GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Music

  • He Sang His Ass Off and Pounded Chords on that Big Taylor

    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…

  • Lightning Bolts and Scars

    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…

  • everything was NOISE and splinters

    everything was NOISE and splinters

    Thanks to Brief Wilderness for publishing. Direct link https://briefwilderness.com/2025/07/19/everything-was-noise-and-splinters-by-gregory-ormson/ 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…

  • UNIVERSAL LOVER by Fantuzzi a short clip my cover

    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.

  • CREATIVE Collaboration Music and Poetry

    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…

  • Get Your Irish On With The Good Rascal

    Irish music relays powerful stories of love and loss, patriotism and sacrifice, and a thirst for the dram or grog. It comes to you with a strong beat and lyric verse. Sing along or pound your fist on the table to “Whiskey in the Jar,” “All for Me Grog,” and “Wild Rover.” Get lost in…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Of Gardens and Graves Hawaii Story

    Gathering with friends to celebrate my birthday in Hawaii, my good fortune tricked me into thinking I had earned such leisure. Ocean waves crashed up on the island and giant palm leaves swayed in the wind. Hawaiian music playing from a house next door accompanied the party as we talked our way through the euphoria…

  • Song of Healing for a Battered World

    Our world is in need. People are distracted, fractured, busy, angry and vulnerable to emotional hijacking. When this happens, its hard to experience the joy of being alive because we lose touch with ourselves and others. Yoga meets this need by offering time for the busy to rest for a few moments, connect to our…