From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V5 #71 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 Tuesday, April 1 2003 Volume 05 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V5 #70 [Jennifer Coia ] Re: [RS] Birchmere Concert [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Richard Shindell Featured Artist of the Week [Greg Grant ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:43:41 -0500 From: Jennifer Coia Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V5 #70 RG wrote: I'm not sure Richard was making any value judgments about the war, just about the ludicrous opinion that we should be boycotting anything French. I mean, the congressman who suggested that we should change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has waaaaaay too much time on his hands, as well as a warped sense of priorities. Not to mention that French Fries are a Belgian food, not French. :-) JC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:29:30 EST From: Patience9@aol.com Subject: [RS] war So many of my lists have gone that way...which has been great for me...freed up a lot of time after I got off of them. > I'd hate to have happen here what I've seen happening on other lists, like > the Dar-list, where talk about the war and politics has almost completely > overtaken any other discussion. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:59:23 -0500 From: tneff@panix.com Subject: [RS] Re: tangential solutions For the sake of having mercy on some other music lists :) there is a listserv specifically dedicated to debating the Iraq war, if anyone here feels like doing that without worrying whether it's Richard related. To join, send mail to wardebate-join@folkserv.net and you'll get confirm info by return mail. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:01:20 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Tracy Grammer at The Turning Point. Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wanted to alert any NYC-area Richard fans who may have fallen in love with Tracy Grammer at the Knitting Factory on Saturday: Tracy will be performing a full show at the Turning Point in Piermont, NY (not far from the Tappan Zee Bridge) next Wednesday, April 9th, at 7:30pm. If you've never been to the TP, it's a wonderful, intimate 60-seat venue with great sound and not a bad seat in the place. Here's the website: http://www.piermont-ny.com/turning/ See you there! RG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:16:19 -0500 From: "mlmarmer" Subject: [RS] Birchmere Concert Last night, my wife and me, had the pleasure of seeing RS again for the 4th time. It was also the 22nd anniversary of our meeting, on March 30, 1981, the day President Regan was shot and at about the same time! Anyway, after reading about how his playlist was too short by some of you, since he had a opening act, I was prepare for the format mentioned on a few post about it. We were very pleased with both Tracy Grammer's performance, who we never heard of before and we do follow allot of folk acts and of Richard's, even with the Evian water thing. Again, I have no problem with it and it effects allot, as I wrote in my post about the French stuff going on. Tracy has a great voice and did songs written by her late duo partner, Dave Carter, who I am sorry to learn, had a heart attack at age 49 last year, when I checked out their website. She had a man with her playing a cello, standing up, without the bow, like a string bass. He was very good and did sing a song. Good voice too. I will definitely put her on my list of the many out there for new CD's to buy in the future . I hope she will continue her career. We will look forward to seeing her again in the Washington, D.C. area. She did about ten songs, as was written in a previous RS post. The man, who name, I wish I remember, did play guitar also. Can someone out tell me his name? Richard did some backup for Tracy on two songs. For those who never been to the Birchmere or don't know about it, is one of the premier music venues for all kind of music. It seats about 500 and it close to a sell out. www.birchmere.com is the website and keep it in mind, should you ever travel to the area. Service is not like what I read about at the Knitting Factory. They have been in business for over 20 years or so. The walls are full of signed posters of the artist who have played there to the owners. A wonderful place. Yes, Richard did come out with the water, made the look at it and the reference to Russian dressing during the cold war and started the concert. Tracy did back up with the violin on about 5 songs. I have no idea how quickly they can learn other people's music! Richard did 13 songs. He started with "The Courier", then Next Best Western, making reference to his trucking songs. Then the rest, maybe not in this order, but close: Cold Missouri Water (I did see James and him play together in Silver Spring, MD a few years ago), Fishing, A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress, and he always makes the reference to how his wife's hates the song and how his 8 year old daughter hear the song and he was worried she was going to ask him questions about it, Are You Happy Now, as this is the song that got me hooked on him, from the "When October Goes" CD, a story for another time, Wisteria, one of my favorites, Transit, a real favorite, as someone requested the song "Somewhere Near Patterson", I guess they didn't know the real title of Transit, and he finished with the Dave Carter song. He did 4 new songs, as they are mentioned on the previously playlist. He did talk about the mopeds at 10 o'clock at night making the delivery runs for an ice cream Shoppe by his apartment and how noisy it is. Plus the way two cars approach a intersection in Argentina. He was impressed that someone came to the concert from Northern New Jersey. Anyway, we were very pleased with both performers and will be looking forward to seeing him again, even with the French water thing. So how does he take four guitars on the plane, when he goes back home? Mike Marmer Germantown, MD ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:33:14 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Birchmere Concert >> She had a man with her playing a cello, standing up, without the bow, like a string bass. ... The man, who name, I wish I remember, did play guitar also. Can someone out tell me his name? << The guy is Donny Wright, playing upright bass and guitar. He's had previous experience playing Dave Carter's songs, as he was one of the musicians on the "Drum Hat Buddha" album. RG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:52:11 -0500 From: Greg Grant Subject: [RS] Richard Shindell Featured Artist of the Week Richard Shindell is this week's featured artist on the Online Folk Festival, an Internet-only music stream using the live365.com service. the Online Folk Festival is a freeform broadcast featuring folk and related genres (bluegrass, Celtic, country, folk/rock, worldbeat, and more). The featured artist is played approximately once an hour (cannot play more often due to silly legal restrictions). There will be tracks from all 5 of Richard's albums, plus some extra Cry Cry Cry tracks added this week for the occasion. I was fortunate enough to see Richard with Christine Kane and Tracy Grammer a couple weeks ago in Columbus--it was a really fine show, and I hope he's planning to record the Che Guevara T-shirt song soon. Greg Grant http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com greg@onlinefolkfestival.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:08:23 -0500 From: Lisa Davis & family Subject: Re: [RS] EVIAN For what it's worth, i'm on a French discussion group, where there is one other American; we are both opposed to the war, so I suppose the French participants are kindly disposed, but as a result of the discussion I now know a number of good and thoughtful songs. Don't know if you know Jean-Jacques Goldman: I had known a song of his, very chilling, about an aunt (I think) who died in the HOlocaust as a little girl; it is written as a song to his own daughter, and the title "Comme toi," "like you" expresses how ordinary and familiar with the life that was taken. However appaerntly also he wrote another song along the lines of, what would I have been like had I been born a German before WW II -- would I have resisted, would I have been a brave light of conscience, sacrificing myself for a cause, or would I have just gone along. Then there are songs by Gilles Servat which like Richard's song, tend to addrses the issues obliquely. The song that made him famous, really about Breton rebellion, has the soldier wondering if his wife will ever forgive him for preferring love of country to the love they shared. (For what it's worth, I've exported Richard's music to France too, and it was a hit!) For my part i think of my "baby" cousin (age 29) who is in Kuwait, a doctor in the navy, and wondering what kind of pieces he will have to be putting together, instead of running marathons and getting married to his sweetheart as was planned for this month. My guess is that Richard's take on things, at least musically, is more along the lines of Greek tragedy than polemics. Then again, they always have money for floods.............. Lisa Davis - -- Support the troops by bringing them home alive, NOW Stop the war ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V5 #71 **********************************