From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #3 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, January 10 2007 Volume 09 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [JP] RE: jangle-poets-digest V9 #1 [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:00:41 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] RE: jangle-poets-digest V9 #1 In a message dated 1/8/2007 11:24:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, roldeb@hotmail.com writes: Bruce, Thanks (as always) for such a fine review of yet another mighty fine Kennedys show at the Sounding Board! Pete and Maura did seem to be particularly "on" that night, and the crowd was really into it. The only additions that I could make would be to comment on the beautiful large hand-painted "Shearwater" backdrop that they said they finally got out of storage - now that they've settled in NOHO with more room. I hope some of the photos that fans took that night get posted somewhere - it made for a lovely stage setting, and of course I forgot my camera! Thanks for mentioning this, the biggest oversight of my review. This beautiful large hand-painted Shearwater backdrop should've maybe been the centerpiece, instead I completely forgot to mention it altogether. It was painted "All Those Years Ago" by an 18-year-old artist, Katherine Bonner, who also did the artwork for Shearwater. I thought it was sheer genius, and gave TK a kind of "rock star" ambience. Apparently the humongous backdrop had been in storage in NJ, folded up, unseen, and virtually unknown (out of sight, out of mind) since those early, pre-duo TK days, since as Maura put it "everyone in NYC lives in a studio apartment." The move to Northampton seems to have opened up many possibilities for P&M that were not nearly as available for them in "the city," the unfolding of this banner being just one instance of this "unfolding" of possibilities. Have I mentioned that I'm getting more and more excited about having TK in my home state? TK have put me in a happy state! :-) I was just as excited when TK first moved from VA to NYC in the first place, mainly because I was hoping to see more and more of them in the NE. Sure enough! :-) A funny thing about the Shearwater backdrop -- it has the word Kennedy in Larger-Than-Life letters, not Kennedys, Kennedy. Apparently there was another backdrop, maybe just as LIL, that said Pete. So together they said, "Pete Kennedy"! :-) >The other thing is the reappearance of the Pete guitar assortment - not only >the acoustics, but the local electric you mentioned, the ukes, the sit-guitar, >a solid body Gibson (Les Paul?) AND The Rickenbacker! To hear him rip out >those Byrds chords was really fun - it really gave a nice flavor to the songs >he used it on. Good point! On back-to-back Byrds covers ("Chimes of Freedom," "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better") the Rick rocked! :-) I wanted to shout out, "George Harrison!" :-) Then there was another Byrdsy treat, "8 Miles High," on electric sitar! :-) With that Rickenbacker, and those Byrds tunes, and that psychedelic-looking Shearwater backdrop, it was like a flashback to "When We Was Fab"! :-) The whole story about the strange things that Pete has used for a guitar slide was funny, then to see him use the uke itself as a slide was hilarious. Maura said, Pete was still finding cheese from that piece of pizza he once used as a slide, in his guitar! :-) P&M always amaze us with their ability to flow seemingly disparate songs together - but to go from that stunning version of "When I Go" ('wow' indeed) into something so zany as "Holiday for Strings" on the ukes, then to Django was a hoot! And it all works! Yeah, the Kennedys have arranged the whole framework of their art so that they simultaneously honor their roots, and still add a distinctive touch that identifies even their covers as Kennedys Music, in a symbiosis that I just call "style." They're capable of encompassing so many diverse elements into their music, showing a "breadth of catholicity and good taste." :-) I know that there were a lot of their devoted fans there that night (I'm starting to recognize more every time), but I would have liked to know how many were first timers. What an introduction! I was noticing a lot of familiar faces too. For one thing, there seem to be a lot of Summer Music Camp people from the SAMW in New Hampshire, where P&M teach. I even ran into one of them at South Shore Folk Music Club in Kingston at C&M's show Friday night, and she said she'd been a repeat offender for 10 years, returning time after time to the scene of the crime. So that Summer Music Camp seems to part of the "glue" that's helping to hold the NE folk scene together. _www.wumb.org/samw_ (http://www.wumb.org/samw) Have fun at P.A.C.E. ! I plan to get back to the Jangle-Poets about the Lexington twin bill (TK/TN) on Saturday too. And the PACE twin bill Friday night *really* features twins (Chris & Meredith Thompson), making it a *true* "twin bill"! Double your pleasure, double your fun --- ! :-) 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 #3 ********************************