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Monday Playlist 4/26/2021

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  
https://www.fiverr.com/dakotaholden/play-pedal-steel-on-your-song
Craig Durgy: Vocals, Guitar & Mandolin
Nat Daniels: Vocals, bass and production
Dakota Holden: Pedal Steel
See Our video! :  https://youtu.be/-FVLtkalVlA

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

Try not to dwell on the tough times.  So many good things in  life
to reflect on -- a good woman, birth of my babies, them growing up
and moving on, friends and family for support.  Ah, keep your
heart on fire!

My Heart's On Fire  (Original)

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

Written by Paul McCartney and released near the end of the band’s existence on the Let It Be album in 1970, something made Craig try it out for our own style. It was a live home recording and we liked it. Nat then took it and added her magic harmonies and piano to pretty it up so nicely. Made it a very much more straight forward country folk sound with the accent on the lovely lyrics.
Gentle Rain Records

Deja Views

Long and Winding Road

Long and Winding Road (live cover)

Nirvana, single by Shannon from the album Lucky
YT video:  https://youtu.be/lhqT9-RTlVM

Lucky

Nirvana

Amazon Music

Nirvana  https://youtu.be/lhqT9-RTlVM

"Alright", single by Shannon from the album Lucky

Alright

Apple iTunes

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

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My Way

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
THE FIRE OF OUR LOVE IS OUT
YOU CAN’T KEEP ME HERE WITH YOU
DON’T YOU WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME

I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL BE FINE
I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL SURVIVE

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
THE LIFE I HAD WITH YOU IS GONE
MY BROKEN HEART WILL SOON BE FINE
I’VE FOUND MY WAY
AND I’LL MOVE ON

I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL BE FINE
I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL SURVIVE

I NEED TO GO
FINALLY
UNCERTAINTY
IS KILLING US
THE THREAD OF HOPE
WON’T MEND OUR BROKEN HEARTS
WON’T MEND OUR BROKEN SOULS
OUR WAY OF LIFE

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
I NEED TO GO
I NEED TO GO …

Tekst piosenki : „MOJA DROGA”

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
ŻAR MIŁOŚCI NASZEJ ZGASŁ
NIE ZATRZYMASZ MNIE PRZY SOBIE
NIEPOTRZEBNIE TRACISZ CZAS

NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE BĘDZIE DOBRZE
NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE PRZETRWAMY

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
ŻYCIE Z TOBĄ TRACI SENS
MOJE ZŁAMANE SERCE WKROTCE WYZDROWIEJE
ODNALAZŁAM SWOJĄ DROGĘ I PÓJDĘ DALEJ

NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE BĘDZIE DOBRZE
NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE PRZETRWAMY

MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ
NAJWYŻSZY CZAS
NIEPEWNOŚĆ
ZABIJA NAS
NADZIEI NIĆ
NIE ZSZYJE JUŻ
ZŁAMANYCH SERC
ROZDARTYCH DUSZ
NASZEJ ŻYCIOWEJ DROGI

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ
MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ …

Vocal & Violin : Magdalena Meisel
Lyrics : Michał Konopelski & Joanna Konstantynowicz
Music : Magdalena Meisel
Production, Arrangment and Instrumentalization(s) Michael Heavner
►https://michaelheavner.com/
►https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-heavner-b635b15/
Left Hand Graphic : Krzysztof Konopelski
►https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Konopelski

My Way

Many thanks to my friend Bob Warner for all the work on this track. He sure put the petal to the metal on this one.  

Hot  Rod's And Good Times (Lyrics by Tony - Featuring Bob Warner) Original

Wayfaring Stranger: Traditional
Arranged and performed by Josh McAlexander

Wayfaring Stranger...Re-Mix

Down Where The Sage Winds Blow
Words and Music by Pravinand Maharaj

You took a long drink from the cup of truth
Squeezed fresh from your favourite fruit
Picked ripe in the misty woods
Down where the sage winds blow

People live and people die
You made a point of staying alive
Can’t always see it with the naked eye
All you got to show

Easy smiled the face you met
Who knew what’s beneath the flesh
Laying low behind its breath            
The things you never saw

It’s a rat race out there I hear you say
 A leaky roof for a rainy day
Nothing more could make her stay
You knew she had to go

You can’t freeze ice on a burning flame
You can’t be called by another’s name
Can’t build a wall without a frame
On which to hang the door

Easy smiled the face you met
Who knew what’s beneath the flesh
Laying low behind its breath            
The things you never saw

Night falls and shadows play
Beneath a mocking moon
You can’t help thinking the mark of Cain
Was but a lover’s wound

You took a long drink from the cup of truth
Nocturne birdsongs play like flutes
From the tree of the forbidden root
Down where the sage winds blow

Where the boughs of promise stood
Down where the sage winds blow

Down Where The Sage Winds Blow

Transistor Radio (Lyrics Tony Harris - Vocal & Music Andre Bellwood) Original 2012

The Last Paranow

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2020
Gentle Rain Records
Written, Performed and Produced by Daniels & Durgy
Lyrics:
Take a look at me, not the man that I used to be because
Love let me down, what have we done
What was that you said, wish you held onto me instead but now
I’m not around, love let me down
I thought of you day and night girl, did you think about me
Those letters that I would write, crying out girl, that you ought to be
My dearest friend (arms around me) so we could spend (eternity)
Don’t let it end, oh girl, think about me
Tried to make love stay, but it only chased you away, and then
Life with you gone, what have we done
Finally moved along, loving on without you was wrong, and so
I settled down, turned things around
You talk of a love before girl, you talk about me
You reach out for something more, now you know
You’re reaching for me
You’re only one (thinking ‘bout me) 
And what we’ve done (thinking ‘bout me)
When love is gone, darlin’, darlin’, think about me.
I know it’s a killing game girl, but think about me
It never can be the same girl, just think about me
We share the seed, both hearts agree, and both hearts bleed
Holding him you feel empty baby but, think about me
Those dreams that you dreamt maybe girl, you dream about me
And how I feel (arms around me), a love that’s real 
Love lost forever, think about me
Love lasts forever, think about me

Chances

Think About Me

All Me feat. Keyshia Cole

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

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