Music
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HEART TERRITORY: a journey in three parts.
HEART TERRITORY: a journey in three parts PART I. Soundtrack from the Road. This music reel captures several performances from July 26-August 21. The northern notes became part of the fabric woven into our summer journey. Acts are from Wisconsin, Michigan, and other places: Chippewa Valley Based Blues, Howard Guitar Luedtke and Blue Max; Detroit…
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He Sang His Ass Off and Pounded Chords on that Big Taylor
Russell Thorburn writes on “Send Dylan to the Country” Ormson rips snow-driven chords hard on his Taylor acoustic, in Gummersound’s Marquette garage where the wood stove is heating up like his vocals. A Dylan Thomas baritone jumps into the fray to describe a dog with a cigarette . . . humor for the pub. A…
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Lightning Bolts and Scars
Lightning Bolts and Stars, a word and music piece by Gregory Ormson, Russell Thorburn, and Darrell Syria, guest on electric guitar. Listen in to this spoken word piece, a precursor to the lyric memoir, Stories Emerge Like Bears, Gregory Ormson’s forthcoming book by Cornerstone Press, UW Stevens Point. Lightning Bolts and Scars, originally published online…
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Thanks to Brief Wilderness. Growing up, everything was noise and splinters; and while I didn’t think I was fat or stupid, my mother said I was. She didn’t say it all the time, but enough that it registered. I never felt the full weight of this ridicule until I wrote a poem when I was…
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Rhiannon Giddens and Liberation Songs: When the Blackbird Talks to the Crow
What I’d give to sing just one song in hope-filled voice with Rhiannon Giddens. I’d heard her in Michigan when I sat on the ground; right, there, ten, feet, away — watching and listening — my mouth agape, ears drunk with the power blasting from her body, her banjo, and her SOUL as the Carolina…
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UNIVERSAL LOVER by Fantuzzi a short clip my cover
short take with guitar tuned in DADGAD, on Universal Lover, a song by Fantuzzi, from a campground in Upper Michigan.
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CREATIVE Collaboration Music and Poetry
Works from Thorburn, Ormson Here, writing has turned acoustic and the instruments include a Vox keyboard, sitar, clarinet electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and voice. I’m open to hearing from you on this no matter what you have to say. In a poetry recital at The Peter White Public Library in Marquettee, Michigan Russ Thorburn read…
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BLOOMSDAY musical triptych to John Lennon
Russell Thorburn (Marquette, Michigan) and I have collaborated for years to create songs and audio stories. One ongoing subject has been John Lennon. Russell writes the poems and I massage the words and arrange them into songs. Our music triptych to Lennon was completed recently. Listen in on these Lennon stories: John Lennon Rows to…
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Desert Blooming Flower in the Sun
Gregory Ormson lyrics, vocal, and a Taylor 414 ce tuned in DADGAD. Guitar and vocal recorded on iPhone, mixed on audacity with strings by Randy Anagnostis playing a PB125 Yamaha Keyboard & Focus Scarlet Gen 3 Audio Interface. This is one of several Anagnostis/Ormson “Desert Inspirations” collaborative pieces. Desert blooming flower in the sun and…