Thursdays at Mitchell's Cafe in Lambertville, NJ - July 15, 2008
Lambertville, NJ 08530
609-397-9853
starting September 11, 2008.
The Rev. Truman Madison Goines is New Jersey's Sourland Troubadour writing and performing songs about New Jersey and hte Sourland Mountain area. Winner of the NJ Folk Festival songwriters Award, he is credited with establishing the Sourland Sound of central New Jersey and he Sourland Music Festival. The Sourlands is a New Jersey's largest continguous old growth forests smack in the middle of the state, 60 miles in either direction from New York City and Philadelphia. Renown for its rural beauty and "live and let live" culture, the Sourlands are a treasure of American history and attitude. The Sourland Sound is a mixture of pure Piedmont folk/blues with a twist of Philadelphia soul and New York City jazz. Goines is reminiscent of Dave Van Ronk and Tom Waits with a touch of pure country blues. Rev. Goines songs stretch from blues to plain folk, and geared to adult tastes with stories about his childhood home: the poor farm on Poor Farm Rd, a romantic ambivalence that stalks him, and a life in pursuit of the truth or its best approximation. Prepare to dance and sigh, and wipe a tear from your eye.