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a piece of it all
OMM CD0701
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Steve Eulberg’s New Folk Recording
Produced by Ken Whiteley, Canada’s musical ambassador, recorded and mixed by Nicolas Tjielios, this recording seeks to give voice to several of Steve’s original songs that he has been performing live. The focus of this project is to give each of the songs its best setting, regardless of instrumentation. Read the lyrics here.
A Ship May Be Safe
I Miss America
Porch Swingin’
War is Sweet
I Said Nothing
Beauty in the World
Nothing Like the Sound of a Woman
Who Am I?
Rock on Rock
Didn’t Know I Was Lost
Sad
Careless Love
Set Your Back (to the Setting Sun)
Steve (playing guitar, hammered and mountain dulcimers and dulci-bro, sings lead and backing vocals)
is assisted by some very talented musicians who have garnered acclaim for both their live and session performances:
George Koller 
(Bass)
Brad Hart
(drumkit, djembe, congas, percussion)
Anne Lindsay
(violin)
Chris Whitely
(trumpet, blues harmonica)
Eve Goldberg
(backing vocals)
Ken Whiteley (6 and 12-string acoustic and electic guitars, piano,
Hammond Organ, mandolin, mandola, accordion and ship’s bell, and backing vocals)
Nicolas Tjielios (Engineer), recording and mixing.
Mastered by David Glasser, at Airshow Mastering in Boulder
View a slideshow and my blog about the whole process at: myspace myspace.com/steveeulbergdulcimer
Special thanks to Jeff Lilley, who calls this project: "The one I always wished Steve would record;" to Russ Hopkins, Kim McKee and Ken Willson who helped tremendously through the long demo-making process; to Joe Jencks & Ron Drury for their enthusiasm about the songs and to other colleagues of Local 1000 AFM for their encouragement and solidarity; to Ian and Jayne and their families (my Canadian hosts) and to my family for allowing me to focus on developing & sharing this musical gift and to Jonathan Marston's careful listening ears!
More about THE TUNES:
(from my blog about this recording process on myspace. myspace.com/steveeulbergdulcimer)
The songs for this recording have been weaving themselves in and out of my life for years.
A SHIP MAY BE SAFE began as inspiration by a quote from William Shedd in the fall of 1977. After wrestling with the lyrics with friend, engineer and co-producer Russ Hopkins, I took the demo, went sailing with friend and boat-builder Jeff Lilley, and together we launched this finished beauty.
I MISS AMERICA is the newest song, being finished last fall, kind of patriotism for grown-ups.
PORCH SWINGIN' recalls the mesmerizing forward and back movement on an August porch swing in Kansas City.
WAR IS SWEET was inspired by a quote from the Medieval humanist scholar, Erasmus, and as Tom Fairnie and I lamented at the Wee Folk Club in Edinburgh in May 2003, also didn't stop the war in Iraq from starting.
I SAID NOTHING It took about 10 years to create a setting for these 
famous words of Pr. Martin Niemöller. (1993-2003) I sang this one to powerful response at all my concerts in Berlin in 2006, including one in Niemöller's church St. Annen Kirche in Dahlemdorf, Berlin. At right is one of his cells in Sachsenhausen, the "model concentration camp: infinitely expandable." Below left is the chancel of St. Annen Kirche, built in the 1200s. My hammered dulcimer is set up on the right, in front of the woman standing there.
BEAUTY IN THE WORLD smelling the honeysuckle on my terrific back porch at our old house helped lead this tune into my world.
NOTHING LIKE THE SOUND OF A WOMAN (when she's in love with you) written for my honey!
WHO AM I? I set this poem by Felice Holman to music while in high school. It will have its first day in the sun here.1975-6.
ROCK ON ROCK I wrote after a trip to Mexico City in 1987 to watch people rebuild veincidades (neighbohoods) by hand after the devastating earthquake; there was a large contrast between their work and the work I was doing as a semi-skilled laborer building patios and decks for the well-to-do folks in the Kansas City suburbs at the time.
DIDN'T KNOW I WAS LOST was sparked by a comment my Dad used to make when I was a child: "I chased your mother until she caught me." This was one of the first songs I composed "in the air" composing the melody and lyrics out-loud as I was driving several hours to and from a festival.
SAD describes the longing that many people experience after having to choose to live separately, for so many reasons.
CARELESS LOVE is an old traditional tune that is so fun as an uptown blues tune--not the Carter family version!
SET YOUR BACK (to the SETTING SUN) was inspired by a telephone call of support from a western Kansas banker in the middle of our urban summer youth program in Kansas City. (Thanks to Jeff Lilley for lyrical assistance!)