The Beauty of This Now
Marc Douglas Berardo
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The Beauty of This Now All Songs: Marc Douglas Berardo @2023 ASCAP/Overhead Map Music Except Let Nothing Come Between You Warren Zevon @ 1982 Zevon Music (BMI)
MDB - Acoustic guitars, Vocals John Chipman - Drums & percussion Glenn Fukunaga - Bass Bart de Win - piano, Wurlitzer piano & Rhodes piano Ron Flynt - B3 Organ, Wurlitzer piano
The Beauty of This Now All Songs: Marc Douglas Berardo @2023 ASCAP/Overhead Map Music Except Let Nothing Come Between You Warren Zevon @ 1982 Zevon Music (BMI)
MDB - Acoustic guitars, Vocals John Chipman - Drums & percussion Glenn Fukunaga - Bass Bart de Win - piano, Wurlitzer piano & Rhodes piano Ron Flynt - B3 Organ, Wurlitzer piano & Baritone Guitar Chris Beall - Electric Guitars Geoff Queen- Pedal Steel Guitar Mark Epstein - Upright Bass, “On My Way Home to You” Scrappy Jud Newcomb- Electric slide Guitar, “I’ll Carry You.” Harmonies: Tina Mitchell Wilkins Walt Wilkins Kelley Mickwee duet on “Hearts in Play” The Austin Beach Boy Fan Club Singers -Bill Small, Larry Seaman & Ron Flynt on “Another Day In July”
After a successful era of writing songs, touring, and making records. I wasn’t sure it was worth the Herculean effort to make full-length recordings. In my personal life, I felt overwhelmed and at times directionless. I attempted in 2018 to make a recording in Woodstock, NY that I was unable to finish. I contemplated quitting performing altogether. I wondered if anyone would even notice.
In the summer of 2022 after a show in NYC with Texas song hero Walt Wilkins, a clear opportunity arrived. With the power of a preacher, Walt made it known: he valued our friendship and liked my songs and I should come to Austin where we would make a record because there was quite simply no more time to waste or to worry. This was going to be “good for the soul, good for the brain, and good for the heart.” I was inspired and reborn. It was a hell of a speech.
So in April 2023, I arrived in Austin to record with Walt Wilkins and Ron Flynt at their Jumping Dog Studio with some of the best musicians and players in town. We had a real good time doing it. The songs that make up The Beauty of This Now are all about connection and the struggle to get back home. That home is defined by our relationships with the people in our lives and the better truths that we all seek.
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I'm Listening Now 3:210:00/3:21
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Changing 3:550:00/3:55
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Another Day In July 5:320:00/5:32
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Hearts In Play 4:110:00/4:11
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