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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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IN 2015 I WAS INVITED TO PLAY my song 'Oh Woody' in the 'NewSong' showcase at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS (Elev. 1,129'). I flew down to Dallas, TX (Elev. 430') and met up with my friend Jen Hajj and we drove up to the festival and camped on the banks of the moss green Walnut River. One late September afternoon we stood on the narrow W. 14th Ave bridge over that slow moving murky water and I spontaneously came up with the line "that's just the way the river goes." Jen and I then riffed on lines back and forth and this song was born. How that out-of-the-blue line got from that river bridge to be the title track of the record is an odyssey until itself, but that was the moment this record began.
This one goes out especially to Jen as well as the Songwriter Stage 11 at Winfield crew: Jim Hermann, Linda Erday, David B. Hakan and John Mitchell, and our fellow campers Jeff, Mark and Julie aka "The Omaha Gang!" (Elev. 1,090').
And also to my high school sweetheart, Nora Jane, wherever she is...
There’s a rope swing tied to a Sycamore tree
At the rivers edge just Bill and me
Billy waits till I yell ‘The coast is clear’
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
Me and Bill grew up the best of friends
We knew every inch of that river bend
If there’s buried treasure, we put it there
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
Chorus
That’s just The Way the River Goes
That’s just The Way the River Goes
‘Round here
Had my first kiss down on that riverbank
From a sophomore named, Nora Jane
She’s got four kids now, that's what you hear
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
Everybody knows her brother Steve
He got eighteen months for selling weed
Guess it was a pretty good crop last year
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
Repeat Chorus
River jumped its banks, in 2001
The old-timers say, "we were due that flood"
Now the mud is gone, but not the fear
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
It's been 30 years since I’ve been gone
I said ‘Hey Bill, why’d you stay so long?’
Billy laughs and hands me another beer
That’s just The Way the River Goes ‘round here
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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