From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #160 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, July 16 2000 Volume 02 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Castaway [Joe Papendick ] Re: [RS] Castaway [HEYJC01@aol.com] Re: [RS] Castaway ["Susan Koval" ] [RS] Sebastopol Show, 7/14 [Tom Negrino ] [RS] if you havent heard.. [Sdgold60@aol.com] [RS] New transcriptions. [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Sebastopol& Castaway ["Norman A. Johnson" ] [RS] Castaway Thoughts [patrick t power ] Re: [RS] Castaway Thoughts ["Norman A. Johnson" ] [RS] sebastopol stuff [katie stohlmann ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:24:39 -0500 From: Joe Papendick Subject: Re: [RS] Castaway Just listen. It's a song, not a puzzle. http://search.nytimes.com/errors/qpassdiv.html?URI=http://search.nytimes.com/partners/xword/puzzles.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 07:03:00 EDT From: HEYJC01@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Castaway Another interesting part of the song is the last verse, where it appears he ties in the whole family as a castaway: 'Cause I can play, castaway Two can play, castaway Three can play, castaway And we all play, castaway In my mind, maybe we are all castaways of sort. Never to return to the "sleepy land" from whence we came. By the way Lisa, I also sing the harmony part on Richard's songs. Maybe its because I enjoy his voice so much I dont want to overlap too much (and ruin it!). Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:35:15 -0400 From: "Susan Koval" Subject: Re: [RS] Castaway Vanessa, it must be really interesting to be one of your college professors and read your papers. You often come up with a lot of thought-provoking and insightful commentary, such as you recently did for Castaway. And, I believe the best songs always have more than one interpretation.... :) Sue K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:09:02 -0700 From: Tom Negrino Subject: [RS] Sebastopol Show, 7/14 Well, after wandering in the wilderness for lo these many years, I have finally attended my first RS concert. And it was a good one, too. The show last night in Sebastopol, CA's Methodist Church was very enjoyable. Opening for Richard was Mary Gauthier (pronounced "go-shay"), who was fun, funny, and talented. She's from Louisiana, and delighted in telling us of her recent award from a group in New York: Gay and Lesbian Country Artist of the Year. As she wryly said: "Imagine all the competition in THAT category. I could just see someone in Nashville picking up the phone and hearing "Congratulations! You've been nominated!" and them saying "Uh, please don't do that." Nashville's come a long way, but they're not ready for that yet." Mary was so terrific that she got an encore, much to her own surprise. Richard came on right after Mary's set, opening with "The Next Best Western," and did about 45 minutes before taking a break. Having not seen him before, I couldn't tell if he was acting as he usually does; he had his eyes closed a lot, which I felt distanced him a bit from the crowd. He was great in the between song patter, so maybe the lights were just in his eyes. He opened after the (a bit longer than planned) break with "Fishing," grinning while singing "Please have a seat...Sorry I'm late..." He did six songs from the latest album, though the others were well represented with "Kenworth," "Reunion Hill," "AYHN," "Lazy" (which for some reason I always think of as the Shindell version of "The Girl From Ipanema"), "Arrowhead," "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene," plus others. He closed with "Transit," with some unexpected - though oddly apropos - help from the Sebastopol PD, which drove by the church with sirens blaring during the traffic jam verses. The crowd cracked up, and he almost did too. His encore was "My Love Will Follow You," and that was the end of a great evening. While walking out to the car, we ran into him (not literally) and we got to chat for a while. My wife will be in NYC next week, and she just might drop by Lucy's Makor show, where Richard will be sitting in. Wish I could be there! Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:43:52 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [RS] if you havent heard.. if you havent heard by now Lucy has added an extra, a second show at Makor wednesday night and richard will be joining her at the show so you get LUCY and Richard and a double header whatta way to start a falcon ridge weekend mail me if you are coming... sharonG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:44:23 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] New transcriptions. Transcripton update, for any guitar players who haven't visited the site in a while: I've just added three songs to the Shindell page, "Confession," "The Weather" and "Sing Me Back Home." Additionally, over the last couple of weeks I've added pages for Gillian Welch, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, and Hugh Blumenfeld. Now back to the conversation about placenta. ;-) RG http://members.aol.com/rongrittz/page/chords.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:32:28 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Sebastopol& Castaway Tom recounting the Sebastopol show said: >> Having not seen him before, I couldn't tell if he was acting as he usually does; he had his eyes closed a lot, which I felt distanced him a bit from the crowd. He was great in the between song patter, so maybe the lights were just in his eyes. >> He *does* close his eyes alot, particularly when he gets "intense" like on "You Stay Here". >>He opened after the (a bit longer than planned) break with "Fishing," grinning while singing "Please have a seat...Sorry I'm late..." >> Funny. But seriously, aren't those great opening lines? Castaway thoughts: I think it's one of Richard's more autobiographical songs. I think that's his son he's talking about-- both his birth and the separation as his son grows older. It's almost a prelude to "I saw my youth today". Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:10:18 -0700 From: patrick t power Subject: [RS] Castaway Thoughts For some reason, I had always imagined that the child was born to a woman who went away ("I'm an ocean apart from you") -- the same woman "across that blue divide"? Pat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:32:03 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: Re: [RS] Castaway Thoughts Pat said: >>For some reason, I had always imagined that the child was born to a woman who went away ("I'm an ocean apart from you") -- the same woman "across that blue divide"? >> I don't think so. He reconnects with the woman in "Blue Divide", who I'm pretty sure is Richard's current wife. I think the woman in "Castaway" was his first wife, Sam's mother. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:02:50 -0700 From: katie stohlmann Subject: [RS] sebastopol stuff I wanted to add my own thoughts about last night's show in Sebastopol, but I realized that I didn't really get a chance to sit and enjoy the music for various reasons. I will say that the parts of the show that I did hear were really great. This was only my second time seeing Richard, and it was really cool to see him 10 minutes from my house at a concert sponsored by the radio station where I intern. Since I wasn't sitting in the church for the whole show, what with running around chasing little kids away, being the door monitor, and going backstage just because I could, I will leave the setlist for someone else. I did enjoy hearing Confession (with the hey duck story), The Next Best Western, Reunion Hill, and Transit (complete with sirens courtesy of the Sebastopol police department). It was nice to see Peter and Tom, whom I know from house concerts and such, and to meet John. I got to be the "person who tells Richard it's time to go on". I only lost him a couple of times. He joined the KRCB crew to chat a little after the show, listened to my reasons why the Powerhouse is an evil evil place and said he'd never go there, and is the only person to correctly know my age. All in all, a fun show. Even my mom had fun and she only stayed through the first act. I hope he comes back to Sebastopol and Sonoma County on the next swing through California. katie stohlmann http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~stohlman/ ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #160 ***********************************