Dan Zanes: Family Dance

All around the kitchen cock-a-doodle-doodle-do. It's a crazy sound that echoes through the neighborhood as we waltz across a dusty parlor floor, walk the dog through the bedroom, do the bump out in the yard, the swim up on the stoop, and the mashed potato out in the autumn leaves. It's a throw down at the hoe down. We're insisting on some twisting. There's a sidewalk jamboree, walk and wobble your knees. Skip, flip, slip and slide, reach and wave the clouds goodbye.

We dance because it's a chance. A chance to be a tiptoeing wombat, a howling thunderstorm, a link in the chain, a splinter of winter sunlight, a swooping airplane, or a laughing palm tree, and we can do it together. Anywhere, anyhow. there's a dance party whenever we say so. Well, how about now?

Tracks:
1. Jump Up
2. Rock Island Line (with the Rocket Ship Revue)
3. Malti (With Barbara Brousal)
4. The Hokey Pokey (with Father Goose a.k.a. Rankin’ Don and the Dandelion Chorus)
5. Water For the Elephants (with Donald Saaf)
6. Linstead Market (with the Sandy Girls)
7. Fooba Wooba John (with Rosanne Cash)
8. Wonder Wheel (with the Rocket Ship Revue)
9. Yo-Yo Sweet Yo-Yo (with the Rubi Theatre Co.)
10. All Around the Kitchen (with Loudon Wainwright III)
11. In the Evening (with the Rocket Ship Revue and the Dandelion Chorus)
12. Flowers Of Edinburgh
13. Thrift Shop (with Sandra Bernhard)
14. Skip To My Lou (with Father Goose a.k.a Rankin’ Don)
15. The Good Night Waltz (with Donald Saaf and Lyris Hung)