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Please Tell My Baby

Lying to Myself

Thinking of You

Gone Again

Until We Meet Again

I Want to Be with You

I Won't Play by Your Rules

Oh, Cayenne

I Won't Play By Your Rules

Honky Tonk Waltz

Oh Cayenne

Rainy Night in the Day

Every Now and Then

On a Sunny Day

3AM Blues

Double Agent

Pullin' Up Stakes

Hardest Working Man in Texas

New Morning Song

Wheat Field Scene

You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone

Eighteen

Couple Few Towns from Here

Yellow Butterfly

Good Times Gone from the Past

I Still Don't Know Why

Three in a Row

Heavy Heart

Hey, Baby

Going Downtown Tonight

Texas

Bad Luck and Moonshine

Moving on with You

Best Laid Plans (Remastered)

Songwriter Dan Whitaker is a lifelong musician with over 30 years performing and 14 albums of original songs to his name. Noted for his “smooth world-wise voice” and well-crafted tunes, he recently relocated from his longtime home Chicago to start a new chapter in Texas, where his outsider ways seem to fit right in. Whitaker’s kind of country music is shot through with blues, jazz, and folk, a freewheeling style that takes you on a journey through life’s ups and downs with humor and insight.

His latest album, I Won’t Play By Your Rules, is a reckoning of sorts—and an invitation to live the life you’re meant to live, no matter if it comes late. It speaks of giving the middle finger to your deadend job, finding solace in the kindness of others, and leaving all your problems behind for one last spin on the dance floor. Engineered by Alex Hall at Reliable Recorders (Cactus Blossoms, Pokey LaFarge), Whitaker lets his love for soulful harmonicas, lonesome pedal steel, and jazzy telecasters rip over ten memorable tracks—with a stealthy instrumental featuring Chris Neal on saxophone as a digital bonus.

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