The GilmartinPotter Band

Artist Information

Biography

Aaron Gilmartin and Dorothy Potter are the songwriters of The GilmartinPotter Band. They developed their musical craft working with musicians like David Byrne, Philip Glass, Pete Seeger and Elliot Goldenthal. They tour all over Europe, Scandinavia and the United States and are building a following on both continents.

A recent highlight was opening for guitar legend Dave Mason at a sold out Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown New York.

Instrumentation

Aaron Gilmartin - Guitar and Vocal
Dorothy Potter - Vocal / Guitar

Discography

New CD: "Just Before Rising" available for purchase on our site: www.myspace.com/gilmartinpotterband

1st CD: Not Two (sold out!!)
2nd CD: "Just Before Rising" available at CD Baby and iTunes by August 2007
Singles available for purchase at iTunes or www.myspace.com/gilmartinpotterband

Links

• MySpace
• Dorothy's Page
• Aaron's page

Audio

• Get To You rehearsal
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• Rising
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• Digging For Bones
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• 4 & 23
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• Soldier
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• Bye Bye
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• Long Distance Runner
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• Song For You
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• Bird On A Wire
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• I Learn Alone
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Lyrics

• 4 & 23
• Rising
• Digging for Bones
• I Learn Alone
• Bye Bye
• A Song For You
• Taking Back The World

Video

Rising_at_the_Listening_Room

Rising at the Listening Room

Photo Gallery

Press

• WOR Radio, New York City [+ Show ]
  

  Your performance is a very special treat! Beautiful performance! You guys are wonderful! Good luck ...Your performance is a very special treat! Beautiful performance! You guys are wonderful!
  Good luck in everything you do.

• WBAI Radio, New York City [+ Show ]
  

  “Gilmartin and Potter brought the house down with positive energy, lots of laughs and soothing insig...“Gilmartin and Potter brought the house down with positive energy, lots of laughs and soothing insightful sounds. I caught them at a recent Sidewalk Café show as they sang their soulful, original songs to the downtown New York City audience." - Eric K. Williams, Award-winning music journalist, WBAI-FM Radio and www.internationalaccess.org, President
  

• French Radio Raves.... [+ Show ]
  

  Le musique de GMP c'est magnifique! Super soiree! (GMP's music is great! Fantastic evening!) Step...Le musique de GMP c'est magnifique! Super soiree! (GMP's music is great! Fantastic evening!)
  
  Stephan 'El Coyote' Nicol - dj, Radio Korrigan, Bretagne, France

• A Club Owner Thanks GMP.... [+ Show ]
  

  Great to hear from you. We are all very much looking forward to seeing you again! It's so good to he...Great to hear from you. We are all very much looking forward to seeing you again! It's so good to hear that you liked playing in our pub, and I can tell you that our guests and all the staffed loved the gig! Thanks!
  
  Another Club Owner Raves:
  Ray Searson, Bonn, Germany
  
  "I love having you at the pub!"

• A Fan writes.... [+ Show ]
  

  "You guys are great! You are wonderful ambassadors for the United States in Denmark!" Reviews: ..."You guys are great! You are wonderful ambassadors for the United States in Denmark!"
  
  Reviews:
  
  
  Hello!!!! From West Virginia w Love
  I really love you music.I listen to it (Just Before Rising) every day, and it makes me happy!I am so glad I got to meet you as well.Just let me know when you will be in town again, and I will so be there.;)I absolutely have to have another chance to hear your beautiful voices,and hopefully get another hug.
  
  Your number one fan,
  Adrienne
  
  ''So we bought the your CD. It was no mistake. We love it!!! We hope, you´re back in the States with a lot of good impresions of Europe. If you ever come to Rostock, let us know.'' Sincerely
  Chrissi and Ait
  
  ''After buying your CD it never leaves the player, constantly on!!!''
  Katrin Hell

• A Soldier Sends Love [+ Show ]
  

  B1 sings for a lot of soldiers in Germany who are taking breaks from the wars in Iraq and Afghanista...B1 sings for a lot of soldiers in Germany who are taking breaks from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lots of beautiful, warm men and women. Here's one from Puerto Rico who could really play tambourine!:
  
  "Que Dios les cuide en tu viaje y que les bendiga en tu profesion. Llamame cuando regreses para alemania. Mucho Amor."
  
  ("May God protect you in your journey and bless you in your work. Call me when you come back to Germany. Lots of Love.")
  
  Heros Alberto Dias, USMC
  

• 'We listened @ your cd all way home' [+ Show ]
  

  We really want to thank u for a very nice night in Strömstad 30/7 05!! After we heard u sing from ou...We really want to thank u for a very nice night in Strömstad 30/7 05!! After we heard u sing from our hotel window, we went to that place that you were singing. It was a very nice finish of our vacation in S-stad!!! really liked your guitarplay!!! .....we listened @ your cd all way home in the car!! We wish u a nice summer!! Fans, Majsan & Per-Olof, Trollhättan, Sweden.

• Honky Tonk Festival [+ Show ]
  

  I am a 110% fan now :-D You guys rock! And I love those solos, by the way ;-) When are the gigs? I'l...I am a 110% fan now :-D You guys rock! And I love those solos, by the way ;-) When are the gigs? I'll just bring everybody I can grab and we all will have a great evening (or two or three or four ... ) When are the gigs?
  
  - Pia May ‘06
  

Setlist

A typical set from GMP has covers and originals, sets usually last 50mins

4 and 23 - Gilmartin/Potter
Rising - Gilmartin/Potter
Bird On A Wire - Gilmartin/Potter
Song For You - Gilmartin/Potter
Takin Back the World - Gilmartin/Potter
Bye Bye- Gilmartin/Potter
Alone - Gilmartin/Potter
Digging For Bones - Gilmartin/Potter
Sabrina - Gilmartin/Potter

Carry - Gilmartin/Potter
Free To Fly - Gilmartin/Potter
Desire - Gilmartin/Potter
Hungry Eye - Gilmartin/Potter
Shiny Penny - Gilmartin/Potter
Deep Eyed Blue - Gilmartin/Potter
Yellow Green - Gilmartin/Potter
Puppy Dog - Gilmartin/Potter
Naked - Gilmartin/Potter
Sex - Gilmartin/Potter

Pleasure Into Pain - Gilmartin/Potter
You Dont Leave Me - Gilmartin/Potter
Bomp - Gilmartin/Potter
Breathe - Gilmartin/Potter
Crash - Gilmartin/Potter
Conversation - Gilmartin/Potter
I'm Just A Misty Mornin - Gilmartin/Potter
Go - Gilmartin/Potter

Stand - Gilmartin/Potter
Some Slightly Sad Theatre - Gilmartin/Potter
The American Highway - Gilmartin/Potter
Overflow - Gilmartin/Potter
Crazy Rap - Gilmartin/Potter
Kiss Forever - Gilmartin/Potter
Like A Girl Who - Gilmartin/Potter
Heaven Written - Gilmartin/Potter
Crazy City - Gilmartin/Potter
The One For Me - Gilmartin/Potter
Wait - Gilmartin/Potter



Other Set Ideas with some...
Songs we also know :


Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers cover
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
I Try - Macy Gray cover
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton cover
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down cover
The Joker - Steve Miller Band cover
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel cover
Smoothe - Santana cover
Sweet Home Alabama - CCR cover

Something In The Way She Moves - Beatles cover
Bye Bye - Gilmartin/Potter
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down cover
The Joker - Steve Miller Band cover
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel cover
Takin Back the World - Gilmartin/Potter
Smoothe - Santana cover
Sweet Home Alabama - CCR cover
Alone - Gilmartin/Potter


A Big List:

1 After 909 (The Beatles)
59th St Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel)
Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
Angel from Montgomery (John Prine)
Angels (Robbie Williams)
Angie (Rollings Stones)
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce)
Be Careful of My Heart (Tracy Chapman)
Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
Bitch (Meredith Brooks)
Blackbird (Beatles)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles)
Carolina In My Mind (James Taylor)
Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
Clocks (Coldplay)
Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
Cold Cold Heart (Norah Jones)
Come to My Window (Melissa Ethridge)
Country Roads (John Denver)
Crazy (Patsy Cline)
Crazy Love (Van Morrison)
Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl)
Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
Don't Think Twice (It's Alright) (Bob Dylan)
Down By The River (Neil Young)
Down to the River to Pray (Soggy Bottom Boys)
Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
Evil Ways (Santana)
Feel (Robbie Williams)
Fire And Rain (James Taylor)
First Cut is the Deepest (Cat Stevens)
Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz)
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty)
Goodnight Irene (Muddy Waters)
Harder They Come (Bob Marley)
Heart Of Gold (Neil Young)
Helpless (Neil Young)
Here Without You (3 Doors Down)
Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones)
Hotel California (Eagles)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
I Believe In You (Kylie Minogue)
I Go Out Walkin (Patsy Cline)
I Need To Know (Marc Anthony)
I Shot the Sherriff (Bob Marley)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
I Try (Macy Gray)
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow)
Imagine (The Beatles)
In The Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
Jet Plane (John Denver)
The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
Kansas City (Albert King/The Beatles)
Keep On Rockin (Pearl Jam)
Keep on Rockin in the Free World (Neil Young)
Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
Lean On Me (Bill Withers)
Let It Be (The Beatles)
Life for Rent (Dido)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Living Next Door to Alice (Smokie)
Lola (Kinks)
Love Me Like A Man (Bonnie Raitt)
Luka (Suzanne Vega)
Many Rivers To Cross (Bob Marley)
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Simon and Garfunkel)
Mercedes Benz (Janis Joplin)
Message in a Bottle (Police)
Molly Malone (Irish Traditional)
Money for Nothing (Steve Miller Band)
Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)
My Way (Frank Sinatra/Revaux et Claude Francois)
Natural Woman (Carol King)
No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)
Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince)
Norwegian Wood (The Beatles)
Out of the Blue (Neil Young)
Piece of my Heart (Janis Joplin)
Presence Of The Lord (Eric Clapton)
Proud Mary (CCR)
Reason To Believe (Rod Stewart)
Revolution (Tracy Chapman)
Rocking in the Free World (Neil Young)
Rocky Racoon (The Beatles)
Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
Sitting In Limbo (Jimmy Cliff)
Smoothe (Santana)
Something In The Way She Moves (The Beatles)
Son of a Preacher Man (Aretha Franklin)
Southern Man (Neil Young)
Stand By Me (Dobie Gray)
Strong Enough to be My Man (Sheryl Crow)
Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
That's Alright Mama (Elvis)
This Love (Maroon 5)
Time in a Bottle (Jim Croce)
Time of Your Life (Greenday)
Turn Me On (Norah Jones)
Turn the Page (Bob Seeger)
Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira)
Use Me Up (Bill Withers)
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder)
Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)
Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohen)
Wayfaring Stranger (Traditional)
Whiskey in the Jar (Irish traditional/Metallica)
Wild Rover (Irish Traditional)
Wild World (Cat Stevens)
Wild Horses (Graham Parsons/Rolling Stones)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
With Or Without You (U2)
Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Wonderwall (Oasis)
With Or Without You (U2)
Yesterday (Beatles)
Your Body is a Wonderland (John Mayer)
You're Beautiful (James Blunt)
You've Got A Friend (Carol King)
You Gotta Be (Des'ree)

and MORE!

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