From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #342 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, November 26 2000 Volume 02 : Number 342 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Covers Redux [RockinRonD@aol.com] [RS] Re-cover-y ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] Re: Covers [Tom926@aol.com] [RS] de-briefing on Richard's NPR interview. ["Norman A. Johnson" ] [RS] cover [SoccrDawg@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re-cover-y [Howie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 08:49:18 EST From: RockinRonD@aol.com Subject: [RS] Covers Redux Of course, on so many levels, just about any Harry Chapin song would be appropriate for Richard to cover. Years ago at a show in Queens, I actually suggested a song to Richard as a great cover for him -- "Child's Song" by Murray McLaughlin I believe. Richard actually agreed, saying he was going to have to look into it. The next day I e-Mailed him the chords and lyrics from OLGA. I'd DIE to hear him do this song, despite the magnificent job the great Tom Rush did with it way back when. Right now, out in my living room, I can hear Jewel doing a Christmas hymn on the Today Show. Wouldn't an album of Richard doing Christmas songs be pretty special too? Ron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:13:45 -0500 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Re-cover-y Hey you guys, Rockin RonD HoHoHo'ed: << Wouldn't an album of Richard doing Christmas songs be pretty special too? >> Yes, it would. Too bad, unlike most pop stars whose labels throw out Christmas CD's for parents to buy their kids, the market for such a disc would be minimal. Maybe this could be a label-wide project, where the fans of any one or two of the artists would consider buying the disc. In any case, Gary Morris did a fine version of 'O Holy Night' a few years ago, and that would a good candidate for a cover by Richard. And now for something completely different.... I found a song by Richard on Napster. The title is 'A Lover Since Childhood.' I asked Ron G. and Charlie about it, and so far I have found out that it is from a compilation disc of poetry set to music, probably by Robert Burns. The person who created or produced the disc is named Jay Ansell. I got a couple of e-mail addresses from Charlie, but neither is current. If anybody has any information about this disc, please let me know. Thanks. Gene F. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:02:24 EST From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Covers For starters: "Man in Need": Richard and Linda Thompson "Just the Motion": Richard and Linda Thompson "Boulder to Birmingham": Emmylou Harris "Abagail, Belle of Kilronan": The Magnetic Fields "The Book of Love": The Magnetic Fields Actually there are a whole host of MF songs he could cover. Although Stephin Merritt is a songwriting genius, one could hardly consider him a singer (though that croak of a voice does grow on you). It would be nice to hear them sung. I tend to like my cover versions offbeat and unexpected. RS's "Darkness, Darkness" doesn't really work for me because it doesn't really give a new perspective on the original. I mean it's nice...but so are mass marketed Georgia O'Keefe calendars. Have been relistening to all the RS albums and I think finally I have come to the conclusion that SP has wonderful songs but you can tell RS had zilcho of a recording budget. The production on the last two albums is so much better. So it is hard for me to decide but I think SNP may be the best of the lot, both for the overall quality of the songs themselves and the production values. But ask me again in a day or two and I will probably change my mind. Actually have been listening much more to the Continental Drifters "Vermilion" album recently; particularly two songs: "Watermark" and "The Rain Song." Who knew that the littlest Cowsill and the most self-consciously arty Bangle of 'em all would grow up to have such an interesting alt folk/countryish voices? Highly recommended. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:26:03 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] de-briefing on Richard's NPR interview. Richard was (as scheduled) on NPR today. I was a little concerned when they did not mention his appearance at the top of the 5 o'clock hour. I wondered whether his show would be pre-empted by all of the legal fights in this never-ending election saga. But then at 5:30 or so, I heard the (somewhat) familar strains of "Merritt Parkway" and the announcement of Richard. Richard played "On a Sea of Fleur de Lis", "Abeulita", and the first part of "Are You Happy , Now?". The interviewer, toward the end of the interview asked Richard whether he had any "fun" songs. He said that his material was pretty much dark. Then she brought up AYHN. The interviewer (whose name really escapes me) asked Richard how long he was in the seminary. Richard said "too long" and gave other vague answers about his time there. Richard said that he did not know until after writing the song that a "Fleur de Lis" was a symbol of the Virgin Mary. Richard again said he did not know exactly what the song meant. They also played a little bit of "Mary Magdalen". The interviewer noted that not many folk singers sing about Mary M. or about Heloise and Abelard, etc. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:36:13 EST From: Hopedancing@aol.com Subject: [RS] Cover Songs Are there any Michael Smith fans out there? I have always thought Michael's song "Ballad of Dan Moody" would be a great song for Richard to cover. In fact, whenever I listen to the song, I hear Richard from start to finish. "I said for God's sake do not do this they put it off for quite sometime until the 12th of January such a cold and bitter time snow was drifting on the line . . . Me having recently found Jesus I try to speak to them as friend's should do of the eternal consequences and the awfulness of lives of sin..." For that matter, Richard would do a great job with Michael's "Panther in Michigan" also... "There's a panther in Michigan, don't that make your Halloween." candace :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:51:41 -0500 From: patrick t power Subject: Re: [RS] Cover Songs Candace wrote: <> The first time I saw Richard, I met him after the show and told him that as songwriters go, he was right up there with Michael Smith. He seemed sincerely appreciative of the compliment/comparison. There are probably many, many of Michael's songs that Richard could easily cover. The same could probably be said in regards to songs by Jack Hardy, for that matter. Pat ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:03:23 EST From: SoccrDawg@aol.com Subject: [RS] cover gene wrote... >I am a nut for cover songs. So far, by my count, Richard had recorded, in >addition to the Cry3 CD, seven covers (Fly on a Plane, Paddy's Green >Shamrock Shore, Darkness Darkness, I'll Be Here In The Morning, Sing Me Back >Home, My Love Will Follow You, and Calling The Moon.) I would imagine there >might be a couple I'm not aware of, and I would appreciate any info on them. and of course, we can't forget "shades of black, shades of blue" on the spring ep. since acquiring this cd, i've been in love with that song. floors me every time. back to lurkdom, ..nicole ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:14:11 -0500 From: Howie Subject: Re: [RS] Re-cover-y At 10:13 AM 11/25/2000 -0500, Gene F. wrote: >And now for something completely different.... I found a song by Richard >on Napster. The title is 'A Lover Since Childhood.' I asked Ron G. and >Charlie about it, and so far I have found out that it is from a >compilation disc of poetry set to music, probably by Robert Burns. The >person who created or produced the disc is named Jay Ansell. I got a >couple of e-mail addresses from Charlie, but neither is current. If >anybody has any information about this disc, please let me know. Thanks. Your wish is my search! Check out: http://www.jayansill.com/a_lost_world.html My check goes in the mail in the morning! - -Howie - -- ________________________________________________________________________ Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make Howie Lyhte life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a howie33@mediaone.net leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. -Natalie Goldberg ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #342 ***********************************