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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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THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN in June 2017 next to the Saxtons River in Vermont at my friend Martha Rowley's house, or more properly it was written 'on' her couch. It was the morning after another great Roots on the River Festival in Bellows Falls, VT (Elev. 312') and I was awake early, trying to play my guitar as quietly as possible to not wake anyone up. I heard a distant train whistle pass through town and started writing.
Unfortunately, halfway through writing this song I realized my black ink marker/pen had rolled off my notebook onto her suede leather couch and left a nasty black ink blotch on it. That ugly stain clearly wasn't going to go away anytime soon, and yet somehow Martha forgave me for that.
So this song is of course for Martha, who's been there with me since the very beginning of my songwriting journey, when we first met and rode a Roots on the Rails train together down in Old Mexico...
While You were Sleeping, a train pulled into town
The cars were loaded down, with North Dakota crude
And graffiti on the side, a black river passing by
It took a while, While You were Sleeping
While You were Sleeping, the crossing gates dropped
And then rang out like church bells, urging me to stop
Warning of the thunder, soon be coming down the tracks
It held me back, While You were Sleeping
While You were Sleeping, the rumble of the wheels
The colors and the couplers, a moving wall of steel
And how will you feel, when that train and I are gone
And I've moved on, While You were Sleeping
While You were Sleeping, the train shook to a halt
So I could read the graffiti, every tag and every scrawl
And don’t it make you wonder, where that train has been
And where it got the ink on its skin, While You were Sleeping
While You were Sleeping, its heart lurched back to life
The diesel smoke coughing from the engine on the right
And it pushed and pushed some more, then throttled into gear
And woke the cars back up, so suddenly it cleared
With the arms of the gates, saluting to the sky
And I can still recall those names on the boxcars
But I cannot tell you why...While You were Sleeping
While You were Sleeping---left a note to say goodbye
While You were Sleeping---couldn't bear to see you cry
While You were Sleeping---I hope you know that I tried
While You were Sleeping, that train, pulled out of town
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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