God Street Wednesday: My Favorite Song

When it comes to God Street Wine, I’ve had the same favorite song since I first heard Bag in 1993 – Goodnight Gretchen. The combination of Lo Faber’s lyrics, Aaron Maxwell’s incidenary slide playing and the rhythm section’s tight groove always gets me going. The song became a staple of God Street’s repertoire and offered plenty of room for improvisation over the years.

On December 26, 1996 God Street Wine descended upon Irving Plaza to deliver the first of two amazing shows to the New York City faithful. While I remember the second show as the scorcher, the first show was memorable for an incident during Goodnight Gretchen when all of the sudden a bunch of schwilled out wooks climbed on stage and danced around for a bit during Bevo’s solo before stage diving. You’d expect that kind of shit at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones show not a jamband gig. Let’s look at the video the band shot from the balcony of that Goodnight Gretchen…

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