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shindell-list-digest      Sunday, March 20 2011      Volume 12 : Number 012



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  [RS] V 12                                              [dbri732722@aol.com]

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:47:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: dbri732722@aol.com
Subject: [RS] V 12

 Evelyn Wolke

Thank you, Evelyn, for your lovely response to my post. You bring up so many
good points, but one in particular, so conspicuous, so relevant, was your
observation of Richard's covers. Yes, it does answer the question....if not in
whole, at least in part. Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Jeff Foccualt,
Springsteen. I would be hard pressed, (to borrow a line from Townes) to put a
label on the genre, we all listen to, all love.....the music that evokes so
much emotion for various and individual reasons, the metaphors....some subtle,
some not so much, but something my soul demands before it can be permeated.

I so often refer to the incomparable bard's description...definition of the
nebulous "folk" genre, and yes, Evelyn, Indie is a much better term. Dylan's
quote to which I refer was this; "The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me
anyway it wasn't enough ... There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse
rhythms ... but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a
realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a
serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness,
more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings."

Jimi Hendrix was quoted as saying, and this one I have to paraphrase; You
don't listen to soul music, you feel it.

Whatever it is that Richard is able to do, and does as well as many of the
masters, is to observe in his music, the minutia that is a part of
life.....the ability for him to recognize that minutia that can be
incorporated in his poetry in just the right time and place, to bring the
meaning, the message, to us in the perspective which lends itself to our own
personal experiences, our own interpretation.


Doug Brienzo

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