The CDs!
Workingman's Dave
Dave's 2021 CD Workingman's Dave mostly portrays a working class angle on how various chapters of the New American Century class war have unfolded, although the Black White Red story actually comes from the 1990s. Clicking the title or the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD.
Track List
1. All Fracked Up / 2. Wall Street Pirates / 3. The Horizon / 4. They'll Pipeline You / 5. Black White Red / 6. Eye of the Needle / 7. More Than You Bargained For / 8. Play Monopoly / 9. Natural-born Misfit / 10. That Mountain's Gone/Old King Coal / 11. Liar, Liar, Water's on Fire / 12. Business as Usual / 13. Company Town / 14. Stand With Workers
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Frackenstein's Monster
Dave's 2021 CD Frackenstein's Monster has 3 excursions that warn about the possible scary consequences of a certain petrochemical extraction process. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and clicking on the title will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy mp3s of the 3 songs.
Track List
1. All Fracked Up / 2. Old Frackdonald / 3. Bad Water
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Purrfection
Dave's 2021 CD Purrfection hosts a group of 3 compelling MEOW mixes which he claims are all CATegorically correct. Clicking on the title or the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD.
Track List
1. It Takes a Cat / 2. One More Cat Tale / 3. Curiosity
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Elder Statesman
Dave's 2020 CD Elder Statesman contains a collection of mostly political critiques that he wrote in response to the distressing events that unfolded as part of the New American Century, which seemed much more destructive than previous years. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and clicking on the title will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy any and all of the mp3s for the album.
Track List
1. The Fuse / 2. Blackwater Boys / 3. Song for Casey / 4. Speak for Yourself / 5. Steely Blues / 6. The Sago Mine / 7. No Trace / 8. Same Old Change / 9. New American Century Part 1 / 10. New American Century Part 2 / 11. Don't Misunderestimate Me / 12. Don't Mind If I Do / 13. Bad Dream / 14. Stand Up Speak Up
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Holiday Card
Dave's 2018 CD Holiday Card features his solo acoustic guitar renditions of holiday classics such as The First Noel and Jingle Bells, and also includes his own original Christmas song Commoner's Carole, so when the holiday season rolls around, this Elder recording can make an entertaining musical addition to the celebrations. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and you can also buy any and all of the mp3s for the album there.
Track List
1. Deck the Halls / 2. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / 3. Jingle Bells / 4. O Come, All Ye Faithful / 5. Joy to the World / 6. Away in a Manger / 7. Commoner's Carole / 8. Angles We Have Heard on High / 9. Oh Tannenbaum / 10. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear / 11. The First Noel / 12. The Twelve Days of Christmas / 13. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Who Said What
Dave's 2012 CD Who Said What opens with the hopeful romantic mood of Go With Me, but then quickly moves into anti-war territory with If I Was You as track 2. The CD covers a lot of personal and political territory in 14 tracks, from the loss of a musician friend due to drug addiction (One More Broken Thing) to an exploration of the hazards of nuclear power (Wind Whistle) and Wall St. shenanigans (Under the Table), and Dave closes the CD with a promise that he'll come back again (So Long Friend). Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and you can also buy the full set of the mp3s for the album there.
Track List
1. Go With Me / 2. If I Was You / 3. Wind Whistle / 4. All My Mornings / 5. Round Robin / 6. One More Broken Thing / 7. Mark on the Land / 8. Under the Table / 9. Song of the Wood / 10. Dream Revelations / 11. Take Me Further / 12. Reasons Rhyme / 13. Nobody Knows / 14. So Long Friend
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon, and you can get a copy of the Who Said What CD from Amazon just by clicking on the title here, or the image above. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Elder Street
Dave's 2009 CD Elder Street is a collection of recordings from various projects, some finished and some not, along different stages of Dave's career, including the recent Bush-era offerings Chainy Snake and Don't Misunderestimate Me, turn-of-the-millennium tracks But But But and Drive Me to Distraction, and also remixed versions of Dave's 1984 vinyl single The Wanderer/At the Crossroads and an updated version of that old Dave Elder audience favorite Sweet Rainy-day Friend. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and you can also buy the full set of the mp3s for the album there.
Track List
1. Chainy Snake / 2. Marketplace / 3. Sweet Rainy-day Friend / 4. But But But / 5. The Wanderer / 6. Country Highway / 7. All My Mornings / 8. Under the Table / 9. Ship in a Bottle / 10. As Long as Merle is Still Haggard / 11. Drive Me to Distraction / 12. Stormy Winds / 13. Just a Stone / 14. At the Crossroads / 15. Don't Misunderestimate Me
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon, and you can get a copy of the Elder Street CD from Amazon just by clicking on the title here, or the image above. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Country Drivin'
Dave's 1996 CD Country Drivin' has a much lighter feel than his more recent recordings, reflecting a very different background than the one that dawned in late 2000 with darker times on the horizon. Though he does take the listener through Hell's Kitchen, he mostly shares the fun of Drivin' in My Sleep Again, Fishin', and As Long As Merle is Still Haggard, even making it feel good to get caught in the Texas Rain or see a Black Snake in the Water. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy a copy of the CD, and clicking on the title will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy any and all of the mp3s for the album.
Track List
1. Gospel / 2. Rusty Chains / 3. Who Shot Handsome Johnnie? / 4. Soundings / 5. Colors of Yours / 6. Just Lookin' / 7. Hell's Kitchen / 8. Texas Rain / 9. Soundings Further Out / 10. Bad Luck and Trouble / 11. Thanks a Lot / 12. As Long as Merle is Still Haggard / 13. Drivin' in My Sleep Again / 14. Fishin' / 15. Could Have Been There 16. Black Snake in the Water 17. Just a Stone
You can click on the track name to download an mp3 from Amazon. Currently Amazon does not have any copies of the CD so if you click on the image above, it takes you to the page where you can download the entire set of tracks. You can also listen to the CD on Apple Music.
Note: Dave did remixes of As Long as Merle is Still Haggard and Just a Stone which appeared on Elder Street so if you click on one of those tracks, the version you find is the Elder Street one.
