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ONE KIND WORD is a great big bear hug of a CD - adventurous, encouraging, sensitive, alternately mystical and down-to-earth. Highlights include Bartley's retelling of the myth in Noah's Ark; the vibrant energy and message of Into the Deeper Blue; a lovely instrumental Snowfall nary a weak track among 12. Arrangements range from solo acoustic guitar to full production. Also here are Bartley's Welcome to the Spiral Dance, Natural Law, A Letter from Prison, The Wealthiest of Men and Let Falling Stars. The Boston Globe calls ONE KIND WORD ... "a stunning, deeply intelligent and beautiful CD of original songs." Cut By Wire co-written with John Gorka , We're All Alike co-written with Jack Williams and See That My Grave is Kept Clean written by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926).
GEOFF BARTLEY (1948 - ?) Geoff writes "I'm an acoustic fingerstyle blues guitarist & singer-songwriter with four CDs available from Waterbug Records. My shows these days are mainly in the northeast. Over the years I've written several songs that have been recorded by other artists here in the U.S., and in Canada and Ireland. I've also won four guitars at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championships in Winfield, Kansas, and have played guitar and sung harmony for folk veteran Tom Paxton at shows in the northeast and elsewhere since late 1994. For more information about me, please visit www.geoffbartley.com. I endorse (and play!) Elixir Guitar Strings www.elixirstrings.com."
AND I QUOTE ... "If the old saw is true, that a prophet in his own land is never recognized, then the prophet of the Boston folk scene is surely a bluesman and songwriter named Geoff Bartley ... With a poet's love for choosing just the right word and a musician's instinct for the emotional essence of language, he explores the frontiers of song as adventurously as any songwriter on the folk scene today." ~ Scott Alarik "Here and Now" broadcast March 3, 1999 on WBUR 90.9 fm National Public Radio from Boston University, Boston MA. (Scott Alarik is also the author of the book "Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground" available at www.blackwolfpress.com with photographs by Robert Corwin. The article about Geoff is on page 214 and the photograph is from the 1988 Philadelphia Folk Festival.)
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CD: One Kind Word
Label: Waterbug Records
Credits: Words & Music by GEOFF BARTLEY copyright 1997 JOSHUA OMAR'S MUSIC (BMI). GEOFF BARTLEY - vocals, high-string 1971 Martin D-35; MIKE RIVARD - upright bass & fretless electric bass guitar BILLY NOVAK - transverse wooden flute and pennywhistle SETH CONNELLY - piano, lap steel JENNIFER KIMBALL & JOHN GORKA - backing vocals |
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| The last verse of this song was inspired by a Robert Bly translation of the poem 'No River At All' by Kabir, the 12th century Hindu mystic. I must answer for the rest. |
CD: One Kind Word
Label: Waterbug Records
Credits: Words & Music by GEOFF BARTLEY copyright 1997 JOSHUA OMAR'S MUSIC (BMI). GEOFF BARTLEY - vocals, 1983 Martin HD-28 MIKE RIVARD - standup bass SETH CONNELLY - piano MATT JENSON - Hammond B-3 organ LISA & SELENA WILSON - backing vocals |
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| A paean to simpler times written one spring. |
CD: One Kind Word
Label: Waterbug Records
Credits: Words & Music by GEOFF BARTLEY copyright 1997 JOSHUA OMAR'S MUSIC (BMI). GEOFF BARTLEY - vocal, Martin M-36 MIKE RIVARD - upright bass BEN WITTMAN - drums RICARDO MONZON & EARNESTO DIAZ - percussion LISA & SELENA WILSON, GREG GREENWAY - backing vocals |
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