Louise Goffin plays Carnegie Hall with Donovan

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Donovan and Louise Goffin rehearse for their upcoming Carnegie Hall surprise concert.  

Pictured here at the Park Lane Hotel

Photograph by singer/songwriter/producer and fellow surprise musician, Richard Barone.

What do you do if you’re a Beatle-level musical genius artist/writer/producer, who just played in front of 62,000 people at Hyde Park, London?  That’s just what Louise Goffin did back in August 2016, where she was trading guitar solo licks with world-famous guitarist and legendary music producer of Don Henley’s Building The Perfect Beast album (as well as being producer of Louise Goffin’s first solo album)–Danny Kortchmar.  Where she also performed her solo set as well as singing with iconic music genius and parent, Carole King.  So having just completed that epic performance as part of the first live performance in history of the entire Tapestry album in sequence–how can anyone follow that?  Well if you’re Louise Goffin, you follow it by performing at a tiny little NY city restaurant for your songwriting masterclass.  Then the next night on September 15, 2016, you perform onstage at the Zankel Hall venue at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.  With iconic music legend Donovan. That’s a whole lotta iconic music legends.  And as it happened, Donovan elected to sing with Louise Goffin and play guitar on a fabulous and very arty and jazzy song written by Louise Goffin in a co-write with songwriter/artists Craig Greenberg and Corinne Lee, called Deep Dark Night Of The Soul.  Donovan himself hand-picked this Louise Goffin original song for them to perform, as one of his favorites.  For any songwriter, getting music legend and close Beatles associate Donovan to sing and play on your original song–at his own concert–is quite an achievement, somewhat on a par with the universe exploding. At the Carnegie Hall gig with Donovan, they did the acoustic version with Donovan on guitar and vocals, and Louise Goffin on ukulele and vocals.  When Louise produced this track for the studio version on her brilliant 2014 album, Songs From The Mine, she had some very sultry trombone solos going on.  Corinne Lee also appears on this album.But it wouldn’t be the first time Louise Goffin worked with people at the legend level. She appeared in a music video harmonizing with another musical genius, Brian Wilson, as they performed with music geniuses David Gilmore and Kate Bush.  Louise Goffin toured with and performed a similar role playing acoustic and electric guitars and singing with Tears For Fears and it’s iconic music legend, Roland Orzabal.  What have we learned from all this?  Apparently, geniuses like to hang out together and perform with other geniuses.

And if you haven’t made it to NY City to catch the smash musical, Beautiful, the touring company has been taking it nationwide, and it just opened in Las Vegas for a few days only.  In this musical, Louise Goffin as a baby is represented by a plastic doll, in the middle of some momentous events in the music industry.  One way or another, Louise Goffin has been in a lot of places, influencing a lot of things.

So after Louise Goffin’s September 15th, 2016 Carnegie Hall performance  playing acoustic guitar and singing with the legendary Donovan himself, don’t be too surprised if she throws more surprises your way.  If you want ordinary–go somewhere else. We warned you quite some time ago. She’s a curveball.