Geoff Oelsner - Morning Branches

My musical sensibilities spring from silence, from inwardly heard words and melodies, and secondarily from influences as diverse as Turlough O'Carolan, Bessie Jones, the great modern Scottish bard/player Robin Williamson, and Bob Dylan. In recent years, an increasing number of my songs have come to me in dreams. My wife and I have been gigging around Fayetteville, Arkansas for 25 years. I love to do street singing, benefits, house concerts, and performances at libraries and schools and churches. Lots of the time I read my poetry, accompanied by harmonium, psaltry,or an Indian instrument called the shruti box. Leslie & I enjoy singing acapella numbers, too. We hope to make a joyful noise and to offer folks something real and affectionate and down-home.

1) Tupelo Moon
2) Mad Tom's Song
3) Black Mountain Breakdown
4) Poem: Sometimes I Think the Goddess Might Be Called Ea
5) International Anthem
6) Geoff Oelsner LCSW's Dream
7) Scissors Paper and Stone
8) Homeless Sister
9) Border Guards
10) Poem: Heaven's Force Earth's Force
11) Morning Branches
12) Menopausal Middle-Aged Women (Are So Damn Acute)
13) Poem: Oak Angel
14) Double World
15) Rumi
16) My Shady
17) The Sacred Hoop