From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #25 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Sunday, April 16 2000 Volume 02 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Voices [Steeleye77@cs.com] [RS] folk musicianship [Deb Woodell ] [RS] OT: David Sedaris ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:19:17 EDT From: Steeleye77@cs.com Subject: Re: [RS] Voices Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Lisa You've got a deal. Send me the CD, I'll send you the tapes!! (Brand new, I don't use them anymore) Arno ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:30:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: [RS] folk musicianship Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Hello, folks, Having had a couple interesting experiences this week, I'd like to add to this discussion. First, I had the heartbreak of having a colleague at work, who weeks ago borrowed my tape of "SNP," tell me the other day she thought Richard's music was too earnest. She said she kept waiting for more. I kept trying to point out the complexities of "Confession," and how the song hits on so many levels. I didn't convince her with Track No. 1, so I felt it hopeless to continue track by track. On a more upbeat note, concerning the comment: >So what's my point? A "mediocre" jazz or > classical player > will 90% of the time be a better musician than most > everyone in > country, folk or rock (unless they happened to be > classically > trained). I don't know the classical training of Brooks Williams, but anyone who listens to his new instrumental cd, "Little Lion," which I've been doing for much of the past week, will find as much complexity in some of these songs as anything by Coltrane or classical violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. I also think some of the beauty of folk music lies in the intricate blend of perhaps a simple melody and more complex, meaningful lyrics. Whose heart isn't stirred when Phil Ochs (or disappear fear) sings, "Is there anybody here who'd like to wrap the flag around an early grave"? And, as I heard Patti Smith say once in a radio interview, you can express quite a bit over two or three chords. Whose broken heart hasn't been sticken by the pained words of "I'm so lonesome I could cry"? I think we're not musical snobs, I think we just have great tastes, in Richard and in others. Deb __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:26:06 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] OT: David Sedaris Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ This is a bit off topic... I just heard David Sedaris read amazingly funny (and true!) stories from his very soon to be released book, _Me Talk Pretty One Day_. The title comes from his adventures learning french in France--- he told this wonderful story about his French class, in which a Morrocan woman did not know what "Easter" was and the class (comprised of people from all sorts of backgrounds) tried to explain Easter in very broken french. I'd only heard of David Sedaris from his spots on "Morning Edition" and was very pleasntly surprised at just how funny and insightful this man really is. Think of Woody Allen meets Seinfeld meets Calvin Trilian. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #25 **********************************