Turning Toward the Morning: Wendy Grossman
This song is from her 1980 album, Roseville Fair. It was written by Gordon Bok.
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August 10, 2010 at 12:06 pm
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August 10, 2010 at 10:44 pm
This song is Gordon’s greatest work, and that is saying a lot; all of his songs are excellent. But if he had written nothing but this one, it would have been enough.
Wendy Grossman does a great job with it too. I had never heard her, unless Roseville Fair is her song. That one I know.
August 11, 2010 at 10:00 am
Ted,
I saw Gordon a few years ago, and he was just wonderful. I had loved his music for years, but that was the first time I’d seen him. It was at a cozy venue, just perfect for him.
Roseville Fair is actually a Bill Staines song.
August 11, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I have been to several of his concerts over the years because he lives not too far from me here in Maine. Usually a small, cozy community hall, maybe a fundraiser, fewer than a hundred people.
He and Pete Seeger got together in Bangor about 20 years ago and I DIDN’T go. To this day I’m killing myself over it. I asked Gordon if that concert ever got recorded, even bootlegged, and he said no–it was just something that came and went without a lot of organization.
August 11, 2010 at 9:30 am
Katry, do I remember correctly that Wendy Grossman used to live and play in the Boston area? I was in Cambridge about 1979-82 and her name is familiar to me from that era.
I second Ted’s opinion that this song is almost perfect.
Fred
August 11, 2010 at 10:01 am
Fred,
I didn’t know the answer to your question and went looking but found little. She was a full-time folksinger from 1975–83 but I don’t know where.
August 12, 2010 at 12:08 am
Ted,
That was exactly the sort of venue where I saw Gordon Bok. I think there were less than a 100 people in a small church. It was perfect.
August 12, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Katry et al., it turns out Wendy was in Ithaca (not Boston) during the mid-to-late 1970s, same as me. That’s why her name was familiar. I found that trivia and some other interesting tidbits at pelicancrossing.net/folklist.
August 12, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Thanks, Fred,
I didn’t realize this was her only album. It is so lovely I’m sorry she didn’t make another. Given the names she mentioned, like Gordon Bok and Bill Staines, it’s no wonder I like her music so much.