From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #76 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, March 30 2010 Volume 15 : Number 076 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- News from Thea Gilmore [Adam Kimmel ] Re: Help with lyrics (Was: What's that song?) [Mike Connell Subject: News from Thea Gilmore According to one of her recent missives, she's already at work on album number 11 (crikey, has it been that many? It seems so few): "I needed to drop you all a note to let you know that the recording of Album 11 starts tomorrow! TOMORROW! Ibm extremely excited about this record, its going to be a pretty lively ride with contributers from Sweden and Mexico all adding their touch to proceedings. Ibm hoping to be able to bring you some clips from the studio to show you whatbs going on" Hmm...Thea going all international. Sounds interesting. The fan download (fanload?) song for March is already a song she felt didn't fit in to the new album, so it will be interesting to see if this is any indication of her direction. Her download for February, a song called "Your Ghost" that got knocked off of "Harpo's Ghost" by the label for similar reasons, is one of the loveliest songs I've heard all year. Forgot to mention Jonatha Brooke at the Bush Hall (hi Ellen -- good to meet you again!) with full band, no less. A great evening, especially when the full band contains the legendary Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and backing vox, and it was stunning to have Jonatha play over two hours, no support, just a short intermission, and incredible to hear her cover "Love is a Battlefield" a song which she now owns, as far as I'm concerned. I was hoping, I'll admit, that she'd break into the Pat Benatar dance for that song (is it really true that acclaimed stage actress Fiona Shaw is in that video?), but still... I've got Katell Keineg's new one winging its way to me, and am currently listening to new ones by Laura Marling and Tom McRae, to little avail. It may take a while: Laura M has stepped back a bit and gone quite low-key, embracing her inner Nick Drake and being very reflective and sombre. Tom McR has also gone back to the more tuneless ruminations of past albums, but I'm hoping that both will slowly break open and reveal themselves to me as things of rapturous beauty. So far, Shearwater's "The Golden Archipelago" is frontrunner for the year, but the year's still young. Adam K ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:11:13 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: Help with lyrics (Was: What's that song?) > And a Holden is a classic Aussie / NZ car - I suppose the US >equivalent would be a Chevy or a Ford Mustang. Sorry, there is NO equivalent to a Ford Mustang. Mike n.p. - Roger McGuinn, Back From Rio ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #76 **************************