From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #28 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 Wednesday, May 3 2006 Volume 08 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Fwd: Kennedys Content from Nook [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 00:34:42 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Fwd: Kennedys Content from Nook For Jangle-Poets who are not on the Nook. Someone posted re: TK at Glastonbury Saturday night, a show I could not make myself -- ================================================= << Laura and I were there and it was an excellent show. Pete brought along several guitars and an electric sitar and mandolin. I had no idea Pete was such an excellent guitarist. He did some solos that were amazing. It was the first solo concert of theirs that we had seen and it was great to see them in a smaller more intimate setting. Their energy onstage is impressive. They really connected with the audience. People were on their feet quite often and singing along. If there had been a dance floor people would have been up and dancing I am sure. >> =================================================== I remember Chris Thompson dancing along in the kiddie mosh pit at Lancaster last summer to "Anna and the Magic Gown," when Chris & Meredith opened for TK. TK do make people want to dance for joy. On the Nook, mad baggins unloaded a whole load of Kennedys reflections - --- "FBN" means Full Band Nields --- =================================================== << I've felt that way a lot at Kennedys shows. At Nields full band shows too. And I'm a tumbling tumbleweed anyway, what Major Frank Burns calls a Nervous Nellie. I used to like to move around the room during Nields shows, to check it out from multiple angles. I still like to do that at shows when I can. Yes, TK have amazing energy and Pete is an impressive guitarist. Here's just a few fairly random memories about Pete Kennedy over the years, and about TK generally -- Larry Jennings once said that Pete was the best guitarist ever to play at Bridgeton Folk Festival. I took exception to that though, because that was the Bridgeton where both TK and Richard Thompson played, and TK are huge Richard Thompson fans themselves ("Wall of Death," "How Will I Ever Be Simple Again"). Pete played guitar on the debut of Nerissa's "Heading Home" 10/20/00 at the Acoustic HaHaHa show in E. Greenwich RI. I don't know how many times Maura used to jump up on a vacant chair in the front row of the audience during her guitar solo on "Sirens." On the chair right next to where I was sitting, at the Ridgefield Library. I also am not sure how many times TK led audience members on a conga line on the song "Love Train." That's one of my favorite Kennedys memories ever. For sure they did it at their guerrilla folk set on the Midway at FRFF the year they paid their way into the festival with the vintage clothing booth. And for sure Maura led the kiddies on a conga line on "Love Train" when TK did the Family Stage, also at FR. Probably at the Fireworks Show at Lancaster 2 years ago too. TK dedicated a song at that Lancaster show to my nephew Jacob, who had fairly recently been killed in action in Iraq. That really meant a lot to me, as you might understand. TK giving Cadence part of their own slot when they opened for Groove Lily at Hammond House in 2001. And that was the first time I ever heard Cadence play her own songs. That was so generous of them, I thought. TK giving Chris & Meredith Thompson a tiny part of the Gospel Wakeup Call last year, even though C&M weren't even supposed to be at the festival. They did "Amazing Grace." Talk about your "amazing grace"! That was generosity for you! Chris & Meredith playing "Bend in the River" at Lancaster, the following year, opening for TK. TK popping out "Easy People" at shows, and then recording it for Stand. I think TK *are* Easy People, myself. :-) TK popping out "Happytown" and "When I Go" at shows after Dave Carter died, and recording "When I Go." TK playing Kate Wolf's "Across the Great Divide" at the Sounding Board in 2001, changing my course from that point on. Innumerable shows of Cadence and the Kennedys. :-) The Four Bitchin Babes show of Cadence, Chris & Meredith, and TK, at Avon a couple of years ago. :-) Pete playing with Tracy, both wearing black, on the opening song of the Dave Carter Tribute at FRFF in 2002, "The Mountain," about a week after Dave died. That was one of the most impressive Pete Kennedy moments for me ever. Maura, Chris, and Meredith singing the Sumerian chorus at the end on that same performance of "The Mountain," also at the Dave Carter Tribute at FR. TK playing "Chimes of Freedom" at the New Haven Folk Fest 9/14/01, only 3 days after 9/11. Standing with Pete & Maura with candles outside the venue, just before the show. TK playing George Harrison songs at the Turning Point, the day after George Harrison died. NYC, the Birchmere, Titusville NJ, Ellsworth ME, Lexington MA (the debut of "Stand"), and Club Helsinki, with N&K, Susan Werner, and TK, in the FR Summer in December tour. Pete trading licks on jazz guitar with Susan Werner, note for note, at the Titusville, Lexington, and Club Helsinki shows. I think that was the most impressed I've ever been with Susan Werner. She easily held her own with Pete Kennedy! :-) I could go on and on. There is so much to tell about what TK mean to me. mad baggins appending Pete on bass on "Love Shack" with FBN at FRFF and at the Birchmere! :-) >> =================================================== 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 V8 #28 *********************************