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Happy Holidays from Yoni Gordon and His Goods - PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING $5 TO OXFAM

2010-12-13T05:57:00.000-08:00

Have you noticed that there are no songs for New Year's Eve? There are plenty of Christmas tunes, a few Hanukkah songs. But when it comes to New Year's Eve, all you got is Auld Lang Syne, and no one actually knows the words to that tune. UNTIL NOW!!!

New Years Eve by therealyonigordon

We are proud to present to you, NEW YEAR'S EVE. The song! The Goods and I went into the studio back in early November to lay down our parts. We then sent the song off to our friends The Diamond Mines, Lauren Balthrop, Annie Nero and Josh Kaufman, Steve Mossberg and Joe DeGeorge(who you may know from Harry and the Potters). We asked them to throw down whatever they felt was missing from the tune. They took a nice melody and made it sound HUGE!!!

Country for the Timid Tour is a WRAP

2010-11-15T11:11:00.000-08:00

Saturday was the last official Country for the Timid show. For now at least. The last month or so was great! Better than I could have hoped for and I want to thank everyone who made these shows work. Whether you helped book it, let me crash on your floor, gave me food, donated a couple of bucks, bought a record, lent me your ears, sang along, helped me raise or level a 20x10' tent, or any combination of the above. THANK YOU!!!

There are going to be more solo shows to come in 2011, more shows with the Goods, and maybe a surprise or two heading your way for the holidays(wink wink). So keep checking back with me.

In the meantime, join the Yoni Gordon facebook page, which is going to be the most efficient way to get you all the news that's fit to print.

2010-10-27T09:01:00.000-07:00

All the things that tour requires.

Load up

Husk and Ryan the Terrible

Testifying

Ghost Story time

That is an honest to goodness hawk

Raising the tent...in a barn

She's got legs

She's got a roof

Joanne of Opposites Day from Worcester

Worcester tent crowd

Steve and Roses

My stomp board

More Ghost stuff

This is what awaited me every night

Sharon Van Etten in Syracuse

Canadian Porch Show

Canadian cat

I went to see the Social Network by myself. Literally

Columbus Birthday show

It is hard to build a tent sideways, but we did it.

Pittsburgh jams into my tent

Sunset over Philly

Philly show

cute little Philly street urchins

Spooky times in the tent

Footage From The Syracuse Show!!!

2010-10-18T13:07:00.001-07:00

Sharon Van Etten with Sarah Aument and Yoni Gordon from WERW on Vimeo.

Get the new album NOW!!!

2010-10-05T09:13:00.000-07:00

click this link to

Get COUNTRY FOR THE TIMID

on itunes

NOW

All of these shows are taking place outside in a tent. This is subject to change depending on weather. There will be last minute shows added! Please check back here or at http://www.twitter.com/yonigordon for up to the minute details.

OCT 13th@Obriens Pub
3 Harvard Ave, Allston MA
w/Jeff Rowe, War of the Worlds, Billy Brown
9pm 21+ $5

OCT 14th@Collective a Go Go
266 Olean St, Wocester MA
w/Madeline, Steve Fournier
9pm ALL AGES $5 dollar suggested donation

OCT 15th@Spark Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse NY
8pm ALL AGES
$5 dollar suggested donation

OCT 16th@Montebello Park
320 Geneva St. St. Catharines, ON
8pm $5/PWYC
ALL AGES

OCT 17th@Oberlin College
180 W. Lorrain St Oberlin, OH
ALL AGES
$5 dollar suggested donation

OCT 19th@Ronnys
2101 N. California Ave. Chicago, IL
info TBA

OCT 20th@Foam Coffee and Beer
3359 S. Jefferson Ave. St. Louis, MO
$5 dollar suggested donation

OCT 22nd@15 Haus
369 E15th Ave. Columbus, OH
All Ages
$5 dollar suggested donation

OCT 23rd@5201 Penn Ave
All Ages
$5 suggested donation
All Ages

NEW VIDEO PREVIEW + BONUS VIDEO

2010-09-30T11:42:00.000-07:00

Yoni Gordon tells YOU about his new album! from Mirror on Vimeo.

Yoni Gordon: Clay Pigeons from Mirror on Vimeo.

More videos being brought to you by way of mirrorfilm.org

"Broken Moan" Video - From Country for the Timid

2010-09-23T08:55:00.000-07:00

Yoni Gordon: Country For the Timid from Mirror on Vimeo.

BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS!!! Please make sure your speakers are turned up loud! Little louder. There, that's good. ALSO!!! make sure to expand the screen. Close those other windows. I want to give you a little taste of what the tent event is going to be all about.

Filmmaker, writer and power blogger, Kartina Richardson, is going to be strategically and systematically posting these small video vignettes. This is all leading up to the Country for the Timid Tent Tour, which is coming to your town in just a few short weeks.

FALL TOUR DATES!!!

2010-09-20T10:49:00.000-07:00

click this link to

Get COUNTRY FOR THE TIMID

on itunes

NOW

EVERY THURSDAY IN SEPT

2010-09-16T11:14:00.000-07:00

I will be playing FREE shows at Brooklyn Farmacy, 513 Henry Street. It is a pretty loose affair; I start at 7, I play till 10. There is no cover, no booze, no age restriction. There is a whole lot of ice cream, egg creams, pies, local produce, and a lot old timey class.

You gotta be there for it! It is going to be great fun.

This is the New Space for New Things

2010-08-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

First off, I want to just throw out there that I am not thrilled about using blogger as the host for the new site(or at least the new page dedicated to the new album on the old site). Times being how they are and money being low, I have taken on the task of maintaining my website by myself. Not that I had a dedicated tech person who was there to post every tour date, every blog entry, every bit of internet ephemera. I will say this though, I think I did a pretty alright job making this blog look decent. Not great but decent. But all this newness has probably got you scratching your head and asking some questions. Let me attempt to answer.

So why the new page?

I got a new record coming out this fall! It's called Country for the Timid. 11 swampy folk tunes, spooky country songs, fire and brimstone gospel, haunted blues and one cover of a Misfits song. After moving to New York I found that it was not really practical for me to be playing loud electric music as much as I have in the past. Can't really blast my neighbors with my amp, practice spaces are crazy expensive and usually only pay by the hour, and I maybe just kind of hit a wall after playing so many shows. As much as I hate to say it, I was kind of tired of playing my songs in half/mostly empty bars. BUT I LOVE PLAYING MUSIC, so I couldn't just quit. What I started to do was take my beat up acoustic, and go play in the subway, just like I used to do back in Boston when I was still in school. With this new found tool, and this new venue, I started writing songs that would make sense to sing down there by the train. I started gravitating to folk and country, started singing in a lower register, started to find a whole new voice to sing with. Pretty soon the material was there, and it just seemed like the right thing to do to record it all.
This album sounds totally different from pretty much everything I've ever released before and I am really, really excited about you hearing it and hopefully coming out to some shows to hear the songs live.
I was lucky that my friend Dawn Landes was available, right at the time I wanted to record these. I played the songs, she recorded them, some other friends played some other instruments, we drank margaritas and that was pretty much it.

So when are you playing some shows Yoni?

Starting SEPTEMBER 9th, and every Thursday in Sept, I am playing FREE SHOWS at a Brooklyn Farmacy(513 Henry St., Brooklyn, NY). Farmacy is an old fashioned Soda Fountain/Ice Cream Parlor. They sell locally grown produce, specialty candies and gum, and they serve up sundaes, splits, and egg creams.

Then in October, I am going out on tour. This tour is going to be unlike any other that I've done, no joke. Keep checking in for details. I will be giving you some info soon.

So did the Goods break up?

Nope. We are still a band and will play some shows together soon.