From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #377 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, December 17 2000 Volume 02 : Number 377 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: Question [Tom926@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: Question [Vanessa Wills ] [RS] Duets. [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] from the unarmed cittern player... [j a clary ] RE: [RS] Duets. [lanzalj@ix.netcom.com] Re: [RS] from the unarmed cittern player... [patrick t power ] [RS] Educating the Masses [Deb Woodell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:03:22 EST From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Question What exactly does abuelita mean? I tried looking it up on a spanish/english and portugese/english dictionary and no listing wsa found. I would assume it means grandmother/grandfather but does it? And what is a cittern? Oh and for all you pure pop for now people out there, the Beatles 1 is very interesting from a sound perspective. The digital remastering has brought out a lot of details that the previous mastering jobs buried in the mix. Like the complexity of the horn arrangement in Penny Lane. Just amazing. I wonder if they will do any more remastering? Would be interesting for Sgt Pepper at the very least. Been thinking about that best of list. I do think that "Confession" is probably the best song of the year I have heard. Too bad he doesn't have the promo budget a Shawn Colvin does...it would make a helluva video (RS wouldn't even have to be in it--the narrative is so strong it would carry it quite nicely). Hope all is well with everyone. Oh...perhaps a suggested topic: duets. Who would you like to hear to Richard do a duet with? Besides the Cry Cry Cry contingent. I was thinking Emmylou (of course), because I do think she is the best harmony singer around. But the possibilities are certainly intriguing. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:39:38 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Question Tom926@aol.com wrote: > What exactly does abuelita mean? Abuela means grandmother--abuelita is an affectionate diminutive of the word. - --Vanessa - -- "If your mirror has a monster in it, do not shout This kind of situation does not call for freaking out And do nothing that you would not like to see him do 'Cause that monster in the mirror he just might be you" - --Grover Monster, "The Monster in the Mirror" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:26:59 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Duets. << Oh...perhaps a suggested topic: duets. Who would you like to hear to Richard do a duet with? Besides the Cry Cry Cry contingent. I was thinking Emmylou (of course), because I do think she is the best harmony singer around. But the possibilities are certainly intriguing. >> Intriguing, yes, but if I hear one more song with Emmylou on harmony, I may just jump off something tall onto something pointy. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Heck, she did an entire CD of her duets with Gram Parsons, John Denver, RunDMC, Eminem, the Three Tenors, Britney Spears, Elmo, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, didn't she? And besides, Emmylou's sorta got one of them twangy, nasally, Nanci Griffith-esque voices, and as such, I don't think it would provide that big a departure from the duet sound Richard gets when he sings with Lucy Kaplansky. Me, I'd like to hear Richard do a duet with someone less predictable. Me, I'd give John Clary's left arm (seeing as I already gave away John's *right* arm on the egroups GuitarStuff list) to hear Richard do a duet with Kate Rusby. Me, RG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:15:22 -0800 From: j a clary Subject: [RS] from the unarmed cittern player... >> Me, I'd like to hear Richard do a duet with someone less predictable. Me, I'd give John Clary's left arm (seeing as I already gave away John's *right* arm on the egroups GuitarStuff list) to hear Richard do a duet with Kate Rusby. << No, Ron you did that on this list. I guess that means you'll never hear a guitar duet with me and Richard now, seeing as I have no arms left. I'm having trouble typing with my nose. Kate would be a nice choice. I still think Lucy is the best harmony siger in the folk realm and will never tire of her voice on lead or back-up. A Cittern is a stringed instrument in the greater mandolin family. I don't remember the country of origin, but it's like a bouzouki or octave mandolin in scale length (20" to 25" or so) and can be strung with 4 courses of split-ocatve strings or same-octave strings, and usually tuned GDAE, like a violin, mandolin, etc. On Confession it sounds like Larry's playing the same-octave variety. It it most obvious during the intro and the fade-in tag at the end. It's the one carrying the melody in those sections. Also, it's all over Transit and Summer Reel. It has been the basis of Baltic region folk music for ever, and then in the 1960s it evolved into the octave mandolin in Ireland and is very popular in Irish folk music today as both a lead and percussion instrument. j a c ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:35:11 -0800 From: lanzalj@ix.netcom.com Subject: RE: [RS] Duets. - --- Original Message --- Rongrittz@aol.com Wrote on Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:26:59 EST ------------------ Me, I'd like to hear Richard do a duet with someone less predictable. May be predictable, but how about David Crosby? He's such a great harmonist. Joe - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:27:21 -0500 From: patrick t power Subject: Re: [RS] from the unarmed cittern player... John noted: <> I believe the cittern has origins in Greece. Speaking of Citterns, I heard a wonderful cittern player, Joseph Sobol last night. He has a great CD out called "Citternalia" -- you can get more information about Joseph and the CD at this Acoustic Guitar site: http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag94/Homegrown94.shtml Pat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:18:30 -0500 From: Jeff Gilson Subject: Re: [RS] Duets. >Me, I'd like to hear Richard do a duet with someone less predictable. I don't see it neccessarily as a duet, but I'd love to hear RS and Johnny Cash trade verses. And I think, as a duet, Richard and Beth Amsel would make a good pair. They both have what I tend to term dark voices, and gorgeous ones at that. 'later, jeff. - -- All those things you taught me to fear I've got them in my garden now and you're not welcome here --Poe - -- (an index of free radical activity) http://www.onefreeradical.com/Journal/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:03:08 -0800 (PST) From: Deb Woodell Subject: [RS] Educating the Masses Hey, folks, Well, not the masses, but 18 hard-working journalism students at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. I'm working on my final exam to give to my copy-editing students and used a Richard Shindell article as one of the ones they need to edit. And I couldn't help but bring out "SNP" to accompany my work at the computer. It *really* is an extraordinary album, isn't it? Take care, Deb Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #377 ***********************************