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!!
I did a ‘mentoring session’ with a songwriter I much admire who at some point in the conversation, abruptly stopped me and said with conviction ‘you know, your problem Dan is that you want people to like you---too much’. A day or two later I told that story to Slaid Cleves, who’d helped me out with ‘Goodbye to Dad’ a few years back, and he said something to the effect of ‘Oh man, she gave you 10 years of therapy in 20 minutes’, which was true I guess. This was the very next song I wrote…
When the clock’s been punched, and your shift is through
That same old wave, washes over you
The loading docks let out a sigh
When that train rolls through, like it always does
She blows her whistle, maybe just because
It’s getting’ to be, That Time of Night
So you stop at the bar, and your blood shifts gears
Let the rain starts fallin’ on, deaf ears
Then you think too late, to call your wife
But she won’t be up, no, she don’t wait now
It’s too many years, and anyhow
It’s getting’ to be, That Time of Night
Chorus:
That Time of Night, when the dark begins
That Time of Night, when the clock don’t have no friends
When that drink you had, was the last, till you ordered one in spite
Cause it’s getting’ to be, That Time of Night
When some wine-drunk girl asks you to dance
Aw, she’s half your age, twice the chance
But as luck would have it, the song ends, just in time
While she bums a smoke, she talks so fast
The cold front settles down in your chest
Cause it’s getting’ to be, That Time of Night
Repeat Chorus
Come tomorrow, I’ll be back again,
when that old familiar ache, gets beneath my skin, hmmm…
So when the last stop home is 20 bucks in gas
And there’s a ‘Scratch and Win’ right there in your grasp
But it ain’t meant to be, at least not tonight
Cause the price of a dollar is exactly the same
As three nickels, three quarters and a dime in change
When it’s getting’ to be, That Time of Night
Repeat Chorus
credits
from What I'm Lookin' For,
track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Paul Brainard: Pedal Steel
Rob Stroup: Electric Guitar, 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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