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Nice Bones - 2010 Album Release

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by Richard "The Crawdaddy" Dance

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On his third record since re-emerging in 2008, The Crawdaddy (Richard Dance) continues his “deft handling of American Roots” (Danger Dog Review, Philadelphia), showing “skill & total ease moving across a broad territory of blues, funk, & rock" (Metallus Review, Milano, Italy), with a groove “suited to driving with the top down on a sunny American freeway” (Graceful Degradation Album Review, London).

Dance’s eclectic approach to Southern Soul once inspired blues legend Albert Collins to exclaim: “Mr. Crawdaddy, I dig your style. It’s like Memphis, New Orleans, and Muscle Shoals all livin’ in the same man!”

The Crawdaddy describes the NICE BONES album title:

"When I redevelop an old building, my first task is to strip off all the old paint, stucco, siding, interior walls, ceiling, and floor coverings. Now, if I started with a sweet vintage structure, I’m usually left with some NICE BONES. Then I just add back the right components, creating a new edifice to shine for another sixty years.

"I use the same approach in music, whether I am crafting a Crawdaddy original or re-interpreting a mid-century classic. Having grown up in that magical musical cradle called the American Gulf Coast, I combine the best ‘building materials’ called Groove, Energy, Tone, & Space. This usually GETS the job done. Please enjoy my latest construction project."

Love, The Crawdaddy

Personnel:

Richard “The Crawdaddy” Dance: Vocals, guitars, bass, Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, Motif synth, live drum trigger, horn arrangements, production, & engineering

Chuck Hall: Right channel guitar/solo on "Young Boy"
Diana Lee: Vocals on "Baby I Love You"
Greg Warner: Double Drums on "Dreams"
Dan Tomlinson: Percussion on "Dreams"
Makenzie Heinemann: Background vocals on "Wee JT"
Bill Tarsha: Harmonica on "Blue Monday"
Katherine Reckling: Background vocals on "All That You Dream"
Jerry Donato: Tenor sax and flute on "IJWMLTY"

Mastering: Dave Shirk at Sonorous Lab
CD Photos & Graphics: Derrick & Maria Reed
CD Cover Art: Matthew Paweski

Ejecta Records, © 2010 All songs protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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released 30 September 2010
Richard Dance: Guitars, Vocals, Hammond Organ, Fender Rhodes, Synth Keyboards, Bass, Live Drum Trigger. Special guests on various tracks as noted.
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Track Name: The Breakdown
Honey, baby, I been told
You know how, shake the butter bowl
I got to see for myself
If you got any butter left

Breakdown to the left, Breakdown to the right
Breakdown to the one, Gonna love you tonight

Do the breakdown, children, Break on down
Do the breakdown, children, Break on down

You got it going, my, my, my
Just look around and grab your guy
Stop where you are, let your big hip rock
Show him how your love can drop

Breakdown for me, Breakdown for you
Breakdown to the one, Gonna give it to

Do the breakdown, children, Break on down
Do the breakdown, children, Break on down,

Come on children, look at me
I'm showing you how it's supposed to be
Do it in the evening, late at night
I'm gonna show you, breakdown is alright

Do the breakdown, children, Break on down
Do the breakdown, children, Break on down

It's the brand new dance that's going around
It ain't the 'Funky Chicken', it's called 'The Breakdown'
It's the brand new dance that's going around
It ain't 'Push and Pull', it's called 'The Breakdown'

Breakdown, children, Break on down
Breakdown, children, Break on down

Mama can do it, Papa too
Grandma, Grandpa, they's doing it too
Mama, Mama, just look at Sis
She's in the backyard breaking down like this

Breakdown, children, Break on down
Breakdown, children, Break on down
Breakdown, children
Track Name: No Valentine
Words and music by Richard Dance

V1
For ten long years I worked hard for one woman
It got easier as time went by
Like all young fools I had to learn my lesson
Sometimes you hang in and don’t ask why
The world was our playground from a strange hometown
The desert snowed all the time
But we were young and high rpm
We always got to work by nine

CHORUS
But then came February
I didn’t have no valentine
Hearts are pumpin’ everywhere
Tell me who will be mine?

V2
We circled the drain down in a place called Bahrain
I was hers and she was mine
We did it again on a wide open plain
A little hazy from the brown and the wine
Florida was tough, I stunk like a fish
She had to hose me down and help me unwind
The South was weird for a Midwestern girl
I knew it wouldn’t take much time

CHORUS

Put it right there
Guitar Solo

V3
We say that we’re happy and we feel all right
I sure got a lot more time
The stretch ain’t there I can do what I like
The band is sure sounding fine
This sheila I lost was a real rare bird
I know she was one of a kind
I gotta keep searchin’ til I find the right one
That one looks mighty fine!

CHORUS
Track Name: Just Got Paid
I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
Said, I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
If you believe like workin' hard all day,
just step in my shoes and take my pay.


I was born my papa's son,
when I hit the ground I was on the run.
I had one glad hand and the other behind.
You can have yours, just give me mine.
When the hound dog barks in the black of the night,
stick my hand in my pocket, everything's all right.

Lord Winnie

Guitar Solo

I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
Said, black sheep, black, do you got some wool?
Yes, I do, man, my bag is full.
It's the root of evil and you know the rest
but it's way ahead of what's second best.
Track Name: Young Boy
I'm gonna take you out on the town, we hit all the joints around like a young boy do.
Take you out on the town, we hit all the joints around like a young boy do.
But you know I'm a man when I make love to you.

We be strollin' through the park acting crazy as a larks like a young boy do.
Strollin' through the park acting crazy as a lark like a young boy do.
But you know I'm a man when I be lovin' you.

Might take an hour, might take a day, might take all week, but I'm gonna get my way.
Strollin' through the park acting crazy as a lark like a young boy do.
But you know I'm a man when I make love to you.

If you don't treat me right, I'll tear up everything in sight like a young boy do.
If you don't treat me right, I'll fuss and fight with you all night like a young boy do.
But you know I'm a man when I make love to you...
one more time.
Track Name: Baby I Love You
VERSE 1
If you want my lovin
If you really do
Don't be afra-aid bab-ay
Just ask me
Ya know I'm gonna give it to you

Oh and I do declare (I do)
I Wanna see you with it
Stretch out your arms little boy
Your gonna get it
Cause I love you-oo
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
There ain't no doubt about it
Baby I lo-ove you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, baby I love you

VERSE 2
If you feel you wanna kiss me
Go right ahead I don't mind
All you got to do is snap your fingers
And I'll come a- runnin, I ain't lyin
(I ain't lyin)
And Ooooh what you want
Little boy you know you got it
I'd deny my own self
Before I see you without it
Cause I love you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
Ain't no doubt about it baby I love you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
I love you, I love you, I love you,
I love you, Baby I love you

BRIDGE
Someday ya might wanna run away
And leave me sittin here to cry
But if it's all the same to ya baby
I'm gonna stop ya from sayin goodbye (goodbye)

SOLO OVER VERSE
REPEAT BRIDGE
VAMP OUT
Baby I love ya (baby, baby, I love ya)
Baby I need ya (baby, baby I need ya)
Said I want ya (baby baby I want ya)
Got ta have ya (baby baby I love ya)
Don't let your lowdown neighbors tell ya I don't want ya
(Baby, baby I want ya)
FADES-
Don’t let your so called friends tell you that I don’t need ya
(Baby, baby I want ya)
Track Name: Dreams
Just one more mornin'
I had to wake up with the blues
Pulled myself outta bed … yeah
Put on my walkin' shoes
Went up on the mountain
To see what I could see
The whole world was fallin' … right down in front of me
'Cause I’m hung up on dreams I'll never see
Oh help me baby, or this will surely be … the end of me, yeah

Pull myself together … put on a new face
Climb down off the hilltop, baby
Get back in the race
'Cause I’m hung up on dreams I'll never see
Yeah baby …
Ahhh help me baby or this will surely be … the end of me, yeah
Track Name: DNA
V1
When I look at my brother. . . I just see me
When I listen at my sister. . . It’s just me talkin’ to me
I try so hard. . . don't wanna be a suit off the rack
But all my peoples are mirrors. . . They bounce the pictures right back
What is this thing. . .that I think is a separate me?
I’m just a link in real long chain…That goes across the sea

CHORUS
I can’t get away. . . From my DNA
At the end of the day . . . Still got this DNA
I gotta gotta gotta get away from it somehow!
Turn me loose

V2
My momma’s a drunk. . . Always talkin’ other people down
My poppa he's afraid. . . of this world that's goin’ round
But if I watch myself. . . Maybe I can rise above
Stop this swimmin' upstream. . .Turn & flow with the love.
What is this thing. . .that I think is a separate me?
I’m just a link in real long chain…That goes rollin’ cross the sea

I can’t get away. . . From my DNA
At the end of the day . . . Still got this DNA
I gotta gotta gotta get away from it somehow!
Lemme play somthin' here
Track Name: Wee JT
CHORUS
Na na na na, na na na na na na,
Na na na na, na na na na na na,
Na na na na, na na na na na na,

I’m 38, you’re 22.
I surely hope that combination will do.
I got 16 long years on you
But years mean nothin’ when I’m turnin’ blue.
A side of me was dead for so long.
Crazy Dick, I thought he was long gone.
You came along, reminded me,
I still got it, Wee JT.

CHORUS

She’s hangin’ out all the time with the stars.
They all want to get next to her in the bar.
But I just want for her to ride in my car.
But I must remember, her boyfriend’s not too far.
She’s part knock-out, and part cartoon.
One of her looks, can fly me to the moon.
If she wanted what I got it would not be too soon.
But in the meantime, I’m just stuck here in this tune. . .

BRIDGE GROOVE

She’s bodacious. Lord, she is fine.
I really dig her Daffy Duck mind.
I’m just a-hopin’ that one day she will find,
A clever little way to swing from my vine.
All the boys in the band will agree,
She is pure personality.
She’s bringin’ back my funktionality.
That little brickhouse, Wee JT.
That little brick shithouse, Wee JT
And the white girls say...

CHORUS
Track Name: Tunnel Vision
V1

Boys on their bikes, pedalin’ fast, know just where they goin’.
Uniform whites, indigo pants, little black ties a-flowin’.
You see’m in pairs everywhere, they got their colors showin’.
But this ol’ gang ain’t killin’ no cops, they just say you might be goin’. . .

CHORUS

Straight to Hell. . . I said whatchoo gonna do?
Straight to Hell. . . Somebody’s foolin’ you!
Straight to Hell. . . That might be all right for you!
Straight to Hell. . . I said to hell with you!

2 - Never had a chance to compare, they was bred with tunnel vision.
Home from school, straight to church, gettin’ ready for that mission.
The golden rule is a wonderful tool when you got to sell religion.
When you gonna learn you gonna get burned, better lose your superstition.

CHORUS

Now looky here, you was born into an ongoing movie
How it begins and ends nobody knows
You should quit talkin' about stuff you don't know
And then maybe you can let all this religious fear go
By the way, here's my religion...

guitar solo over groove on the One

3 - Don’t get me wrong if you wanna learn, you got to do some livin’.
On this side, on that side, takin’ and a-givin’.
But don’t you buy one idea, it’ll give you tunnel vision.
Live, live let, keep an open mind, you don’t need no damn religion.

CHORUS
Track Name: Blue Monday
Blue Monday how I hate Blue Monday
Got to work like a slave all day
Here come Tuesday, oh hard Tuesday
I'm so tired got no time to play
Here come Wednesday, I'm beat to my socks
My gal calls, got to tell her that I'm out
'Cause Thursday is a hard workin' day
And Friday I get my pay
Saturday mornin', oh Saturday mornin'
All my tiredness has gone away
Got my money and my honey
And I'm out on the stand to play
Sunday mornin' my head is bad
But it's worth it for the time that I had
But I've got to get my rest
'Cause Monday is a mess
Track Name: All That You Dream
I've been down but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more

All, all that you dream
Comes through shining silver lining clouds
Clouds change the scene
Rain starts washing all those cautions into your life
Makes you realize just what is true
What else can you do
Just follow the rules
Keep your eyes on the road that's ahead of you

I've been down but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more

All of the good times were ours
In the land of milk and honey
Time, time adds its scars
Rainy days they turn to sunny ones
Living the life, living the life, loving everyone

I've been down but not like this before
Can't go down on Diana Shore no more
Track Name: IJWMLTY
VERSE 1
I don’t want you to be no slave
I don’t want you to work all day
I don't want you to be true
I just wanna make love to you
Love to you sweet baby
Ooo love to you

VERSE 2
I don’t want you to wash my clothes
I don't want you to stay in doors
I don’t want you for your good money too
I just wanna make love to you
Love to you baby,
Ah love to you

BRIDGE
I can tell by the way that you walk that walk
I can hear by the way that you talk that talk
I can know by the way that you treat your man
I could give you all the lovin’ that you can stand

VERSE 3
I don’t want you to bake no bread
I don't want you to stay in my bed
I don’t want to be sad and blue
I just wanna make love to you
Love to you baby
Ohh love to you
Track Name: I Got A Woman
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Say I got a woman way over town good to me oh yeah
She give me money when I'm in need
Yeah she's that kind of friend indeed
Said I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah
She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah
She saves her lovin just for me oh she love me so tenderly
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

She's there to love me both day and night
Never grumbles or fusses always treats me right
Never runnin in the streets and leavin me alone
She knows a womans place is right there now in her home

I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Say I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Oh she's my baby now don't you understand
Yeah and I'm her lover man
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

A Don't ya know she's alright
A Don't ya know she's alright
she's alright she's alright
Whoa yeah oh yeah oh