From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #189 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 Wednesday, October 17 2012 Volume 12 : Number 189 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] three songs [Carol Love ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:59:12 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: Re: [RS] three songs Jean Rossner wrote: > "Are You Happy Now" seems to have at least three back-stories, and they > aren't necessarily compatible with one another. I don't know that Richard > is being completely honest with his audience--and he has the right to some > privacy, if indeed the song is partially or fully autobiographical. .....I have heard more than one version of that song's origins at shows, too. However, back in the mid 90's RS's first wife and their son used to live in the Tampa Bay area and I ended up next to the first Mrs. Shindell at a festival show once. I asked her point blank if she's the girlfriend he mentions during the usual song intro and she said she was. They seemed to have an amiable post-marriage relationship, so I think she was probably telling me the truth. Funny enough she and I are both educators and we talked about that much more than RS and his music when we'd end up in the same ladies room line or whatever at a show. ~ Carol ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #189 ************************************