From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V4 #77 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 Friday, April 13 2001 Volume 04 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- JG on internet radio ["Mike Smith" ] Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) ["jvotel" ] More Radio! [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) [Smithfinn@aol.com] Re: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) ["Mike Smith" ] Re: More Radio! [Togg4@gateway.net] Re: More Radio! [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) [Togg4@gateway.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:04:11 From: "Mike Smith" Subject: JG on internet radio Just thought I'd drop a line to tell you all I just heard my favorite artist on an Internet-radio station located at http://www.netradio.com/channels/folk/index.html which is my first time hearing a song from his new album from other than my own CD. It took me by surprise because it was the first time I had listened to this site and "Morningside" was the next song that came on. They seem to have a pretty good mix of artists from what I've heard so far. Give it a listen if our interested. Mike _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:27:04 -0500 From: "jvotel" Subject: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) Hi good-noisers: Here's my third installment of quotes from the March 13 interview with John Gorka for the April 7 story in The Washington Times. Remember, these quotes couldn't be included in the article for space reasons, but are offered here as "footnotes" to the story, designed for the serious Gorka fan, which hopefully will prompt more discussion of the latest record. Joint of No Return: This song is "a few years old. It seemed like a necessary song. The record needed a more up-tempo song that had sort of a less-earnest feeling about it. It's kind of a ditty. I've listened to this record a bunch of times, more so than my other records. When I'm really tired, that becomes one of my favorite songs." Let Them In: "I was glad to get it on the record. It helped balance it." John said this version was recorded in 1995, "one of the songs I had saved from when I did the 'Between Five & Seven' record." The tune was released on a Red House sampler a couple of years ago. He said when he was reviewing tapes of the song for inclusion on "The Company You Keep," he found that tape from the Red House sampler disc. There were two takes, one was labled "mastered two-track version" and the other was unlabeled, as if nothing had been done to master the recording. But upon listening to the tape, he discovered that the "wrong" or unmastered version of the song had been the version actually released on the sampler. He used the "right" version on TCYK. Hank Senior Moment: " I started hearing that phrase (senior moment) over and over... and thought it was kind of funny." He put Hank Senior and Senior Moment together and "the song came shortly after that. It's a way for younger people to have a senior moment, but it's not an advisable approach." Around the House: "When I made it up, it was not with the thought of recording it. I was holding my son, who did not want to be put down. It was sort of a way to pass the time." Wisheries: "It's one of my favorite songs on the record. It's not a terribly serious song, but there's something about it, more than the lyrics say. There's a longing to it that I really like." People My Age: "That was the last song recorded for the record and I was not sure it was going to make it." John said Red House President Bob Feldman casts a skeptical eye on some comedy songs, but he spoke with him and convinced him it should be included because "it gets requested so often." The 40-second pause before the beginning of the song "was deliberate," he said. "I wanted it on the record but I didn't want to ruin the feeling that the first 13 songs had given people." The ubiquitous song folder: "With performing, it's helpful. It's good if you're sort of comfortable on stage, but it's better if you're not too comfortable. I think it makes a better performance if you're not too sure how things will turn out. It's better to be in the moment and nowhere else." Final installment still to come. - -- Jay Votel (jvotel@megapipe.net) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:41:15 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: More Radio! Just a few days ago I heard that walking around the house song on the radio. And right now they're playing "Joint of No Return". Very cool! SMOKEY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:05:25 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) I've really been enjoying these, Jay, thanks! Makes me wonder what IS included in the interview if these were left out. :-) I'm sorry, but did you say where the interview is/will be? SMOKEY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:09:24 EDT From: Smithfinn@aol.com Subject: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) Faster than a speeding bullet, I have added the full text of Jay Votel's interview from March 13 to the fan web site and also added all the fabulous cutting room floor stuff. Because Jay is such a terrific writer and brilliant observer of all things Gorka, I have also added a link to archived reviews that were once found on Annie Nugent's site. I found these really fun to read. We hope you enjoy reading this all in one place. www.geocities.com/thegypsylife Susan P.S. Wonderful job, Jay! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:05:53 From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Re: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) Thank you Susan, I'm heading to The Gypsy Life right now! Mike >From: Smithfinn@aol.com >Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org >To: >Subject: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) >Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:09:24 EDT > >Faster than a speeding bullet, I have added the full text of Jay Votel's >interview from March 13 to the fan web site and also added all the fabulous >cutting room floor stuff. Because Jay is such a terrific writer and >brilliant observer of all things Gorka, I have also added a link to >archived reviews that were once found on Annie Nugent's site. I found these >really fun to read. > >We hope you enjoy reading this all in one place. > >www.geocities.com/thegypsylife > >Susan > >P.S. Wonderful job, Jay! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:09:15 -0500 From: "jvotel" Subject: Revenge of the Cutting Room Floor (IV) Hi good-noisers: Here's the final installment of quotations that did not make it into The Washington Times' April 7 interview with John Gorka. The full text of the story and the previous Cutting Room Floor posts have been compiled by Susan at www.geocities.com/thegypsylife She did an incredible job and even republished some archived concert reviews dating back to 1997. I feel honored and grateful that she and Paula let me share this with all of you and hope it will prompt more discussion of John, the new record and his music in general. As you can see, the inclusion of all this quoted material would have doubled the story's length. Morningside (with Lucy Kaplansky): John said this song was Bob Feldman's favorite. "In general, I think of this record more as being from an older person's point of view." (He said this without a hint of joking about Bob Feldman's age, so I took it at face value.) Influences: John named Stan Rogers, Jack Hardy (the Jack of 'Jack's Crows'), Claudia Schmidt and Rosalee Sorrells who "really encouraged me when I needed encouragement." Stan Rogers: wrote "uncompromised literature rather than a song that had the edges filed down for mass consumption. I felt his songs were literature and kind of revealed what was possible in songs that I didn't know was possible." What's he listening to (on March 13, 2001)? Kate Rusby (English folksinger profiled in the 2001 first quarterly edition of Dirty Linen) and "Frank Sinatra, a lot. I've been listening to a record of his with Count Basie I hadn't heard before. The singing was just great. His singing is so musical. It sounds like he's having a lot of fun." On luck: "I feel lucky." After ending his relationship with Windham Hill, John said, "I thought for a while that everything would change -- that I would just sort of fade away. I feel lucky that that didn't happen." - -- Jay Votel (jvotel@megapipe.net) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:53:14 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: More Radio! In a message dated 4/12/01 2:47:57 PM Central Daylight Time, SMOKEY596@aol.com writes: > Just a few days ago I heard that walking around the house song on the radio. > And right now they're playing "Joint of No Return". Very cool! > > SMOKEY > Hi Smokey, What sort of station is playing this? I think it is just wonderful. It is doubtful that we would ever hear any of this on stations here in LA, other than public radio, of course. Gina ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:21:52 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: More Radio! >>>What sort of station is playing this? I think it is just wonderful. It is doubtful that we would ever hear any of this on stations here in LA, other than public radio, of course.<<< Gina, this is "community" radio, Firehouse Broadcasting, WFHB in Bloomington, IN. They actually broadcast from an old firehouse in the building where I work, next to the arts center that used to be a police station and my part of the building which used to be the jail! And they have a giant Dalmatian on wheels wearing a fire hat! They wheel him out onto the sidewalk on nice days. His name is "Spot, the Firehouse Dog". :-) Anyway, they play a bit of everything, which is great, but it makes it hard to call in requests because you never know what genre or "theme" they're going with. Our "regular" quality rock station has an acoustic show on Sunday mornings, so I can hear John then too, but they would never play his stuff any time other than then. SMOKEY "Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to...I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that." GW Bush Pre-inaugural interview with U.S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:19:49 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: Son of the Cutting Room Floor (III) Thanks to Jay and Susan for the article and "cuttings." Gina ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V4 #77 *******************************