FAWM.ORG | MarkG

Artist Bio

Influences: Lucinda Williams, Willie Dixon, Fred Eaglesmith, Elvis Costello, Dwight Yoakam, Iris Dement, Smokey Robinson--mostly people who tell a compelling story with few wasted words. Add Kacey Musgraves and Anderson East.

Play serviceable guitar. Grew up in rural Pennsylvania, now live in suburban Boston. I tend to write songs with realistic imagery, I keep 'em short as a rule--I ain't no Dylan or Milton.
Last year (2018) was my first FAWM, then I did 50/90 in the summer. Met some really nice people on line and in person through this.

Songs (12)

#1	Prepping for Sundown (Homeless) homeless acoustic-one-take	15 Feb 2
#2	Messy Breakup, Clean Getaway country pop band-in-a-box	7 Feb 8
#3	Be My Love or Be My Liar acoustic-rock superskirmish acoustic-one-take	24 Feb 10
#4	Best Thing To Ever Happen to You @writeandwrong tarotcard humor talking alt-country	20 Feb 10
#5	Kicking and Screaming skirmish dark acoustic-one-take	15 Feb 17
#6	Reincarnation Suitcase hankwilliamsinhell band-in-a-box country-waltz next-life	7 8 weeks
#7	Would You Loan Some Tonight? stealasong plagarism elvis presley talking	12 8 weeks
#8	Writers' Friends ss022319i superskirmish	10 7 weeks
#9	Space Wanderer ss022319j superskirmish space-rock	7 7 weeks
#10	Keef's Fetish keef opentuning guy-with-guitar	6 7 weeks
#11	The Oscar Goes to You unfaithful actress country-folk	5 7 weeks
#12	Crealon Heights punk cityscape band-in-a-box	4 6 weeks

Soundboard

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@mikegtz 5 weeks

Thanks for listening to my CD and I hope to be there tomorrow if it's not too nasty on the way in.
@carleybaer 5 weeks

Hi Mark! Yep I'll be at Bloc 11 on Sunday. Can't wait to meet everyone in person! 😀
@tamsnumber4 6 weeks

Thank you for commenting on my song "Doll", I appreciate the listen!
@nancihobson1 6 weeks

Thanks for the listens to my songs! Yea, I play out a bit here on the south shore of Boston, I live in Plymouth. Mostly open mics but once in a great while at a not very well attended street fair or at the Plantation here...lol. I don't know a lot of covers. So about 3-4 songs at an open mic is about all that most people can stand from me. 😀 After that they are listening for a familiar tune.....
@tamsnumber4 6 weeks

Thanks for listening and commenting on my collabs "Since We First Touched" and "Move On" I appreciate it!
@nancyrost 6 weeks

Hi, Mark, yes, I'll be at Fawmstock in July. Made it official the other day by sending Lori a deposit. Looking forward to seeing you there!
@yarimurray 6 weeks

Thank you for listening and your comments for It Just Doesn't Matter. I look forward to listening and commenting on your songs once the hoopla dies down and we have 14 in the can
@ayehahmur 7 weeks

Thanks for commenting on Someone To Stan, Mark. Exile on Main St!? Wow, that's high praise! Thanks!
@lcad 7 weeks

Thanks for your kind comments on my songs about lying! Nope, I’m not Dutch (another lie) just spending a little time in the lowlands. Happy FAWM!
@jacobwakeup 7 weeks

Thank you for listening and thanks for the heads up about the Massachusetts forum thread. I'm in Roslindale and could be talked into crossing the charles...
@dandrea 7 weeks

Thank you for listening! I did mean "where", so the word revolution becomes a verb. The answer to the question then is "in the hallways", the idea being these conversations that we have on the periphery at work/school etc. are the starting point for change. That's where the daughters revolution.
@synapsis 7 weeks

haha, thanks for the feedback mate.. I record everything at 148 bpm 😀
@mikeb 7 weeks

Thanks for the comment on my 'Elvis' song. I guess if I was a real fan, I could have come up with more Elvis references!
@billwhite51 7 weeks

thank you for your comment on another man done gone
@tamsnumber4 7 weeks

There are inanimate plastic dolls that cry, it is meant to have a double meaning, also, there are very fake "plastic" people that cry to get what they want, both people are to blame in the song. Thanks for visiting the song, always happy for you to come around!
@tamsnumber4 7 weeks

Please understand I am a mess of a girl and am not making my way around FAWM as I want to, please don't feel forgotten, I'm just behind.
@cts 7 weeks

It is now, buddy! Hey man - thanks for being such a great support. It has been very hard working through all that has happened and I almost gave up on FAWM this year. I'll be before FAWM is over to check out your goods!
@standup 7 weeks

And yep, Patti and I are inked in for FAWMstock again this summer.
@standup 7 weeks

I notice you're not on my watchlist. What the hell? I guess I put you on the 50/90 watchlist but neglected to do that here. So I see you've been busy.
@tuneslayer2018 7 weeks

Thank you for your kind words. You'll note that I showed uncharacteristic self restraint by NOT adding a verse that ends "If he were a pile of leaves / he'd be named 'Russell.'"
@treble 7 weeks

Thanks for your kind words on my skirmish effort Right at Your Side. Hope to get the music posted by the end of FAWM.
@berni1954 8 weeks

Thanks for giving my take on the Sunday Skirmish a listen. Glad you liked it. The life and death angle was the first thing I thought of when I saw the prompt.
@mmmmarcus 8 weeks

Thank you very much for the comment on Undertow! Glad to hear you liked the track!
@goldelion 8 weeks

Thanks for listening to my songs, Mark. "Like a Sondheim confessional in a musical." - so flattering, and wow you get me! LOL
@sunnymae 8 weeks

Thanks for taking a listen to Run Baby Run. I really appreciate your Insight!
@tseaver Feb 15

Thanks for the listen / comment on my "Rat Killin' Time." I had to go look up Whitey Bulger: his brutal life does seem like a good fit.
@ductapeguy Feb 14

Thanks for the recommendation on I Call You Joy. I am verklempt at how this touches people.
@berni1954 Feb 13

On my Prostate Song YOU SAID: “This a public service announcement, with ukulele .” and I pissed myself laughing. Thanks for the shout out.
@berni1954 Feb 13

Hi Mark,thanks for listening to my Hawaii song. B-52s are local Hawaiian slang for cockroaches... don't ask me how that came about. It is partly explained in the last line of that verse. But I couldn't get it to follow exactly, so the connection obviously got lost. I'll maybe rework that sometime.
@mmmmarcus Feb 13

Thank you very much for the nice comment! Happy you enjoyed the track!
@splittybooms Feb 12

Love Supreme! I'm an uncultured chump to not be aware of this song, I see lol
Thank you for listening...and multiple times!
@bethdesombre Feb 12

Alas, not FAWM-over; will be in Japan for most of the month, and I have a gig in NYC the one weekend I'm not in Japan. But I hope we'll cross paths at some point!
@porrectus Feb 11

Thanks for the comment on With our Eyes, I appreciate the feedback.
@kahlo2013 Feb 10

Love that image!
@saulius Feb 10

Sounds like we have similar Lithuanian roots. Back in 2001 I wrote 11 songs, all in Lithuanian, for a play that the kids performed at their summer camp. Here are the demo recordings - https://soundcloud.com/user-503949882...
@saulius Feb 10

Thanks for the comment on "Mercedes". It's my first year doing FAWM, and I'm learning so much. I never shared my music with others before other than with family and some friends, and they're tired of me always pushing new songs on them. So I really appreciate the fellowship on this site. I don't have a style myself, but I like traditional country, the old real blues, good folk music, and the early Caribbean-Brazilian stuff. Since I've been on this site, I learned that there's some really good rap out there as well. I write about half of my songs in English and half in Lithuanian, but I'm doing all the FAWM songs in English. Lyrics really matter to me, but I look for the total package. The words seem to appear first, but poetry alone is incomplete expression, for my soul at least. I really like the two songs you posted so far. Looking forward to more. Take care. - Saulius
@sbs2018 Feb 10

Thanks for the comment on “Candy Apple Red Shoes.” Last year was my first FAWM, too. Great people here! Was going to do 50/90 but had several family losses then and I wasn’t up for it. Good to be back this year.
@tamsnumber4 Feb 10

Thanks for listening and commenting on my songs "You Are Fragile" and "Tempting Time", I really appreciate it!!
@pfoo Feb 9

Hey, here is the cut up tool I use if you want to play with it: http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutup...

It's good for generating phrases you might not have thought of.
@mikegtz Feb 8

Mark, thanks for visiting and good to see you. The chords for the Alexa bridge are GCGD and then GEmCD.
@tamsnumber4 Feb 6

Thanks mark, I'm posting three songs right now LOL!! Why are we up at this hour?? LOL!!
@billysea Feb 5

Thank you for comments on Pre Now. Jimmy Buffet has a song called Pre You about the singer talking to his girl friend. I've also used the phrase pre and post migration (of IT networks). Don't know I've ever seen Pre Now used (but it probably has) it just seem to fit as I was writing 😀
@sbs2018 Feb 5

Thanks for the listen to “Tequila Take Me Home.” I must confess I took some creative license with the “no home, no car” line. And I used Apple Loops so I can’t comment on the guitar part. It was fun to do, though.
@goldelion Feb 4

Hi! I'm not usually this prolific, but I'm on a road trip for a week starting tomorrow, so I'm front-loading! 😀 Great to connect with you again, Mark. 😀
@pfoo Jan 29

Hey! Have a great FAWM! Will you be at FAWMStock again? That was fun 😀
@nuj4x Jan 23

It's Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch of songs for FAWM 2019! w00t!
@writeandwrong Jan 21

Indeed I am! But...NOT missing the snow, ice, and temps!! I'll be bringing a selection of jello this year lol
@tamsnumber4 Jan 21

Hello Mark!! Hope to hear you at FAWM and FAWMover and maybe even FAWMSTOCK??
@standup Jan 15

I look forward to grand new vistas this year. Another collab might be fun.
@writeandwrong Jan 15

Hey, it's the wine guy! Happy FAWMing this year!
@the3queens Jan 15

Hey Mark! See you in February!
@airbagtester Jan 13

Hey Mark! 😁 Hope you had a nice rest of the year after FAWMstock!

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Artist Bio

Songs (12)

Soundboard

@mikegtz 5 weeks

@carleybaer 5 weeks

@tamsnumber4 6 weeks

@nancihobson1 6 weeks

@tamsnumber4 6 weeks

@nancyrost 6 weeks

@yarimurray 6 weeks

@ayehahmur 7 weeks

@lcad 7 weeks

@jacobwakeup 7 weeks

@dandrea 7 weeks

@synapsis 7 weeks

@mikeb 7 weeks

@billwhite51 7 weeks

@tamsnumber4 7 weeks

@tamsnumber4 7 weeks

@cts 7 weeks

@standup 7 weeks

@standup 7 weeks

@tuneslayer2018 7 weeks

@treble 7 weeks

@berni1954 8 weeks

@mmmmarcus 8 weeks

@goldelion 8 weeks

@sunnymae 8 weeks

@tseaver Feb 15

@ductapeguy Feb 14

@berni1954 Feb 13

@berni1954 Feb 13

@mmmmarcus Feb 13

@splittybooms Feb 12

@bethdesombre Feb 12

@porrectus Feb 11

@kahlo2013 Feb 10

@saulius Feb 10

@saulius Feb 10

@sbs2018 Feb 10

@tamsnumber4 Feb 10

@pfoo Feb 9

@mikegtz Feb 8

@tamsnumber4 Feb 6

@billysea Feb 5

@sbs2018 Feb 5

@goldelion Feb 4

@pfoo Jan 29

@nuj4x Jan 23

@writeandwrong Jan 21

@tamsnumber4 Jan 21

@standup Jan 15

@writeandwrong Jan 15

@the3queens Jan 15

@airbagtester Jan 13