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Comes with a Custom 20 Page Insert/Booklet (we had to BEG the CD manufacturer to do this!) with Photos, Stories behind the Songs and the making of the CD.
From Dan:
"Everything that possibly could go wrong while making the 'The Way the River Goes' seemed to happen. It started way back in 2017, when I drove up to Oysterville, WA and holed up in a cabin near the Pacific Ocean to polish 20 new songs I felt were close to ready. When I went to start recording, the studio I was working with packed up moved all the way to Truth or Consequences, NM. So I put the project on hold for a bit and in a wave of creativity, wrote a dozen more songs. I finally got down to New Mexico in early 2020 with 30 plus songs to record and we finished it 2 days before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared on March 11th. The world came to a screeching halt.
Then after 23 years of marriage, I got divorced and moved from the Pacific NW to Texas, and tried to start over. Looking back, nearly all of the songs on 'The Way the River Goes' are about 'Leaving' or 'Moving towards' someplace or someone. There's a lot of truth and foreshadowing in that. I eventually whittled it down to 14 songs---the ones I couldn't shake and can't stop singing. I found them along rivers of water and asphalt, the current carrying the sediment of my life downstream to a confluence that was years in the making. I hope you agree that it was worth the wait!"
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IT WAS THE NIGHT AFTER playing the wonderful Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival that takes place every year in the hometown of President Calvin Coolidge, Plymouth Notch, VT (Elev. 1,447'). It was about 2am and I was staying in the Salt Ash Inn, one of those quaint, smaller inns that still gives you an actual key to the room on an old fashioned key ring. I was exhausted and channeling the long days (and nights) of touring and an early morning walk that I'd taken along a pretty, little verdant stretch of Vermont State Hwy. #100 that follows the Black River. If I've learned anything in 50 plus years, is that there are some 'Rivers' in life that once you cross them, there's no going back.
This goes out to my pal Jay Ottaway and his lovely family. Jay and I share a love of unlikely bedfellows--playing golf and the Grateful Dead, and he's the driving force behind the Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival. Jay is also the good dude that paid my bar tab and recovered my "credit card that I left in (the) bar, that I did not mean to leave" in the song. Thanks Brother!
Route #4 took a turn for the South, just as the day ran out
I could feel it in my knees and in my back
As far as I can see, that wheel was steering me
Some hands you play, some you lay face flat
Chorus
It's easy gettin' lost, that river ain't hard to cross
But comin' back, that'll get you every time
Come the mornin' I'll be gone
And since goodbye is just too long
I'll see you maybe, Somewhere Down the Line
Well I've paid my dues in ice machines, and motels that still use keys
And credit cards I left in bars, I did not mean to leave
I used to count the days, that I was gone from you
But numbers never tell you, what you want them too
Repeat Chorus
But Somewhere Down the Line, it could turn on a dime
Regrets are never gonna be, far behind
Always thinking there's gonna be more time
Somewhere Down the Line
Repeat Chorus
credits
from The Way the River Goes,
track released January 28, 2022
Dan Weber: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Truth or Consequences Rhythm Section:
Rob 'Berto' Stroup: Drums & Percussion, Bass (Tracks 12 & 14), Organ, Electric Guitar, Harmony Vocals
Michael Henchman: 5 String Electric Bass
Socially Distant Portland Players:
Paul Brainard: Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel
Kathryn Claire: Fiddle
Jenny Conlee-Drizos: Accordion
Tim Connell: Mandolin
Tony Furtado: Banjo, Dojo
David Lipkind: Harmonica
Dan Weber is an officially Sponsored Artist with Crossrock Cases and tours with his 1967 Gibson B-25 acoustic guitar in an 'Air Carbon' 6000 Series Crossrock case. / www.crossrockcase.com
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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