Recorded with Andy Gibson in Nashville TN 12/2011

Daniel Payne is certainly no stranger to the life of musical gypsyhood. His enterprising exploits of rambling and relentless touring stretch across the globe. 800 Mile Monday is his band and channel for his stories. Savage tales of betrayal, spurned lovers, and the everyday common low down losers, streetpeople and gutterfolk breathe life into the characters of his songs- all told with grim authority and impeccable realism. Yet the greater meaning of life transcends all the songs, as simple sums of their parts, and these power glimpses of salvation and hope, though juxtaposed by terror and death, do shine the brightest, clear and tangible in this music for all who wish to see it.

Music should stand on its own two feet without being qualified by self-righteous crusading and exhausting, pulpit-pounding spectacles on the part of its purveyors to the end that you are, supposedly, convinced of its authenticity. The sadness of life, grisly though it is, represents a profound truth which transcends all left-right illusions and shatters all of our silly, preconceived, divisive human notions. All this to say, we’re already dead and all is lost. There is truth, and then there is the prism through which one views truth.

Hundreds of nuclear and theoretical physicists working around the clock, tireless in their hours and steadfast in their mission and neglecting their families for many years have discovered, decisively, that the only way to eliminate the middle man and access your direct path to truth is by clicking the “Buy” link on our websites. We are 800 Mile Monday from Lubbock, TX. We have two albums so far and we had fun recording them and we think you’ll enjoy them both as much as we do! Cheers!