From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V5 #89 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, December 5 2002 Volume 05 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lying Red Shoelaces (Flying Red Horse) :-) [Kevin Rent Subject: Lying Red Shoelaces (Flying Red Horse) :-) Hey folks... Just wondering if any of you knew the significance of a bit of Gorka trivia that has been puzzling me for years! Do any of you knew why John has red shoelaces? Is it some odd fashion statement from the Jack's Crow's days i.e. a song circle, almost a communal feel? Or is it just the fact that they were the only laces he could find at the time? Needless to say I think that they are a wonderful fashion accessory to any wardrobe. ;) Anyways, must go... but lets get this list hopping! :) Kevin in Halifax, NS - --- Jay Votel wrote: > 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. Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V5 #89 *******************************