From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V1 #21 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Monday, October 5 1998 Volume 01 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- John Gorka concert review 10-3-98 [Jay Votel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:33:21 -0400 From: Jay Votel Subject: John Gorka concert review 10-3-98 John Gorka in concert Oct. 3, 1998 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, Md. Reviewed by Jay Votel Early show: My Invisible Gun I'm From New Jersey Wisdom Edgar the Party Man If I Could Forget to Breathe Good Noise Cypress Trees Branching Out Down in the Milltown (on piano) Houses in the Fields (on piano) Good Baby Blues Semper Fi I Know Where the Bottles Break When He Cries After Yesterday e: The Water is Wide (on piano) e: Love is Our Cross to Bear Late show: Like My Watch Thorny Patch I'm From New Jersey I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair Land of the Bottom Line Blue Chalk You Don't Know Me (on piano) Houses in the Fields (on piano) The Jeannie C. (on piano) Cypress Trees Edgar the Party Man Blues Palace Semper Fi Part of Your Own When He Cries Baby Blues Lightning's Blues Good Noise After Yesterday e: Shenandoah (on piano) e: What a Wonderful World What a fantastic evening. John made my friend Dianne cry with "The Water is Wide." It was her first Gorka concert and she was impressed. This performance of "Where the Bottles Break" was the best I've heard live. The highlight of the second show for me was a fine performance of "Blues Palace." John consulted his manila folder of lyrics for some of the songs from the new disc, "After Yesterday," noticeably for "Thorny Patch," which is changed a little lyrically from the first time I heard it at Godfrey Daniels. In the late show, he confessed to a bit of nostalgia for Frank Sinatra at the piano as he launched into the Eddy Arnold cover of "You Don't Know Me." In response to a woman's comment in the audience about his "job," John looked up and gently said, "I've had jobs. This is not a job. This is fun. The traveling part is sometimes a job, but the playing part ..." John told us that apparently, "Edgar the Party Man" is something of a hit in California. I have heard it requested at the last three concerts I have attended in Annapolis, too. After the late show, he said he prefers to play different songs when he does two shows back-to-back, in answer to recent speculation in the discussion group. The play list indicates that. Also, he is selling "After Yesterday" at concerts along with his other CDs. "Wisdom persists, it has an elegant glow. It mostly consists of what you know you don't know." -- John Gorka, "After Yesterday." ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V1 #21 *******************************