From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V2 #107 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 Thursday, August 26 1999 Volume 02 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Gorka Happy Meals...Land Of The Bottom Line ["Mary Sansone" ] Re: Cry John Cry ["Mary Sansone" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:43:35 -0700 From: "Mary Sansone" Subject: Re: Gorka Happy Meals...Land Of The Bottom Line Hi Merl, I like your "Thoughtless Behavior Cards" idea. My favorite happy meal toy is still the Houses in the Field construction set (for my grandson). I was in Anchorage for a few weeks many years ago when I was too young and in love to appreciate where I was....hope to go back sometime (in the summer) for a visit...would be nice to time it when JG & Lucy perform again. Mary youth is wasted on the young - -----Original Message----- From: mhall To: good-noise@smoe.org Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Gorka Happy Meals...Land Of The Bottom Line >Didn't anyone like my "Thoughtless Behavior Cards" idea (ala Angel Cards)? >I know I'm not a regular contributor but I have been reading. Guess it's >time to come out of the closet: I'm a Gorkaholic. As a musician I find >playing his songs a great antidote to the "Bottom Land" which I'm currently >visiting. Or maybe it's really just a Thorny Patch. I had the priviledge >of John's spring concert here in Anchorage. Jennifer Kimball was a beautiful >stand-in for Lucy harmonies. Anyway, if my messages aren't getting >through - would someone tell me ? ? (Ha! figure that one out) Merl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:13:55 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Cry John Cry John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams At The Ravinia Festival 8 - 24 John referred to the bill as Cry John Cry since two-thirds of the performers are part of Cry Cry Cry, but you guys new that right? What a wonderful show. The Ravinia Festival is a premiere outdoor venue north of Chicago in Highland Park, IL. It also happens to be where I live, only a few blocks from the venue. I really never imagined that Ravinia would host a singer/songwriter series and John would be in my neighborhood. This trio performed in the Martin Theater, a beautiful auditorium with wonderful acoustics. Each singer had about a 45 minutes set and helped each other out with background on some songs. If you are as big a Gorkanatic as I am then you know that 45 minutes isn't quite enough! Lucy started the show, my second time hearing her perform. She was good but I have not yet become a fan of her music. John played second. He started with Like My Watch and then the song from the land of his people. John called Lucy out to sing backup on Blue Chalk, Cypress Trees and Houses In The Fields. He also performed Stranger With Your Hair and his new tune, People My Age. He introduces the new one as a terrible song. It is very funny. Does anyone have the lyrics yet? Dar Williams played last. She is a wonderful writer. Anyone have a recommendation on which of her CDs to purchase as a first Dar Williams? I loved her song about the baby-sitter. They ended the show with all three of them singing together. A Graham Parsons song (sorry, forget the name) and Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome (It was beautiful) and the finale was Cry Cry Cry. Ravinia runs a pretty tight ship when it comes to ending on time. Because it is also an outdoor/lawn seating venue with big speakers and a neighborhood next door, the never go past 11:00. But, it was three hours of fantastic music. As for John's set, there were many there who had not heard him before and he was really getting big laughs and thunderous applause. It felt good seeing John get that kind of response. He played Down In The Milltown on piano near the end of the show with both Dar and Lucy singing back up. It was the best I have ever heard that song, which is one of my favorites. Ah, who am I kidding.....all his songs are my favorites, except for Brown Shirts......that is the ONLY Gorka song I skip over every time it starts. Well, that will have to hold me until Nov. when he returns to Chicago to play at Abbey's Pub. Has anyone ever seen John in a bar venue? I hand it was the best show I have seen. The bar atmosphere really lent itself to the songs, the stories and a guy alone with a guitar. I did, btw, get to shake John's hand and thank him and hand him the email list "Happy Meal" suggestions. There was a throng of people waiting to meet him and have stuff signed, so we just walked on home. That's it from Highland Park and the North Shore of Lake Michigan. Adios, Bryn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:50:33 -0400 From: "David Forrester" Subject: RE: Cry John Cry >- Anyone have a recommendation on which of her CDs to purchase as a first Dar Williams? Honesty Room! It has been in permanent rotation in my apartment since the summer of 1994. - -Dave BTW, yes Joshua, you are not alone. I'm a proud Bostonian Gorka fan. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:08:40 -0700 From: "Mary Sansone" Subject: Re: Cry John Cry thanks for sharing Bryn....wish I could have been there!! I have The Honesty room by Dar which I bought after listening to Cry Cry Cry. I have to agree with you about the song "Brown Shirts"....only one of JG's songs I have heard that I dont care for. I sure am eager to hear his new song about "People My Age" :) Bet you smiled all the way on your short walk home. Mary - -----Original Message----- From: ThePsyche@aol.com To: GOOD-NOISE@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:14 AM Subject: Cry John Cry >John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams At The Ravinia Festival 8 - 24 John John played second. He started with Like My Watch and then the song from the >land of his people. John called Lucy out to sing backup on Blue Chalk, >Cypress Trees and Houses In The Fields. He also performed Stranger With Your >Hair and his new tune, People My Age. He introduces the new one as a >terrible song. It is very funny. Does anyone have the lyrics yet? > Ah, who am I >kidding.....all his songs are my favorites, except for Brown Shirts......that >is the ONLY Gorka song I skip over every time it starts. >I did, btw, get to shake John's hand and thank him and hand him the email >list "Happy Meal" suggestions. There was a throng of people waiting to meet >him and have stuff signed, so we just walked on home. > >That's it from Highland Park and the North Shore of Lake Michigan. >Adios, Bryn > > > ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V2 #107 ********************************