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56th homemade video (Sept. 19, 2021)
"Sweet Love"

On September 19, 2021 John wrote: Sweet Love is a new One Song Concert suggested by my friend Jos Van Vliet in The Netherlands. It is a Kate Wolf that I sang on a tribute CD to Kate released by Red House Records in 1998 entitled Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf. Produced by the great Nina Gerber, it features an excellent lineup of artists (and me) performing Kate's songs. Kate herself recorded the song on Safe at Anchor.

I hope you like my version of the song! JG
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John Gorka previously recorded this beautiful song in 1998:

Sweet Love
* Listen to the whole song in low quality

CD: Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf
© 1998 Red House Records RHR CD 114
Other artists on this CD are: Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Rosalie Sorrels, Nina Gerber, Greg Brown etc etc.

 

 

 

  

The other 'one song concerts':

- Click here for Red River Valley (April 5, 2020)
- Click here for Better times Will Come (April 12, 2020)
- Click here for Polly Wally (April 19, 2020)
- Click here for Soap Opera (April 26, 2020)
- Click here for Maya May I, (May 1, 2020)
- Click here for My Creole Belle (May 10, 2020)
- Click here for Careless Love (May 17, 2020)
- Click here for You Can Run (May 24, 2020)
- Muting the Sea (May 31,2020)
- Click here for Ignorance and Privilege (June 7, 2020)
- Click here for The Mercy of the Wheels. (June 14, 2020)
- If I Could Forget To Breathe (June 21, 2020)
- Let them in (June 28, 2020)
- Unblind The Referee (July 5, 2020)
- The Dutchman (July 12, 2020)
- Morningside (July 19, 2020)
- Cowboy Song (July 26, 2020)
- That's How Legends Are Made (August 2, 2020)
- If Not Now (August 9, 2020)
- Arroyo Seco (August 16, 2020)
- Shenandoah (August 23, 2020)
- Outside (August 30, 2020)
- Outnumbered (September 6, 2020)
- Brown shirts (September 13, 2020)
- Jack Crows (September 20, 2020)
- Where No Monument Stands (September 27, 2020)
- Blue Chalk (October 4, 2020)
- Zuly (October 11, 2020)
- The Sentinel (October 18, 2020)
- Where The Bottles Break (October 25 2020)
- If I Could (November 1, 2020)
- Particle & Wave (November 8, 2020)
- True in Time (November 15, 2020)
- Edgar The Party Man ( November 22, 2020)
- The Water is Wide (November 29, 2020)
- The Streets of Laredo (December 6, 2020)
- Spanish is the Loving Tongue (December 13, 2020)
- Christmas Bells (December 20, 2020)
- Riverside (December 27, 2020) Recorded earlier
- Auld Lang Syne (January 3, 2021)
- Oh Abraham (January 10, 2021)
- I Know (January 17, 2021)
- Erie Canal (January 24, 2021)
- Branching Out (January31,2021)
- We Thank You For Your Service (february 7, 2021)
- Like My Watch (February 14, 2021)
- Silence (February 21, 2021)
- I Think of You (February 28, 2021 )
-Love's Been Good to Me (March 7, 2021)0
-Pottersfield ( March 14, 2021)
-When the Ice Goes Out (March 21, 2021)
- Flying Red Horse (March 28, 2021)
- Hold on (May 30, 2021)
- Semper Fi (May 31, 2021)
- Night into Day (August 15, 2021)

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Sweet Love
 One Song Concert #56

 



 

  

 

  Kate wolf was born in San Francisco (1942) and she died in 1986.
She was a singer-songwriter who worked her home area and organized the Santa Rosa folk festivals, but who had a lasting influence on the new country scene of the early-80s. Her first albums, Back Roads and Lines On Paper, were recorded independently and released on her own Owl label. These albums were recorded with her Wildwood Flower band, and merged contemporary folk with country and bluegrass. In 1979 she recorded Safe At Anchor for the Kaleidoscope label, which many critics claimed to be her finest set. Wolf wrote clearly and perceptively about the preciousness of life and the precariousness of relationships.

She was also a fine interpreter of others’ material, such as the slow version of Jack Tempchin’s ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’(recorded by the Eagles), and John Stewart’s ‘Some Kind Of Love’ on the live double-album Give Yourself To Love. In November 1985 she recorded a memorable television concert for Austin City Limits, which became An Evening In Austin. It was her last happy moment: she developed leukaemia and although she was not fit to record, she compiled the retrospective Gold In California. The title track of The Wind Blows Wild was recorded at her hospital bedside and she died in 1986. She had had no hits and her songs were largely unknown, but, gradually, the quality of her work has surfaced. Her husband, Terry Fowler - the subject of ‘Green Eyes’ - keeps her name alive. Her songs ironically include such titles as ‘Love Still Remains’ and ‘Unfinished Life’.


 

 



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