From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V5 #77 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Monday, October 20 2003 Volume 05 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Kennedys weekend - Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts [Nieldsforev] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:32:56 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Kennedys weekend - Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts I completed a Kennedys trifecta and came out a big winner, seeing 3 Kennedys shows in 3 states in 2 days. TK moving north from VA a couple of years ago has paid off big dividends. They're getting better known up this way, gradually - --- New England is "where it's at" for folk music clubs --- and I'm getting to see them a lot more often. Whatta country! :-) When the Cubs were eliminated from contention, my playoff blues was urging me to blow off the long trip to the Towne Crier and see TN at the Boston-area Club Passim instead. Then this little email came into my inbox just in the nick of time: =============================================== "Hi, all, from Pete & Maura: "We're up in lovely Maine and heading down through the gale force winds on our way to play the Towne Crier this friday with Cadence Carroll opening and, we hope, jamming with us too! "We wanted to extend an exclusive invitation to any interested Jangle Poets who plan on attending the Towne Crier show: We're playing a "parlour session" at WKZE in Sharon CT that afternoon, and we've been asked to invite a few friends. Any Jangle Poet who is planning on attending the Towne Crier show, and would like an extra bang for their buck is invited to attend this live radio session. The station feeds everyone pizza at 12:30, and the show begins at 1:00. It's not a long show, but it should be fun and intimate. Audience is limited to 20, so this is strictly first-come-first-served." ===================================================== Okay... I was sad about the Cubs and all: fan interference, the Curse, the fleet Juan Pierre, and the clutch-hitting Pudge Rodriguez. No changing all that! But this little email shone a tiny shaft of light into my sad little Cubby-blue world. What better way to fight the blues than to go on a spur-of-the-moment Kennedys road trip! Some things in life you just can't change. But some things in life we *can* change --- like our own attitude. Attitude adjustment time! =================================================== 1. Kennedys 10/17/03 "Parlour Session" Radio Show, WKZE studios, Sharon CT, 1PM. It was a beautiful New England fall colors day for the drive into the remote western corridor of Connecticut. At long last I found the WKZE studios without a hitch after a 3 and a half hour drive from my Boston-area hobbit's hole. The FREE gourmet pizza was fantastic for the tiny assemblage of studio audience who had gathered for TK's on-the-air show. And then the Kennedys were fantastic too. (Day In Day Out story) (First date at Buddy Holly's grave story) Life Is Large Didn't It Rain (How Maura succeeded Iris Dement in the Blue Moon Orchestra story) (How Manchester Apollo became Chelsea Embankment story) Stand Anna & the Magic Gown (Talk about Dave Carter) When I Go Dharma Cafe (Talk about Why Winona Why) (Talk about Steve Earle) Ashes & Sand Sirens Life Is Large Sheila took a group pic outside the building, right in front of the WKZE sign, of TK surrounded by WKZE staffers and the studio audience. I made sure Maura got her birthday card before driving off to hang out between shows in Macedonia Brook State Park. I took a wrong turn though and drove in the state of uncertainty for awhile, somewhere on the border between the states of CT and NY. Next thing I know, I'm pulling into Kent, CT, and the first thing I see is a giant used book sale right in front of the library. Yeah, I would've planned that too, if I hadn't gotten lost first. :-) Bagful of books for $5: "Siva" (Hinduism), "Darsan" (Hinduism), "The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries" (medieval history), "The Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians" (1860 travel book), Eisler's "The Chalice and the Blade" (history, women's studies and Goddess religion), Anderson & Zinsser's "A History of Their Own" (history, women's studies), "The New Victorians" (women's studies), "Saints and Sinners" (with chapters on Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, and Matthew Fox), "African Religions and Philosophy" (comparative religion), The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (Norton Library), Horizon magazines from 1960 thru 1962. Across the border to NY state, and on to part 2. =================================================== 2. Cadence & the Kennedys 10/17/03 Towne Crier, Pawling NY 9PM. Cadence & the Kennedys shows rock! I was originally planning on going anyway - --- it was only the Cub blues that almost scotched the trek westward for me. But that one-of-a-kind WKZE radio Kennedys appearance Friday afternoon was my ticket to ride, and Cadence & the Kennedys did not disappoint either, later that same night. Cadence Carroll Little Bit of Green Have Faith (singalong) We're All Made of Rain The Whole Year Round (w/ Maura) Evolve (w/ P&M) Sunday Afternoon Love (encore w/ P&M) Cadence must've packed the front rows with some of her most avid fans. Someone to my left was singing along to nearly everything that Cadence sang. A rousing reception for Cadence from the audience contributed to Cadence getting to do an encore, something that is not that common for someone performing in a warmup capacity for someone else. Cadence succeeded in warming up the audience, I reckon! And then TK followed with some heart-warming renditions of their own. Kennedys River of Fallen Stars Angels Cry Raindrop Ashes & Sand Easy People As I Went Out One Morning (Dylan) Bend in the River Shearwater Miracle Mile (w/ Cadence) When I Go Bach Intro Run the Red Horses (w/ Cadence) Nottamun Town Down Down Down Anna & the Magic Gown (w/ Cadence) Orange Blossom medley Stand (w/ Cadence) (encore) Dharma Cafe Wall of Death 8 Days a Week (w/ Cadence) Life Is Large (w/ Cadence) There is hardly a better time to be had in this world than an evening of music and mirth with Cadence Carroll and The Kennedys! :-) I wound my way home in the rain for the 3 and a half hour drive back to my Boston-area hobbit's hole, where it is dry and safe and warm. Too few hours later, I tried to collect my wits once again, and collected Peter aged 9, and it was off to see the wizard one more time. This time the Yellow Brick Road led to East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. ================================================== 3. Kennedys 10/18/03 Gallery Cafe, E. Bridgewater MA 8PM. Jenny Brooks opened in this tiny new venue in a town approximately midway between Boston and Fall River. It reminded me a lot of the equally tiny hole-in-the-wall in Bethel CT where I first saw Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams last June. For this show, TK played 2 sets. Life Is Large Rappahannock Dharma Cafe Get It Right What's Going On River of Fallen Stars Easy People Shearwater Anna & the Magic Gown Orange Blossom medley Stand Wall of Death The Coo Coo (Peter's request) Angels Cry Can't Kill Hope with a Gun Here Without You (Byrds) I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds) (w/ front-row Peter Palmatier on tambourine, thrown to him by Maura :-) Dance Around in the Rain Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Sirens Run Red Lights The hat-trick complete, Peter and I trundled off to our wee little beds, while P&M drove off into the New England night en route to their next date with magic and delight, Sunday in Utica NY. "The Road Goes Ever On and On," as we say in Middle-earth. We all do just what we can to try to make this a happier world. TK do what they can as *only* they can, and I do what I can in my own way. It was a late start I got with following TK in 2001, but knowing what I now know, it's been better late than never. Bruce Received: from imo-m03.mx.aol.com (imo-m03.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.6]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9JKXBBS016308 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:33:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Nieldsforever@aol.com by imo-m03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id p.114.2a42432c (4394) for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:32:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Message-ID: <114.2a42432c.2cc44ef8@aol.com> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:32:56 EDT Subject: Kennedys weekend - Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts To: jangle-poets@smoe.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 124 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on jane.smoe.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 I completed a Kennedys trifecta and came out a big winner, seeing 3 Kennedys shows in 3 states in 2 days. TK moving north from VA a couple of years ago has paid off big dividends. They're getting better known up this way, gradually - --- New England is "where it's at" for folk music clubs --- and I'm getting to see them a lot more often. Whatta country! :-) When the Cubs were eliminated from contention, my playoff blues was urging me to blow off the long trip to the Towne Crier and see TN at the Boston-area Club Passim instead. Then this little email came into my inbox just in the nick of time: =============================================== "Hi, all, from Pete & Maura: "We're up in lovely Maine and heading down through the gale force winds on our way to play the Towne Crier this friday with Cadence Carroll opening and, we hope, jamming with us too! "We wanted to extend an exclusive invitation to any interested Jangle Poets who plan on attending the Towne Crier show: We're playing a "parlour session" at WKZE in Sharon CT that afternoon, and we've been asked to invite a few friends. Any Jangle Poet who is planning on attending the Towne Crier show, and would like an extra bang for their buck is invited to attend this live radio session. The station feeds everyone pizza at 12:30, and the show begins at 1:00. It's not a long show, but it should be fun and intimate. Audience is limited to 20, so this is strictly first-come-first-served." ===================================================== Okay... I was sad about the Cubs and all: fan interference, the Curse, the fleet Juan Pierre, and the clutch-hitting Pudge Rodriguez. No changing all that! But this little email shone a tiny shaft of light into my sad little Cubby-blue world. What better way to fight the blues than to go on a spur-of-the-moment Kennedys road trip! Some things in life you just can't change. But some things in life we *can* change --- like our own attitude. Attitude adjustment time! =================================================== 1. Kennedys 10/17/03 "Parlour Session" Radio Show, WKZE studios, Sharon CT, 1PM. It was a beautiful New England fall colors day for the drive into the remote western corridor of Connecticut. At long last I found the WKZE studios without a hitch after a 3 and a half hour drive from my Boston-area hobbit's hole. The FREE gourmet pizza was fantastic for the tiny assemblage of studio audience who had gathered for TK's on-the-air show. And then the Kennedys were fantastic too. (Day In Day Out story) (First date at Buddy Holly's grave story) Life Is Large Didn't It Rain (How Maura succeeded Iris Dement in the Blue Moon Orchestra story) (How Manchester Apollo became Chelsea Embankment story) Stand Anna & the Magic Gown (Talk about Dave Carter) When I Go Dharma Cafe (Talk about Why Winona Why) (Talk about Steve Earle) Ashes & Sand Sirens Life Is Large Sheila took a group pic outside the building, right in front of the WKZE sign, of TK surrounded by WKZE staffers and the studio audience. I made sure Maura got her birthday card before driving off to hang out between shows in Macedonia Brook State Park. I took a wrong turn though and drove in the state of uncertainty for awhile, somewhere on the border between the states of CT and NY. Next thing I know, I'm pulling into Kent, CT, and the first thing I see is a giant used book sale right in front of the library. Yeah, I would've planned that too, if I hadn't gotten lost first. :-) Bagful of books for $5: "Siva" (Hinduism), "Darsan" (Hinduism), "The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries" (medieval history), "The Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians" (1860 travel book), Eisler's "The Chalice and the Blade" (history, women's studies and Goddess religion), Anderson & Zinsser's "A History of Their Own" (history, women's studies), "The New Victorians" (women's studies), "Saints and Sinners" (with chapters on Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, and Matthew Fox), "African Religions and Philosophy" (comparative religion), The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (Norton Library), Horizon magazines from 1960 thru 1962. Across the border to NY state, and on to part 2. =================================================== 2. Cadence & the Kennedys 10/17/03 Towne Crier, Pawling NY 9PM. Cadence & the Kennedys shows rock! I was originally planning on going anyway - --- it was only the Cub blues that almost scotched the trek westward for me. But that one-of-a-kind WKZE radio Kennedys appearance Friday afternoon was my ticket to ride, and Cadence & the Kennedys did not disappoint either, later that same night. Cadence Carroll Little Bit of Green Have Faith (singalong) We're All Made of Rain The Whole Year Round (w/ Maura) Evolve (w/ P&M) Sunday Afternoon Love (encore w/ P&M) Cadence must've packed the front rows with some of her most avid fans. Someone to my left was singing along to nearly everything that Cadence sang. A rousing reception for Cadence from the audience contributed to Cadence getting to do an encore, something that is not that common for someone performing in a warmup capacity for someone else. Cadence succeeded in warming up the audience, I reckon! And then TK followed with some heart-warming renditions of their own. Kennedys River of Fallen Stars Angels Cry Raindrop Ashes & Sand Easy People As I Went Out One Morning (Dylan) Bend in the River Shearwater Miracle Mile (w/ Cadence) When I Go Bach Intro Run the Red Horses (w/ Cadence) Nottamun Town Down Down Down Anna & the Magic Gown (w/ Cadence) Orange Blossom medley Stand (w/ Cadence) (encore) Dharma Cafe Wall of Death 8 Days a Week (w/ Cadence) Life Is Large (w/ Cadence) There is hardly a better time to be had in this world than an evening of music and mirth with Cadence Carroll and The Kennedys! :-) I wound my way home in the rain for the 3 and a half hour drive back to my Boston-area hobbit's hole, where it is dry and safe and warm. Too few hours later, I tried to collect my wits once again, and collected Peter aged 9, and it was off to see the wizard one more time. This time the Yellow Brick Road led to East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. ================================================== 3. Kennedys 10/18/03 Gallery Cafe, E. Bridgewater MA 8PM. Jenny Brooks opened in this tiny new venue in a town approximately midway between Boston and Fall River. It reminded me a lot of the equally tiny hole-in-the-wall in Bethel CT where I first saw Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams last June. For this show, TK played 2 sets. Life Is Large Rappahannock Dharma Cafe Get It Right What's Going On River of Fallen Stars Easy People Shearwater Anna & the Magic Gown Orange Blossom medley Stand Wall of Death The Coo Coo (Peter's request) Angels Cry Can't Kill Hope with a Gun Here Without You (Byrds) I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds) (w/ front-row Peter Palmatier on tambourine, thrown to him by Maura :-) Dance Around in the Rain Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Sirens Run Red Lights The hat-trick complete, Peter and I trundled off to our wee little beds, while P&M drove off into the New England night en route to their next date with magic and delight, Sunday in Utica NY. "The Road Goes Ever On and On," as we say in Middle-earth. We all do just what we can to try to make this a happier world. TK do what they can as *only* they can, and I do what I can in my own way. It was a late start I got with following TK in 2001, but knowing what I now know, it's been better late than never. Bruce Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V5 #77 *********************************