From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #124 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 15 2002 Volume 04 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Guy Davis song & RS in Pgh this Friday ["Michael Fallon" ] Re: [RS] Some recent press ["Adam Bailey" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:36:10 -0400 From: "Michael Fallon" Subject: [RS] Guy Davis song & RS in Pgh this Friday Jennifer Coia wrote > Subject: [RS] Patty, etc snip > > For those seeing the show with Guy Davis..he recently played at the club I work > at and he was fantastic. He's an amazing Blues guitarist..playing old style > Mississippi blues stuff. Did an amazing cover of a Bob Dylan song, and since > Guy is also pretty great on the harmonica, it was great. Don't know the name of > the song, but it's something like "what's a sweetheart like you doing in a place > like this" > That would be "Sweetheart Like You' which, I believe, is on Dylan's 80's era release "Infidels". I plan on attending the Shindell show this coming Friday in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to it. Anyone else going? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:32:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chip Robertson Subject: [RS] Michael Hedges - Oracle 3. Steve Forbert The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth 5. Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Spark and Live Sparks (includes live album) 6. Graham Parker - Acid Bubblegum 7. Black 47 - Green Suede Shoes `!. [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Horse.com] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:34:42 -0400 From: "Michaela O'Brien" Subject: [RS] Some recent press Hi all, FYI - links to two recent articles about Richard are below, and a full article is below that. Reminder - if anyone sees a CD review of COURIER, or an article about Richard please let me and/or the list know. Grand Rapids Press: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment-0/10187649013690.xml Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/music/critic.html#f_shindell CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE Wednesday, April 10, 2002 by Larry Johnson CEDAR RAPIDS -- Richard Shindell may be America's best folksinger-songwriter. Bob Dylan may write better songs and Emmylou Harris may have a better voice. But putting both elements together, Shindell flirts with being the best. Trouble is, he now lives in Argentina, the land of his wife's birth. The good news is that Shindell still comes back to the United States to tour. Better still, he'll perform at CSPS in Cedar Rapids at 8 tonight. Tickets are $15 at the door. That's a bargain. Last month in Atlanta, you would have paid $35. The best news, however, is Shindell's sparkling new live CD, "Courier." The 15-song CD actually might be called "Richard Shindell's Greatest Hits," were it not for a bow to both Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and Lowell George's "Willin'." That he can do both Springsteen and George -- and do it well -- on the same disc is a tribute to Shindell and his fifth collection. But the main thing on "Courier" is Shindell's own songs. There are no tricks here, unless you count the magical ability to switch narrative voices as easily as the wind can change -- or the melding of instrumentals to Shindell's perfect and often poignant phrasing. All the distilled-to-their- essence stories come alive here, from the sinister, banal immigration officer of "Fishing," to the plaintive Civil War drummer boy of "Arrowhead," to the amazingly sad, longing women's voices of "Reunion Hill" and "The Ballad of Mary Magdalen." The title song is a new one, and continues Shindell's tradition of writing and singing about men caught behind enemy lines in wartime and simultaneously seeing the best and worst of themselves. "Courier" also has its light moments, as do Shindell's live performances. "Are You Happy Now?" is a masterful piece of sarcasm, and "Kenworth of My Dreams" is a big rolling tribute to a trucker and his rig. If you can't see the show, buy "Courier." Given the choice, do both. Take care, Michaela ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:04:05 From: "Adam Bailey" Subject: Re: [RS] Some recent press the title song is a new one? Huh? 'Courier' has been around for a few albums or so. Nice review, but not exactly well informed. >From: "Michaela O'Brien" >Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org >To: shindell-list@smoe.org >Subject: [RS] Some recent press >Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:34:42 -0400 > >Hi all, > >FYI - links to two recent articles about Richard are below, and a full >article is below that. > >Reminder - if anyone sees a CD review of COURIER, or an article about >Richard please let me and/or the list know. > >Grand Rapids Press: >http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment-0/10187649013690.xml > >Chicago Reader: >http://www.chicagoreader.com/music/critic.html#f_shindell > >CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE >Wednesday, April 10, 2002 >by Larry Johnson > >CEDAR RAPIDS -- Richard Shindell may be America's best >folksinger-songwriter. Bob Dylan may write better songs and Emmylou >Harris may have a better voice. But putting both elements together, >Shindell flirts with being the best. Trouble is, he now lives in >Argentina, the land of his wife's birth. > >The good news is that Shindell still comes back to the United States to >tour. Better still, he'll perform at CSPS in Cedar Rapids at 8 tonight. >Tickets are $15 at the door. That's a bargain. Last month in Atlanta, you >would have paid $35. > >The best news, however, is Shindell's sparkling new live CD, "Courier." The >15-song CD actually might be called "Richard Shindell's Greatest Hits," >were it not for a bow to both Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park >(Sandy)" and Lowell George's "Willin'." That he can do both Springsteen >and George -- and do it well -- on the same disc is a tribute to Shindell >and his fifth collection. But the main thing on "Courier" is Shindell's own >songs. > >There are no tricks here, unless you count the magical ability to switch >narrative voices as easily as the wind can change -- or the melding of >instrumentals to Shindell's perfect and often poignant phrasing. All the >distilled-to-their- essence stories come alive here, from the sinister, >banal immigration officer of "Fishing," to the plaintive Civil War drummer >boy of "Arrowhead," to the amazingly sad, longing women's voices of >"Reunion Hill" and "The Ballad of Mary Magdalen." > >The title song is a new one, and continues Shindell's tradition of writing >and singing about men caught behind enemy lines in wartime and >simultaneously seeing the best and worst of themselves. > >"Courier" also has its light moments, as do Shindell's live performances. >"Are You Happy Now?" is a masterful piece of sarcasm, and "Kenworth of My >Dreams" is a big rolling tribute to a trucker and his rig. > >If you can't see the show, buy "Courier." Given the choice, do both. > >Take care, >Michaela _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #124 ***********************************