From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #99 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 Sunday, June 4 2000 Volume 02 : Number 099 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] My take... [HEYJC01@aol.com] [RS] SNP review in the UK ["Neil Pearson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:47:57 EDT From: HEYJC01@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] My take... Kerry WOW! Thanks for such a wonderful email on the four Young/Hunter Mgmt artists. You articulated the issue very well. For me personally, you struck a chord. I do not know any of the works of Peter Mulvey and Chris Smither, although I admit Ive heard of them many times on this and other lists. Can you recommend a few choice albums for a beginner of their music? I would love to find another diamond in the rough. Thanks Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 16:13:41 +0100 From: "Neil Pearson" Subject: [RS] SNP review in the UK This review appears in the new issue of the UK mag 'Rock n Reel' >> RICHARD SHINDELL - SOMEWHERE NEAR PATERSON (SIGNATURE SOUNDS) Richard Shindell makes his debut for the Massachusetts-based Signature Sounds label, after three previous much-lauded albums for Shanachie, and a recent - similarly acclaimed - partnership, dubbed Cry Cry Cry, with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky. Shindell's star is clearly in the ascendency, both creatively and commercially, with increasing numbers of people discovering the fine work of this American singer-songwriter. 'Somewhere Near Paterson' opens with a powerful, moody 'Confession'. It, a hypnotic 'You Stay Here' and 'Love Will Follow You' (featuring harmonies from the aforementioned Williams and Kaplansky) are definite highlights. The latter song was written by the excellent Buddy and Julie Miller and nicely echoes some of those great moments on the Cry Cry Cry album. The bittersweet nostalgia of 'Wisteria' is followed by an uptempo though much bleaker 'Waiting For The Storm', and 'The Grocer's Broom' in which a neighbourhood shopkeeper closes his doors for the last time, after thirty years trade, the victim of a greedy landlord. Elsewhere a cinematic 'Transit', its vivid, moving portrait culminating in redemption for a less-than-angelic choir, and a closing number from the pen of Dar Williams which Shindell just about manages to wield into something of his own, contribute to what is a particularly strong collection, from a major talent. >> Neil - ---------------------------------------- neil@fishrecords.co.uk www.fishrecords.co.uk Suppliers of singer/songwriter, contemporary folk and acoustic music. Shrewsbury, England. Tel - 01743 231546 Fax - 01743 354354 - ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #99 **********************************