From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #94 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 Friday, June 9 2006 Volume 08 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. [rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Lori McKenna [Jim Colbert ] [RS] patty sings the blues [sdgold60@optonline.net] [RS] Patty/covers. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. [Adam Plunkett ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:22:23 -0400 From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. My essential non-RS folk discs. None are even remotely new except Mark's, but you've got RG's money-back guarantee on all of them. Patty Griffin "Living With Ghosts" Lori McKenna "Pieces of Me" Shawn Colvin "Steady On" Lucy Kaplansky "The Tide" Kris Delmhorst "Five Stories" Gillian Welch "Revival" Dar Williams "The Honesty Room" Hugh Blumenfeld "The Strong in Spirit" Cry Cry Cry "Cry Cry Cry" Deb Talan "A Bird Flies Out" The Weepies "Happiness" Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer "Tanglewood Tree" Mark Erelli "Hope & Other Casualties" Cheryl Wheeler "Driving Home" Now, this list points up a whole other issue ... where are the great NEW releases? Why, for the most part, does an artist's work impress me LESS as his/her career progresses? Look at the list: in the case of Patty, Lori, Hugh, Gillian, Dar, Shawn and Lucy, each one was their FIRST record. And Richard's not on the list, but "Sparrows Point" (yep, debut CD) is my favorite of his. Hmmmm. Hmmm, I tell ya. RG ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:03:27 -0400 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] Lori McKenna > To the excellent suggestions made by others I would add Lori McKenna, Hey, did I mention the first time I heard a Lori McKenna song? It was the song Mars, and it was this guy playing in a place called Heirloom Solutions in Glen Rock, New Jersey... (: (I swear, it's true!) i LOVE Lori McKenna. Pieces is probably my favorite, but I like 'em all. - -jim, 2.5 hours west on 80 from "mintzy and tammany..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:20:22 -0400 From: sdgold60@optonline.net Subject: [RS] patty sings the blues - -many of the new patty griffin songs are Blues numbers. it seems that she had been listening to the blues when she was working on Impossible Dream. There are some stunning and classic patty songs to come..there is one about her shoes, a trapeze artist she saw as a kid and the metaphor of being on a trapeze and then there is a tribute song to Dr King and the blues numbers she also sings Moon River at the end of Elizabethtown and she is in the flick......rent it... netflix it to see patty .... but moon river is a keeper... sharon all the patty there is to print ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:49:17 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Patty/covers. One more (hopefully final, at least from me) thing about Patty Griffin. Even when other people cover her songs, they're brilliant. The Dixie Chicks' version of "Let Him Fly" and "Truth #2." Kasey Chambers' "Top of the World." Lori McKenna's "Sweet Lorraine." It's as if they're beyond being ruined. Of course, Joan Baez hasn't covered one yet, so anything can happen, but you know what I'm sayin'. ;-) RG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:51:32 -0400 From: Adam Plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. Once a friend wanted a list of my fave singer-songwriter albums (not counting Dylan which the person already covered) and since Ron posted his this is what I came up with: Bill MIller - Red Road Bill Morrissey - Inside Bruce Cockburn - Charity of the Night Chris Smither - Small Revelations Cliff Eberhardt - Borders Dan Bern - Dan Bern Dar Williams - Mortal City David Gray - A Century Ends Ellis Paul - Say Something Garnet Rogers - Sparrow's Wing Gillian Welch - Revelator Greg Brown - Further In Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine Iris DeMent - My Life James Keelaghan - Then Again Jeffrey Foucault - Miles from the Lightning Jimmy LaFave - Blue Nightfall Kelly Joe Phelps - Sky Like a Broken Clock Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams Lyle Lovett - Pontiac Martin Sexton - Black Sheep Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts Pierce Pettis - Chase the Buffalo Richard Shindell - Vuelta Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage Susan Werner - Time Between Trains My apologies for an off RS post but maybe those looking for something new will find something here. If I were to do a complete folk album list, the list would be much different with the traditional stuff mixed in. Adam On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:22 PM, rongrittz@aol.com wrote: > My essential non-RS folk discs. None are even remotely new except > Mark's, but you've got RG's money-back guarantee on all of them. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:14:11 -0600 From: "john cleirigh" Subject: Re: [RS] Patty/covers. On 6/8/06, Rongrittz@aol.com wrote: >>Of course, Joan Baez hasn't covered one (of PG's songs) yet, so anything can happen, but you know what I'm sayin'. ;-)<< Oh...take that thought back...it's like opening Pandora's Box...unsay it Ron, please... - -- John Cleirigh | Boulder, CO | 303/590.4290 http://johncleirigh.com/ | http://myspace.com/johncleirigh ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #94 **********************************