From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #13 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, March 21 2011 Volume 12 : Number 013 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' ["Evansakes" ] Re: [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' [Carol Love ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:29:54 -0000 From: "Evansakes" Subject: [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' It's on the newly released 'Festival Bell' album. You can listen to some of it at the link below. Just from that short sample it sounds to me like they've made a right royal pig's ear of a great song (mixing up the music of the bridge section with the lyrics of the final verse) http://www.fairportconvention.com/catalogue.php ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:32:05 +0000 From: Subject: Re: [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' Yikes! I agree. Not good. Carrie from KC currently in Boynton Beach - ---- Evansakes wrote: > It's on the newly released 'Festival Bell' album. > > You can listen to some of it at the link below. Just from that short sample > it sounds to me like they've made a right royal pig's ear of a great song > (mixing up the music of the bridge section with the lyrics of the final > verse) > > http://www.fairportconvention.com/catalogue.php ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:17:48 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: Re: [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' Ish!!!!! Those vocals don't come close to Richards!! I would have liked to hear more of what they were doing instrumentally, though. THAT part at the end sounded decent. At least RS gets royalties!! ....Carol On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Evansakes wrote: > It's on the newly released 'Festival Bell' album. > > You can listen to some of it at the link below. Just from that short sample > it sounds to me like they've made a right royal pig's ear of a great song > (mixing up the music of the bridge section with the lyrics of the final > verse) > > http://www.fairportconvention.com/catalogue.php ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:21:40 -0400 (EDT) From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Fairport Convention cover 'Reunion Hill' Wow, and I thought the version on RIchard's "Reunion Hill" CD sounded like the Royal Canadian Marching Band rendition. This is quite the overblown train-wreck. RG,who was also in Boynton Beach over the last few days. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:47:30 -0400 From: John Walkey Subject: [RS] RE: shindell-list-digest V12 #12 Cool discussion on Richard's music here, thanks Evelyn, Doug and others. I agree with everything that has been said and would add that his earlier theological studies influence his writing a lot. As you mentioned, he uses metaphor so well to reveal deeper, emotional themes in mundane happenings. Even the odd scenarios and off-beat stories find a way to connect. I find that so many of his songs hit me squarely in the chest with some serious force. Balloon Man is one of those songs that I thought was an interesting little slice of life story that relates to missing people far away. I had never heard the extra verse at the end until one day I was playing the song on guitar and reading the words off a web site (great web site to help figure out RS songs: http://members.cox.net/ronsfolkchords/shindell.htm ) and when I got to the last verse (that's not on the cd) I was completely floored. It hammered home the full meaning of the song that had sort of sailed over my head (I guess sometimes it helps to be obvious). I felt like I had been punched in the chest. But in a good way....really! So I would differentiate his music from many others by saying that it's truly revelatory -- bringing out the divine and transcendent in the most quotidian and unassuming places, which then makes that spiritual/emotional thing feel so much closer to you because you can relate to those everyday events. It really is incredible, because in the hands of a hack it becomes hokey, manipulative and schmaltzy and I've yet to hear a Shindell song that sounds like that. Some might not hit the mark as strong as others, but I'd say the man's got a very good batting average. ~John > > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > End of shindell-list-digest V12 #12 > *********************************** ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #13 ***********************************