Wise Madness
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners to the Gord’s Gold Halloween show, dedicated to ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night. The special opening music was a selection from Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique, played by the great thereminist, Clara Rockmore. She was the aunt of my late friend, […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners. My friend Joy is writing her thesis and posted this on Facebook. This is the song I need right now. I am listening to Stand in the River: by Moira Smiley and Voco on repeat while writing writing writing. As the song is on my songs to play […]
Show originally streamed on Folk Music Notebook on October 16, 2025 Gord’s Gold 1:Welcome My Gentle Listeners to Gord’s Gold. Most people know Steve Martin as a comedian, but that’s not how I first saw him, sitting in with the Nitty Ditty Dirt Band on some early 70s TV show. It turns out I had […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners. Don’t ever let anyone get away with saying that there’s no good music being made or how much better things used to be. On today’s show four of the artists are new to me. This first set has two such artists followed by classics that their song reminds […]
Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome my Gentle Listener. There’s no artist that I’m more excited about that Muireann Bradley. You’ve heard of an actor who you’d pay to read the phone book? That’s how I feel about Muireann, I’ll even play her singing a Jackson Browne song, These Days. My dislike of Jackson Brown sometimes makes […]
I am trying something new, turning Gord’s Gold into blog posts. The way it will work is what you see in bold are what I would have said on the show I I didn’t have time pressure. In between are the songs in the set following the bold. At the end I’ll embed the show […]
Welcome My Gentle Readers, I’m going to try blogging again. It will be different now. I’m not going to try and blog every day and I’m going to mainly blog about music. Think of it as Wise Madness Presents Gord’s Gold. Some of you might know me from Gord’s Gold, to those people, Welcome My […]
Time to try and start daily blogging again. I probably won’t succeed but I definitely won’t if I don’t try. Yesterday I went to the Hudson West Folk Festival. I’m on the advisory board and have been volunteering there since it started. I work the merch most of the day but get relief to go […]
It took an adventure to get me to write again. Last night I went to see the fabulous House of Hamill in Woodbridge New Jersey. Woodbridge is not close. I live in the Northern Bronx, Woodbridge is in New Jersey, on the other side of the Hudson, due west of the southern tip of Staten […]
I have not been writing because I have not been having adventures. That is not a good excuse. Days without adventures are days to write about thoughts. Those are supposed to be most important entries. It’s late, I don’t think I’m up to thoughts. I could write a potpourri, at least that’s the way I’ll […]
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