From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #332 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 Saturday, November 18 2000 Volume 02 : Number 332 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Eye on the Sparrow [RockinRonD@aol.com] [RS] Over the Hill ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] Too Close to Call [SMOKEY596@aol.com] [RS] Any Dividers? ["Norman A. Johnson" ] Re: [RS] Over the Hill [Lisa Davis & family ] Re: [RS] Any Dividers? [NewCoenBro@cs.com] [RS] Favorite Shindell CD [patrick t power ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:03:53 EST From: RockinRonD@aol.com Subject: [RS] Eye on the Sparrow Sparrow's Point gets my vote too for my all-time favorite RS CD, though SNP runs a close second. These days I'm currently obsessed with new records from Elyza Gillkison, Sarah Harmer and Jack Williams. In fact, Jack's newest CD, "Eternity and Main" is one of the finest records I've heard in years and goes down as my all time favorite JW CD, as brilliant as I think "Across The Winterline" is. Last nite Cliff Eberhardt played to 50 people at The Brokerage in Bellmore, Long Island (read my review of the show at www.mmreview.com). I'm already a HUGE Cliff fan, but the brand new songs he debuted last nite just tore me apart. The man gets more incredible with every new record. Don't miss Cliff he comes to your town. And if you do, catch him at my house next June when he opens the season for the Red Cedar Soundstage House Concert series. I will be posting a schedule as soon as I confirm the rest of the line-up (but just know it will include a return of Louise Taylor). Hope some of you can make it out to one of the shows. By the way, if you haven't heard "Written In Red," Louise Taylor's newest CD, you are missing one very important body of work from one of the most underrated geniuses in acoustic music. Can't wait for her to come back to play in my backyard. Hmmm...I wonder if Richard would consider playing here--I mean, I think he still has relatives on Long Island he might want to visit. Oh well, I can dream. Ron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:59:08 EST From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Over the Hill Hey you guys, I must raise my hand for my favorite of Richard's CDs, Reunion Hill. I know I am in the minority here, but there are more songs on this one that I really like (Next Best Western, May, Reunion Hill, Money for Floods, Sing Me Back Home, I'll Be There in the Morning, and a dopey little ditty called 'The Weather') than any other. Sparrows Point is a close second. Blue Divide, to me, has the most songs that I will skip almost every time (Lazy, TV Light, Tune for Nowhere.) Like Ron G., the worst of these are still among my overall favorites, but 'Reunion Hill' is the one I grab when I don't have time to think about what I want to listen to. My other 'default' discs - R.E.M.'s Out of Time, Automatic for the People, and Murmur, Eddie from Ohio's Looking Out the Fishbowl, Moxy Fruvous' Thornhill and Live Noise, Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, 10,000 Maniacs' MTV Unplugged, Great Big Sea's 'Rant and Roar' and Road Rage (the new live disc - -I like live discs), Joan Osborne's Relish, Pearl Jam's Ten, and Springsteen's Tunnel of Love. I know that I'll hit 'send' and think of a few more, but these are the ones that come to mind immediately. Gene F. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:15:18 EST From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: [RS] Too Close to Call >>>I must raise my hand for my favorite of Richard's CDs, Reunion Hill. I know I am in the minority here,<<< And, the recent recount shows "Reunion Hill" gaining an additional vote...mine! That is absolutely my favorite, with SNP coming in a close second, the BD and then SP. SMOKEY Help Find Jill (http://www.alumni.indiana.edu/iuaa/jillbehrman/) "The memory is a useful thing, store the good stuff in the easy to reach places, put the rest in the attic with the cobwebs where it belongs..." - -Ellis Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:55:10 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Any Dividers? RonG, RonD, and I have proclaimed SPARROW'S POINT as the best RS album. Gene and Smokey are picking REUNION HILL. I'm sure someone's mentioned SNP. Is there anyone out there who thinks BLUE DIVIDE is the best of Richard's 4? Personally, it's grown on me a good deal. It took me awhile to discover some songs on this album, for instance, the title track. But, I know SPARROW'S POINT, I have played my copy of SPARROW's POINT many, many times, BLUE DIVIDE is no SPARROW'S POINT. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:24:17 -0500 From: Lisa Davis & family Subject: Re: [RS] Over the Hill Gene Frey wrote: > 'The Weather') than any other. Sparrows Point is a close second. Blue > Divide, to me, has the most songs that I will skip almost every time (Lazy, TV Light, Tune for Nowhere.) Don't skip Tune for Nowhere. Try listening a few dozen more times. Although if you don't like it right away -- as I did - -maybe you won't. I just love this song and it is my personal cyber-anthem as well as meaning a lot of other things. It's also a song that highlights the quality of Richard's singing. "Almost like a rainbow over all of this" - -- just the way he sings "this" stands out. lisa PS I rather agree with you. reunion hill has the largest number of unmissable songs, superb songs. SP is the best overall, uniformly good. Blue Divide also has the largest number of skippable songs for me - -- Arrowhead :), TV Light. Wait a minute, that's only 2 songs! Well I guess that *is* a lot of songs to miss on one of Richard's CDs. :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:47:32 EST From: NewCoenBro@cs.com Subject: Re: [RS] Any Dividers? Ian takes a look around the room and raises a tentative hand for Blue Divide. I love the tremendous variety of songs / themes / rhythms / tempos that I don't see on Richard's other discs. Summer Wind and Arrowhead are probably my favorite of Richard's uptempo songs, while Mary Magdalen is arguably the best of Richard's female perspective songs, and you have to love the care free narrator of Lazy. Also, and I know I'm in a minority here, but A Tune for Nowhere is marvelous! Those of you who have dismissed this song have to listen to it lying down with the lights off and marvel at its beautiful simplicity. For me, the ranking is BD followed (very closely) by SNP, then SP and then RH. Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 01:44:26 -0800 From: patrick t power Subject: [RS] Favorite Shindell CD When I go on the road and happen to have the luxury of a CD player, I take *all* of Richard's CDs -- it's the only way! I want also to speak to the discussion on "Tune For Nowhere". When I first heard this song, I couldn't quite grasp what was going on with it. Then, I read Richard's comments about it in an interview in which he related his having heard the story of a young girl learning to play the flute in and amongst the ruins of a war-torn Bosnia (I think), and commenting on how he was struck by her hopeful attitude -- that learning to play the flute demonstrated a faith that there would be a future in which to play it. I, then, was struck by Richard's uncanny ability to capture the sensitivity and fragility of that situation; there have been moments that when listening to it that I've nearly come to tears, mostly, I think, because it brings such great joy to me that he could be so in tune with that girl's emotions. He *so* depicts her joyful hope! Pat ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #332 ***********************************