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Ian Gorman

About Me

Musician, recording engineer, promoter, festival organizer, late-sleeper, artificial-turf-hater, long-distance-driver.

Plays solo as a singer/songwriter, as well as in the bands Who Hit John? and The Red Sea Pedestrians .

Current board member of the Great Lakes Acoustic Music Association, and former board member of the Folk Alliance Region Midwest.

Once rode in an elevator with Mel Brooks.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/9/2005
Band Website: http://www.iangorman.com
Band Members: Me and my friends. Will YOU be my friend?
Influences: Iron and Wine, Bob Dylan, The Corn Fed Girls, Greg Brown, Ani Difranco, Campos and Jones, Daisy May Erlewine, Seth Bernard, Dan Kahn, Jen Sygit, Gilian Welch and David Rawlings, Andru Bemis, The Beatles, The Stones, Modest Mouse, Steppin' In It, Elliott Smith, Todd Snider, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Paul Simon Aces and Eights, Mom Handy...
Sounds Like: Acoustic and electric. Introverted and extroverted. Stories and nonsense.
Record Label: Hey Burner! Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Who Hit John?

In case you haven't heard, I'm now the full-time upright bass player for a cool Kalamazoo old-time string band called Who Hit John?. I really love playing with these guys - It's high energy stuff, an...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Heck yes

Things have been great, lately. Some good shows, both solo and with the band, as well as some great studio projects. Lately, I've been working on new albums by Jay Gavan, Breathe Owl Breathe, Daisy ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:34:00 GMT

Busy in a Tizzy

Well, it's been a long time since I updates this (Thanks, Cindy!) - what's new? Lots. First off, I have a new CD, "Philosophers Everywhere You Go" out, and I'm quite proud of the thang. Lots of goo...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:25:00 GMT

Deep in the winter slumber

A tremendous New Year's Eve! Dozens of wonderful friends, Klezmer music, card games, love flowing freely. One big bottle smahing against the hull of the future. Yes! Since then, feverishly work...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:34:00 GMT

hello there

Well, here I am on myspace. We'll see how this goes. MP3s and more info coming soon...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:24:00 GMT