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Never Go Away - A side

Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner

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This is a single from RESTING ON A WAVE, a little A-side / B-side double single from longtime friends and musical collaborators Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner. They wrote and recorded these two songs together, Read more

This is a single from RESTING ON A WAVE, a little A-side / B-side double single from longtime friends and musical collaborators Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner. They wrote and recorded these two songs together, showing the sweet and salty sides of their nearly 2 decades of friendship.

Friendship. The kind that you come back to in different seasons of your life, making new memories and always picking up where you left off, no matter how much time has gone by... this is the essence of "Never Go Away" by Abbie Gardner and Marc Douglas Berardo. Friends since 2006, the two have shared countless tours and a boatload of adventures. The memories come as "a sparrow resting on a wave" and paint a picture in watercolor vignettes throughout the song. Stay tuned for the B-side of this song, "I've Had Enough," which shows the humorous side to long-term friendship.

Track Credits: From Resting on a Wave was released on November 14, 2025. Marc Douglas Berardo - guitar, vocals Abbie Gardner - dobro, vocals Craig Akin - upright bass Michael Bellar - accordion Mark Dann - recording engineer JP Ruggieri - mixing engineer Graycroft Studio Glenn Barratt - mastering engineer, MorningStar Studios

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I've Had Enough - B Side

Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner

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This is a single from RESTING ON A WAVE, a little A-side / B-side double single from longtime friends and musical collaborators Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner. They wrote and recorded these two songs together, Read more

This is a single from RESTING ON A WAVE, a little A-side / B-side double single from longtime friends and musical collaborators Marc Douglas Berardo and Abbie Gardner. They wrote and recorded these two songs together, showing the sweet and salty sides of their nearly 2 decades of friendship.

Friendship. The kind that you come back to in different seasons of your life, making new memories and always picking up where you left off, no matter how much time has gone by... this is the essence of "Never Go Away" by Abbie Gardner and Marc Douglas Berardo. Friends since 2006, the two have shared countless tours and a boatload of adventures. The memories come as "a sparrow resting on a wave" and paint a picture in watercolor vignettes throughout the song. Stay tuned for the B-side of this song, "I've Had Enough," which shows the humorous side to long-term friendship.

Track Credits: From Resting on a Wave was released on November 14, 2025. Marc Douglas Berardo - guitar, vocals Abbie Gardner - dobro, vocals Craig Akin - upright bass Michael Bellar - accordion Mark Dann - recording engineer JP Ruggieri - mixing engineer Graycroft Studio Glenn Barratt - mastering engineer, MorningStar Studios

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We Don't Live There Anymore

Marc Douglas Berardo

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The character in this song is ruminating on some old habits while remembering when time was spent “beating back the shadows and giving it all up to the moon.” The lyric was written by my friend Jenny Daley after a Read more

The character in this song is ruminating on some old habits while remembering when time was spent “beating back the shadows and giving it all up to the moon.” The lyric was written by my friend Jenny Daley after a conversation about creativity and why it matters. It was an offhanded remark: “you should write me something that I’ll turn into a song.” I have long been an admirer how Jenny can walk the thin line between beauty and madness. Hers is a wild spirit that sees magic in in the details and dichotomies as only a Irish poet can. Darkness and light. Sorrow and joy. She does not fear the deep. When she sent me the lyric, I was floored. It was real and we had lived it. For me, the words weren’t trying to be nostalgic or judgmental. It was really just a statement of growth and change. “There are places grace will take you, that the wild night never will.”  Truth. In February 2025, I was recording in Woodstock, New York. At the very end of the session, we decided to take a pass at the song. I just wanted to get it down. It’s cut live in the room with my old school chum Dr. John Bongo playing percussion and the great Mark Dann on the bass. It was the first pass. It felt good. Soon after the mysterious Doctor Westchesterson laid his beautiful keyboard parts into the mix. Two Doctors and a Dann. A solid crew. In any endeavor, I suggest that you surround yourself with a team of doctors and bass player. It’s just smart thinking. So here is a song that I hope will come into your life like a contemplative fog and stay with you until the sky clears and the sun breaks on through.

(C)2025 Marc Douglas Berardo, Jenny Daley Overhead Map Music, ASCAP

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Cuba, 1953, The Downhauler 15th Anniversary Edition

Marc Douglas Berardo

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Cuba, 1953, The Downhauler 15th Anniversary Edition. The song's main character is daydreaming about a time and place that he is drawn to above all others. It is 1950s pre-Revolution Cuba. A fever dream. It’s been 15 years Read more

Cuba, 1953, The Downhauler 15th Anniversary Edition. The song's main character is daydreaming about a time and place that he is drawn to above all others. It is 1950s pre-Revolution Cuba. A fever dream. It’s been 15 years since the release of the “Downhauler” record. I hope you will rediscover these songs or perhaps take a ride for the first time with these remastered versions.

(C)2025 Marc Douglas Berardo, Overhead Map Music, ASCAP

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Another Day in July

Marc Douglas Berardo

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I have spent the last 27 summers on an island off the coast of Rhode Island called Block Island. After all these years, I have seen many young island workers come and go, a lot of weddings and parties, and I have had Read more

I have spent the last 27 summers on an island off the coast of Rhode Island called Block Island. After all these years, I have seen many young island workers come and go, a lot of weddings and parties, and I have had countless hours to keep my eyes on the street scene. The music and arrangement are an ode to early 1970s Beach Boys records.

(C)2024 Marc Douglas Berardo, Overhead Map Music, ASCAP

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Letting You Blow Away - SHC Music Tribe 2023

Marc Douglas Berardo

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The Buddhists consider the conscious act of letting go an essential part of a journey. It is the beginning of learning to live with yourself again — despite what happened, despite what was, despite everything. Our bags Read more

The Buddhists consider the conscious act of letting go an essential part of a journey. It is the beginning of learning to live with yourself again — despite what happened, despite what was, despite everything. Our bags are packed with experiences both good and bad. Loss and grief, pain and hurt, happiness, and regret. Sometimes the greatest strength is in knowing when to let go and move on. There is beauty in the cycle of death and birth. Beginnings and endings. There is beauty in letting what is not working blow away. The song was written in room 214 of the Sugarloaf Key Lodge in the Lower Keys Florida. It took about 10 minutes to write but I had been living with the feeling that sparked the song for a long time. On my way to perform at the very end of the highway in Key West, Florida, I was on the run from a few years filled with heartbreak and change. In my rearview, were a lot of miles of hard road. Long drives have a way of romanticizing one’s world. I felt the cosmic nudge that I needed to get something down. I checked into the room, believing I would wrestle with a song for a whole night. I walked out to the Gulf of Mexico and felt a profound feeling that it was time to let go of the past. The wind was blowing. There were metaphors everywhere. The song wrote itself. It just fell out. By sunset, I was in Key West feeling a lot lighter and ready to proceed.

The video for the song was created on the February 2023 “Vagabonds By Choice Tour” with dobroist Abbie Gardner that traveled through Florida. It was intended to tell the song’s story using the locations and overall feel of where Letting You Blow Away was written. It also acts as a travelogue of the trip itself as Abbie and I made our way from shows in Key West to stops in Key Largo, Sarasota, St Augustine, Tampa Bay, and Ft Myers. The video was edited by Marc Douglas Berardo and Susie Markland of SHC Music Tribe in Pemberton, NJ in March of 2023.

Letting You Blow Away ©2023 Overhead Map Music/ASCAP

Produced by MDB and Chris Berardo Recorded at Mark Dann Recording Inc., Woodstock, NY.
Mastered by The SoundLab, Charlotte, NC, Jan 2023
Marc Douglas Berardo - vocals and acoustic guitar
Abbie Gardner - (Red Molly) Dobro
Eric Parker - (Orleans, Ian Hunter, Joe Cocker) drums
Mark Dan - (Richard Shindell, John Gorka) bass
Dr. Westchesterson- organ and piano
Chris Berardo - background vocals

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Waiting on a Brand New Day - SHC Music Tribe 2022

Marc Douglas Berardo

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I wrote the song a few years back at the tail end of a period of personal upheaval. The Lyric endeavors to capture two singular moments in time for the characters of the song as they sit on the roof of an apartment Read more

I wrote the song a few years back at the tail end of a period of personal upheaval. The Lyric endeavors to capture two singular moments in time for the characters of the song as they sit on the roof of an apartment building looking off into the night in which the “lights looked like Paris.” The second happens on a summer night on an island with a view of the mainland as “the fire on the beach kept us warm.” In those moments the narrator does not want to break the spell of their newfound connection. He simply finds comfort in the metaphor that there is nowhere else that he’d rather be as they wait on a brand new day. The music is meant to have the galloping feeling of new love and the excitement of changing times. The whole thing just about wrote itself.

The track was recorded in Woodstock, New York at the world-famous Mark Dann Studios. Produced by the brother team of Chris and Marc Douglas Berardo, the musicians include Eric Parker- Drums (Joe Cocker, Orleans), Dr. Westchesterson - piano, organ) Mark Dann – Bass.

Marc Douglas Berardo © 2021 Overhead Map Music/ASCAP

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The Hard Part - SHC Music Tribe 2022

Marc Douglas Berardo

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"The song "The Hard Part", a single from my upcoming record "Temporary Things", was written while recuperating from losing my singing voice for a little over two months. The impermanence of my ability to sing, something Read more

"The song "The Hard Part", a single from my upcoming record "Temporary Things", was written while recuperating from losing my singing voice for a little over two months. The impermanence of my ability to sing, something that I’ve been able to do without much thought my whole life, became the lesson before me. The song was a bit of self-advice and a reminder to carry-on above all things. I wrote it to guide myself through the problem. The song concludes with a dollop of hope."

Recorded at Mark Dann Recording Inc. in Woodstock, NY, performers on the record include Marc Douglas Berardo on vocals and acoustic guitar, Eric Parker drums (Joe Cocker, Orleans) Mark Dann bass (Richard Shindell, John Gorka), Dr. Westchesterson on organ and piano and Chris Berardo (Chris Berardo and the DesBerardos) contributes background vocals.

The Hard Part (c) 2021 Overhead Map Music/ASCAP

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