From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #1 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, January 8 2007 Volume 09 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] TV commercial? ["Jeff E" ] [JP] Duos and other Strangers - Part One [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:26:22 -0500 From: "Jeff E" Subject: [JP] TV commercial? Hey you guys, I just saw this TV commercial for Cingular with an electric sitar soundtrack. The playing sounded exactly like Pete. Could it be - ?? Jeff 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? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:43:29 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Duos and other Strangers - Part One Two weekends of folk duos, playing first alone and then in tandem with one another! This Part One of "Duos and other Strangers" covers Chris & Meredith Thompson and the Kennedys, while Part Two will deal with next weekend's Kennedys twin bills with first the Thompsons and then the Nields. Back to back weekends of Strange Magic! Talk about your Happy New Years! "Most days are not like this, you understand..." Friday 1/5/07 -- Chris & Meredith Thompson at South Shore Folk Music Club, Kingston MA This wasn't "Summer in December," but the weather felt like springtime, to be sure. Maybe an early springtime of new hope and new life in the coming year? This Chris & Meredith Thompson show was a week to the day before their historic debut with TK as The Strangelings at PACE. Wildest Sea First Step Autumn Leaves Harvest Moon Tanglewood Tree Lines of Longitude Lift Up Your Voice and Sing Hallelujah Old Man of the Mountain Good Mood Hand on the Plow Children You Are My Love Strings Neruda Carter's Lullabye Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) Ain't No Grave Welcome Table Amazing Grace Edelweiss (encore) A surprising and continuing trend has been my hearing songs at almost every C&M show that I've never heard done by them before, a testament to their ever-varied and sometimes surprising repertoire. "Ain't No Grave" is a new one they'd learned from hearing Crooked Still (from the album Shaken By a Low Sound). This traditional spiritual fitted the Thompsons to a "t." And the other one I'd never heard was "Strings," an older song from an entire series of songs they'd written for children about musical instruments. Interestingly, the bridge of the song "Strings" talks about the bridge of the guitar, marrying sense to sound in a newfangled way. Pretty clever, huh! I can't wait to see the Thompsons with the Kennedys next Friday at PACE doing "mystery songs" as The Strangelings, IMO a "show of shows" not to be missed! Saturday 1/6/07 -- The Kennedys at the Sounding Board, West Hartford CT This show was Strange Magic in the highest degree! All of the conditions were right, Smiling Stars shining down their light from the heavens above like Strangers in the Night. The very night itself seemed to be eager to be part of the action. Kate Riess and family were there from far Bethlehem, and Kate was very happy to give me much needed advice and guidance concerning my son Stephen's college prospects. Nooker Beelzebob was there in his Brand New Role as the Incredible Shrinking Man. A guitar he brought to show Pete wound up getting played by Pete during the course of the show on the song "When I Go." What a good-sounding guitar! Of course, it helped a lot that Pete Kennedy was the lover of All Things Guitar wooing the muse from out of the guitar in question! But the biggest surprise and piece of serendipitous synchronicity for me was the unheralded epiphany of Peter and Monique Hill a/k/a the folk duo Horizon Blue, in the audience, who I first heard as openers for C&M Thompson in Hartford in September. Howdy Stranger! I hope we'll be seeing and hearing more from them in the future. They sure picked the right Kennedys show to come to! Life Is Large Didn't It Rain River of Fallen Stars This Moment 9th Street Billy Half a Million Miles Dharma Cafe Namaste Shearwater Midnight Ghost Stand Wall of Death Chimes of Freedom I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better Sin City When I Go Ukelele Duet #1 Ukelele Duet #2 Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring 8 Miles High Rhapsody in Blue (Pete uke fiesta) Not Fade Away 8 Days a Week Orange Blossom medley Life Is Large P&M were in fine form throughout, just tearing up the stage with their jangly duo guitar pyrotechnics as only they can do, completely confident and calculated, yet with seemingly reckless abandon, a real Run Through the Jungle -- like Tarzan and Jane swinging on vines from tree to tree with jungle guitars in tow. It was primal, it was the vibe of Tribe. I've never felt happier being part of the Tribe, and hope more and more people get to know that totally satisfying "Pick You Up" feeling of TK. I now know that the first Ukelele Duet is "Holiday For Strings" by David Rose. I'd heard that before, at Franklin as part of the Sloan and Friends Holiday Show. Imagine a ukelele duet, if you've never actually seen one. Not something you see everyday! "Strange days indeed! Most peculiar, mama!" :-) The second Ukelele Duet was by gypsy swing guitarist Django Reinhardt, although I missed the title, unfortunately. But TK have another side, besides "jangly guitars" and ukeleles and such -- namely the lyrical and musical beauty of songs like "River of Fallen Stars," "Shearwater," and "This Moment." When Pete was playing Bob Raymond's guitar in support of Maura's lead vocal on the Dave Carter song "When I Go," I just wrote down the word "Wow." Words alone just can't express the beauty. And there's beauty, too, in the Bob Dylan song "Chimes of Freedom," that just kind of blew me away this time and left me speechless at this threshold of tomorrow flowing out of the past through the present into the future. A timeless classic, "Chimes of Freedom" still rings true today, just as on the day it was first written. I can't even imagine what P&M have waiting up their sleeve to be unveiled next weekend with C&M Thompson as The Strangelings -- but the mystery and the anticipation are all part of the excitement! "Take my hand, I'm a Stranger in Paradise..." It's a great time to be a fan of TK! Next week -- Duos and other Strangers - Part Two! 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 V9 #1 ********************************