For booking call:

913-660-2130

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS: For those of you interested in downloading "Dog Tales" or individual songs from the CD, in addition to being available at Apple iTunes and MSN Music, you can also find our music at Sony Connect and BuyMusic@buy.com.

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"Dog Tales" is here! - To hear samples from the CD and read the lyrics to the twelve great tunes, click on the CD cover below:

Get your copy at the following locations:

In KANSAS:

Borders Books,  15350 W. 119th St., Olathe, KS
913-764-0336

Borders Books,  9108 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS
913-642-3642

Borders Books,  12055 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS
913-663-2356

Borders Books, 2441 N. Maize Rd, Suite 401, Wichita, KS
316-729-6665

Mountain Music Shoppe, 12710 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee, KS
913-962-9711

Needmore Discs, 11212 W. 75th St, Shawnee, KS
913-248-8622

In MISSOURI:

Borders Books, 1664 NW Chipman Rd, Lee's Summit, MO
816-347-0044

Borders Books, 8628 N Boardwalk, Kansas City MO
 816-741-1787

Borders Books, 5201 North Belt Highway, St. Joseph, MO 

Streetside Records, 4128 Broadway, Kansas City, MO
816-561-1580 

Wherehouse Music, 13907 E 40 Hwy, Independence, MO
816-478-0003

In OKLAHOMA:

Borders Books, 3209 Northwest Expressway, Oklahoma City, OK
405-848-2667

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"Dog Tales" is also available on-line through CDBaby

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Here's what the folks are saying about "Dog Tales":

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These two songwriters have teamed up to give this CD a wonderful mix of sly and heartfelt songs. You can groove to an R&B rant about the wasteland of talk radio and then sit back for a waltz about Albert Einstein and his wife. Dog Tales may be a mixed breed, but it just might become your best friend.

David Hakan, Songwriters Circle of Kansas City

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From the Kansas City Star:

     The guys who wag this Kansas City acoustic folk duo are Ken Zans and Gerry Monks.
    
     They handle the vocal chores and assorted guitars and other parts on this album of originals with help from a half-a-dozen friends on vocals, drums, bass, organ, doumbek and lap slide guitar: Jeanne Donovan, Andy Hambleton, Brion Leftwich, Mike Moreland, Shems Nickle and Lisa Sandell.

     When a duo has a name like theirs, you’d expect Zans and Monks to have a sense of humor, and they do.

     For instance, on the song “Mark Twain’s Dog,” they sing, “Mark Twain and his dog are one and the same,” they bring in the Kansas City Canine Kazoo Ensemble for an added sound bite.

     But the two have a knack for a good song in 3/4 or 6/8. Either way, the triple meter works for songs such as the melodic and melancholic “Camden Harbor,” which could be a sea chanty.

     They have a nose for the apt lyric, too. “They say that once you waltz across Texas/It’s a two-step to old Santa Fe,” a line from “Kathleen’s Waltz.”

     And they give a nod to the masters in “I Hate Trains”: “Old Jimmie Rodgers and Waylon, Willie and Merle/All took a turn at a song ‘bout a train and a girl.”

     A pleasant surprise is “Einstein’s Wife,” about Albert’s spouse, Mileva Maric:               

     Mileva stayed behind with the children/Went slowly right off of her broom/But in her dreams late at night/She ran faster than light/Till time stood still in the room.       

     When they end with “Through sheer force of will/You can make time stand still/And become a thing of the past,” you learn that a song about smarts can be a song from the heart, too.

      See them in March at Boozefish. 

Robert Folsom/The Star
© 2005 The Kansas City Star
 

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