From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #348 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, February 28 2012 Volume 16 : Number 348 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Cowboy Junkies NJ (last night), CT (tomorrow) [Paul Blair Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Paula Shanks (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Mark Bianchino Wed February 26 1964 Pisces Marius Voina Mon March 03 1980 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Patrick M. Kingsley Sat March 17 1962 Yin/Yang Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Daniel Wed March 18 1959 Wednesday's Child Kim Justice March 18 Pisces Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:07:11 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Cowboy Junkies NJ (last night), CT (tomorrow) Cowboy Junkies are touring again in support of their Nomad series - four albums which they've recorded and released in the course of 18 months. The albums don't (and aren't intended to) have any thematic unity with each other: Renmin Park, the first, is inspired by Michael Timmins' three-month stay in China, and features one or two translations of (good) songs by Chinese rock stars as well as a Cowboy-Junkies-style view of the struggle of Chinese life. Demons is an album of Vic Chesnutt covers. I haven't heard Sing in My Meadow or The Wilderness enough to characterize them, but the first is "a loud, jarring, self-described 'acid rock' batch of jams that recreates their raucously spontaneous live shows." Michael Timmins says that The Wilderness is babout being lost in the wilderness of age, the wilderness of parenthood, in the wilderness of just trying to find meaning and substance, happiness and truth in onebs day to day life.b For CT ectophiles, they're playing tomorrow night (Sunday) at the Ridgefield Playhouse; there are a lot of other tour dates across the country here: http://latentrecordings.com/cowboyjunkies/tour/ I went to see last night's show in New Jersey. The first half was material from the Nomad series; the last from familiar material. Renmin Park and Demons both got two songs each, with three from Sing In My Meadow and only one from The Wilderness. Margo was apologetic about loading up so much new material into the set list, but it's pretty accessible. I'd say Vic Chesnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life" was the highlight for me there. The second half featured a version of "Hunted" delivered with a fury that raised the roof. Margo was spitting nails, and the normally elegant Jeff Bird's face twisted into expressions I've never seen before as he thrashed the mandolin to within an inch of its life. Other songs: "Sweet Jane," "Working on a Building," "This Street," "Common Disaster," "Good Friday," Misguided Angel." Since we were right around the corner from Asbury Park, it was natural that "Thunder Road" was loudly requested from the audience at encore time. (Also "Open"--does that have something to do with NJ?) They settled for another Bruce Springsteen song, "State Trooper," which got close to the peak set by "Hunted." The show closed with another song off *The Wilderness,* "Fuck I Hate the Cold," the only Cowboy Junkies song I can think of that provokes laughter. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #348 ***************************