From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #51 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 Thursday, October 27 2011 Volume 12 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Do you hear George Jones in Richard's voice? ["kunigunda" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:20:27 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] Do you hear George Jones in Richard's voice? Now that you mention it...yeh, maybe in his sustained notes and the nasal quality R sometimes produces. Timbre? R may sound more like Vern than George. carrie in kc - -------------------------------------------------- From: "Matthew Bullis" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:56 AM To: Subject: [RS] Do you hear George Jones in Richard's voice? > I'm not sure how often Richard has played A Good Year For The Roses, which > was a hit for George Jones, or if he might have played other George Jones > songs, but when introducing this song in concert, he has said that George > was his favorite singer of all time. With that in mind, I can kind of hear > a little of George's phrasing and trills in Richard's singing, but when > you're influenced by a singer, you want to be able to develop your own > style, without trying to immitate, but there may still be hints of your > varied influences that people can pick up. Thoughts? Any other George > Jones fans here who want to weigh in? George has a distinctive voice that > you won't forget, though they call Vern Gosdin "The Voice" for some > reason. Vern was excellent, though less well-known than George. > Matthew ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:24:21 +0300 From: Chris Foxwell Subject: [RS] "Before You Go" Hey, just wanted to share a recent experience concerning this song. I'm currently living in Amman, Jordan, trying out a freelance editing/writing/teaching gig following my three years of Peace Corps service (down south in the rural parts of the country), and one of my constituent gigs is teaching conversational English to young women at the YWCA. As I typically do with such courses, I weave "music classes" into the syllabus, choosing primarily folk songs that illustrate various discussion-worthy themes and issues. It's quite a different style (and quality) of music than that which typically makes its way over here, and it's also a great way to change classes up and generate new kinds of discussion. Today's music class focused on the theme of love, by popular demand, so I pulled out a number of songs involving different aspects of love: familial love, love of people & country, sadness resulting from love, and of course romantic love. (Gotta be careful with that over here, for obvious reasons...) As the final song in the class, I used Richard's "Before You Go," intentionally playing on the intense religious fervor that dominates things over here. Most of the women in the class are Muslim, despite the class being in a Y, but of course "proper" Islam has immense respect for Christianity, and as soon as I described the song's premise, they became intensely interested. They absolutely loved it. It was their favorite song of the class, and many clamored to have it on CD, even those that didn't take well to the different "feel" of singer/songwriter stuff. Just thought I'd toss that out there. Richard Shindell: multicultural, and multifaith, appeal! (Other favorites included Tracy Grammer's "Verdant Mile," Anne Heaton's "Mama To You," and Willy Porter's "Unconditional.") Chris - -- "We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." - --J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #51 ***********************************