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shindell-list-digest    Friday, September 29 2000    Volume 02 : Number 280



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse  ["Norman A. Johnson" <]
  RE: [RS] transitory ramblings                [Howie <howie33@mediaone.net>]
  Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse  [SMOKEY596@aol.com]
  Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse  [patrick t power <]
  Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse  [SMOKEY596@aol.com]
  [RS] more David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse  ["Norman A. Johns]

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:55:12 -0400
From: "Norman A. Johnson" <njohnson@ent.umass.edu>
Subject: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse

This post has little or no Richard content but I think some of you may be
intrerested. I just saw David Wilcox, one on RonG's "guitar heroes" at the
Iron Horse.

Jennifer Kimball opened. Interestingly, she started with "Long Way Home"
("you're a highway with no exits"), the single of her CD and her best known
song. More interestingly, she skipped ahead on the song and then had
trouble getting back. She made several comments while singing the chorus
("It's a long way home, but I only live 2 hours away, how could I mess up
this song"). 

While Jennifer was introducing one of her songs, a guy at the front table,
the one next to mine, started talking to her about "sounding from New
York". Not a "soy bomb" incident. It was David Wilcox himself. At the
intermission, the woman sitting next to me, and even closer to David, said
she almost had a heart attack when David sat down. David seemed to be
really enjoying Jennifer's short set, which after the "Long Way Home"
fiasco, turned out just fine. Jennifer has a new song, "Back of my hand",
that has lyrics "heavily borrowed" from lines in _The English Patient_.

David played for about an hour and a half, some songs from his very new
album, some from his second album, HOW DID YOU FIND ME HERE [1], and some
from albums in between. The most amazing part was when he said that he
wanted to make up a song. He asked for volunteers. He asked if anyone was
going through a difficult time or had to make a difficult decision. Some
guy in the back said he was about to buy a house. David kept pressing him
for details: "What are you afraid of? Where's the house? Is it commitment
that you are worried about? It was just so funny. Then David played the
song, making it up as he went along. This guy is amazing. Oh, and after the
song was over, he gave a copy of the new CD to the guy.

Jennifer played on a few of the songs. She, like Lucy, is a great harmony
vocalist.

For his encore, David said he could play two things; he asked if people
wanted to hear a song about death. The audience said "no". David said "too
bad. The death song was "Eye of the Hurricane". He played "How did you find
me here" instead.

David is a great guitar player and lyricist like Richard and he has quiet
charisma reminiscient of that of another singer-songwriter with initials
DW. You should all go out and see him [2].

Norman

[1] Ron, refresh my memory, just what is David's first album? You told me
once. Since I don't have it, the name is not in my memory.

[2] David's playing at the Bottom Line in early November

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:40:09 -0400
From: Howie <howie33@mediaone.net>
Subject: RE: [RS] transitory ramblings

At 08:23 AM 9/28/2000 -0400, Edward wrote:
><<The only person I see achieving grace in the song is Sister Maria.
>Everybody else has just got their fingers crossed.>>
>
>Why?  Because she is a nun, because she can change a tire, or because she
>gives her time at the prison?  That is all we know about her, she could have
>a dark-side.  I have it from a good source that Sister Maria isn't really a
>"sister" if you know what I mean.  Maybe that is why she made such quick
>work of that tire change.

Perhaps she's related to Sister Josephine:
http://www.mudcat.org/!!-song99.cfm?stuff=fall99+D+11302504

- -Howie

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:10:09 EDT
From: SMOKEY596@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse

<< It was David Wilcox himself. At the  intermission, the woman sitting next 
to me, and even closer to David, said she almost had a heart attack when 
David sat down. David seemed to be really enjoying Jennifer's short set, 
which after the "Long Way Home" fiasco, turned out just fine.  >>

I love David Wilcox!  I saw him twice last year, and at one of those shows he 
was sitting in the audience like you describe here, but he didn't heckle the 
opener. :-)  After the guy was done, David walked right up to him and said 
"WOW!"  It was a local artist, Jason Wilbur, and David just went on and on 
with him about the show, took one of his CDs, etc.  Then when he went to 
play, he said, "Wow.  I didn't know JASON was opening for me.  I mean, I knew 
someone was opening, but I didn't know it was JASON.  Have you guys heard 
Jason before?  Isn't he great?" 

And by the way, Jason *is* pretty great. :-)  You can get his CDs at CDNow.

Norman, I know Ron's out there somewhere and will answer this for you too 
probably, but David's first CD was "The Nightshift Watchman".

SMOKEY
Conquer your fear, and master the game/Life is always and never the same,
Use a little faith to light the flame/And I know you'll connect to you.
Pop the cork, a champagne glass/Raise to the future, drink to the past,
Thank the Lord for the friends he cast/In the play he wrote for you.
        Ellis Paul

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:52:07 -0700
From: patrick t power <ptpower@juno.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse

Norman noted:

<<Jennifer played on a few of the songs. She, like Lucy, is a great
harmony vocalist.>>

Lest we forget . . . Jennifer sings harmony on Lucy's "Ten Year Night"
CD.

Pat


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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:17:50 EDT
From: SMOKEY596@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse

Ooops!  Sorry, just in case any of you were rushing out to buy one of his 
CDs, it's Jason Wilber, not Wilbur.

SMOKEY
Conquer your fear, and master the game/Life is always and never the same,
Use a little faith to light the flame/And I know you'll connect to you.
Pop the cork, a champagne glass/Raise to the future, drink to the past,
Thank the Lord for the friends he cast/In the play he wrote for you.
        Ellis Paul

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:53:57 -0400
From: "Norman A. Johnson" <njohnson@ent.umass.edu>
Subject: [RS] more David Wilcox w/ Jennifer Kimball @ Iron Horse

I forgot to mention David played "Rusty Old American Dream", another
vehicle song that has a zippness akin to "Kenworth of My Dreams".

Jennifer played a Julie Miller (good friend of RS) song "Take Me Back".


Norman

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