From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #87 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 Tuesday, August 14 2007 Volume 09 : Number 087 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Horvendile/FRFF 2007/Festival Sunday/Gospel Wakeup - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting [Gordon Na] [JP] Horvendile/FRFF 2007/Festival Sunday/Gospel Wakeup - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting [Gordon Na] [JP] White Bird [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:56:21 -0400 From: Gordon Nash Subject: [JP] Horvendile/FRFF 2007/Festival Sunday/Gospel Wakeup - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting Here are my photos of the Gospel Wake Up Call featuring The Strangelings from FRFF. Namaste, Gordon http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g48/Horvendile/FRFF%202007/Festival%20Sunday/Gospel%20Wakeup/ - -- http://budgiedome.org 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: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:30:32 -0400 From: Gordon Nash Subject: [JP] Horvendile/FRFF 2007/Festival Sunday/Gospel Wakeup - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting Here are my photos of the Gospel Wake Up on Sunday Morning at FRFF. They are mostly of the Strangelings and EFO. Namaste, Gordon http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g48/Horvendile/FRFF%202007/Festival%20Sunday/Gospel%20Wakeup/ 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: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:40:51 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] White Bird One of the biggest surprises for me on the Strangelings' new CD has been the song "White Bird." I'm glad I have the first LP by SF-area late 60's band It's a Beautiful Day, solely for the fact that I've always dug the song "White Bird" from that album. The original "White Bird" has a rare combination of psychedelic era hippie trippiness (attributable chiefly to the lyrics, the guitar, and the Hammond organ) with classical-sounding grace and beauty on the vocals (lead by David LaFlamme and harmony by Patti Santos) and on the violin part (David LaFlamme, double tracked). Off the top of my head, I can't think of another 60's group that used violin the way it's used on the original "White Bird." The lyrical hippie trippiness of "White Bird" with its classical-sounding melodic sense of grace and beauty is to my ear a lot like the "fluff love" quality of the work of the 70's British prog rock group Renaissance, another group that sounded classically influenced. ============================================================ "White Bird" (David & Linda LaFlamme) White bird in a golden cage on a winter's day in the rain. White bird in a golden cage, alone. The leaves blow across the long black road up to the darkened skies, in its rage But the white bird just sits in her cage, alone. White bird must fly or she will die. White bird dreams of the aspen trees with their dying leaves, turning gold. But the white bird just sits in her cage, growing old. White bird must fly or she will die. White bird must fly or she will die. The sunsets come and the sunsets go and the clouds float by and the earth turns slow and the young bird's eyes do always glow. She must fly, She must fly, She must fly. White bird in a golden cage on a winter's day in the rain. White bird in a golden cage alone. White bird must fly or she will die. White bird must fly or she will die. White bird must fly or she will die. ============================================================= In the Strangelings' version of "White Bird," the double-tracked violin has been replaced mainly by Chris Thompson on flute. Meredith Thompson pioneered the "White Bird" flute part when the Strangelings first played the song at the Acoustic Cafe and at Club Passim. It surprised the heck out of me when her twin sister Chris took over the flute-playing role on that song (and on other songs), beginning at the Guthrie Center show. There was a new Strangelings flyer, showing the new band members Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson, in the lobby before the Guthrie Center show, in which Chris was shown holding a flute. At first, I thought the flute was just a prop for the purpose of a publicity shot, since I had never known Chris to play the flute before that. But not so! She played beautifully that night, and Chris' flute playing since then has continued to be so convincing, I've asked her if she had played flute in school, or had played for years "behind the scenes." No -- apparently this "hidden talent" has only just recently been awakened for the purpose of fulfilling this specific role with the Strangelings, since when Meredith left the group, someone had to play the flute parts originally played by her. Rather than the group adding even more Strangelings in addition to R&K, Chris opted to step up to the plate and start swinging to the beat of a different flute player! The original "White Bird" lead vocal by David LaFlamme is powerful-sounding, quasi-melodramatic, almost operatic, with Patti Santos by contrast lending a serene angelic sheen on harmony vocal. Maura, Chris, and Rebecca swing more towards the serene angelic sheen side on vocals, and not at all towards the more powerful, melodramatic grand gestures of the more masculine original lead vocal. So where the original "White Bird" combines an almost rugged-sounding earthiness with heavenly serene, the Strangelings' "White Bird" is pure heaven, complete with a heavenly choir of angels in Maura, Chris, and Rebecca. The Strangelings' ending of the song is also different. The Strangelings' "White Bird" sounds great! And it's different enough from the It's a Beautiful Day original that I can enjoy it on its own merits, without having to mentally compare it to the previous version. 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 #87 *********************************