Gordon,
Met you forty years ago at a small college in Ohio. Still have your little gaff-rigged autograph and most of your albums. Thanks for a lifetime of excellence.
Chris

I got your latest postcard in today's mail and emailed to a formerly long-lost friend now living in Maine, a link to your schedule. I've asked her to say hello for me if she sees you.

sending e-hugs,
maddy

Thank you, Laura. A lot of people have asked about that song: I'll put it on the list to record on my "Request" album, which I hope to be recording this year or next. I've got a good list of songs for that already.
Good air and small clouds to you.
Gordon

Gordon,
As a native New Englander transplanted to the Midwest, your songs always mean home to me. I've been collecting your albums since the vinyl era. I saw you many times back in the '80s in the Amherst, MA area and hope I can figure out a way to see you again. Have you thought about coming out to Cincinnati or Dayton? You would find a warm audience.Your songs are giving me heart through hard times.
Kathleen

Gordon:

Just found your site and wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful music you've done over the years. I used to sing Castle of Dromore (poorly at best) to my daughter when she was little as a lullaby and always loved Saben the Woodfitter.

Keep playing and my wife & I hope to see you again sometime in Rochester.

Great concert in Galesville this evening. Liz and I especially liked the melange (montage?) at the end involving overheard conversations. Nice to hear you in person after all these years...
Dick S.

Heard you in the Chocolate Church in Maine last weekend. You were fabulous. We especially loved Sherry's Song --it brought tears to my eyes and to others'--and hope that you will record it in the near future.---Laura

hello Gordon,
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Here i am in Edgecomb on a Sunday morning remembering your concert at the Chocolate Church. ifelt like all of us were in your kitchen sharing the music and stories I eapecially liked the songs for Annie Campbell and the Callof the Shepherd and i hope you do record them soon, i play guitar and sing a bit and collect songz for teaching languages. well our cat Shackelton,is horning on this writing, demanding his due. So have agreat spring and summer and Thanks again,ciao, Margot

Don, I should be doing a concert and workchop again in Denver in a year or so, and perhaps find something in Co. Springs, then. As to Kagan's wife,I think it would take more than a little snow and wind to kill a seal,eh? but whether or not she could change back into human form might be another matter....

After many years just enjoyed one of your albums. I believe I first heard you perform in a concert with Pete Seeger at Colby College in about 69 or 70
upon the launch of the Clearwater ..do you remember that?

Hi Gordon,
Any chance of a concert in southern California anytime soon? Thank you. Peace. Linda

As always, thanks for all the beautiful sounds. I have a question. Will you ever consider coming to Colorado or at least west enough I can drive to see you? Also, did Peter Kagan's wife live?

Thanks, Kristin, for making that connection; didn't see that one at all...too close to the trees, I suppose.

And Betsy, you asked about I call "To you in winter", a poem by Sherry MacMahon from Colorado, that I made a tune for. I also call it "Sherry's Song" I would like to record it this summer...I'll ask her what she'd call it.
Gordon

Thank you for a lovely concert at the community hall at Woods Hole. The poem you read, "Covenant," made me think of Saben, the Woodfitter. I felt as if I were hearing the beginning of the story that Saben finished, the first expression of the bargain that he, in his humility, made good at the end. The poem and the song together, in such a moving way, show how much there is to be learned and gained in between.

I very much enjoyed our concert last night in Woods Hole, as I've enjoyed your music for years. I was particularly interested in one of the first few songs you sang, a poem you had set to music I think, smething like 'How shall I send my love in {winter} and I so far away...' Could you let me know if this has been recorded, and if so on which album? Thanks so much.

Hi, Gordon. I'll be at the Ark in Ann Arbor in April for your concert. I had been, much to the sorrow of my children, as I'm atonal, and no sense of rythym , singing along with some of your songs and playing Peter Kagin endlessly on trips.
Most all of your recordings that I have are on vinyl, except some that I have put on tape so that I could play them in the car. I have a friend, Capt'n Bob Miller, who claims to have everything that you recorded. Some day I'll hear them all.
Keep up the great work.
Claude

OOOps.. for some reason those chords got all mashed over to the left. Don't know what to do about that...but they ARE the chords I play. Sorry about that.

Jeff, when Bob Stuart was a teenager, he "learned" that tune from a book he'd borrowed. Fortunately, he did NOT know how to read music. I think it is distinctly his own . Here's --approximately--my chords (played on Laud with capo)

G A G
There was a lofty ship and they put
A D D (bass
her out to sea / And the name of
walks Bm down) G A
the ship was the Golden Vanity
D A
And they sailed her on the lowlands,
G D
Lowlands low, / they sailed her on the
A G .....D
lowland sea.

Most of the words are as Bob sang them, though I learned the "Poker" verse from my Aunt Ethelwyn.

That's one immortal song, eh? Enjoy.
Gordon

I've been a fan of yours since your Bok Muir Trickett days, and have been particularly fond of your rendition of Golden Vanity. Is that your own chord structure and melody, or did it originate elsewhere? I had found a version that the Chad Mitchell Trio (among others) had done, but it isn't as pretty as the version you do.

I know it's reaching back a few years, but could you help out with the chordings for it? The recordings from that era aren't as clear in the guitar department as I would have liked, and your parts are quite intricate.

I met you along with my son, two years ago in Bristol. I was the woodcarver from NJ and my son asked you to sign his violin. Thank you again, it is a cherished violin. If I may, I have three questions, : Do you use any special tunings on the twelve string? Do you have any suggestions or tips for making a cellamba? Are you planning any concerts in the NJ area? I recently finished carving a mahogany Bellamy Eagle from wood that belonged to a sea captain, the father of an old friend. Your music soothed the eagle when his feathers got ruffled. Thank you again for your gift of music.