From: owner-little-wings-digest@smoe.org (little-wings-digest) To: little-wings-digest@smoe.org Subject: little-wings-digest V6 #18 Reply-To: little-wings@smoe.org Sender: owner-little-wings-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-little-wings-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk little-wings-digest Saturday, April 24 2004 Volume 06 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- little-wings: Kris at the Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT [Amanda Bock Subject: little-wings: Kris at the Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT What a great show. First of all, I was seated next to the same fellow (Chris) that I sat next to the last time Kris came to the Cafe many many months ago, on account of the fact that we both like to sit right up front. One of the benefits of sitting in the front is that you can ignore all of the other people and pretend that you're getting a private concert. You know how sometimes you hear a song and it seems like it was written just for you? Kris played several songs that seemed to fit right into the soundtrack of my life at the moment: Patience (Sandman), Words Fail You, and a new one called Anybody's Heaven, which I really liked. She also played a brand new and very funky song called Water Water, whose lyrics are taken from a poet, but I forget his name. After hearing songs that fit into my conscience so perfectly, I began to think about some of the memorable Kris shows that I've been to over the years. There was the split bill with Mark Erelli at First Encounter coffeehouse on the Cape when Kris first played an early version of Bobby Lee. It was one of the first concerts I ever went to by myself, and I felt so alone in the small crowd. Now I go to more shows by myself than with others. One night at the Paradise Club in Boston, Kris played with Jabe and Erin McKeown. It was spring of 2001 and I was on the brink of graduation from grad school. It was the first time I had heard Little Wings and Yellow Brick Road. It was one of the first warm evenings and Louisa and I walked the long blocks all the way back to my apartment in Copley Square, solving the world's problems. There was the show at the Bottom Line when I finally got my hands on Five Stories, and was delighted to discover Words Fail You, the only song on the album that I didn't already know. And the show at the Iron Horse that winter, when Kris played it in front of "people in the dark" for the first time. The first weekend that I lived in CT was the SoNo Arts Festival in Norwalk, and Kris played on one of the stages. This strange NYC suburb has never felt so much like home. Of course, there's the very first time I saw Kris. It was at Sanders Theater in Cambridge, and Lori McKenna, Jess Klein, and Kris all did full sets. It was a hundred degrees in there (as it always is) and the pew-seats were unbearably uncomfortable. That show was the longest non-festival show I think I've ever been to. We almost missed the last train back across the river, but I managed to get a copy of Appetite. And tonight- when it was my turn to get my copy of Redbird signed, Kris was nice enough to say she remembered me from some of those old shows. I never expect musicians to remember me in the midst of all those other fans getting cds signed after shows. Isn't it funny how, when you've been following an artist for a long time, you can trace your life through their work? I'm sure there are other listmembers who were at some of these same shows. What are some of your favorite concert moments? Kris or otherwise... Amanda www.amandabock.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ------------------------------ End of little-wings-digest V6 #18 *********************************