A monthly collection of news, reviews,
essays, poems and advice from the Gourds

Volume I, Number 6

In this issue:

Music on the Mountain reviewed in Dirty Linen

Dirty Linen, that fine journal of folk, electric folk, traditional and world music offers almost incomprehensibly comprehensive coverage of what seems like all the records in the world, and we very much appreciate their kind words about Music on the Mountain:

    "This third recording of instrumental Shaker music from guitarist William Coulter and cellist Barry Phillips is an absolutely lovely record. With simple arrangements of tunes filled out by additional fiddle, mandolin, flute, hammered and mountain dulcimer and oboe, this is one of the more relaxing and stately recordings you're like to come across."

News of the Gourds

photo of Woody Phillips Gourd is proud to have signed an exciting new artist to our roster: Woody Phillips, who is very closely related indeed to Barry Phillips. Woody has just completed an extraordinary new album which explores a remarkable new genre.

A Toolbox Christmas is a collection of Christmas carols performed on hand and power tools. Head Gourd Neal Hellman says of this remarkable new release "You really have to hear it to believe it."

Gourd has produced A Toolbox Christmas. If you want to order it for the home improver in your life, go to our order form.

Read back copies of the Gourd Gazette:

Vol. I, No. 5 includes reviews of In the Pines and other news of the Gourds.

Vol. I, No. 4 includes excerpts from Danny Carnahan's first musical mystery novel, Death Dances in Jig Time and Tales of the Highway, the first in an occasional series of exciting adventures of Gourds on the road.

Vol. I, No. 3 - has reviews of Pavane and Celtic Crossing from Dirty Linen Magazine and a review of the Simple Gifts songbook from The Shaker Messenger.

Vol. I, No. 2 - includes Danny Carhahan's amazing tales of Madagascar and Neal Hellman's review of Martin Simpson live at the Fillmore.

Vol. I, No. 1 - includes Neal Hellman's elegiac baseball poem Autumnal Lament.

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