From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #214 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, October 5 2004 Volume 06 : Number 214 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Seattle show: Correct set-list [Hopedancing@aol.com] [RS] Go West Young Man [B Gallagher ] [RS] In a London Fog ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] Thoughts on The Island [steve trozinski ] [RS] Leonard Cohen song [Hopedancing@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:09:01 -0400 From: Hopedancing@aol.com Subject: [RS] Seattle show: Correct set-list Apologies... in my haste last evening I neglected to include 2 songs on Richard's set-list from the show last night in Seattle. Here's the complete set (i believe). Fenario Big Muddy (Pete Seeger) Mavis Che Guevara T-shirt Cancion Sencilla Hazel's House Next Best Western Fishing Leonard Cohen song (i didn't catch the name) Are You Happy Now? Last Fare of the Day America (Paul Simon) Transit So Says the Whippoorwill-- including the 5th verse! :) ~ Candace ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:11:31 -0400 From: B Gallagher Subject: [RS] Go West Young Man To those who live across the Great Divide, Thanks for the reviews and set lists. I'm glad RS has taken the ol' wagon trail west. And finally somewhere near KC for Carrie! I'm assuming these are solo, single set shows. I'm hoping for a band for the larger IMAC venue late this month. BTW. I saw Iain Matthews with Ad Vanderveen yesterday. Awesome show. See them if they play nearby. Here's the rest of the USA tour: 5th Joe's Pub New York USA 7th Capos Lowell MA USA 8th Narrows Centre For The Arts Falls River MA USA 10th The Point Philidelphia PA USA 11th Green Willow Folk Club Wilmington DE USA 13th Maxwell's Red Dragon Baton Rouge LA USA 14th Underground Folk Greenville S.C USA 15th Swallow At The Hollow Roswell GA USA 16th Swallow At The Hollow Roswell GA USA Then UK in November. Bart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:10:17 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] In a London Fog Hey you guys, Candace noted that Richard performed: >>the song by Leonard Cohen (i didn't catch the name, but it was a wonderful >>song) << Could it have been Famous Blue Raincoat, or is he doing another Cohen cover these days? Gene F. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:43:52 -0400 From: steve trozinski Subject: [RS] Thoughts on The Island Those of you Shindell decoders that have sensed something special about The Island -- I must agree. A couple of years ago at Mahwah, when I first heard it, it grabbed me as one of those iceberg songs Richard writes. Sort of like ATFN's statement about Bosnia. It bugged me -- what the heck is he singing about? What added to the feeling was the way he delivered the song -- serious, almost brooding. I thought it was brilliant right out of the box, but I wasn't sure why. To me, it sure isn't the "breezy" song some of the reviewers have made it (Paste Mag being especially disappointing here). So after a little thought and a beer or two, here's one attempt to peel it back. On one level, the song is about "Island life", and the traveller's take on how everything changes. But on another level, here's the key -- By latitude and longitude Mariners will not arrive Its coordinates are plotted By its relative position to the rising sea The Island isn't a place -- it is the priviledged class. The aristocracy. The Island is defined by the differences -- cultural, material, attitudinal, from the rest of the populace. And the ocean is the rest of us -- the middle classes, working classes that aspire to be on the Island -- "Few are those who do not fall beneath the spell". You could take "the spell" to be the lure of affluence, the end of the struggle just to get by. The traveler in the song is visiting the aristocracy, but hasn't joined them -- the packaged deal. The constant sun, the steady breeze Nothing ever happens here He is describing the affluent (but empty?) lifestyle. Could he mean -- nothing important ever happens here? And the lucky few that manifest a certainty -- you could take this to be Richard's comment on the sustainability of the distribution of wealth -- is this sustainable? Does it make sense? The traveler sees the ocean eroding the divide --wishful thinking in the age of Bush tax cuts? The engineers do what they can -- social engineering. Tax cuts, lobbying, campaign financing, the works. Everyday another house just slides away -- reminded me of Fastow, Lay, Kozlowski. All the fallen. Despite the social engineering, they slid away off the Island. This is, for me, the most interesting song on the CD. Surely, Last Fare has more impact (a true gem), but The Island is the sleeper. Like his best songs, he uses few words and gives you a lot to think about. Ron, I will mail the decoder ring you left on the East Coast back soon. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:44:19 -0400 From: Hopedancing@aol.com Subject: [RS] Leonard Cohen song Gene mentioned from within a London fog... >Could it have been Famous Blue Raincoat, or is he doing >another Cohen cover these days? Yes, Gene, this is the song. I don't think Richard mentioned the song title on Sunday night, but I took a quick peek at the lyrics... and that's definitely the song. Richard does wonders with it :) ~ candace (back home in CA now-- jetlagged-- but I will send in a few more notes from the concert soon) ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #214 ***********************************