Kirk's Resume'

Kirk Folk has made his living as a professional musician since before the discovery of fire.

His influences include Kurt Vonnegut, Budweiser, "To Kill a Mockingbird", and every musician he's ever heard. He's a seasoned performer (Old Bay, Tabasco and way too much garlic), and like the mighty cockroach, he sure does persevere. He arrives on time with his P.A. system, acoustic guitar, microphone, loop and distortion pedal and a hefty arsenal of songs, snappy repartee and spirited self-deprecation.

If you are a club owner; hire this man. If you are the president of a record label; sign this man. If you are a music lover and enjoy the odd drink in a club or bar; seek him out. What's the worst that can happen? You may just leave with a smile on your face.

CONTACT

E-mail: kirkfolk@gmail.com
Phone: (717) 843-7612
OR USE TELEPATHY

GIGS!

Wednesday, February 28th- FenderZ Grill & Pub- 6 to 9

Friday, March 1st- Holy Hound Taproom- 8 to 11

Saturday, March 2nd- Fat Bat Brewing- 7 to 10

Sunday, March 3rd- Racehorse Tavern- 3 to 6

Thursday, March 7th- Tourist Inn- 7 to 10

Saturday, March 9th- Viking Club- 9 to Midnight

Tuesday, March 12th- Fall's Crab Shack- 6 to 8

Friday, March 15th- The Gettysburger Co.- 8:30 to 11:30

Saturday, March 16th- Gimmesome Roy Rock The Westgate Restaurant and Lounge- 8 to 11

Wednesday, March 20th- Northeastern Senior Center- 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Friday, March 22nd- Gift Horse Brewing Co.- 7 to 10

Saturday, March 23rd- Alley Oops Sports Bar & Grill- 7:30 to 10:30

Wednesday, March 27th- FenderZ Grill & Pub - 6 to 9

Friday, March 29th- The Doyle Hotel- 7 to 10

Saturday, March 30th- Jimmy Jaxx Shine Shack- 7 to 10

VIDEOS

Since the videos that people take of me on their cellphones are usually blurry, noisy & incomplete, I decided to film these in my living room. Background noise was provided by my refrigerator and the traffic outside my windows. Thanks for watching!

(then there's) You and I

Whiskey and You

Yer My Blues

You Got Lucky

A Day in the Life

Every Breath You Take

Baba O'Riley (aka Teenage Wasteland)

Sparks Through a Shotglass

Scars

Daniel

One

Happy Xmas (War is Over)

If You're Gone

Wild Horses

Quarantine Party 2020

Pandemic Party Deux

Social Distancing Sunday School

"Can You Spare A Square" Pandemic Party Four

Prisoners of Your Own Domain

Project Jody!

Social Distancing Desperados

Happy Mother's Day!

Chapter Nine: CoronaBologna Diaries

Blame It On Linda Ronstadt!

I Awoke One Day (A Song for Skylar)

SONGS I MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW

AC/DC - T.N.T.

BRYAN ADAMS - Summer of 69

AEROSMITH - Seasons of Wither, Walkin' the Dog

ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses, Nutshell

ALLMAN BROTHERS - Midnight Rider, Whipping Post, Melissa, Please Call Home

THE ANIMALS - House of the Rising Sun

BAD COMPANY - Ready for Love, Shooting Star

THE BAND - The Weight

JAMES BAY - Scars

THE BEATLES - A Day in the Life, Here Comes the Sun, Lucy in the Sky, Ticket to Ride, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, In my Life, Revolution, Blackbird, Something, Yesterday, I Saw Her Standing There, Across the Universe, Norwegian Wood, Let It Be, Eight Days a Week

BETTER THAN EZRA - Good

BLACK CROWES - She Talks to Angels

BLACKBERRY SMOKE - One Horse Town

BLIND FAITH - Can't Find My Way Home

BON JOVI - Wanted Dead or Alive

DAVID BOWIE - Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, Space Oddity

BOX TOPS - The Letter

GARTH BROOKS - The Dance, Friends in Low Places

BROTHER CANE - And Fools Shine On

JACKSON BROWNE - Doctor My Eyes, These Days

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - For What It's Worth

CAGE THE ELEPHANT - Ready to Let Go, Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

GLENN CAMPBELL - Witchita Lineman

THE CARS - Just What I Needed

JOHNNY CASH - Folsom Prison Blues, Walk the Line

CHEAP TRICK - Surrender

ERIC CLAPTON - Layla, I Shot the Sheriff

THE CLASH - Should I Stay or Should I Go

DAVID ALLAN COE - You Never Even Called Me by My Name

MARK COHN - Walking in Memphis

COLDPLAY - Fix You

COLLECTIVE SOUL - Shine, The World I Know

ALICE COOPER - Generation Landslide

CHRIS CORNELL - I Am the Highway

CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Lodi, Looking out my Back Door

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH - Love the One You're With

CROWDED HOUSE - Don't Dream it's Over

CHARLIE DANIELS - Long-haired Country Boy

DEF LEPPARD - Hysteria

GAVIN DeGRAW - Chemical Party

JOHN DENVER - Leavin' on a Jet Plane, Country Roads

DEREK AND THE DOMINOS - Bell Bottom Blues

NEIL DIAMOND - Sweet Caroline, Red, Red Wine, Cracklin' Rosie

DISHWALLA - Counting Blue Cars

DOOBIE BROTHERS - Black Water

THE DOORS - Love me Two Times, People are Strange

DURAN DURAN - Hungry Like the Wolf

BOB DYLAN - Rainy Day Women #12 & #35, Knockin' on Heaven's Door

EAGLES - Desperado, Hotel California

STEVE EARLE - Copperhead Road

EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER - From the Beginning

JACE EVERETT - Bad Things

EVERCLEAR - Santa Monica

FASTBALL - The Way

FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND - Signs

FLEETWOOD MAC - Oh Well, Landslide, Gold Dust Woman

KIRK FOLK - Yer My Blues, (I Ain't Goin' to) Poughkeepsie, When Love Turns Green, Clap, Pretty Beasts, (then there's) You and I, At the Blue Bird Inn, House Divided, Carolyn, Not Get Me Down, Beer Pocket, Watchin' the Clock, Blue Ruin, Sparks Through a Shotglass, Silver Lining, I Awoke One Day, Blame it on Love, Two Birds, Outamymind, Fountain Blues

FOO FIGHTERS - Everlong

FUEL - Bad Day

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - Some Kind of Wonderful

GRATEFUL DEAD - Me and My Uncle, Friend of the Devil, Casey Jones

GREEN DAY - Time of Your Life, Novocaine, Wake Me Up When September Ends

GUESS WHO - These Eyes

GUNS 'N' ROSES - Mr. Brownstone, Patience

GLEN HANSARD - Falling Slowly

JIMI HENDRIX - Foxey Lady, Hey Joe

BILLY IDOL - Rebel Yell, Eyes Without a Face

INCUBUS - Drive

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

CHRIS ISAAK - Wicked Game

TOMMY JAMES - Draggin' the Line

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - White Rabbit

JETHRO TULL - Locomotive Breath

ELTON JOHN - Daniel, Bennie and the Jets, Rocket Man

JACK JOHNSON - Bubbletoes

TOM JONES - It's Not Unusual

KANSAS - Dust in the Wind

KID ROCK - Only God Knows Why

LED ZEPPELIN - What Is and What Should Never Be, Ramble On, Dancin' Days, Tangerine, Going to California, Thank You, Hey, Hey What Can I Do, Over the Hills and Far Away, D'yer Maker, Your Time is Gonna Come

JOHN LENNON - Imagine, Instant Karma

GORDON LIGHTFOOT - If You Could Read My Mind

LITTLE FEAT - Willin', Dixie Chicken

DAVE LOGGINS - Please Come to Boston

LOGGINS & MESSINA - Danny's Song

LOOKING GLASS - Brandy

LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird, Simple Man

MAD SEASON - River of Deceit

MARCY PLAYGROUND - Sex and Candy

MARSHALL TUCKER BAND - Fire on the Mountain, Can't You See

DAVE MASON - We Just Disagree

MATCHBOX TWENTY - 3 a.m., If You're Gone

JOHN MAYER - Gravity, Edge of Desire

EDWIN McCAIN - I'll Be

ROGER MILLER - King of the Road, Dang Me

STEVE MILLER - Mercury Blues

THE MONKEES - I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer

THE MOODY BLUES - Story in Your Eyes

VAN MORRISON - Brown Eyed Girl, Domino, Into the Mystic

MOTLEY CRUE - Home Sweet Home

MR. BIG - To Be with You

JOHNNY NASH - I Can See Clearly Now

WILLIE NELSON - On the Road Again, Always On My Mind

NICKELBACK - Figured You Out

NIRVANA - The Man Who Sold the World, On a Plain, All Apologies, Heart Shaped Box

OASIS - Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova

OLD 97'S - Timebomb, Question

PEARL JAM - Last Kiss, Black , Betterman

TOM PETTY - American Girl, Runnin' Down a Dream, Mary Jane's Last Dance, Here Comes My Girl, Learning to Fly, Yer So Bad, Free Fallin', It's Good to Be King, You Got Lucky

THE POLICE - Every Breath You Take

PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here, Money, Have a Cigar, Comfortably Numb, Time

ELVIS PRESLEY - Suspicious Minds

PRINCE - Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette

JOHN PRINE - Angel from Montgomery

PROCOL HARUM - A Whiter Shade of Pale

PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE - Amie

QUEEN - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

QUEENSRYCHE - Silent Lucidity

RADIOHEAD - Creep, Karma Police

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Under the Bridge

REO SPEEDWAGON - Time for Me to Fly

ROLLING STONES - Paint it Black, Heartbreaker, Angie, Wild Horses, Sympathy for the Devil

SCORPIONS - The Zoo

BOB SEGER - Turn the Page, Night Moves

SEVEN MARY THREE - Cumbersome

SHOCKING BLUE - Venus

PAUL SIMON - Me and Julio, Homeward Bound

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Mrs. Robinson

SISTER HAZEL - All For You

SOCIAL DISTORTION - Ball and Chain

SOUL ASYLUM - Runaway Train

SPIRIT - Nature's Way

SPONGE - Plowed, Molly

CHRIS STAPLETON - Tennessee Whiskey, Whiskey and You, Either Way, Arkansas, Starting Over

STEELY DAN - Dirty Work

STEPPENWOLF - Magic Carpet Ride

CAT STEVENS - Wild World

ROD STEWART - First Cut is the Deepest

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Plush, Big Empty, Interstate Love Song

STRAY CATS - Stray Cat Strut

STYX - Sweet Madame Blue

SUBLIME - Santeria, What I Got, Badfish

SUPERTRAMP - Give a Little Bit

THE TEMPTATIONS - My Girl

TEN YEARS AFTER - I'd Love to Change the World

THREE DOG NIGHT - Shambala, Pieces of April

TOADIES - Possum Kingdom

TONIC - If You Could Only See

TRAIN - Meet Virginia

TRAVIS - Hit Me Baby One More Time

THE TURTLES - Happy Together

TOMMY TUTONE - Jenny (867-5309)

T-REX - Jeepster

U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name, Until the End of the World, One, Angel of Harlem

KEITH URBAN - Blue Ain't Your Color

URGE OVERKILL - Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

URIAH HEEP - The Wizard

VAN HALEN - Ice Cream Man

VANILLA FUDGE - Keep Me Hangin' On

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN - Life by the Drop, Cold Shot

VELVET REVOLVER - Fall to Pieces

THE VERVE PIPE - The Freshman

WHITESNAKE - Here I Go Again

THE WHO - Behind Blue Eyes, Squeezebox, Baba O'Riley, I'm One

BILL WITHERS - Ain't No Sunshine

DWIGHT YOAKUM - Fast as You

NEIL YOUNG - The Needle and the Damage Done, Old Man, Cinnamon Girl, Harvest Moon, Southern Man, Heart of Gold, Out on the Weekend

ZZ TOP - Thank You


Published and Available NOW!

Published and Available NOW!
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Gimmesome Roy

Gimmesome Roy
Unapologetic Hard Rock from the '70's through Today: Bob Rigel- Guitar & Vocals-- John Schlosser-- Drums-- Kirk Folk- Bass & Vocals--For more info please visit our website: www.gimmesomeroy.com

Who's Driving?



Total Disclosure: I've never owned a new car. Complete Total Disclosure: I've never owned a car that was made in the same decade as the one I was living in. Sometimes the car was as old if not older than me.
     The grand tradition of naming these cars began with my very first: a light blue Oldsmobile. One of my best friends said that it looked like the one that Sgt.Vince Carter (pictured above) from the show "Gomer Pyle" drove; except without the fins on the back. Everyone began to call the car "Vince" or the "Vincemobile".
     Instead of a needle, Vince's speedometer had a fat line that would change color from green to orange to red. "Oh no, we've got Vince in the red!" became a commonly heard scream from the back seats.
     And then a new phenomena began. People would talk about seeing Vince out and about somewhere. Not me. Vince. "I saw Vince burning down Market Street the other day!" "Vince was sitting outside of the Turkey Hill." "How did Vince end up in that tree?" It began to feel like an out-of-body experience. The car had usurped the owner.
     This trend didn't end through the decades. Many cars came and went, followed by a fleet of beat-up vans. They all had colorful names. And, they were all spotted going places without me. This also happened when I was given the nickname "Uncle Raymond". "Yeah, Uncle Raymond was up to his old antics the other night!" "Yeah, I know. Did you see him..." All of this with me standing right there. Sheesh.
     I have now bequeathed (if only symbolically) one of the last of these four wheeled monstrosities to "The Rock Brothers" in my book "In the Seam". It seems only appropriate that they as young long-haired musicians should inherit "Vanikan Skywalker". I hope they take good care of the beast. Total Disclosure: They don't. They end up in the "Seam" by crashing him into an oak tree. Oh, well. He didn't have much life in the old tank anyway.