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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4" x 7.5" "I Deal with Crazy ALL Day" Red and Black lettering on White background. Guaranteed to look Super-COOL (!) on your car, guitar case, in your office (or cubicle) at work or just stick it on your shirt and walk around the house and let your significant other know how you really feel about them!!
Some songs take an hour to write, some take a week and some take a year. This one took 20 years (or longer). I had to live it first, get good and fed up with myself and eventually learn that the hardest person to forgive is your self. I think that’s what this song is about, and maybe, in another 20 years, I’ll know for sure.
Special ‘Thanks’ to my buddy Woody Moran for suggesting I record this one 2 years after I’d written it, forgotten it and left it for dead on the side of the highway somewhere out in the desert. He saw something in it I couldn’t see yet...
The bones of the day broke away, in the rearview, what’s left to say?
I should be done, driving tonight
‘Cause I’m done with the darkness, and the seatbelt as a harness
And I’m tired of being, too tired to fight
And I’m sick of my excuses, bad habits and abuses
Those potions don’t work, anymore
And anymore I’m a stranger, to myself, and I’m in danger
Of not knowin’, what I’m drivin’ for
Chorus:
I’ve taken my chances, made my mistakes
I broke both legs for luck, just in case…
Now somewhere in the distance, there’s a town where I belong
I’ve been Spinning My Wheels, too long
When I started I was younger, there was fire and hunger
And plenty of time to kill
Now lookin’ back I can’t believe, in a blink I was deceived
Cause 20 years went quicker than a $20 dollar bill
And that shadow I was racing, she wasn’t worth chasin’
Those lights play tricks on you
And that dashboard St. Christopher fell off on the curves
I guess there’s only so much, saints can do
Repeat Chorus
Now home ain’t so, far away
Repeat Chorus
The bones of the day broke away, in the rearview, what’s left to say?
I should be done, driving tonight
credits
from What I'm Lookin' For,
track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Tony Furtado: Dojo
Arthur Parker: Electric Bass
Anders Bergstrom: Drums
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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