From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #57 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, May 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Upcoming Folk Festivals ["Batgirl of the Night" ] [RS] re: lots of posts ["Eley, Bill W" ] Re: [RS] Richard's response [Lee Wessman ] Re: [RS] New Member ["Brian Williamson" ] [RS] re: Kate and Richard ["Eley, Bill W" ] [RS] Kate Campbell ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 10:55:52 EDT From: "Batgirl of the Night" Subject: [RS] Upcoming Folk Festivals Hello everyone! It was great to get some feedback from fellow Richard fans! I hope to hear from more of you. I have heard about the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. If anyone knows where and when each of these take place I would be eternally grateful!!! I plan to attend both if possible. If anyone else is planning to go maybe we could all plan to meet and hang out. I would love to meet some of you other "listers". *This is for Gene(the one that responded to my letter) Were you sitting at the table attached to the stage, in front of Richard? I spoke with a very nice gentleman during the show, about Richard, Lucy, Cry Cry Cry, etc., but I don't remember his name. So, perhaps it is you that I spoke with? I have blonde hair. Let me know if it was you that I spoke with. Well, take care everyone and I look forward to hearing from all of you! Renee Polgar dscully73@hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:00:39 -0400 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] Re: lots of posts First of all, this place just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Awesome to have all these new listers! :-) Richard wrote: Alright, that is *too cute*. :-) Gene wrote: Bad Company, indeed. I agree--support non-mainstream radio! I can't tell you how much it depresses me to hear my brother extolling the virtues of 'N Sync, or going on about how James van der Beek is a better actor than Russell Crowe (whose older movies, like "Romper Stomper" and "The Sum of Us," everyone should check out). And I hate how he watches insipid apologetic pap like that show "Popular." It's like my little bro' (17yo) is getting a full-on assault from the worst pop culture has to offer. Anyway, my only consolation is that he actually *asked* to borrow a Richard Shindell CD. Let's all cross our fingers and hope for the best, shall we? ;-) The boy may have taste after all! (Although this is the same kid who would pass up Lyle Lovett in favor of Britney Spears). Renee (our newest lister?) wrote: First of all, Welcome, Renee! You know, his music will do that to ya. ;-) She also wrote: Ooh, what was the joke? - -- "Bright lights flashing/ To cover up your lack of/ Soul many people so many problems/ So many reasons to buy another round/ Drink it down/ Just another night on the town." --G. Love and Special Sauce, "Rodeo Clowns" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:47:01 -0500 From: "Eley, Bill W" Subject: [RS] re: lots of posts Renee - very nice description of your first R.S. show. My first (and only) live experience was just him and the guitar, which was very intimate and revealing (I felt). Although he's very soft-spoken, you could cut the electricity in the air with a knife, which is a feeling I've only had with a couple of other performers (John Gorka and Ellis Paul). I can't really picture him with a band, although I'm sure the sound was awesome. Gene's comments sort of sent chills up my spine - I know exactly what you're saying. I guess I've sort of given up the idea that any of this music will ever be on radio, and maybe that's not so bad (for us, anyway). R.S. won't get rich (which doesn't seem to concern him), and he also won't get so big that an experience like Renee's is no longer possible. The "full-on assault from the worst pop culture" that Vanessa mentions is what scares me. The lack of exposure equates to lack of influence, in a lot of cases. I'm not worried about us - more about people like Vanessa's brother (and my own kids). If you're interested in the joke Renee heard, you may also enjoy a story he told us. Bear in mind that you had to be there to really appreciate this. Since he was playing in Texas, somehow it came up during the show that Townes Van Zandt was one of his heroes. Richard went to see Townes at The Bottom Line when Richard was just getting started. As always happens (it's happened to me), during a break, Richard found himself standing next to Townes in the bathroom at one of the urinals. Not knowing exactly what to say, Richard blurted out "Uh, would you play Flying Shoes?". And Townes said "Right now?". Bill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 08:55:57 -0800 From: Lee Wessman Subject: Re: [RS] Richard's response So here's my 2 cents worth: Richard wrote: Do you think it would be a horrible breach of protocol if I were to hunt down Ann Powers and give her a big fat kiss? Nope. No breach of journalistic protocol. I've been a newspaper editor and reporter for 25 years. (Geez.) Ann Powers obviously loves your music, and being at the Times, she is in a tremendous position to help other people find out about it. Years ago I covered music on the side. Kate Wolf was the best at knowing who her supporters were in the press, and she never came across as insincere. She used to always send a note thanking writers for good reviews, and she would send autographed copies of each album coming out. She'd call when she was coming to town to see if I could meet for a cup of coffee. One time she even quoted a line from one of my reviews (Something like, "It was so quiet at Wolf's outdoor show you could hear a mosquito burp") while she was onstage in my town. It all just made me love her more. I'd send Ann Powers some flowers. > Vanessa wrote about her little brother turning on to Richard's music. I have daughters who are 14 and 12. They're into the whole teeanage music thing. But there are a couple of "my" artists who they love, and Richard tops the list. They got locked in on him while we were driving and they suddenly understood the story in "May." Soon they knew every lyric on that album. And when Richard played California recently, they went with me to see him and loved every minute of it. They talk about him to their friends. Maybe it's all Brittney Spears and NSync for now, but somewhere down in the psyche my kids have caught on to music such as Richard's. It's waiting there for them, running deep. - -lee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:35:48 -0400 From: "Brian Williamson" Subject: Re: [RS] New Member Yes, I thought the exact same thing. Kate and Richard would be one fantastic evening!!! brian. - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [RS] New Member > In a message dated 05/02/2000 2:26:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > Bill_Eley@AIMFUNDS.COM writes: > > > The Houston show (with Kate Campbell) was his first appearance in Texas > > outside of Kerrville (which took me by surprise > > Kate and Richard in one show. Amazing...almost too much. Both such wonderful > songwriters. > > Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:43:36 -0500 From: "Eley, Bill W" Subject: [RS] re: Kate and Richard It was my first exposure to Kate, but I got lots of "warning" from friends who are fans. She's wonderful, unless that Arkansas/Tennessee/Mississippi accent wears on you (being from Louisiana, I didn't have a problem with it :-) ). She and Richard had never met before that night, but they obviously enjoyed each other's stuff. It was billed as a "songwriter's night", but she opened for him. They didn't do anything together, although I think Richard made some comment about wishing they'd had time to work something up. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:09:50 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Kate Campbell I heard Kate Campbell on "World Cafe" a couple of years ago and was so impressed with "Bud's Sea-mint Boat" that I bought the CD MOONPIE DREAMS almost immediately after. I found the rest of the CD to be hit and miss but I still love that song. "Bud's Sea Mint Boat" is based upon her uncle who actually worked for NASA. Bud is an engineer designing "toliets for the space program" by day and building his boat in his spare time. While discussing the song, Kate (who I guess is about Richard's age) said that the two things that influenced her the most when she was growing up were the civil rights movement and the space program. She then said that the song is about how our dreams for the moon have become nostaglia. One of the last lines is: "Well, he got laid off in '74 and they don't go to the moon anymore". One of the saddest lines ever. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #57 **********************************