From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V8 #5 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, March 31 2005 Volume 08 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Gorka in Red Wing, Minnesota [ThePsyche@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:01:58 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Gorka in Red Wing, Minnesota Hey friends. Just back from five days in Minnesota. I went to spend time with music friends and visit family after the recent death of our mother. A sad time but nothing aids healing like music. I got to hear John at the Hobgoblin Music Loft in Red Wing, Minnesota. What a nice venue, definitely worth checking out of you are a music junkie who likes to take your addiction on the road as I often do. John sounded great, played old and new songs. No complete set list, but he did some from After Yesterday I had not heard in a while, a bunch from Old Futures and the predictable favs from the early days. He had a new move going with Branching Out, kind of a Sinatra smile and move with the arm pointing out to the audience. I smiled every time and when he then mentioned at the end of the song that it was a new move he had added to this number, a Sinatra dance move, I laughed out loud! Two new songs to me were The Road of Good Intentions, political and perfect for where we are today. I love his liberal heart. The part I remember: Oh the images are strong Their words are pretty good There's more fiction out of Washington than in all of Hollywood On the road of good intentions all gets justified to hell The price will be their stories, too short, too sad, to tell. Another new song was the Fred Neil song A Little Bit of Rain. A long, slow, sad ballad that I love. It was beautiful. Personally, the best moment of the night when John spoke from the stage, honored my Mom and then played Trouble and Care. You might remember that I wrote about that song on this list in connection to my Mother and her Alzheimer's. Somehow, that song made it through and stayed with her almost to the end of her life. I would sing it to her almost every day, starting with Trouble and care, trouble and care....waiting and hoping she could respond with Always there, always there.... Hearing it, listening to John sing it, the first time I ever heard it live, really brought home that my Mom was gone. While the song made me cry, it also reminded me of the powerful connection music can bring to us. My Mom instilled a love of music in me. It was a favorite song, now it is part of my family history. Thanks for reading. I hope this note finds you all well. Trouble and Care, Bryn, the music junkie ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V8 #5 ******************************