From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #425 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 18 2013 Volume 12 : Number 425 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Newbie ["Michael Bird" ] [RS] Sara [jimcolbert@aol.com] [RS] My vote [Norman Johnson ] [RS] Re: Sara [] [RS] Glasses, coins and championship rings. [] [RS] Not just chicks [Pete Jameson ] Re: [RS] The Championship Round. [Janet Cinelli ] Re: Re: [RS] Final vote [ookpik@verizon.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:34 -0000 From: "Michael Bird" Subject: [RS] Newbie Joined a while ago but life has been hectic and only just getting round to working out how it all works. Any other members out there from Ireland or UK? I'm in Co Antrim and am not going to go there about which one we are in, especially on St Paddy's Day. Got a lovely reply from someone to my original post but cant find it among the mess that is my inbox but if you are out there, please make yourself known again. Have been listening to RC a lot recently on my ipod. Different way of listening. Have nearly all his albums on it and just put it to "play all songs". Difficult in that you are sometimes not aware of when one album starts and finishes. Technology changing our listening. Often listen when I am in the gym so tend to zone in and out, but find that it is a good way of listening to new songs as you gradually become aware of them and find when you do take the time to sit down and listen properly you are more tuned in. Really pleased to hear there is a new album on the way - will look forward to that. Been listening to Lucy Kaplanskys new album which is stunning - hugely personal though - youd wonder at the effect it would have to revisit all those emotions on stage every night. I use facebook. For my penny's worth a facegroup group may be a bit easier for me to manage Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:08:01 -0400 (EDT) From: jimcolbert@aol.com Subject: [RS] Sara Loving that people are getting to hear what I've always said about Sara Milonovich. I think she's an idea accompanist. She's also a pretty fine singer in her own right, if you ever have the chance to hear her duo with Greg Anderson, or as part of Daisycutter, a sort of loose collective that plays a few times a year (and often includes Abbie Gardner of Red Molly.) Did I ever mention she once sang "Reunion Hill" for me? :) - -Jim C I really like when Sara M plays with RS. Sheadds a lot without over powering a song. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:14:08 -0400 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] My vote This is a hard decision. I like each song about equally for different reasons. Ron laid out some of the reasons for Reunion Hill - woman's POV, period piece, etc. Transit is an other worldly mortality play with many layers and some well crafted lyrics. I'll give it to Reunion Hill, for the non linear story. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:46:15 -0700 From: Subject: [RS] Re: Sara >> Loving that people are getting to hear what I've always said about Sara Milonovich. I think she's an ideal accompanist. She's also a pretty fine singer in her own right << Totally agree. I've said this before, but Sara's accompaniment is always restrained and elegant, something we haven't always gotten with RS backing musicians in the past.. Also, I often find myself preferring her harmonies to Lucy's, at least for something different. Not that Lucy and Richard aren't great and magical together, but Lucy's powerful, distinctive and occasionally dissonant harmonies can sometimes overpower a song. Sara sings WITHIN the songs, not on top of them, and I find that to be simply lovely. And damn, that girl can play violin. RG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:48:32 -0700 From: Subject: [RS] Glasses, coins and championship rings. When Much Madness started, I actually wrote down which two songs I guessed would be in the finals, and I guessed "Transit" and "Reunion Hill." But now that we're here, I really don't have to think twice. My vote goes to "Reunion Hill." Character piece? Check. Woman's POV? Even better. Period piece? Check. Wartime? Even better. Wistful? Check. Gorgeous melody? Check. DADGAD? Check. Yeah, I probably like the studio version of the song LESS than almost any other song in the Shindell catalog. But when he does it slow and sweet -- either solo or with a violin player -- it's, as Shelda said, nearly perfect. And it is, by FAR, my single favorite song in the whole world to play on guitar. If it had been up against "Wisteria," I probably would have had no choice but to go the other way, but of the two finalists, "Reunion Hill" is closer to my heart. As I said in an earlier round, I heard the song shortly after its original unveiling -- when it had a slightly different structure -- and I knew then it was one of the most incredible songs I'd ever heard or likely ever WOULD hear. That's my story, that's my vote, and I'm sticking to it. RG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:33:13 -0400 From: Pete Jameson Subject: [RS] Not just chicks Janet, Richard sang on Andrew Calhoun's "Bound to Go: Folk Songs and Spirituals"...it features a cast of, well, dozens, and has 35 songs on one disc, so I'm not abso-tively sure which song(s) Richard sings on, but it's a brilliant collection of songs, many culled from Andrew's trip to the Sea Islands (SC?)... And my long-term storage tells me he sang with John Gorka on a record or two, or maybe that was John singing on Richard's record? There have to be others... Happy St. Paddy's Week-end, Paddy in PA On Mar 15, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Janet Cinelli wrote: > At first I thought this was going to be an easy pick but reading and thinking > about everyone's Transit posts had me re-thinking the song. It certainly > evokes memories of when I first discovered Richard in the summer of 2000. I > heard Transit more than once that weekend so I became familiar with it but I > wasn't sure I liked it. After hearing the original last week for the first > time in a long time, I realized how much I did like it. BUT, after saying all > this, it came down to what makes me happier to hear and hands down it's > Reunion Hill. I love the story, it's such a visual song that I can play it > like a movie in my head when I hear it. It also reminds me of when I used to > go visit my daughter in college. I'd get off the New Jersey turnpike, to the > Pennsylvania turnpike and without fail there would always be 2 hawks soaring > higher still. And I don't know, I just find Reunion Hill's melody so much > prettier. So, my pick is Reunion Hill. > On another note, I wonder if there's a list somewhere that has all the songs > Richard has done back-up vocals on. Vanessa posted a pretty song he does, the > song/performer's name escapes me right now but other than Lucy and Antje, what > other singers are there? Oh I know one, Lori McKenna! But who else? Has he > always sang back-up with just women? Wondering, wondering, > Janet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] The Championship Round. Maybe the reunion was in "And dreamed a dream I will not tell." Or maybe the name of a real place that stuck with him. Kind of like Bloody Hill, a street that's not far from where Falcon Ridge use to be held. Janet - --- On Fri, 3/15/13, Laurence Krulik wrote: Let me say I love Reunion Hill. However, I think the actual phrase "Reunion Hill" always struck me me as, well, cheesy. Maybe folks here can change my mind, but what was actually reunited on that hill anyway? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:50:36 -0500 (CDT) From: ookpik@verizon.net Subject: Re: Re: [RS] Final vote "Transit," for the reasons I gave in the earlier discussion. (I think I mixed up what I was trying to say about the Unjust Steward, though.) Jean ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #425 ************************************