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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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I WROTE THIS in October 2011, right after I finished recording my first CD, 'Ash and Bone', so it's definitely the oldest song on this record. In the 9 years since I've rarely played it live, maybe 5 times total, but some songs just seem to stick in your craw longer than others. Every 6 months or so for the past decade, I'd stumble across the lyrics and tweak a line or two, then set it down again only to be rediscovered later. Somehow it just kept resurfacing, and I just kept finding something about it I did not want to let go.
As near as I can tell, this is version #14 of this song, so even though I've finally recorded it here it's probably not really 'Done' yet. But just this once I'm going to take my own advice and waive the white flag, finally 'Surrender', and accept that "every die that's cast, gets cast aside."
A songwriter friend likes to kid me by saying "All of your songs are about birds!" and there might just be a sliver of truth to that. This one is for all the ones with broken wings...
Surrender everything that’s past, let the night go free at last
Remember every die that’s cast, gets cast aside
Then gets thrown upon the pile, of broken wings and crooked miles
October geese, the rank and file, go South again
I could hold you, like their song, holds the wind
You know Surrender’s nothing new, and before the season's through
Something borrowed, something blue, made me see
That the long nights apart, hadn't poisoned your heart
Like a stolen work of art, returned to me
Won’t you hang your star, on my Christmas tree?
Then come dance the floor with me, Surrender to eventually
Wear that dress, just for me, tonight
And feel the white oak ‘neath your feet, till Surrender is complete
Lay me in my bed of leaves, piled high
Then I'll sweep you, like a waltz, in three-quarter time
Chorus
If you just Surrender...to me
Just Surrender...hmmm-mmm.
Just Surrender
And let this Surrender be your last, let the past just be the past
Don’t think twice, don’t look back, we’re almost there
I will fix your broken wings, with paper mache and string
The first sign of Spring, in the air
We can go back North, or anywhere
Repeat Chorus
Surrender everything that’s past, let the night go free at last
Remember every die that’s cast, gets cast aside
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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