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shindell-list-digest     Monday, January 22 2001     Volume 03 : Number 019



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [RS] Live album track listing                   [Gwen <gak6u@virginia.edu>]
  Re: [RS] Live album track listing                       [Rongrittz@aol.com]
  Re: [RS] Live Album                            [Tom Huot <tomhuot@aol.com>]
  [RS] Re: Live album track listing      [patrick t power <ptpower@juno.com>]
  Re: [RS] Re: Live album track listing                   [Rongrittz@aol.com]

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:55:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Gwen <gak6u@virginia.edu>
Subject: [RS] Live album track listing

You know, I know this is totally uncool and nobody else ever mentions
this song, but I love "You Stay Here."  I think it would be a total
mistake to leave SNP songs off of the live album.  My essentials include:

Fishing
The Ballad of Mary Magdalene
The Things That I Have Seen
The Next Best Western
May
Reunion Hill (hmm... I can just hear Tracy Grammer backing him up here :)
Money for Floods
The Weather (yeah, I know, I know)
Confession
You Stay Here
Wisteria
Transit
** at least one previously unrecorded original **
** one previously unrecorded cover **
** misc. stuff from SP that I don't know cuz I don't own it **

I'd like to see this be the kind of epic, transcendent live album that
Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas is.  I mean, I'm not saying Richard should go
out and get himself a Large Band, just that a good mix of songs and
performance styles (solo or almost solo vs. with band) and a couple great
guests is essential.

Gwen

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:28:55 EST
From: Rongrittz@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] Live album track listing

<< You know, I know this is totally uncool and nobody else ever mentions this 
song, but I love "You Stay Here."  I think it would be a total mistake to 
leave SNP songs off of the live album. >>

I don't think Charlie meant to imply that NO songs from "Somewhere Near 
Paterson" would appear on the live CD, just that Richard would try to 
concentrate on his earlier stuff, because those are the songs to which he no 
longer owns the original master recordings.  And by including a liberal dose 
of them on the live CD, he'd once again be able to make money off them, as 
per his unique Signature Sounds agreement.

I'm sure that there are plans to include a few songs from SNP -- "Confession" 
and "Wisteria" are no-brainers.  And, to Gwen's point, "You Stay Here" is 
pretty intense in its live arrangement.

Finally, I'm glad so many people have agreed that there should be some solo 
songs on the live album.  In particular, I think that the slow version of 
"Reunion Hill" (as a few other folks have said) and "On a Sea of 
Fleur-de-Lis" would be perfect for Richard to tackle by himself.

RG

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:37:39 -0500
From: Tom Huot <tomhuot@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Live Album

I vote for "You Again", "Blue Divide", and "Home Town". The rest are up 
to whoever ...

- --
Tom Huot
tomhuot@aol.com

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:17:15 -0500
From: patrick t power <ptpower@juno.com>
Subject: [RS] Re: Live album track listing

Gwen wrote:

<<You know, I know this is totally uncool and nobody else ever mentions
this song, but I love "You Stay Here.">>

and Ron added:

<<I'm sure that there are plans to include a few songs from SNP --
"Confession" and "Wisteria" are no-brainers.  And, to Gwen's point, "You
Stay Here" is pretty intense in its live arrangement.>>

Actually, I think that "You Stay Here" is closer to a no-brainer than is
"Confession" -- all the times I've seen Richard play this (five or six
times), he *clearly* enjoys playing the song.

Agreeing with RockinRon, I really, really, really liked the slow
rendition of "Reunion Hill" Richard was performing last spring (although
he stepped it up a bit the last time I saw him (in September). I recently
heard a very slow rendition of "Arrowhead" that I like a lot, too --
anyone know where this recording might have its origins?

Pat

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:50:42 EST
From: Rongrittz@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Live album track listing

<< I recently heard a very slow rendition of "Arrowhead" that I like a lot, 
too -- anyone know where this recording might have its origins? >>

A 1996 Gadfly Records release called "W. 4th and 6th Ave: Selections from the 
Greenwich Folk Festival" (recorded at a 1993 show) opens with an amazingly 
slow version of "Arrowhead," so that might be the one you heard.  The CD also 
features Lucy doing Cliff Eberhardt's "Brake a Train," David Massengill 
covering the traditional "Hard Times Come Again No More," and a hysterical 
song about dinosaurs from Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen called "Their Brains 
Were Small and They Died."

RG

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