonderful people (Brad, Jim, Dennis, Lynn, etc.) at the Sisters Folk Festival & the Americana Songwriting Academy. You folks will always be ‘Home’ to me…
Wet streets, restless sound, autumn finally just fell down
I’ll shed this skin they call a town, then babe, I’m Comin’ Home
Deadbolt the door, turn down the heat, a hollow stone holds the key
The mail will find me eventually, ‘cause babe, I’m Comin’ Home
I’ll make 400 miles today, 50 more if it goes my way
And those mountains meet me half way, then babe, I’m Comin’ Home
Chorus:
To emerald eyes
And clear blue, clear blue, skies
Emerald eyes…
From Kansas line to Kansas line, an ocean of wheat sublime
Half the country, twice the time, but babe, I’m Comin’ Home
But the gears stripped for good this time, clench your jaw, teeth will grind
It might take a week, I’ll hitch a ride, ‘cause babe, I’m Comin’ Home
Checkered flag, depot floor, midnight Greyhound dinosaur
It’s so hard to hitchhike anymore but babe I’m Comin’ Home
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus
One month in, 3 weeks lost, I took a job, damn the cost
But mark the date, before the frost, babe I’m Comin’ Home
Last night, on the phone, I could tell you weren’t alone
So you’ve gotta know that I’ve gotta know, ‘cause babe, I’m Comin’ Home
Well they say, it might snow today, things ain’t really gone my way
In that Christmas card, what I meant to say was, ‘Suzanne…I’m Comin’ Home’
credits
from What I'm Lookin' For,
track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
David Lipkind: Harmonica
Rob Stroup: Electric Guitar
Dan Weber is an Award Winning songwriter who's been described as "reminiscent of early John
Prine."
In 2019, Dan was the winner of the prestigious Woody Guthrie songwriting contest and in 2021 he was named a rare 4 time finalist in the legendary Kerrville ‘New Folk’ songwriting competition.
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