Live at 2nd St. Theater - Richard Gilewitz

Live At 2nd Street Theater

The Last Steam Engine Train

Gove's Tune

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Nobody does "Live" like Richard with his stories, tales from the road, tunes in the middle, and surprise special guests. Finally - after years of performing, recording in studios, and the fact that he finally got tired of hearing so many attendees come up to him after the shows asking, "which one of these have the do flies have necks story on them" or "where's the one that has the story about you sticking your head in a ceiling fan twice in a row" while waving his current four CDs in the air - Live at 2nd Street Theater has been released.

Recorded live from a single evening on August 20, 2005, at the 2nd Street Theatre in Bend, Oregon, this newest project conveys what many fans already know - Richard is a very, very funny guy. The CD starts off with a rousing "Gove's Tune" and "Thumbsing", makes its way through neck snaps and capos, picks up a favorite Leo Kottke tune "Mona Ray" and opens the gate for more music and fun with Radim Zenkl joining Richard on stage. What a treat to hear these two master players with guitar and mandolin complementing each other on four tunes back to back with "the Maison Blanche Exit Song", "Minuet for the Backroads", "The Last Steam Engine Train", and "Study in Bm". Richard continues on with his take on wigs, a medley of "Echoing Gilewitz/Daughter of Pete's Feet", adventures of playing music at schools, "Available Space", a Ry Cooder tune, and "Synapse Collapse".

This 46-minute CD with 13 tracks of songs and stories is fresh, loose, and live with an audience that can barely contain their enjoyment of the evening. As it captures the energy of Richard's performance, it's definitely what we have been waiting for to add to our collection of GillaTunes!

Track List of songs and their composers. All songs performed by Richard Gilewitz with Radim Zenkl joining in on four tracks.

Gove's Tune - Gove Scrivenor
Thumbsing - Richard Gilewitz
Neck Snap, Throat capo - Story by Richard Gilewitz
Mona Ray - Leo Kottke
The Maison Blanche Exit Song - Richard Gilewitz
Minuet for the Backroads - Gove Scrivenor
The Last Steam Engine Train - Traditional
Study in Bm - Fernando Sor
Walbert, Wigs, and Nope - Story by Richard Gilewitz
Echoing Gilewitz - Richard Gilewitz
Daughter of Pete's Feet - Richard Gilewitz
Most People are Dead - Story by Richard Gilewitz
Available Space - Ry Cooder
Synapse Collapse - Richard Gilewitz

Reviews

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20th Century Guitar Magazine
December, 2006

A modern master of the acoustic steel string guitar, Richard Gilewitz follows in the lineage of guitar heroes such as John Fahey, Ry Cooder and Leo Kottke... Fans of the acoustic guitar owe it to themselves to check out Gilewitz as there's few players these days who can match Gilewitz when it comes to combining sonic dexterity, guitar ambiance and humorous between the sons spoken word interludes.

FAME Reviews by Mark S. Tucker
Edited by: David N. Pyles, 2006, Peterborough Folk Music Society

Gordon Lightfoot is a legendary guitarist-composer who loves to make the audience groan during asides, which used to consist mainly of bad jokes, though his most recent DVD is devoid of such, perhaps dropping the tradition. Leo Kottke, as one would presume, is abstract and sardonic in mirthful segues from song to song. Richard Gilewitz follows in that small tradition of players who like to entertain the audience while retuning or perhaps just providing friendly patter....