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Gordon Bok (born October 31, 1939) is a singer/songwriter who was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Camden, Maine. His first album, self-titled, was produced by Noel Paul Stookey and released on Verve Folkways (not to be confused with Moe Asch's Folkways Records) in 1965. His second album, "A Tune for November," was released on Sandy Paton's Connecticut-based Folk-Legacy label in 1970. His association with Folk-Legacy has continued since that time, though his more recent work (from the mid-nineties on) has been released on his own label, Timberhead Music. For a long time he was best known as part of a trio with Ed Trickett and Ann Mayo Muir; the three wove gorgeous vocal harmonies, Trickett playing the hammered dulcimer and Muir the harp and flute.

Bok sings in a rich baritone and plays six-string guitar (both the steel-string acoustic guitar and the nylon-string classical guitar) and 12-string guitar. In his playing of the nylon-string guitar he embraces with enormous skill and affection the tradition of Latin American guitar music. He also plays a self-built instrument he calls the cellamba, which is essentially a cello fitted with frets.

Discography

Early Solo Works

  • Gordon Bok
  • A Tune for November
  • Peter Kagan and the Wind
  • Bay of Fundy
  • A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for the 12 String
  • Clear Away in the Morning
  • Seal Dijirl's Hymn (with Ann Mayo Muir)
  • North Wind's Clearing (compilation of previously released work)
  • Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast: The Spoken Ballads of Ruth Moore

Works With Ed Trickett and Ann Mayo Muir

  • Turning Toward the Morning (1975)
  • The Ways of Man (1978)
  • A Water Over Stone
  • All Shall Be Well Again (1983)
  • Fashioned in the Clay (1985)
  • Minneapolis Concert (live album, 1987)
  • The First 15 Years (a 2-vol. comp. from earlier recordings, 1990)
  • And So Will We Yet (1990)
  • Language of the Heart (1994)
  • Harbors of Home (1998)

Appears on

  • Ed Trickett, Gently Down the Stream of Time
  • Ann Mayo Muir, So Goes My Heart, "Old Blue Suit"
  • The New Golden Ring, Five Days Singing
  • Margaret MacArthur, The Old Songs

Later Works

  • Return to the Land
  • Neighbors (with Cindy Kallet)
  • Schooners
  • Ensemble
  • Another Land Made of Water
  • Gatherings
  • In the Kind Land
  • Dear to our Island
  • Jeremy Brown and Jeannie Teal
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