From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V2 #52 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 Sunday, April 25 1999 Volume 02 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Review: JG at May's Chapel, 4/24/99 [votels ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:04:27 -0400 From: votels Subject: Review: JG at May's Chapel, 4/24/99 John Gorka, April 24, 1999, at May’s Chapel, Timonium, Md. Reviewed by Jay Votel — votels@dmv.com 1. St. Caffeine 2. I’m From New Jersey 3. Baby Blues 4. Good 5. Down in the Milltown (on piano) 6. Cypress Trees 7. When He Cries —intermission— 8. Scraping Dixie 9. I Know 10. When The Ice Goes Out 11. Branching Out 12. Prom Night in Pigtown 13. I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair 14. Temporary Road 15. Houses in the Fields (on piano) 16. Flying Red Horse 17. Body Parts Medley 18. After Yesterday 19. encore: Good Noise 20. e: Love is Our Cross to Bear 21. e: The Water is Wide (on piano) John Gorka opened his 15th appearance at the Concerts at May’s Chapel Saturday night to a full house with his paean to “St. Caffeine,” a logical follow-up to the set by opener Bill Parsons, who closed with his ode to “St. Fred, Patron Saint of Canines.” Both songs were appropriate, since May’s Chapel is an active United Methodist church which is taken over regularly on Fridays by Uptown Concerts as the leading folk venue in the Baltimore area. John also performed Friday night at May’s Chapel with Mustard’s Retreat as the opener. John was in fine voice Saturday night. He was playing a Martin guitar instead of his customary Loudon and the custom spruce-top he has traveled with for the past several years. Highlights: This was the first time I have heard John sing “Prom Night in Pig Town” solo. The only other performance was at Godfrey Daniels in 1996 with Trout Fishing in America and John had to read the lyrics from the CD booklet that night. “Pig Town,” as well as “Flying Red Horse” — another rare performance — were requests from the audience. Pages of requests were stacked deeply on top of his preamp stool during intermission and he did his best to fulfill them in the second part of the show. The crowd clearly connected with the “chaos” theory performance here, bringing John back for a second encore after he played “Good Noise” and “Love is Our Cross to Bear.” He settled behind the piano for “The Water is Wide,” the folk standard, for a most powerful vocal performance to end the evening with the crowd still wanting more. Next stop on the Chaos Express: Delaware Theater Company, Wilmington, Del., April 25, 7 p.m. ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V2 #52 *******************************