Jon Gomm - Gloria

Pay What You Want single and album pre-order available here: Guitar Tab available here: This is the first of nine new videos from the Live In The Acoustic Asylum sessions. Gloria was my first proper girlfriend, I was about sixteen. When I was a kid our world was tribal, you had to be either a “townie“, or a “mosher“, or you were nothing. Gloria was a townie, I was a mosher. So it was a forbidden love, crossing the mosher/townie divide, frowned upon by friends and even family, very much like the situation of Romeo and Juliet. Except that Gloria’s family was more... violent than Juliet’s family. It’s a country song, really, and a waltz. The most romantic form of music as yet discovered by mankind. CREDITS: I played the song on Wilma, my trusty Lowden guitar, fitted with Newtone Jon Gomm signature strings and Bill Keith banjo tuners, and tuned to AFCFGC. The sound is coming primarily from a Fishman R
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