From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #107 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 17 1997 Volume 03 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Praising music, criticising music [Richard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 01:18:40 -0400 From: Richard Subject: Re: Praising music, criticising music > > Who Neile doesn't like: well, I don't like Sarah McLachlan much. Or Dar > > Williams, even her new album. Or the Nields (maybe if they spelled their > > name "Neileds"?) > > I'm sure you meant "Nealds". > > I saw Dar last night in Annapolis. I was prepared for my first experience > of Dar with a band, but was surprised to find that it was a solo show. > She played a bunch of old songs, stumbling awkwardly through a few of > them. Something seemed to be missing in the show for me. I haven't been > that taken with the new album, but she only played 4 songs off of it, and > they were all ones i more or less like, though the only one that really > worked for me was End of the Summer. > > Somewhere around mid-show, the set started to click for me, and it stayed > solid until the end, with notably good versions of February, The > Blessings, Alleluia and When I Was A Boy. (I think my preferances are > certainly showing through there.) > > I thought it sounded like she might have had a cold, as her voice wasn't > as clear as usual. Then again, I'm the one who was medicated and have > sinus and nasal infections, so it's not clear that the haze I was viewing > the world through wasn't more of a contributing factor than I realized. > That was made clear to me when the audience's enthusiastic applause set > off a disconcerting buzzing in my head. Dar has been, for me, an amazing experience- I bought _The Honesty Room_ well over a year ago, listened twice, and filed it. Then I heard everybody gushing about EOTS, and reluctantly bought it. Kinda OK, no big deal, really.. Then, in September, my wife & I went to see her at the beginning of her EOTS tour at the State Street Church here in Portland < in July at the vary same venue>> and the rest, as they say, is herstory.. I was 100% blown away by her artistry and by her on-stage electricity, Shelley experienced her very first obsession with a musical artist <_February_ was the clincher>, then our daughter caught it, then Shelley's best friend and HER daughter and husband became fanatics, etc etc.. Shelley's best friend, BTW, is a trustee of the Waldo Theater in Waldoboro ME, and guess which artist she is determined to lure to MidCoast Maine? Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention: My shrink is a HUGE Dar fan... r - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right. -- Vice President Dan Quayle speaking to the Christian Coalition about the need for abstinence to avoid AIDS, 11/15/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #107 **************************