George Gaines Swanson
City of New Orleans & Other Favorites
© 2003 George Gaines Swanson (791022111521)
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Old time accoustic folk, blues, sea chanties cowboy, Black & White spirituals, and Women's songs.
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- 1 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS---by Steve Goodman
- 2 NEVADA JANE---by Utah Phillips
- 3 GO DOWN, MOSES---Black Spiritual
- 4 DEATH LETTER BLUES---Maybe the earliest blues.
- 5 SHADY GROVE---Traditional
- 6 HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT---by Sarah A. Price
- 7 SHENANDOAH---Sea Chantey
- 8 GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIE---Cowboy Song
- 9 CLEARWATER---by George Gaines Swanson
- 10 CINDY---Traditional
- 11 O MARY, DON'T YOU WEEP---Black Spiritual
- 12 SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT---Black Spiritual
- 13 JOE TURNER---Early Blues
- 14 WAYFARING STRANGER---White Spiritual
- 15 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN---Blues
- 16 SIMPLE GIFTS---Shaker
- 17 THE FOX---500 year old English
- 18 CARELESS LOVE---Blues
- 19 THIS LITTLE LIGHT---Black Spiritual
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"T H I S I S A M E R I C A S I N G I N G."
- The Bar Harbor Times.
Born & raised in San Francisco, George was a hot shot U.S. Forest Service fire fighter, steelworker, construction laborer, Fuller Brush Man, NRA rifle instructor, and fruit picker before graduating from Harvard in English with a Boylston First Prize in Rhetoric and Oratory. He has done gold panning in California, Wyoming & Colorado. An Episo-pal priest, George served congregations in the Kalahari Desert, a California oil town & prison camp, & in the inner city of Kansas City & Jersey City. He played Falstaff at the Chelsea Theater Guild, a non-profit in Manhattan. Jack Baker, head of the Fretted Instruments School of Folk Music in Greenwich Village is his banjo coach. He learned to play the spoons on a ferry crossing the Great Harbor of Mount Desert Island in Maine where he and his wife try to raise bees and pretty near organic vegetables when musical tours permit.
COMMENTS on George's CD:
City of New Orleans & Other Favorites
"I kept hitting replay." - Chris Dougherty
The Bar Harbor Times
"Keep on songwriting." - Pete Seeger
"Keeping the legacy of classic American music alive is a job well-entrusted to his capable hands."
- Greta Sproul, OverEasy Magazine
SINGING SONGS his father taught him as a child, George tells the stories behind the songs. His father rode the rails, was a cowboy, trapper, one-room school teacher, public relations man, police reporter, and engine room hand on a tramp steamer in the China Sea. Memories resonate in songs about cowboys, pioneers, colonists, soldiers, & also in sea chanteys, blues, & spirituals. Everybody gets to play the spoons.
"A DELIGHT." - Roger Deitz, columnist, Sing Out! Magazine.
George is a regular on the bark, Peking, at the South St. Seaport Museum, NYC. He had performed in Greenwich Village, Columbia University,* the Centerfold Coffeehouse, Caroline's on Broadway & libraries* on Long Island in NY.
IN MAINE at New Years By The Bay in Belfast,* College of the Atlantic, Grand Theater,* Lompoc,* Rupununi's* & Café Bluefish* in Bar Harbor, schools and libraries across the state, live on radio & TV, & regularly in the Hancock County Jail* and on the Windjammer, Margaret Todd.*
AND ALSO AT the Boston Public Library,* the New Jersey Folk Festival & a Sierra Club fundraiser, the New Bedford Whaling Museum & the Firefly Festival in Tatsuno, Japan.
He busked in New York City and at the Olympic Games in Atlanta & Sydney as well as 200 miles above the arctic Circle. He taught people the national anthem all over Botswana in southern Africa.
* Return engagements.
George and his wife, Katrina, live on an island in Maine where they try to raise bees and pretty near organic vegetables when musical tours permit.
GEORGE GAINES SWANSON - AMERICA IN SONG & STORY
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