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“Cards on the Table”

15 May

I’m posting audio here of “Cards on the Table”, which I just recorded with a little help from my friends. The lyrics are below the song and some details about the recording below them:

 

                   CARDS ON THE TABLE

If I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERY FOOL I’VE KNOWN

EVERY LYIN’, CHEATIN’, BRAIN-DEAD BUMMER

WHO EVER TRIED TO RIP ME OFF

I WOULD NEVER HAVE TO WORK ANOTHER DAY

THE REST OF MY NATURAL LIFE

 

                    CHORUS:

PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE

LAY DOWN YOUR MONEY

PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE

WHAT’VE YOU GOT?

 

PEOPLE ALWAYS TALKIN’ BOUT

WHAT THEY’RE GONNA DO

GONNA MAKE IT REAL BIG, TAKE YOU WITH ‘EM

TO THE PROMISED LAND REAL SOON

THEY GOT A SURE FIRE DEAL COMIN’ THROUGH

AND THEY WANNA CUT YOU IN

 

                         CHORUS

 

ONCE I CHASED WHAT I WANTED STRAIGHT

DOWN THE OPEN ROAD

I GOT HIT HARD, KNOCKED DOWN, GOT UP & MOVED ON

BOTH EYES WIDE OPENED UP

SO IF YOU GOT A DEAL TO RUN BY ME

THERE’S ONE THING THAT YOU GOTTA DO

 

                             CHORUS

 

The guitars, bass and lead vocals were recorded in Garage Band on my computer and then transferred to Pro Tools at The Cave Recording in Evanston. There Robert Marshall recorded the drums, harmony vocal, and saxello parts, by Andy Mac Crimmon, Micki Broeker, and John Temmerman respectively. And a great job they all did.

The lyrics pretty much speak for themselves, and surprised me when they came out. Sometimes you don’t know what you feel till you say it.

 

ME

 

 

 

 

 

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The McDaniels

26 Mar

The McDaniels play their own unique take on Americana: A mixture of rock, blues, country, swing, and folk–sometimes all in the same song. The group is Dorothy McDaniel on bass, flute, and vocals, Kent McDaniel on electric and acoustic guitar and vocals, and Charlie Morrill on percussion and vocals. They sing three-part harmonies over rock solid grooves, combining individual virtuosity and great group chemistry.

Contact info:

Kent –         773-540-8984           kentmcdanielband@yahoo.com

Dorothy – 773-841=6226           toto1960@yahoo.com

Kent and Dorothy are also available as a duo.

Recordings by the group

Over Yonder (and Round the Bend)
Back to the Valley
Down Home Cookin

THE MCDANIELS: SONGLIST

DOCK Of THE BAY                                                  Otis Redding                

TEXAS FLOOD                                                          Stevie Ray Vaughn

PRIDE & JOY                                                             Stevie Ray Vaughn

CALIFORNIA DREAMING                                    The Mamas & The Papas

CROSSROADS                                                           Eric Clapton

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER                    Bob Dylan                           

YOU AIN’T GOIN’ NOWHERE                             Bob Dylan

CORRINA CORRINA                                              Bob Dylan

AUTUMN LEAVES                                                   Eva Cassidy

SUMMERTIME                                                        Eva Cassidy                                                      

TROUBLE IN MIND                                               Lighting Hopkins

PANCHO AND LEFTY                                           Townes Van Zandt

HERE COMES THE SUN                                       The Beatles

KANSAS CITY                                                           The Beatles

BOOM BOOM BOOM                                            Johnny lee Hooker

DIRTY LOW DOWN AND BAD                          Keb Mo

GOIN DOWN TO CAIRO                                      Traditional

I’LL FLY AWAY                                                        Traditional

PARADISE                                                                 John Prine

PLEASE DON’T BURY ME                                   John Prine

HELLO IN THERE                                                  John Prine

THE THRILL IS GONE                                          B. B. King

GOING TO THE COUNTRY                                 Canned Heat

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN                 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

STORMY MONDAY                                                Allman Brothers

HONKY TONK BLUES                                           Hank Williams

I SAW THE LIGHT                                                  Hank Williams

JAMBALAYA                                                             Hank Williams

HOOTCHIE COOTCHIE MAN                             Muddy Waters

I’M READY                                                                Muddy Waters

HORSESHOE                                                            North Miss. Allstars   

YOU NEVER CAN TELL                                        Chuck Berry

JOHNNY B GOODE                                                 Chuck Berry

MEMPHIS                                                                  Chuck Berry

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN                             The Animals

COLD, COLD FEELIN’                                            Albert Collins

GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY                             Johnny Cash

KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE                               Carter Family

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN.                Carter Family

JESUS JUST LEFT CHICAGO                                Z Z Top

BIG BOSS MAN                                                         Jimmy Reed

THE SUN IS SHINING                                             Jimmy Reed

BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO              Jimmy Reed  

WHOLE LOTTTA SHAKIN’                                  Jerry Lee Lewis

ROLLIN’ IN MY SEET BABY’S ARMS               Jerry Lee Lewis

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD                       Louie Armstrong

SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET                           Louie Armstrong

SILVER THREADS                                                   Wanda Jackson

BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME                          Delmore Brothers

STAGGER LEE                                                           Lee Price

FEELIN’ SINGLE                                                       Emmy Lou Harris

                          PLUS DYNAMITE ORIGINAL MATERIAL

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“Barsoom” (A Filk Song)

23 Feb

 

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This is the edition of A Princess of Mars that I first read

 I’m posting a recording  of  “Barsoom,”  a filk song Gary Robe ran in his fanzine Tennessee Trash for the Southern Fandom Press Alliance (SFPA) a few years back. At the time, I commented on it in my zine, Dumbfounding Stories, and Gary’s next issue featured a revised version of the lyrics, which I also commented on. This process continued back and forth in our zines for almost a year. For trufans and Burroughs Bibliophiles the title will be a tipoff: the song concerns Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian novels. Many moons now, I been meaning to record Gary’s finished version of the lyrics. When I got ready to finally do it, I noticed that his finished product was one verse shorter than John Prine’s “Paradise,” to which the music of “Barsoom” is set. I came up with another verse for the recording (verse two), and I made two or three tweaks to Gary’s words–which I hope he’ll forgive me.

I hope you’ll click on the audio icon below and check out the lyrics beneath it. If you like filk, and especially if you like filk and Edgar Rice Burroughs, I think you’ll be glad you did.

 

                           Barsoom

 

A big box of books handed down generations

We found Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars

All summer we spent meeting adventure

With Captain John Carter and his green buddy Tars

REFRAIN:

And Edgar won’t you send me ‘neath the moons of Barsoom

In the red desolation with Dejah and Tars

I’m sorry, cadet, you’re too late to go there

The lander’s cold data has turned it to Mars!

We flew in airships, rode thoats cross the wastelands

Lived by our wits and our swords of cold steel

Faced foes and monsters and found our one true love

It was larger than life and realer than real

REFRAIN

So what can you do with a dusty dead planet?

Make it our second home with some water and air!

It’ll take some nerve and a few generations

But someday we’ll send John Carter up there!

REFRAIN

Grandpa will you see me to the Moons of New Barsoom?

The colony’s ready; I’m starting to pack!

Heads up, Grandson; just get up on that spaceship!

Cause the Terraform Project’s done brought it all back!

LAST REFRAIN:

And Edgar won’t you send me neath the moons of Barsoom

In the red desolation with Dejah and Tars?

No problem, my friend; it’s all there in the pages

Just remember it’s Barsoom; it never was Mars!

“Barsoom” was recorded in Garage Band. I’m doing all the parts except the bass, which my  wife, Dorothy, added.

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Cover by Pablo Vitruvian

 

 

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Over Yonder And Round The Bend

30 Jan

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I just like this pic

We just finished recording a new song for our next album. The tune’s called “Over Yonder & Round The Bend.” I feel great about how it came out, and hope you’ll give a listen. The audio’s below. Lyrics, too.

 

OVER YONDER & ROUND THE BEND

CHORUS:

OVER YONDER AND ROUND THE BEND

I ONCE WENT THERE; I CAN’T SAY WHEN

SOME BRIGHT MORNING I’MA GO AGAIN

OVER YONDER AND ROUND THE BEND

 

IT WAS ON BEYOND THE FIELDS I KNEW

THICK MEADOWS AND TALL OAKS GREW

BENEATH A GOLD SUN THAT CAST ITS LIGHT

AND MADE WAY THEN FOR SUMMER NIGHT

 

(CHORUS)

 

BENEATH A PALE MOON FOLKS DANCED TILL DAWN

THEY SANG AND LAUGHED AND CARRIED ON

AND MET THE DAYBREAK WITH A SMILING FACE

AND LOVED EACH OTHER IN THAT FAR PLACE

 

(CHORUS)

 

ALL THE PEOPLE THERE THEY WORKED TOGETHER

TO BUILD THEIR LAND AND LIFT EACH OTHER

EVERYONE WAS FREE, FREE AT LAST

GOOD WITH THE FUTURE GOOD WITH THE PAST

 

(CHORUS)

 

YOU CAN SAY IT WAS ALL A DREAM

OR JUST SOME TRICKSTER’S LOWDOWN SCHEME

BUT I DO KNOW WHAT I KNOW

AND I KNOW WHERE I WANNA GO

 

(CHORUS)

I wrote the song and am on guitar and vocals. Andrew MacCrimmon is on drums,  Gus Friedlander’s on banjo, and Dorothy McDaniel’s singing harmony. I recorded most of the tracks on Garage Band, and Robert Marshall mixed and mastered them at The Cave Recording in Evanston, Illinois.

To hear the other songs in the can for our next album click here: www.https://dumbfoundingstories.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/audio-playlist-of-about-time/

 

 

 

 

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Audio Playlist of ABOUT TIME

1 Jan

ABOUT TIME, COVER

cover art, Alys McDaniel

Here’s a a play list of the songs on my album About Time, 12 of them, all originals. I recorded it a million years ago and just gave it a listen again the other day. I’m still happy with how it came out. Ah, maybe we got a little too exuberant with the instruments here and there, stepped on the vocals occasionally, but I like the album’s energy, and honestly, I think we were playing our butts off. I’m still proud of the songs, too; glad I got em all down on a recording. Check em out:

 

1. “Something Good” — KENT MCDANIEL

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2. “The Time Awaited” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:48
3. “You Ain’t (Gonna Change Me)” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:49
4. “Ohio River” — KENT MCDANIEL

3:15
5. “Jimmy Stu” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:30
6. “Love Is Cool Water” — KENT MCDANIEL

3:20
7. “Push Cart Annie” — KENT MCDANIEL

3:22
8. “If You Need Somebody” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:48
9. “A Sunny Day” — KENT MCDANIEL

3:29
10. “The News” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:49
11. “I’ll Always Do” — KENT MCDANIEL

2:47
12. “Time Is A Blue Sky” — KENT MCDANIEL

3:38

If any of the songs hit you where you live, the good news is they’re available about anywhere that sells music downloads. The CD of the album is available, too at http://www.cdbaby.com.

And check out the songs on my other album, Live at Custer Street here: https://dumbfoundingstories.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=456&action=edit

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Live Music VS Sand Painting

15 Nov

sand paintingLive music rivals sand-painting as impermanence’s perfect symbol. I believe that. A band works up songs for weeks and then goes out and plays. When the show’s over, what’s left? Or when a sand painting blows away?

A while ago we got a Zoom video recorder. Around a cell-phones’s size, it sports a couple condenser mikes. We started recording our shows and hoping they’ll be around forever. We’re stashing them in a time capsule. A lot of them here are on this blog, too: Just click the “Making Music” category.

The McDaniels @ Heartland Cafe

The McDaniels @ Heartland Cafe

When we play we forget the camera. But what if some corner of our mind still sees it– maybe in peripheral vision?

What if?

So we’re not recording our next show. At Independence Tap, 3932 W. Irving Park, Chicago. This coming Friday, November 20 at 8:00 PM. Let’s see how that feels.

Like we’re sand painting.

The McDaniels behind the Backlot Bash.

The McDaniels behind the Backlot Bash.

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Yard Work

14 Oct

Yasrd work illo1           “Yard Work,” a short story I wrote about an angry retired firefighter just appeared on Black Denim Lit, where it’s streaming. Here’s how it starts:

Bob Quigly stood looking out his bay window wondering when the neighborhood started to suck. When Janet, the kids, and he moved in, it was all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Who had to live in the city for their jobs. Things were suburban as Chicago got. But that was twenty-two years ago and for a while now, whenever somebody moved out, somebody worse moved in.

            Like that fat slob across the street in her lawn chair. Why did she always sit there?

The people over there before never pulled that shit. They stayed inside or sat out back like normal people. Then that weirdo had to move in, who sat there every afternoon; usually came back in the evening, too. He felt like she was staring into his living room. Because she was.

            Or the house to her left. Russian immigrants moved in about a year ago, owned three cars between them. Why they needed the third one, a rusted out Toyota, he never knew, but they liked to park it in front of his house. Left it there a week sometimes. Once, they left it there two weeks. Finally Bob made a late night trip to McDonalds for a chocolate shake. He flung it along the car’s street side. They might take a hint, he figured. But no, the car sat there another week. OK, milkshakes didn’t do it, so he started thinking he should slash their tires…

If you’d like to read the whole thing, just click the link below.

http://www.bdlit.com/yard-work.html

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Your Love Set Me Free

15 Aug

Dorothy at a show last spring.

Dorothy at a show last spring.

For some reason, I write few love songs, but “Your Love Set Me Free” is one. The best move I ever made was hooking up with Dorothy, my wife, and this one’s about her. You can click on the icon below to hear it. (It sounds way better through headphones) The lyrics are below, too.

 

Your Love Set Me Free

Chorus:

Your love set me Free. Your love set me free.

Up in the ozone, I was alone

Chorus

When you caught my eye, I felt my spirit fly

Chorus

You saw through my jive, made me be alive

Chorus

You made me a man and glad that I am

Chorus

Oh, my God, your lips, are worth all your trips

Chorus

Yeah, you knock me out. There’s not a shred of doubt.

Chorus

We  been together, always and forever

Chorus

You’re rain drifting down on a meadow,

and by now I think you know

Chorus

 

 

 

 

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End of the Night Jam at The Heartland Cafe

4 Aug

logoA couple Decembers back we were doing a show at The Heartland Cafe on Chicago’s North Side. Our friend Rudy Negrete stopped by with his Strat and sat in. Another friend, Josh Davis, happened to be down from Bloomington, with his his harps, and joined us, too. We played everything we all knew together, but didn’t want to stop. So we played “Kansas City”, which we were pretty sure we could fake. Turned out to be a nice end for the night.

Josh pretty much stole the show on it, but Alpha was having a lot of fun on the drums, too. Dorothy and Rudy were both zeroed in on the groove like snipers on a target. I’m mostly off camera, but maybe you can tell I was having fun, too: that’s me throwing in the fills on the verses.

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Another night at The Heartland

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On the Cusp of Dark Fantasy & Magic Realism

10 May

Dark Fire Fiction just posted “Howard Vancil’s Dilemma,” a short story whose genre would fit the  description up there. It’s at http://darkfire.t15.org, and the site is free.

 

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Dark Fire Fiction

 

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