{"id":2393,"date":"2020-09-09T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2020-09-09T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:58:09","slug":"keep-the-lights-on-daine-clarks-covid-induced-vido-premieres-via-american-songwriter-songs-from-isolation-album-out-now-john-sebastian-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/keep-the-lights-on-daine-clarks-covid-induced-vido-premieres-via-american-songwriter-songs-from-isolation-album-out-now-john-sebastian-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"“Keep The Lights On” Dane Clark’s ‘COVID -induced’ video premieres via American Songwriter: Songs From Isolation album out now – John Sebastian guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From `Songs of Isolation, \u2018 written, recorded and released during lockdown in America, 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 9\/9\/20\/–We are proud to bring you \u201cKeep The Lights On,\u201d by Dane Clark. From the recently-released album,\u00a0Songs from Isolation<\/em>, a song cycle written, recorded and released all during this time of pandemic. This one is a song for now and all time. It\u2019s a prayer to God to keep the lights on in our world.<\/p>\n

A gifted singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released six of his own acclaimed solo records, Dane Clark has also been gainfully employed for 24 years as the drummer for John Mellencamp, both live and in the studio. But starting in March of 2020, the pandemic arrived and this\u00a0 long season of lockdown commenced. All tours, gigs and shows were canceled. For the first time ever, he had to file for unemployment.<\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t derailed even slightly. He got to work writing and recording new songs. But not as some lightweight diversion. He immediately started writing about the subject at hand. The pandemic, the imposed isolation, and its real impact on real people.<\/p>\n

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From `Songs of Isolation, \u2018 written, recorded and released during lockdown in America, 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

We are proud to bring you \u201cKeep The Lights On,\u201d by Dane Clark. From the recently-released album,\u00a0Songs from Isolation<\/em>, a song cycle written, recorded and released all during this time of pandemic. This one is a song for now and all time. It\u2019s a prayer to God to keep the lights on in our world.<\/p>\n

A gifted singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released six of his own acclaimed solo records, Dane Clark has also been gainfully employed for 24 years as the drummer for John Mellencamp, both live and in the studio. But starting in March of 2020, the pandemic arrived and this\u00a0 long season of lockdown commenced. All tours, gigs and shows were canceled. For the first time ever, he had to file for unemployment.<\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t derailed even slightly. He got to work writing and recording new songs. But not as some lightweight diversion. He immediately started writing about the subject at hand. The pandemic, the imposed isolation, and its real impact on real people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cThis song\u2019s message is totally\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0from the singers and players,\u201d he said \u201cI\u2019d been out of work five months. This is indeed a harsh reality of the times, and a plea for help. It\u2019s not a bunch of millionaires singing about the downtrodden, it\u2019s a cry out from people in the music business fighting to stay afloat financially and spiritually. Regular folks trying just to\u00a0keep the lights on<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He embraced the solitude, as songwriters do, and kept the faith by making music.\u00a0 He wrote fifteen songs in all, eleven of which comprise\u00a0Songs from Isolation.\u00a0<\/em>Even in isolation, he made this album with a spirit of inclusion. Instead of playing all the parts himself \u2013 and he\u2019s one guy who could do that well \u2013 he created a great remote team of musicians, and honored them all. His daughter Abigail Clark, also a singer-songwriter, is on the track and in the video. As is his friend Jason Sturgeon, and also the legendary John Sebastian, who plays harmonica.<\/p>\n

Working out of the basement studio of his Indiana home, the songs poured out of him. Although he didn\u2019t intend to make an entire album, that\u2019s what happened. It\u2019s the first album written and recorded and released during this pandemic time in America and the world. Featuring special guests John Sebastian as well as Dane\u2019s daughter Abigail Clark, also a gifted singer-songwriter, it\u2019s an album he said helped him endure through this dark time.<\/p>\n

Working on\u00a0Songs From Isolation,\u00a0<\/em>he said \u201cbasically kept me sane for the last four months. I wrote fifteen songs (11 of which are on this album). I\u2019ve had lots of writing spurts through the years but none like this. I had something I wanted to say and I had nothing to get in the way of saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a working musician,\u201d he said, \u201cI had plenty of free time. So the writing, singing, arranging, drumming, all of it was my daily job. I wasn\u2019t getting paid, but I had to do it. It got me through the day everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSongwriters write about the world they are living in, and this is our world now. I feel like I had to do it, and I\u2019m sure glad I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DANE CLARK:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s about something to believe in. When times get the hardest for those people who are really struggling, just keeping the lights on is at least scraping by. Another day and hopefully another meal too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were my thoughts as I was writing this song. My daughter Abigail, who is featured singing with me,\u00a0 literally could not pay her rent at the time. She had lost her job and for some reason even after going through the proper steps she never received unemployment, and still hasn\u2019t actually. So I was writing about her and also myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t sleeping well for quite a few months and had anxiety about the future. And I still do, as do most people I\u2019d imagine. So I thought a prayer was what was needed. A prayer to heal a divided nation, a prayer that we will all get through this somehow regardless of race, religion or political beliefs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAbigail has done missionary work in foreign countries and has strong Christian beliefs as do I. Those beliefs have helped us get through the most challenging time in our nation\u2019s history. And I continue to pray that the Lord will keep the lights on in our world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis song was written in early April and we recorded it shortly thereafter. I recorded a scratch piano track, a drum track and my lead vocal at my home studio. Since we were all recording separately in our studios, it was a lot of back and forth. I sent what I\u2019d done to Troye Kinnett first to get a proper piano track. Once I got that back I sent it to Randy Melson to play bass.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNext I sent all of those parts to Erik Scull who played multiple guitar tracks, then back to Troye for the organ. Next Abigail sang her tracks at a friend\u2019s studio (we were still socially distancing and we had only visited outside from six feet away).<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point we had an open intro and solo section. We let the song sit for a while. I contacted John Sebastian to play on a version of `Sitting In Limbo\u2019 and he had so much fun he said he\u2019d be up to play on some other tracks. The addition of his pleading harmonica made the song complete and I mixed it at my Thundersound Studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe video was done using iphone cameras, everyone in their respective studio or place of choice. Our sincere wish is that it will touch people and affect them in a positive way. We need positive right now. More than ever before.<\/p>\n

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Keep The Lights On<\/strong>
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Keep the lights on, dear Lord in my home
\nRun out of money, I\u2019m worn down to the bone
\nSure ain\u2019t sleepin\u2019 too much these days
\nTable stacked up full of bills I can\u2019t pay<\/p>\n

Keep the lights on, dear Lord in my heart
\nHelp me to stand up, don\u2019t let me fall apart
\nMy faith\u2019s being tested for sure
\nThe world\u2019s barely breathin\u2019 and you are the cure<\/p>\n

More bad news everywhere I look
\nComfort found reading your good book
\nPeace you bring to your faithful few
\nSo many good pairs of eyes that still can\u2019t see, can\u2019t see you<\/p>\n

Free the crowded minds, fill the empty souls
\nTouch the open arms with no love to hold
\nLift the able hands with no work to do
\nOpen the good pairs of eyes that still can\u2019t see, can\u2019t see you<\/p>\n

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Keep the lights on, dear Lord in my dreams
\nGive me hope Lord, that this ain\u2019t as bad as it seems
\nFor those much more desperate than I
\nGive them mercy and grace and the strength to get by<\/p>\n

Keep the lights on, in our world
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