hey my friend's Nat and Craig, beautiful song, ya'll really do a great job with this song.

Sweet song - Great guitar sound and vocals.

so accomplished - you work so well together - great songwriting

Love the two and fro between the two vocals,then the joining together in harmony.

people write ...what they feel ...it must be fabulous ...there

people can be talented ,...people can be in love ...but when they are both ...

How could I miss this one for so long. This is so patently the start of something great. A great storytelling song and so well rendered by you both. I was in the moment listening. Thanks for sharing

Danniels & Durgy

Although this song was written by me about one of my most loved places in the world, I heard Nat sing it when we were figuring out how to present it, and I just had to have her stick with the lead vocals as she sings it so beautifully, even though she has never set foot in the great Mountain State (now she wants to!). So we just changed "she" to "he" and it all fell into place. It tells the story of someone who has watched a lover leave and seeks solace in the Wonderful and Wild of West Virginia. The state became a bit of a passion for me since I first visited our friends in Keyser when I was still a boy. And it still represents a place of reflection and spirit to me. A place where one can find themselves and answer the deeper questions perhaps. And that's what happens in this song. It celebrates the wonders of this beautiful place even while it describes the complicated challenges of this world. This is dedicated to the entire Campbell family, without whom I'd not know the beauty I've tried to capture in this simple song. I especially want to recognize Margaret & Richard as the head of that Campbell clan, bless them both in heaven. As long as there are mountains and rivers in West Virginia, their memory will live large.
(lyrics below)

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2021
Gentle Rain Records.
Produced, Written & Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Pedal Steel - Dakota Holden  
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Craig Durgy: Vocals, Guitar & Mandolin
Nat Daniels: Vocals, bass and production
Dakota Holden: Pedal Steel
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Lyrics;
Hey, West Virginia, I’m crossing your state line
It’s me again, hello old friend, it’s been a long, long time
Four windows open, to feel your mountain air
To breathe you in, rememberin’, the child in me out there
You see I need your wisdom, your reassuring smile
I just want to listen, to the wonderful and wild
I know he’s leaving, I just came to tell you so
These backroads lead me back to me
To watch your Greenbrier flow
Yeah, he’s moving on now, you knew long ago
It’s what I do, so much like you, 
They come, they love, they go
You see I need your wisdom, your reassuring smile
I just want to listen, to the wonderful and wild
He loved my stories, and sunshine, wind and rain 
But like before, he’s found the door, and here I am again
Hey West Virginia, the tall grass crickets call 
The stars appear, much closer here
You catch ‘em when they fall
You always catch me when, I fall
You always catch me when,
You always catch me when, I fall

Back To West Virginia

West Virginia

This terrific song is the work of our friend Steve Low who granted us permission to attempt a cover. As much as we love Steve's original, we saw no point in trying to do it the same as he so wonderfully did, so we thought it would be fun to go country, perhaps a bit bluegrass and we're very excited to share it here. The song has some terrific lyrics that describe the longing one experiences when the one they love is gone. We thank Steve for allowing us the privilege and we also are pleased to again feature the amazing banjo work of Hamilton Belk.

Music and lyrics by Steve Low
Performed by Daniels & Durgy
Nat Daniels - piano, percussion, vocals, bass
Craig Durgy - guitar, vocals
Hamilton Belk - banjo

Lyrics (by Steve Low):
You yes you’re living in a cage
You’re bouncing off the bars
But it’s my ribs and tissue that’s inflammed
Yes it’s I who’s watching for your car
My roots are deep here in the west
Invested here I have to stay
But you got gypsy in your blood
Your fiddles playing the sounds of Spain
And so I’m watching yes I’m watching
All the headlights - all the headlights
Oh I’m watching yes I’m watching 
All the headlights - all the headlights
Coming up over the hill - hoping that one of them is you

Though you’ve had a travelling circus life
You been courting stability
And I’ve been prostrate at your feet
I been licking your toes to sleep
And though you bathe in pleasures warm
I sense our wine is running dry
I know as you commute each morn
You’re not the type to say goodbye
And so I’m watching . . . you

This evening’s sky is coal dust cloud
You’re late and I’m a clairvoyant
This house empty of all sound 
This house is empty
This house is empty

All The Headlights

Not necessarily our favorite song by John & Paul, but something made me try it out for our own style and we liked it. Made it a very much more straight forward country folk sound with the accent on the lovely lyrics. This is another “live” recording based on my iPhone base of guitar and vocals which Nat then took and added her magic harmonies and such to pretty it up nicely.
Vocal Copyright 2021 Daniels & Durgy
Gentle Rain Records
Copyright Sony/Atv Music Publishing (Uk)/Lennon/Mccartney

Long and Winding Road (Live Cover)

Long and Winding Road (live cover)

This is a song Craig wrote and was the first song that we did together, prior to officially forming Daniels & Durgy. Both of us added fresh vocals and Nat has gone back in and polished up a lot of the sound quality and added instrumentation to make this now a new, Daniels & Durgy creation. The song describes two people who are temporarily separated by distance but not in spirit. The man remains at home in the country (rural) while the lady is off at some urban setting waiting to return home and be reunited.

Copyright 2021 Daniels & Durgy  *  Gentle Rain Records
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LYRICS:
Softly, softly the morning
Sunlight, quietly warming
Fills the fields, with you until
You're back home with me

Echoes, traffic below my
Window, strangers that go by
My hotel, can't wait until
I'm back home with you

Every day far away 
Each moment filled with you
Everywhere I feel you there
So gentle and so true
Time alone, but love has grown
So softly, softly with you

Glowing, lights of the city
Knowing, your heart is with me
A siren cries and fills my eyes 
Till I'm in your arms again

Starlight, showers the quiet of the
Dark night, and I realize it is a
‘nother sign from you, till I'm
In your arms again

Every day far away 
Each moment filled with you
Everywhere I feel you there
So gentle and so true
Time alone, but love has grown
So softly, softly with you

Softly, softly the morning
Sunlight, quietly warming
My windowsill, just wait until
You’re back home with me

Echoes, traffic below my
Window, strangers that go, right by my
Windowsill, just wait until
I'm back home with you
Gentle rain on my window pane, till you’re in my arms again
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Credits
from Chances, releases November 25, 2021 
Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2021
Gentle Rain Records
Produced, Written & Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy

Chances

Softly (2021 edition)

Softly (2021 Edition)

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2021
Gentle Rain Records
From Durge and Myself...  THANK YOU for listening to our Songs, and sharing our Truths!  Have a Safe, and Blessed New Year!!  

Seafaring Wanderer 
Produced, Written & Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy

Starlight star bright 
I wished upon a city light
That the Western Winds will lead me to you
Like a long desert road with no detours or turns one can miss…
Ending in arms wide open
That greets me for certain.. with a kiss.

Oh that sun sets low 
And time waits suspended,
Mesmerising me, like the warmth of your smile
And though I’ve seen it all, the seafaring wanderer
Has found nothing new …
All this time I was searching for meaning
I found it in you.


Starlight star bright 
The bourbon made this night all right..
But the city streets, holds empty and cold
Every neon sign flickers a heart beat the beckons 
“Come on home”..
Every newspaper flutter, is like Angels that Mutter.. 
“Call his phone..” 

Oh this road I’m on has one destination,
Every star I choose just leads me to you…
Yes I’ve seen it all, like a seafaring wanderer
But one thing held true!
All this time I was searching for meaning 
I found it in you..

Seafaring Wanderer

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 7 6

Through the Main Gates

Shows Rival Tapes

...waiting for your call, alpha 5!

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Glen sent me a poem he had written.

I added music/vocal.

Hope you enjoy what you hear.

Verse 1

There's a place I need to go
The outer limits that no one knows
Lost amongst the atmosphere 
Every night you'll find me here

Verse 2

I need to taste the midnight air 
And feel the stars inside my head
Watch the sun begin to shine
The only place this world is mine

Chorus

Deep inside my sweet dreams
On a pillow made of sand
The ocean breeze is blowing 
Against these empty hands

Verse 3

Underneath the galaxy
 Is where I see my destiny     
The outer limits are where I go
The outer limits that no one knows 

Outro 
The outer limits that no one knows   
The outer limits that no one knows

The Outer Limits (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

On The Other Side Of The Mirror

Demo ......

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Surreal Awake

Sax Dance

Cover of one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs. Just a raw guitar/vocal.

Folsom Prison Blues - Cover by Tony

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2020
Gentle Rain Records
Written, Performed and Produced by Daniels & Durgy

Lyrics:

Unveiling of the night
Leaves a misty moon 
In the morning light
Driving in my car 
I know what’s up ahead
And seeking what’s behind

Floating down I’m lost within this feeling
As your sweet sweet words own all meaning
I’m in trouble....

Chorus
Chances are... you’ll stare at the same moon
Chances are... you’re needing my love too 
I can see your lights are on,
As I’m passing on your line
Chances are... I’ll give in one more time
Chances are......Chances are....

Memories rewind like a broken film
Taking me through time
Wish I had a dime for every time I said
I’m leaving it behind

It’s no use, I’m locked within this feeling
‘Cause your sweet sweet words ...
Owns all meaning ...  I’m in trouble..

Chorus
Chances are...my phone will play a tune
Chances are... you’ll sway me like you do
It’s a game the fates keep playing 
And It’s playing you and I
Chances are... 
the road will lead me to your arms tonight ..  
Chances are...   
Chances are...   
Chances are.

Chances Are

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
You can rely on
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

And love it's such a cheesy song
But we've all got to sing along
Yeah love is blind it's plain to see
That love will never let us be

What you need
Is a stable boy
Yeah you need someone
Someone who isn't me
Yeah you need someone
Who'll bolt the stable door
Before the last horse has gone

[Repeat chorus]

[Repeat verse]

[Repeat chorus]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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The picture (detail) is from 'The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death' by Russell Oliver.
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20210317 Yet another attempt at a better mix
20210301 Uploaded another attempt at better mix
20210228 Uploaded attempt at better mix

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Two song writers, two kindred spirits... that found each other by pure happenstance and great fortune, to collaborate and create music together.
To see our separate artist pages, please click on the following links:
Nat Daniels   https://soundcloud.com/natdaniels
Craig Durgy  https://soundcloud.com/durge

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