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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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AFTER FAILED ATTEMPTS of co-writing with several talented songwriter friends over the years, where the songs we wrote together never quite 'stuck', I assumed it was my fault and that maybe I was just one of those solitary types that needed to write alone. Then in January 2020 I went down to the Pacific Songwriting Camp in Cambria, CA (Elev. 43') and co-wrote this with Lynn McCracken, who I met at the Kerrville Folk Festival in May 2019, where we immediately hit it off.
Lynn is a therapist with a guiding philosophy akin to: "If it light's you up, makes you feel curious and carefree, and makes you want to dance, trust THAT." So when I suggested a song idea that morning at camp called 'You Make Me Wanna Dance' she was all in. Lynn also knew all about asking boys to a dances back in high school, while I knew all too well about being way too shy to do so myself. How we got from the Jitterbug to Ernest Tubb is bit of a serendipitous mystery but that's one of the beauties of co-writing, when you find a good dance partner, it lights you up and that's the path you take.
Inside of an hour we had most of the song done, and played it on the camp's Saturday night show, with a spur of the moment decision to ask Dale LaDuke to sit in on accordion. By the time the song was over, we knew it was a 'Keeper' and that accordion was just what it needed.
This one goes out to all the dancers AND the one's too shy to ask. Just do it! But remember, "you may not be ready when fate takes your hand"...
Her name was Sandy Davis, it was the Homecoming Dance
She was pretty as a sunset, didn't think I had a chance
Her friend gave me her number, but I was terrified to ask
I even called her house one time, and hung up on her Dad
One day in English class, Sandy handed me a note
"Sadie Hawkins dance this Friday, do you wanna go?"
She knew all the steps, and I didn't have a clue
But when she grabbed me by the hand, that's when I knew
Chorus
You Make Me Wanna Dance, dance, dance, sweep you 'cross the floor
You make me wanna Jitterbug, though no one Jitterbugs no more
I want to waltz you across Texas, like old Ernest Tubb
You Make Me Wanna Dance, dance, dance, fall in love
Next weekend at the movies, we barely watched the show
We were sitting in the way back, when the lights turned down low
I knew it's now or never, as I leaned in for a kiss
She said no one's ever, made me feel like this
Repeat Chorus
She taught me a lesson, about taking a chance
You may not be ready, when fate takes your hand
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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