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 live right by the mighty Columbia River in Vancouver, WA and I wrote this for Woody on his 100th Birthday. This is dedicated to Woody’s younger sister Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon, to my good friends in Oklahoma, and the great folks at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, OK.
They left Oklahoma, in the Grapes of Wrath
In the Dust Bowl days, they never looked back
Oh, they never looked back, but they’re moving again
California’s no longer the Promised Land
Chorus:
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
And what would you say?
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
We could sure use you today
We’re willing to work, there’s no work to be done
Illegal or union, it don’t matter none
‘Cause the Wall Street bankers and corporate greed
They’ve shipped all the jobs, overseas
Chorus:
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
And what would you say?
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
We could sure use you today
Now there’s drought in the plains, and fires in the West
It was the hottest summer on record I guess
With a cough in their lungs, dried tears on their face
It’s lookin’ more and more like the Dust Bowl days
Bridge:
And I still hear Woody, his guitar in hand
Singing songs for the men on the Grand Coulee Dam
Singing ‘This Land is your Land, this land is mine’
Oh Woody, we sure miss you tonight
Now I’m livin’ out there, in the Great Northwest
So long as it rains, may we be blessed
And its long live the salmon, long after we’re gone
Then its ‘Roll on Columbia, Columbia Roll On!’
Chorus:
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
And what would you say?
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
We could sure use you today
Oh Woody, Oh Woody, where are you now?
We could sure use you today
We could sure use you today
We could sure, use you today!
credits
from What I'm Lookin' For,
track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber-Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Tim Connell-Mandolin
Tony Furtado-Banjo
Anna Tivel: Fiddle
Arthur Parker: Upright Bass
Rob Stroup: Harmony Vocals
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.
In 2022, he released 'The Way the River Goes', his best work yet. Dan currently lives near Dallas, Texas....more
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