From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #78 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, December 20 2006 Volume 08 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [JP] Sloan & Friends Holiday Show 12/9/06 Franklin MA [Nieldsforever] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:05:39 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Sloan & Friends Holiday Show 12/9/06 Franklin MA More commentary from last week's Kennedys appearance in Franklin. I'd never seen TK's part of this Christmas show before, and it was unusual. Different than their usual set I mean, and unusually good, which of course is par for the course for them! :-) In a message dated 12/10/2006 12:01:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, Nieldsforever@aol.com writes: >If there were to be a fourth biggest surprise for me, it would have to be >the amazing and totally ripping guitar solos by Sloan sideman Steve Murphy! >Not even one of the "Murphs"! I can only imagine the delight of the "We Three >Guitarists," featuring Stephen Murphy, Pete Kennedy, and Sharkey, since they >did not play that trio instrumental this time around. But after the show I >got the Sloan & Friends CD which they put out in '04, which has "We Three >Guitarists" on it, along with a lot of the songs Sloan, TK, and GM did play last >night. Boy was I late in coming around to this CD, but better late than >never! Two whole years passing my notice altogether?!? "What was he >thinking?!?" :-) Since I wrote that I've had ample opportunity to play this CD. Besides Cadence singing "A Soalin' " and the trio instrumental "We Three Guitarists," there is one Kennedys track, "How Beautiful Are the Feet," and one Gandalf Murphy track, "Silver Bells," in addition to lots of great Sloan Wainwright tracks, including an excellent "River" (Joni Mitchell). "We Three Guitarists" is truly amazing, and I'm sorry now they didn't do it at Franklin. It's a very fine holiday album IMO, and I usually don't like Christmas albums. >Here's what was played last night -- > >The Kennedys: > >This Moment >Common Bond >How Beautiful Are the Feet I forgot to mention that this is an arrangement from Handel's "Messiah." I'm guessing that P&M first worked it up when they were doing the Christmastime "Messiah" at the Bottom Line in NYC some years ago. Pretty good guess huh? :-) >Galveston >O Holy Night w/ Sloan & Doug >New York's a Lonely Town I didn't know this one, so I had to look it up. I thought it might've been a Beach Boys song, but apparently it was a hit for the Trade Winds. It's a good song. Incidentally, it will feel odd when I'm at First Night Northampton on NYE to see Nerissa & Katryna Nields, knowing that P&M will be at their annual Starland Lounge New Year's Eve show in DC. NoHo can be a lonely town too! :-) >Ukelele Duo I'd never seen this before either! And I don't know anything more about it than the description I wrote, "Ukelele Duo." :-) >Stand w/ Sloan's Band, Joziah, Sharkey, & Tony I always love "Stand." It lifts me up, it's transcendent. Just like the song from Evolver, "Pick You Up." "Stand" is a real pick-me-up. :-) I was fortunate to hear P&M practicing "Stand" before it was quite ready, at sound check at 2002's "Summer in December" show in Ellsworth ME on 12/12/02. Then at Joyful Noise Coffeehouse in Lexington MA 2 days later, "Stand" was born, 12/14/02, as was (I think) "Anna & the Magic Gown." I thought "Stand" was an instant classic then, and it still does the trick for me, even after all this time. TK play Joyful Noise again 1/13/07, with N&K Nields to boot! :-) Way off subject, I was just saying to my son Peter recently that TK pay their respect to Curtis Mayfield for the ideas of "there's a train that's coming" and "people get ready" in the credits for "Stand," in the innersleeve of the CD. I'm not sure the appropriation of those two lines quite constitutes "incorporation" of those lines from "People Get Ready," since many songs with virtually identical lyrics have completely different melodies. Not even close to "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine," and even that looks real sketchy to me. I'd chalk it up to the "Folk Process" at any rate. Gandalf Murphy OTOH take a real risk ISTM with the uncredited Beatles excerpt ("She's a Woman") in their song "In Her Own World" from Flapjacks! :-) And on yet another way off base pickoff attempt, I remember well P&M playing *one song* with Lester Chambers at the New Haven Green a few years ago at a Yale labor rally -- the song "People Get Ready" -- ! And it sounded nothing at all like the Kennedys song "Stand" -- ! :-) 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 #78 *********************************