From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V5 #87 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, November 25 2002 Volume 05 : Number 087 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Mustards Retreat [ThePsyche@aol.com] Re: Mustards Retreat ["Roberta Piper" ] JG In Baltimore 11/22 [Jay Votel ] Re: JG In Baltimore 11/22 ["Roberta Piper" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:47:05 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Mustards Retreat Hey Gorka Friends. I heard the duo Mustards Retreat last night here in the Chicago area and will say that they are still high on my list of folk favorites. Their new CD (which I got a preview of last night) is due out in January so keep you ears open for that. It is wonderful! Gorka content? Half of Mustards Retreat is David Tamulevich, John's manager and booking agent. (the other half is Michael Hough, the man with the perpetual grin) I asked David when we might expect to see John around Chicago and was told that the only date booked for the foreseeable future is October 17 of 03! THAT is bad news for this music junkie -- which means I might just have to start hunting up dates for a Gorka road trip! Any of you guys heard John lately? I heard he showed up at a bookstore promotional stop in CO where friend Alice Peacock was performing and joined her on her song Parallel Life and also on People Get Ready. Things like that just don't happen in my bookstore! I am much in need of a Gorka fix...any stories out there to share? Happy Turkey Day friends! War Makes War, Bryn, the music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:10:25 -0500 From: "Roberta Piper" Subject: Re: Mustards Retreat Bryn wrote: > I am much in need of a Gorka fix...any stories out there to share? Well, I haven't seen JG lately but recently I did hear some news which sounds promising. Just before JG played at Rehearsal Studios (Acoustic Cafe) in Indy on March 23, Mark Butterfield (the concert organizer) said that JG would never be a part of the acoustic series again. When asked why, Mark said that he could not work with JG's management. Sometime this summer or fall I learned that JG's management team had split. After the David Wilcox concert on Nov. 16, Mark said that JG and Ellis Paul had chosen to remain with the half that Mark thinks he *can* work with. :o) I'll keep encouraging Mark to bring JG (and Ellis Paul) back. Robbie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:33:03 -0500 From: Jay Votel Subject: JG In Baltimore 11/22 John Gorka at St. John's Cellar Stage, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 22, 2002. Reviewed by Jay Votel (jvotel@megapipe.net) 1. Shape of the World 2. I'm From New Jersey 3. Stranger with your Hair 4. (on piano) Let Them In 5. Blue Chalk 6. Oh Abraham 7. Love is Our Cross to Bear 8. People My Age - -- intermission -- 9. Branching Out 10. Edgar the Party Man 11. Flying Red Horse 12. Prom Night in Pigtown 13. If I Could Forget to Breathe 14. Where the Bottles Break 15. Winter Cows 16. Mean Streak 17. What Was That 18. Part of Your Own 19. A Soldier After All (new) 20. Semper Fi 21. Brown Shirts 22. Good Noise E: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Mr. Gorka played to a capacity crowd at the Cellar Stage. It's a small room but it was filled to the brim -- more than twice the crowd we saw earlier this month for David Massengill. Suburban Maryland's Sweetheart, Mary Sue Twohy, opened with several Nanci Griffith covers, a Dan Fogelberg cover and one of her own songs. For information, see www.marysuetwohy.com Apparently in a political mood on the 39th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JG dedicated his deep, new "Soldier" song to the memory of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone. It was fitting. (Fashion alert: He was also wearing his light blue "Democrat" T-shirt under his dark jacket -- the one with a donkey design on it. Also, there were the omnipresent red shoelaces.) There were lots of requests. After "I'm From New Jersey," people started shouting out their favorites and JG did his best to comply. Most of the songs after that point were requests. He did turn down a request for "Vinnie Charles is Free," which I think is a later addition to the crime and punishment series that rarely if ever get performed. But he was game for "Prom Night in Pigtown," which he rehearsed during the break and read from a lyric sheet. JG says he is putting together a book of lyrics for some of the songs he doesn't perform very often so he can fill the requests. The request for "Edgar" came from a woman who wasn't sure of the title, but said: "Play that one about that sleazy guy, I think his name is Henry..." John jumped right in and followed it up asking, "Was that the one?" He also said the "Soldier" song is likely to turn up on a new album which could be out as soon as summer. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:42:24 -0500 From: "Roberta Piper" Subject: Re: JG In Baltimore 11/22 Thanks for the excellent review, Jay. It's exciting that there may well be a new JG cd out by summer. Now if I can just persuade Mark to bring JG to Indy soon so I can hear the new "Soldier" song . . . Robbie - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Votel" To: Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:33 PM Subject: JG In Baltimore 11/22 > John Gorka at St. John's Cellar Stage, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 22, 2002. > Reviewed by Jay Votel (jvotel@megapipe.net) > > 1. Shape of the World > 2. I'm From New Jersey > 3. Stranger with your Hair > 4. (on piano) Let Them In > 5. Blue Chalk > 6. Oh Abraham > 7. Love is Our Cross to Bear > 8. People My Age > -- intermission -- > 9. Branching Out > 10. Edgar the Party Man > 11. Flying Red Horse > 12. Prom Night in Pigtown > 13. If I Could Forget to Breathe > 14. Where the Bottles Break > 15. Winter Cows > 16. Mean Streak > 17. What Was That > 18. Part of Your Own > 19. A Soldier After All (new) > 20. Semper Fi > 21. Brown Shirts > 22. Good Noise > E: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day > > Mr. Gorka played to a capacity crowd at the Cellar Stage. It's a small > room but it was filled to the brim -- more than twice the crowd we saw > earlier this month for David Massengill. > > Suburban Maryland's Sweetheart, Mary Sue Twohy, opened with several > Nanci Griffith covers, a Dan Fogelberg cover and one of her own songs. > For information, see www.marysuetwohy.com > > Apparently in a political mood on the 39th anniversary of the > assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JG dedicated his deep, new > "Soldier" song to the memory of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone. It was > fitting. (Fashion alert: He was also wearing his light blue "Democrat" > T-shirt under his dark jacket -- the one with a donkey design on it. > Also, there were the omnipresent red shoelaces.) > > There were lots of requests. After "I'm From New Jersey," people started > shouting out their favorites and JG did his best to comply. Most of the > songs after that point were requests. He did turn down a request for > "Vinnie Charles is Free," which I think is a later addition to the crime > and punishment series that rarely if ever get performed. But he was game > for "Prom Night in Pigtown," which he rehearsed during the break and > read from a lyric sheet. JG says he is putting together a book of lyrics > for some of the songs he doesn't perform very often so he can fill the > requests. The request for "Edgar" came from a woman who wasn't sure of > the title, but said: "Play that one about that sleazy guy, I think his > name is Henry..." John jumped right in and followed it up asking, "Was > that the one?" > > He also said the "Soldier" song is likely to turn up on a new album > which could be out as soon as summer. ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V5 #87 *******************************