The Glimmer

by WT Davidson
Great vocal performance by Molly Felder

Try And Stop Me

Demo- Seven Song Mountain

Bad Coffee

MAKIN’ HONEY, singer/songwriter Lauren Crane’s debut album, is like a day at the amusement park, packed with a collection of songs that offer everything but a sleeve of fat fries and a corn dog on a stick. LAUREN’S songs take you up and down and round and round, a tilt-a-whirl of folk, blues and bluegrassiness. Songs feature a blackmailing laundress, sneak-around lovers, a bovine queen, a cowboy roped at the knees, buzzing bumble bees, and a few laughs and surprises.

Makin’ Honey is a multifarious romp through musical genres delivered with a wink, a smile and, just for kicks, an occasional nod to the serious. It offers the quirky little love songs, Makin’ Honey and Out of the Blue. Straight-up folk in Souvenirs. Boozie blues in Old Washer Woman, What Do We Do About the Moon, The Ballad of Sophie and Lazy Woman. Purple Thistle throws down a foot stompin’ early rock/blues vibe. No, Carolina, boot scoots into country while The Hollerin’ Song, Love and Bliss, and Irene stir the bucket with a little bluegrass. The album ends with one for the heart in Silk and Wool, a genuine tour-de-force.

Makin' Honey

Old Washer Woman

Everything Must Change

Written in real time on 1-6-21 while watching the mob storm the Capitol in DC on TV.

1-6-21

I wrote I Found Myself for my students at Grand Valley State University when I was a visiting professor of natural resources management. I had recorded a version of with Michael Kelsey back then, but never really liked the music I came up with then. It sat around about two decades, when I reached out to Liz Brooks, who set my lyrics to her exquisite guitar-cello composition. Originally on her superb CD Come Summer, she graciously allowed me to include it with the other 26 songs on the double CD Collaboration.

Thing 1

I Found Myself

Songwriter and finger-style guitarist Daniel Bracken plays music informed by his rich history as a recordist and producer for Public Media, and as a performer in the US and Ireland.
In recent years Dan has delved deeper into personal songcraft, a wholehearted mix expressing the crossroads of spirituality, wistfulness, and humor. 
His songs embrace many of the storytelling qualities of traditional Irish and American roots music.

Bad Coffee

Daniel Bracken

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