Top Ten Favorites for 2007
2007 Top Ten Favorites
by John Gorka, Folksinger
In no particular order except for #1
- Favorite CD Mavis Staples’ We’ll Never Turn Back
- Favorite New Club: Ragamuffin Music Hall, Roswell, GA
- House Sound Kerrville Folk Festival
- Seeing Anais Mitchell Live
- Visiting the Woody Guthrie archives
- Collaborating with Woody Guthrie
- Collaborating with William Stafford
- One of my all time favorite singers liked my CD
- Beginning the “Longing for Eliza” show with Cliff Eberhardt, & Eliza Gilkyson
- The Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars DVD– should be required viewing for every over-privileged US musician.
- Cowboy stories where the good guys fight and win
- Which means any of the 30 odd Louis L’Amour stories I’ve read this year
- Didn’t have to vote against anyone this year
- Seeing Jonathan Byrd Live
- Finding out that slightly overweight people live longer
- Releasing a hi-def, high resolution surround sound DVD
- Hearing it on my brother-in-law’s home theater system because I do not have one.
- Didn’t get abducted by aliens this year
- Singing with Antje Duvekot
- Getting to hear Cape Breton and other Nova Scotia songwriters & musicians at Stan Rogers Festival, Canso, Nova Scotia
- 360 or so naps taken
- Finding out nappers live longer
- Didn’t bomb Iran yet
- Playing in Jersey City, NJ (land of my people)
- Singing with Rose Cousins
- Public finding out the dangers of optimism
- The bright side of pessimism coming to light (things generally turn out better than you thought they would).
- Angelina, Britney and Paris agreeing not to call more than once a week.
- Seeing, hearing and performing with Michael Manring.
- My Mom turned 90.
- Having more favorites than I can remember
- Our kids still like us
- Singing and doing shows with Meg Hutchinson, Drew Nelson and Amilia Spicer
- Concert for Bob Feldman, St. Paul, MN
- One of my songwriter heroes learning one of my songs
- Seeing how vast and varied the country is and marveling that it is not more divided and fragmented than it actually is.