From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V5 #24 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 Tuesday, February 26 2002 Volume 05 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Listen online to early (rare) Gorka song "Geza's Wailing Ways" ["Mike] "The Artists" ["cycle12345" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:44:32 From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Re: Listen online to early (rare) Gorka song "Geza's Wailing Ways" Thanks for the link, Jos. I'd seen this song listed on the Gypsy Life site and am interested to hear it for myself. Mike >From: "josanne" >Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org >To: >Subject: Listen online to early (rare) Gorka song "Geza's Wailing Ways" >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 10:08:58 +0100 > >Hi to you all, > >You can listen online to 30 seconds of the John Gorka song "Geza's Wailing >Ways" on http://www.folkways.si.edu/catalog/40135.htm He played that song >in september 1983 on Folk Musical Magazine 207 .It's now on the new sampler >"Fast Folk a community of singers & songwriters Smithsonian Folkways 40135" >(CD $21.00) > >Fast Folk Musical Magazine helped jumpstart the careers of musicians such >as >Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Christine Lavin, >Richard Shindell, Suzanne Vega, and many others. This double CD set >comprises honest, intimate versions of their songs, available in retail >stores for the first time! Guided by the venerable Dave Van Ronk, >singer-songwriter Jack Hardy formed Fast Folk in 1982 in New York City. The >dominant theme in the 100-plus Fast Folk Musical Magazine issues was an >emphasis on the song rather than the singer-- music for its own sake. It >quickly became an important showcase for the new folk scene, which >continued >to flourish for nearly twenty years. By drawing on both the new wave and >the >old guard of American folk music, Fast Folk developed into a significant >chapter in the history of folk music. 2 CDs, extensive notes, photos, 34 >tracks, 142 minutes. > >Regards Jos _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:37:23 -0500 From: "cycle12345" Subject: "The Artists" The artists gently brush past our minds while on their maiden voyages to our once-private places, digging deep into the hollows of our hearts to stroke those strings which resonate best when most needed or - perhaps better yet - when least expected. On subsequent journeys the artists may linger longer on the surface, allowing us to make note of their mental messages before diving down to the sources of our souls. Once there, the artists will proceed to practice toward perfection their deliberate dances amongst - and sometimes beyond - our five merely mortal receptors. Surely they must know why they come to us, but often even the artists themselves stumble upon serendipitous treasures, both to their own startled surprise and to the jostled-awake joy of those of us who are so permanently and profoundly affected by these supposedly accidental discoveries. If invited or permitted the artists will repeatedly return to us, and we need only to leave open our doors and windows in order to ensure that this nearly certain saturation of our senses will continue. In this way we can agree to unspoken, unsung, unwritten albeit unnecessary arrangements with the artists, and these exchanges should probably prove to be simply yet soundly symbiotic. In these endeavors, the original Artist who created us all has likely set no rules and may expect no returns, for we must decide how and when to determine that degree to which we will accept and apply these gifts, these instruments of God; the artists. Steve McGraw ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V5 #24 *******************************