From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #64 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, February 21 2005 Volume 07 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: Kids music [Marshall Levin ] RE: [RS] Compilation [Gary Martin ] [RS] How to avoid Amazon [Georgette deFriesse ] Re: [RS] Compilation [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] new question: Richard for the non-english-speaker [Lisa Davis - hom] Re: [RS] Compilation [Jeff Bernstein ] Re: [RS] Compilation [adam plunkett ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:46:30 -0500 From: Marshall Levin Subject: [RS] Re: Kids music I'm not completely caught up on my email, but I don't think anyone mentioned Dan Zanes' album "Night Time!" -- it is a kids album and it features our friend Dar (among other great folks). http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/danzanes3 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:22:20 -0500 From: Gary Martin Subject: RE: [RS] Compilation "Mark A. Douglas" : > You know, this actually brings up an interesting conundrum in general: how > to break someone into the contemporary folk music scene. I highly recommend going to http://www.waterbug.com and browsing around. They have four excellent sampler CDs for $5 each (one free when you order at least one full-priced CD) and over 60 titles. The label is run by Andrew Calhoun, who is a great songwriter and an old friend of Richard's. At Falcon Ridge, after his mainstage show, Richard stopped by the Waterbug booth to chat with Andrew for half an hour or so. At one point, a kid came over, maybe 11 years old, and asked Richard for his autograph. Andrew jokingly said, "Do you want my autograph, too?" The kid asked, "Do you play with him?" Waterbug was the first label to release Dar Williams' first album, The Honesty Room, though that's no longer in the catalogue. You will, however, find Leslie Smith's wonderful CD, These Things Wrapped, from which Cry, Cry, Cry got "Northern Cross". And don't miss Anais Mitchell, who is the best young songwriter I've heard in a long, long time. Andrew is very particular about what gets released on Waterbug. His artistic standards I think are very similar to Richard's. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:45:55 -0500 From: Georgette deFriesse Subject: [RS] How to avoid Amazon While I prefer to patronize my local indie bookstore, I have found an internet alternative I can use without a bad conscience. I've gotten this far through life without ever having purchased anything through EBay or Amazon, so I don't anticipate I'll ever have to buy from them. http://www.alibris.com/ will allow you to shop independent stores across the country. I only use them for books (we have the wonderful For The Record locally), but I did a quick search and found Richard's recordings well represented. NFI, Georgette ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:05:40 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Compilation >> Waterbug was the first label to release Dar Williams' first album, The Honesty Room, though that's no longer in the catalogue. You will, however, find Leslie Smith's wonderful CD, These Things Wrapped, from which Cry, Cry, Cry got "Northern Cross". << Ah, "These Things Wrapped," one of my all-time favorite CDs. And coincidentally, it was a Waterbug sampler on which I first heard Leslie's beautiful song about senior citizen rest-home love, "Midnight Pirouette." I unhesitatingly recommend Leslie's CD . . . the only one she released, sadly, before disappearing from the industry. If you like mid-era Nanci Griffith (post-country, pre-pop, pre-over-the-top-self-righteous-parody-of-herself), you'll love Leslie. Her own version of "Northern Cross" blows away Cry Cry Cry's cover. The lovely "Prayers of Genevieve." The dark and sad "Wednesday's Child." The zippy "Scotland." Get it, get it, get it. RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:55:04 -0500 From: Lisa Davis - home Subject: [RS] new question: Richard for the non-english-speaker I'm about to send a sampler to someone who doesn't really know English very well and thus probably won't appreciate the songs at the lyric level until several listenings. And then the plays on words will have to be explained and so forth. Certainly when I listen to non-English songs it's the melody and the vocal style that grabs long before the lyrics! But we often appreciate Richard's music as much for the lyrics as anything else. So I was wondering -- what songs would be best for this situation? Which songs are the most melodic, the most arresting at the purely musical level? Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:56:18 -0500 From: Jeff Bernstein Subject: Re: [RS] Compilation Gary Martin wrote: > And don't miss Anais Mitchell, who is the best > young songwriter I've heard in a long, long time. I want to second this recommendation. I first heard Anais while I was listening to a stream of WFMT's Midnight Special. I knew it was a voice I had not heard before, and I went right to the web site to find out it was. I immediately ordered both of her CDs and haven't stopped listening since they arrived. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:15:38 -0800 (PST) From: adam plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] Compilation Anais Mitchell is actually opening for Richard in Cambridge in April. - --- Jeff Bernstein wrote: > Gary Martin wrote: > > > And don't miss Anais Mitchell, who is the best > > young songwriter I've heard in a long, long time. Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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