From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #132 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 Monday, April 23 2001 Volume 03 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] SOTW: Blue Divide [KeltiKevin@aol.com] Re: Re: [RS] SOTW: Blue Divide. [Elwestrand ] [RS] I sold my old Camaro ["Sally Green" ] [RS] Re: Hi Delores [Tom926@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:02:42 EDT From: KeltiKevin@aol.com Subject: [RS] SOTW: Blue Divide This is my all-time favorite RS song. I really can't explain why, but I get a little chill up and down my back every time I hear it, especially when it gets to the "Til I caught sight of your balloon" line. I think the imagery there is incredible. At the beginning of the song, the narrator is rowing a boat "because you know I hate to fly." So at the end, instead of him flying, his love flies to him. BTW, I have to agree with Lucy Kaplansky. I think "Blue Divide" is the greatest CD ever recorded. (OK, maybe because that was the first RS CD I ever heard, but it's still my favorite.) Heading back to "lurk" mode. Kevin Rose "Urban folk ... Celtic folk ... whatever the folk I feel like playing!" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:47:33 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: Re: Re: [RS] SOTW: Blue Divide. > I bet he did. It also constrasts with having "Summer Wind" open the CD. > > Norman > Ooh Norman's a genius! I never thought of that. That is cool. Gosh I didn't think Richard had it in him to be intentionally positive. I just thought it occasionally slipped through! ;-) E ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:43:09 -0400 From: "Sally Green" Subject: [RS] I sold my old Camaro So today I got some Turtle Wax and waxed and buffed my car (not a Camaro, and neither is it a Kenworth) in the early evening. I felt like a character in one of RS's songs. "We cleaned her out and painted her, and brought her up to speed," is what kept going through my head as I was a-waxin' and a-buffin'. SOTW Content: I tried to learn to play "Blue Divide" a couple of years ago when I was first trying to learn how to play the guitar. In talking to RS after some show or other, he mentioned that it's not one of the easiest ones of his to play, for the beginner. I never did play it well, but eventually I could sort of make it through the whole song. Then I stopped playing the guitar for over a year. Guitar content: I bought a guitar this weekend in Ithaca, New York! It's a folk-size Alvarez with great "action," according to Jennifer Fentress, which apparently means the space between the strings and the frets. I just loved the way it sounded. I went into this guitar store with a friend thinking I was just along for the ride, and played a few, and this particular one sounded so sweet and rich. We left the store, but that guitar stuck in my head, and the next day we went back and I played about every single small guitar in the store. But honestly, none of them measured up to the one that had caught my ear. I really had a feel for this one. So I bought it! Thank goodness for Ron G's guitar chord transcriptions. :) Now we'll see. I wonder if "The Kenworth Of My Dreams" is easy to play? - --Sally sallyagreen@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:36:57 EDT From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Hi Delores Welcome you stalker you. If I can lambasted in a respectful way for "The Courier" then you KNOW this is a fun safe list even if you don't share the majority's viewpoint. I mean RG needs someone else to bust besides me and Clary. ;-) And yes, I just love songs that take famous people and incorporate them into songs. The Marconi part is my fave in BD...It is just so Lewis Carroll (I think of the Walrus and the Carpenter dancing on the sand with the oysters before the Walrus eats them all up. Or is that the Lobster Quadrille? Note to self: Reread the Alice books. My, by Richard does make me want to read). It is funny/sad/poignant the same way. Actually this would be a good song to put on a mix tape of songs that incorporate famous people. Like Suzanne Vega's Marlene on the Wall. Or Dar's Yoko Ono song. Or Abba's Waterloo. Any other suggestions? I love mix tapes. Tom ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #132 ***********************************