About
“I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing ‘em.” - Big Bill Broonzy
The name GoodTimeTonight.com comes from the Big Bill Broonzy song. As the song speaks to, folk music (and roots and blues and old time and country and whatever you want to call it, any music at all really) has everything we love right here. Folk songs, and music in general, speaks to our desires for community; a community of creators and listeners; of artists and critics; equals and friends. All are Welcome.
Folk music describes to us a way of looking at the world in a way that seems more real than the chaos around us, but far from escapist fantast, we believe that from the past it gives us all the tools we need construct in our present.
This blog is dedicated to exploring the music and traditions of the past present and future of shared music. But like Pete Seeger said “Writing about Folk music is like taking a photograph of a bird in flight”, we will attempt to record the fleeting and the ephemeral, concert series, out of print albums, book reviews, and interviews. Most of our recordings will be from our neck of the woods (Chicago, IL) but not exclusively. The podcast will be weekly and aim to be around an hour in length. My goal is that through the media you can remember if you were there, commune with us through the recordings if you are far away and ultimately be inspired to share your own songs and stories with others.
“Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it.
My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle
they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they
created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me - and if I take
the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach
out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down
into that river and take out what I need to get through this world.” - Utah Phillips