From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #111 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, December 4 2007 Volume 09 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Kennedys Fan Club 2007 Holiday Package ["Frank Hartge" Subject: [JP] Kennedys Fan Club 2007 Holiday Package Late last week I received the 2007 holiday package from the Kennedys Fan Club. As always, Robbie White has put together a nice set, including the latest newsletter, a cute photo of our heroes bundled up out in the woods. Best of all, it has a Kennedys autographed CD with a recorded greeting to the fan club, and two specially recorded studio tracks available only here, one of a Dylan song, the other a Buddy Holly tune. (Not Christmas songs, but rocking standards in the inimitable Kennedys style.) The minimal annual cost of joining the Kennedys Fan Club (still only $5) is money well spent! If you are not members, check out this link http://www.kennedysmusic.com/fan.html to learn more! And thanks again to Robbie (and of course to Pete and Maura) for taking the time to operate the Fan Club! Frank 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, 2 Dec 2007 21:32:41 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] TWO FOR THE ROAD - Nields, Stringbusters This was supposed to be "Three For the Road," but I bailed out on the Hungrytown debut in Saratoga Springs Sunday night on account of the impending bad weather and threat of an ice storm. Though I'm sorry to miss seeing Rebecca & Ken there for such an important debut outing, I'm hoping for better days ahead with smoother sailing. N&K Nields 11/30/07 Passim This was a better-than-average singalong crowd on a couple of the songs, and Nerissa and Katryna suggested doing a live album there with lots of singalongs. No joke, this is not such a far-fetched notion in the least. Chris & Meredith Thompson have recorded 2 live recordings at Club Passim -- Live at Club Passim (2000) and Chris & Meredith Thompson Live (2004), with way-better-than-average audience singalong participation. I guess Passim is a groove for duos of singing sisters with the same last name as a stage name. :-) Here's what the Nields played Friday night -- Clean Heart Merry Christmas Mr. Jones Endless Day Abington Sea Fair Snowman That's My Ship Ain't That Good News We'll Plant an Oak Christmas Carol This Train Leave That Trouble Alone Soldier at Your Door (w/ Old Man story) The Shortest Day Easy People (finger-picked) When I'm Here The Harvest Table (encore, off-mike from near the back) I thought it was funny that this show featured both "The Endless Day" (NN's song about being grounded, based on the ground bass of Pachelbel's Canon in D) and "The Shortest Day" (a Susan Cooper holiday poem recited each year about this time by KN). "Endless Day" and "Shortest Day," that's the long and the short of it folks. :-) Every time N&K do "Snowman" at Passim, I'm instantly reminded that "Snowman" was first performed there, 1/15/98 (along with "Kiss It and Make It Better" and the Boston-area winning song of a contest TN did that fall). Stringbusters 12/1/07 PACE For this show, only the Stringbusters' second show overall, the lineup was Maura Kennedy (lead vocals, ukelele), Pete Kennedy (ukelele, mandoguitar, harmony vocals), Ray Mason (bass guitar, harmony vocals), and Eric Lee (fiddle, harmony vocals). Holiday For Strings Me Myself & I Minor Swing Getting Some Fun Out of Life A Shot in the Dark My Old Man Rain Kilikilihune Noho Hula (Maura hula-hooping while she played) Rhapsody in Blue (Pete) Turn the Cards Slowly Crazy Reels - Toss the Feathers, Morning Dew Grass 9th Street Billy (Trapper John's request) Tiptoe Through the Tulips (Pete) Beethoven's Fifth (Pete) Fire (Pete) Purple Haze (Eric playing fiddle behind his back) Tomorrow Never Knows 8 Miles High Not Fade Away Blue Moon of Kentucky (encore) I hooked up with my main man, Trapper John, at the show, and followed him afterward from Easthampton to Albany in the expectation of my third show in three days, namely the Rebecca Hall & Ken Anderson Hungrytown debut at Caffe Lena. But it was not to be for me, on account of the weather. Nonetheless, John broke out a bottle of his best scotch and we had a good late-night followed by a nice sleep-in the next day. How's that for Easy People. :-) I'll have to elaborate on some more of the niceties of the Stringbusters show in later posts. 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? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:32:57 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Patsy Cline - Stringbusters > >Turn the Cards Slowly > >Crazy > >Reels - Toss the Feathers, Morning Dew Grass > >9th Street Billy (Trapper John's request) > >Tiptoe Through the Tulips (Pete) > >Beethoven's Fifth (Pete) > >Fire (Pete) > >Purple Haze (Eric playing fiddle behind his back) > >Tomorrow Never Knows > >8 Miles High > >Not Fade Away > > > >Blue Moon of Kentucky (encore) > At the Stringbusters' PACE show Saturday night, Pete & Maura explained how the music of Billie Holiday received a lot of attention in the first Stringbusters CD. And then they promised a lot of attention would be paid to the music of Patsy Cline, for the next Stringbusters CD! "Turn the Cards Slowly," "Crazy," and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" were all played by the Stringbusters at the PACE show, and all, apparently, are associated with Patsy Cline. P&M have already led workshop stages at FRFF with a focus on Dylan, on the Beatles, and on "guitar gods" (and goddesses, presumably). Billie Holiday and Patsy Cline? Seems TK have put themselves in a really good position for "Old Time and Swing" for future workshop stages at Falcon Ridge. 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? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:13:45 -0500 From: Dan Tappan Subject: Re: [JP] TWO FOR THE ROAD - Nields, Stringbusters Nieldsforever@aol.com wrote: > > ... > > > > Stringbusters 12/1/07 PACE > > > > For this show, only the Stringbusters' second show overall, the lineup was > > Maura Kennedy (lead vocals, ukelele), Pete Kennedy (ukelele, mandoguitar, > > harmony vocals), Ray Mason (bass guitar, harmony vocals), and Eric Lee (fiddle, > > harmony vocals). > > > > > I've put up some photos from this show at > > Holiday For Strings > > Me Myself & I > > Minor Swing > > Getting Some Fun Out of Life > > A Shot in the Dark > > My Old Man > > Rain Kilikilihune > > Noho Hula (Maura hula-hooping while she played) > > Rhapsody in Blue (Pete) > > > > Turn the Cards Slowly > > Crazy > > Reels - Toss the Feathers, Morning Dew Grass > > 9th Street Billy (Trapper John's request) > > Tiptoe Through the Tulips (Pete) > > Beethoven's Fifth (Pete) > > Fire (Pete) > > Purple Haze (Eric playing fiddle behind his back) > > Tomorrow Never Knows > > 8 Miles High > > Not Fade Away > > > > Blue Moon of Kentucky (encore) 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, 3 Dec 2007 15:29:15 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Reels & 9th Street Billy - Stringbusters In a message dated 12/3/2007 7:43:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, Nieldsforever@aol.com writes: > >Reels - Toss the Feathers, Morning Dew Grass > >9th Street Billy (Trapper John's request) > The reels part of the Stringbusters show at PACE consisted of the same music when Eric and Ken did it as a duet at the Strangelings show last month at Stow. But it was done differently. All 4 Stringbusters played this time -- Eric leading the way on fiddle, P&M on ukes, and Ray on bass. In the middle of the musical number, Eric started playing quieter and quieter, and the other 3 followed his lead so that at one point all 4 of them were playing about as quietly as could be imagined. Then Eric led the way in a resurgence, and all 4 rocked out to the end of the song. Eric has wonderful instincts, and it's clear that the others get a kick out of playing with him. Maura, in introducing the reels number, said that Eric was the "star" of the Strangelings. WRT the "9th Street Billy," this had not been done by the Stringbusters before, and since John had requested it only at the break, it was done completely without rehearsal. I asked Ray after the show if he'd ever even heard "9th Street Billy" before, since he was so good on the bass part. He said that P&M had sent him x-number of CD's in advance, and that he had already learned "9th Street Billy," in anticipation of the inevitability of the Stringbusters maybe playing it sometime. Now that's what I call being well prepared for anything. 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 #111 **********************************