We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Eco wallet design by Bob Delevante; includes lyrics, credits, photos

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Day Deserved via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $11.99 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • "The Day Deserved" backstory booklet features lyrics and credits, along with extra photos, poetry, and dialogue from Doug Hoekstra on the making of each track. Full color, 10 pages, measuring 6 x 8 ,this was also designed by Bob Delevante in tandem with the CD. Special pre-order - just add $5 to your order for digital download or CD to cover shipping/handling) and will go out with the release. Limited supply
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD or more 

     

about

Grace is a lost word in many ways, sometimes feels like a word of the past. Doing something without self-interest, acting with humility and cutting each other slack, whether it’s in a relationship or navigating daily waters. Some of us have a difficult time accepting love when it’s given, also a cause for grace.

Chris and Paul did a really nice job laying down a steady but lilting groove and Dave played beautifully with the key guitar figure that supports the vocal. Jimmy Bowland, who is a terrific horn player and also played on my previous record, came straight from a Nashville Symphony concert playing Prokofiev, which gave him the idea of using a “classical sax” on this. As Jimmy says – a classical has smaller internal dimensions and a design that allows a slower and smaller amount of air into the horn. This makes the sound more mellow and homogeneous throughout the range of the horn.” It was a perfect choice.

For those who care, I tend to demo and have some sort of general idea mapped out for lines or parts, because it helps set the tone and I think folks like some sort of road map when they’re playing. But, when we get going, everyone pours in their ideas and talents and takes it somewhere else, where ideally you wind up with the best of both worlds. Overall, this was a fun record to make and that was part of the point; part of what I’d missed in not doing an album in so long was this sort of collaboration. Everyone who contributed did so in the best sense of the word.

lyrics

Grace

You hate it when I love you
When we’re close you move away
The moment I start running
You come back to stay
I just wanna say

I’m here for you baby
Here for bad and good
As long as it may last
As long as it should

We’ll wash our sins away, yeah
Cut a little slack
Look at what we have, yeah
Instead of what we lack
Baby, it’s a fact

I’m here for you baby
Here for bad and good
As long as it may last
As long as it should

Watching from my window
It’s like a picture show
People to and fro
We only get the power
When we let it go

I’m here for you baby
Here for bad and good
As long as it may last
As long as it should

It’s a complicated world
But, some things still remain
A little bit of love
A little bit of faith
A little bit of grace

credits

from The Day Deserved, released April 30, 2021
Chris Benelli – drums, percussion
Jimmy Bowland – classical saxophone
Dave Coleman – lead guitar
Doug Hoekstra – acoustic guitars, vocals
Paul Slivka – bass

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Doug Hoekstra image

Doug Hoekstra Nashville, Tennessee

Doug Hoekstra’s singular musical persona sets sympathetic narratives against understated vocals, memorable melodies, and subtle but unexpected arrangement turns. His albums have earned Nashville Music Award and Independent Music Award nominations, a bevy of top 10 list appearances, and a reputation as a “songwriter’s songwriter” (CMJ Music Monthly). "The Day Deserved" due out Spring 2021 ... more

contact / help

Contact Doug Hoekstra

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Doug Hoekstra, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now