Gordon Bok

Along with his deep, resonating voice and melodic six- and 12-string guitar fingerpicking, Gordon Bok continues to be the best purveyor from the music of the ocean for nearly half of a century. Although he offers often preferred to invest his amount of time in his workshop in Maine, focusing on solid wood sculptures, his albums and shows are usually eagerly anticipated by his many followers. A indigenous of Pa, Bok was raised in rural Maine. His musical abilities had been inherited from his parents. While his mom trained him folk tunes on nylon-string acoustic guitar, his father uncovered him to jazz and traditional music. Although he started playing acoustic guitar at age nine, Bok didn’t sing until becoming encouraged by way of a fiddler and seaman he fulfilled while operating a summer work on the boat pursuing his high-school graduation. Planing a trip to bigger East Coast towns during the winter season to are a carpenter, Bok became assimilated within the folk music picture. With his huge repertoire of tunes about the ocean, he became among the traditional circuit’s best-known performers. Bok, however, continued to be reclusive. After five many years of prodding, he finally relented to permitting Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary to create his self-titled debut recording in 1965. Within the 1980s, Bok was influenced by a group of troubling dreams to compose within the ancient design of cante-fables, a non-rhyming design of balladry. His cante-fable The Play of Woman Odivere was documented in 1989. Furthermore to his shows and recordings like a soloist, Bok spent some time working inside a trio with Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett. He documented a duo recording, Neighbours, with Cindy Kallet in 1996. In the 21st hundred years his recordings being a single artist have got included Dear to your Isle (2001), Herrings within the Bay (2003), Apples within the Container (2005), In Concert (2006), as well as other Eye (2010), all released on Bok’s Timberhead Music label located in Camden, Maine.