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shindell-list-digest     Saturday, March 29 2003     Volume 05 : Number 066



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show  [Norman Johnson <njoh]
  Re: [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show  [Vanessa C Wills ]

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:49:14 -0500
From: Norman Johnson <njohnson@ent.umass.edu>
Subject: [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show

Tracy Grammer and Richard Shindell performed two shows at the Iron Horse. I was only at the first one. 

Tracy's set was first. She opened with "Ordinary Town", the story of a prophet going to a place where he was not welcome, and closed with "Gentle Soldier of My Soul". In between, she performed "I go like the raven" and "merlin's lament". Her bass player took lead vocals for "Gentle Arms of Eden". On that song, he sounded a lot like Dave Carter, maybe too much so. 

She also two unreleased Dave Carter songs. One, which was written in May 2001, was appropriate for our times-- about how war is marketed to children. Very powerful. 

Richard played on a couple of her songs and Tracy played on over half of Richard's.

Richard's set list: 

Beyond the Iron Gate
Next Best Western
Che Guevara T-shirt (very powerful last verse)
Gray Green
Reunion Hill (Tracy's fiddle!)
Last Fare of The Day
Are You Happy Now?
I Am (also very powerful, I think he changed some of the words)
Transit
Farewell to St. Delores (encore, Dave Carter song)

Gray Green is an Argentina song. It's about trying to get his kids to sleep like Paul Simon's "St Judy's Comet". They live on the third floor apt by a busy intersection. Richard talked about how there were no stop signs and how people just let whoever is going fastest go by. He also said that the three Marias in the song refer to three stars in Orion's belt - Orion doesn't look like Orion in the southern hemisphere.

If you are going to request a song, please know the name. Right before he played "Transit", someone shouted out "Blame it on the Moon". They meant "Calling the Moon". Richard said, "That's a good song but I think I'll play one that I actually wrote".

Norman

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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:44:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Vanessa C Wills <vcw1+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Norman Johnson wrote:
<<If you are going to request a song, please know the name. Right before
he played "Transit", someone shouted out "Blame it on the Moon".>>

Weird. That's like, Milli Vanilli meets Richard Shindell.

- --V

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