From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #331 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 Thursday, December 19 2002 Volume 04 : Number 331 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] truck driving songs [Jim Colbert ] [RS] re: skipping ["Neil Pearson" ] [RS] dar the breakout ["sharon g" ] [RS] More on Live Albums [Norman Johnson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:27:59 -0500 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] truck driving songs > venues. The ONLY thing about Courier that bugs me ever so slightly, is the tendency to turn certain songs into near-country music(i.e. Kenworth). Even that can be refreshing. (my brother who is a country music fool thinks that Richard and his band have a future in top 10 in that genre - eeeek!) > Geez Louise, it is truck drivin' song! I wouldn't expect a death metal feel! he he Seriously though, I think Richard has a definite affection for older country; witness covers of people like Merle Haggard and George Jones and even Blackie Farrell! He was singing the praises of the 4-cd Merle Haggard box set when we spoke briefly after his last Godfrey Daniels show when I think I had mentioned Kern River... (I myself am a fan of country music, but that doesn't really mean the stuff that's on the radio these days.) Jim Colbert somewhere near Mt. Nittany (and not ashamed to admit he likes some a' them truck driving songs... you guys ever hear Uncle Tupelo do lookin' at the world through a windshield live? Man, that was cool...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:54:50 -0000 From: "Neil Pearson" Subject: [RS] re: skipping I know this (or something like it) was mentioned a couple of digests ago - but I thought it might be of interest anyway... The last 10 or so copies of Sparrows Point we've sold have all come back faulty - there's a click every ten seconds or so throughout the album, almost like the click you get from a scratch on vinyl. It appears that the last pressing was faulty, as every copy I've had through from UK or US distribution have all had this fault. Faults like this are usually down to shortcomings of the users CD player, but this is definitely a manufacturing fault as I can replicate it on every disc that's come back, and on at least 4 different players. It's only on copies we've had in over the past 3 months or so, but I thought it may be of interest to those picking up copies for gifts etc. I don't have my own copy of the disc to hand to compare the numbers (they might be the same on all the pressings), but the details on a faulty copy I have in the office are SHENT8002/B S1 MADE IN THE USA BY L&M (this is the printing on the reverse of the disc near the clear area) best wishes Neil - ------------------------------------------------- Fish Records Suppliers of singer/songwriter, folk & acoustic music Shrewsbury, England neil@fishrecords.co.uk http://www.fishrecords.co.uk tel +44 (0) 1743 231546 fax +44 (0) 1743 354354 - ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:21:09 +0000 From: "sharon g" Subject: [RS] dar the breakout i happen to agree that out there live is not what i really expected from a live cd from dar. i have to disagree that her live show is tired..though at the end of that Tour DAR was tired. i also understand how listening to a cd you can skip the same banter and not wanting to repeat the banter (hear it ) over and over i think TOM is referring to the Next DAR williams cd. she has put something together that is unique, that breaks fresh ground, that has songs that are outstanding lyrically and musically its the updated version of the honesty room and will be at your local store on feb 18th.. she has outdone her peers once again and i love courier..its the only richard cd i play regularly... sharon - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:33:24 -0500 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] More on Live Albums Discussing Dar's live album, Pat said: >>*My* problem with her album, though, isn't so much the motive (to which I directed my previous post), but that it doesn't seem to represent the "Dar experience" as I have come to know it. Perhaps that's because I saw her for the first time (and *most* times since) without a band. Dar's shows are about intimacy, I think, and while her "The Green World" tour was okay from a musical standpoint, it lacked intimacy; her solo performances at Falcon Ridge have been far more intimate.<< Like Pat, I am part of the "Dar walks on water" group. I like OTL but I am a little disappointed with it. I think it would have been a much better album had she put on some solo performances of some of her earlier songs like "This is Not a House that Pain Built" and "The Great Unknown". Dar has a more powerful voice than she did in '93 and I've heard her nail both of those songs in concert. By the way, I was even more disappointed with the Nields live album-- especially considering that I thought Home was their best album to date. Basically, what I was getting at when I started the thread was that Richard et al. did something right. I still maintain that it helped having a gap of over a year between when the last studio album came out and the recording of the live album. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #331 ***********************************