From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #211 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 Saturday, October 27 2012 Volume 12 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 ["Michael & Linda Marmer" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Evelyn, I think you live in Northern VA. We saw Richard and James in concert in Silver Spring, must have been in the 90s. Is this the same concert? I have heard Richard only sing Farewell to the Gold. A Schooner Fare does that song on a CD. Mike - -----Original Message----- From: E. Wolke Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 1:22 PM To: shindell-list@smoe.org Cc: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Vanessa, I first saw Richard on that same tour with James Keelaghan -- he started out the set with "You Stay Here" and I think I almost dislocated my neck turning to hear it. I was entranced -- I'd heard of Richard and even heard a few of his songs, but at the time my children were 6 or so and I just immediately identified with the singer of that song so closely -- "You stay here and I'll go look for bread/ And if I can, some sugar for the kids", and "We'll wash (the coats) clean with melted snow/The kids don't ever have to know" -- I was too emotionally rocked to even weep. I could hardly breathe. I heard many of the standards that night -- I definitely recall "By Now" and "Fishing" and "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene" and "Reunion Hill" (the last two were the songs I'd heard before); I was totally wrung out by the time he finished playing. I was not ready for him, and he got me, thoroughly. There aren't many artists I can say that about. Keelaghan is one of them, and Garnet Rogers another -- but that night is outlined in my mind as a precious thing, especially watching Richard and Jim sing "Farewell to the Gold" together -- a song I first heard from Gordon Bok back before there was dirt. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jim's -- I go to see him every time he's in this area (the Washington DC metro sprawl). He knows me, at least by sight, and I enjoy his music whenever I see him and listen to him very often. I went to talk to them after the performance, and I was shocked when Jim said, "You really seemed to be listening to Richard closely," even seeming a little nettled. I figure my eyes must have been bugging out or something, for him to notice. I think I actually thought of the right thing to say, though -- at least for once... "You ought to know," I said. "That's how I listen to you." So much for the ego of folksingers. Loving these conversations, btw. It's fun. Back to lurkdom Evelyn Wolke ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:43:05 -0400 From: "Michael & Linda Marmer" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Heading out to The Barns Of Wolftrappe to see Lucy Kaplansky. Got my tickets this week to see Great Big Sea in concert next April in DC. SOLD OUT. Mike - -----Original Message----- From: Michael & Linda Marmer Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:24 PM To: shindell-list@smoe.org Subject: Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Evelyn, I think you live in Northern VA. We saw Richard and James in concert in Silver Spring, must have been in the 90s. Is this the same concert? I have heard Richard only sing Farewell to the Gold. A Schooner Fare does that song on a CD. Mike - -----Original Message----- From: E. Wolke Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 1:22 PM To: shindell-list@smoe.org Cc: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Vanessa, I first saw Richard on that same tour with James Keelaghan -- he started out the set with "You Stay Here" and I think I almost dislocated my neck turning to hear it. I was entranced -- I'd heard of Richard and even heard a few of his songs, but at the time my children were 6 or so and I just immediately identified with the singer of that song so closely -- "You stay here and I'll go look for bread/ And if I can, some sugar for the kids", and "We'll wash (the coats) clean with melted snow/The kids don't ever have to know" -- I was too emotionally rocked to even weep. I could hardly breathe. I heard many of the standards that night -- I definitely recall "By Now" and "Fishing" and "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene" and "Reunion Hill" (the last two were the songs I'd heard before); I was totally wrung out by the time he finished playing. I was not ready for him, and he got me, thoroughly. There aren't many artists I can say that about. Keelaghan is one of them, and Garnet Rogers another -- but that night is outlined in my mind as a precious thing, especially watching Richard and Jim sing "Farewell to the Gold" together -- a song I first heard from Gordon Bok back before there was dirt. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jim's -- I go to see him every time he's in this area (the Washington DC metro sprawl). He knows me, at least by sight, and I enjoy his music whenever I see him and listen to him very often. I went to talk to them after the performance, and I was shocked when Jim said, "You really seemed to be listening to Richard closely," even seeming a little nettled. I figure my eyes must have been bugging out or something, for him to notice. I think I actually thought of the right thing to say, though -- at least for once... "You ought to know," I said. "That's how I listen to you." So much for the ego of folksingers. Loving these conversations, btw. It's fun. Back to lurkdom Evelyn Wolke ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #211 ************************************