From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V9 #108 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 Sunday, July 1 2007 Volume 09 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] hook em! [Janet Cinelli ] Re: [RS] hook em! [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] A beautiful cover of The Next Best Western ["Reinhard Liess" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: [RS] hook em! Since this list is pretty listless (heh, heh) I thought I'd throw something out to you all. My daughter is making a cd of her and her finance's favorite songs to give out at their wedding. She asked me what one song of Richard's should she use since she didn't have one favorite song. I was thinking what one song would hook a person into wanting to find out more about Richard's music. There's so many that I'm finding it hard to choose. I'm leaning towards Wisteria or maybe Reunion Hill. She also asked one song for Dar and Dave and Tracy. I said, Gentle Arms of Eden For D&T but I'm equally stumped for Dar. She's thinking of using Beauty of the Rain. First she wanted to use Echoes and I had to tell her Dar didn't write it! So, listless list, what ONE song would you use to hook a person into becoming a RS fan? In the past I would've said AYHN but I would want a more meaningful song to represent him. It's a clever song, for sure but I don't know, maybe it's a little too clever? If a song could be that? Janet ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:59:11 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] hook em! I think I'd go "Next Best Western" for Richard, DEFINITELY "Tanglewood Tree" for Dave & Tracy, and probably "Are You Out There" for Dar. RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:03:26 +0000 From: "Reinhard Liess" Subject: Re: [RS] A beautiful cover of The Next Best Western > It's not bad at all, but maybe a little *too* faithfully rendered. I'm > usually looking for an artist to put a little more of his or her own > stamp on a song. Hee that's exactly what I thought when listening to it for the first time. I still like that cover though. And I like his original material, too. I discovered him when he played at FRFF's Emerging Artist Showcase last year. - --Reinhard On June 27, 2007, Vanessa Wills wrote: > On 6/19/07, Matthew Bullis wrote: >> >> Hello, I can't stop listening to this cover version of the song, as done >> by >> Lucy Wainwright Roche. > > > I haven't heard Lucy W. R.'s version yet, but speaking of Next Best Western > covers, there's one that a singer named Drew Nelson did a few years back on > his album "Immigrant Son." I can't find any sign of it's being mentioned > onlist. It's available on Rhapsody (I swear I do not draw a commission from > this! lol). It's not bad at all, but maybe a little *too* faithfully > rendered. I'm usually looking for an artist to put a little more of his or > her own stamp on a song. > > By the way, some things on the Fast Folk recordings are still mislabeled. > For instance, track two on Vol. 8, No. 8 is "The Next Best Western" > performed by Richard himself, not a cover by Richard Meyer, Jack Hardy, > Chuck Brodsky, and Catie Curtis the way it's listed on the Folkways website, > or a cover by just Catie Curtis, which is how it's listed on Rhapsody. So if > you're looking for Richard's Fast Folk stuff on Rhapsody or directly through > Folkways, be sure not to miss that track. > > Anyway, speaking of covers, what does everyone here look for in a cover? > [/shameless ploy to drive up list traffic] > > --V > > -- > "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see > that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." > --Martin Luther King ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:28:59 -0400 From: "Vanessa Wills" Subject: Re: [RS] hook em! On 6/30/07, Janet Cinelli wrote: > > My > daughter is making a cd of her and her finance's > favorite songs to give out at their wedding. I'm fairly certain you meant to write "her and her *fiance*"? hehe I totally agree with Ron that "Tanglewood Tree" for Dave & Tracy is a given. For Richard, I think "Last Fare of the Day" might work well--it's such a beautiful song, and with its themes of life, family, and renewal, it seems very apropos. - --V - -- "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - --Martin Luther King ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V9 #108 ***********************************