From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #212 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 Thursday, July 25 2002 Volume 04 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] FWD: discs for sale [] [RS] the marketplace [jim colbert ] [RS] Death and birth [Laurel Rezeau ] [RS] Dave Carter obit. ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 6:39:04 -0500 From: Subject: Re: [RS] FWD: discs for sale Certainly not my call, but a decent compromise might be to simply put a note out that you have {items} for sale and if anyone is interested contact off list. But I am not the list-keeper. Joe > > From: Rongrittz@aol.com > Date: 2002/07/23 Tue PM 06:00:45 CDT > To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Subject: [RS] FWD: discs for sale > > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:16:56 -0400 > From: kartalst > Subject: RE: [RS] discs for sale > > I'm sorry if I committed the world's greatest sin with posting ONE of my CDs > as a bootlegged concert. I didn't mean to offend or to do anything wrong by > others... > > And I think my reasons for selling CDs and taking them to this list and the > two other music-related ones I s*bscribe to are quite legitimate: I am a VERY > poor graduate student with bills to pay and no money. It's either the CDs or > plasma. Now I love music, but I have a HUGE fear of needles and have a > problem with the idea of selling my plasma when I can donate it at the Life > South Blood Center and know that my stuff is going to the hospitals and > helping people out. > > So I hope this clears some things up. And I do hope that I didn't offend. > > Thanks. > Stephanie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:14:42 -0400 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] the marketplace > Hey all - Ron and I would prefer that this list NOT be used as a marketplace > at all, just so we can stay on-topic. If folks want to sell their CDs, I > recommend half.com - but please, not the Shindell list! (Especially not > bootlegs for money - that's a major no-no.)--Sally> Might I suggest, if anyone is looking to sell some discs, possibly just adding a line at the bottom of an on-topic e-mail saying you've got a bunch for sale and to contact you off list if you're interested? Just a thought, anyway. (Now, who wants to buy my '81 BMW R65 motorcycle? (: ) I just had the opportunity to share Sonora Sessions with one of my favorite local guitar players, who already had Courier, btw. His comment was "I think I like the live versions of everything better." What a great disc. If you haven't listened to it in a while, pop it in again. I've also been giving them out as gifts...depending how you view the one I got for my wife, I think we've given five away now. - -Jim Colbert somewhere near mount nittany ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:33:03 -0700 From: Laurel Rezeau Subject: [RS] Death and birth OK, I should probably join the Dave and Tracy list (I've been reading the archives since I heard Dave died, but I'm not a member), but so many of you are D&T fans that I hope you'll indulge me. I know of two baby girls born in the early morning of July 19th, the day Dave died--one to a work colleague and one to a musician friend. One baby is named Sage and the other is named Sophia (wisdom in Greek). Quite a coincidence. - --Laurel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:59:34 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Dave Carter obit. Scott Alarik's obituary of Dave Carter was just posted at the Dave and Tracy site. http://daveandtracy.globalhosting.com/index.php Dave Carter, 49, folk artist touted as 'major lyrical talent' - Tuesday, July 23, 2002 By Scott Alarik, Globe Correspondent, 7/23/2002 Dave Carter, who with partner Tracy Grammer was one of the fastest-rising acts in folk music, died Friday in Northampton of a massive heart attack. He was 49. He and Grammer recorded for the Western Massachusetts label Signature Sounds. Their latest compact disc, ''Drum Hat Buddha,'' was seen as a major breakthrough record, prompting the Associated Press to say of Mr. Carter, who wrote the songs for the duo, ''He writes songs that can stand with the best of contemporary singer-songwriters or sound like they were written 100 years ago.'' Many predicted Mr. Carter and Grammer would become major stars. The Los Angeles Times announced Mr. Carter as ''a major lyrical talent,'' and Great Britain's Folk Roots magazine said his songs were ''destined to become the stuff of legend.'' The duo was just becoming known outside the vibrant subculture of modern folk music. Joan Baez had recently embraced Mr. Carter's music in the same fervor with which she famously promoted the songs of Bob Dylan in the 1960s and Dar Williams in the '90s. She planned to record several of Mr. Carter's songs and to use them in a world tour, as she did nationally last spring. In a Globe profile of Mr. Carter and Grammer last fall, Baez praised Mr. Carter's ability to write intimate songs that ''are available to other people.'' ''It's a kind of genius, you know,'' she said, ''and Dylan had the biggest case of it. But I hear it in Dave's songs, too.'' Jim Olsen, president of Signature Sounds, first heard Mr. Carter and Grammer in 1999, and immediately signed them to a long-term contract. They released two CDs for Signature, ''Tanglewood Tree'' in 2000 and ''Drum Hat Buddha'' in 2001. They were scheduled to go into the studio again in December. ''What made Dave such a great songwriter in my mind,'' Olsen said yesterday from his Whately offices, ''was that he had one of the most diverse knowledge bases of any person I've ever known, studied all kinds of music. His songs were very complex and sophisticated, and yet he was also a master storyteller. ''He grew up listening to a lot of country and folk music, and that tradition of accessibility and storytelling worked its way into his music.'' Mr. Carter perfectly fit the old showbiz saw of the overnight sensation who was years in the making. Though he studied classical and world music (he had a master's degree in music theory from the University of Oklahoma), and was an excellent jazz pianist, he did not pick up a guitar to write a song until he was 42. He was born on Aug. 13, 1952, in Oxnard, Calif., and raised in Oklahoma and Texas. He worked as a mathematician and computer programmer until 1994, when he began to pursue songwriting seriously. By that time he had moved to Portland, Ore., where he met Grammer at an open mike event. They quickly became a duo, both professionally and romantically, and her fiddle arrangements and rich vocals greatly enhanced the easy melodicism of his songs. Mr. Carter had the rare ability to pen songs that were at once deeply spiritual, often mystical, and yet universal in their emotional scope and melodic allure. His melodies carried an unmistakable blend of modern pop and what Baez called ''something kind of Southern-rootsy.'' It was that melding of the folksy and the urbane, the ancient and the modern, the dense poet and the welcoming troubadour, that had so many in the folk world deeming Mr. Carter a major new songwriting voice. The future seemed unlimited. ''When we signed Dave and Tracy,'' said Olsen, ''the promise I made them was that they may not make the big time because what they do is so personal and sophisticated, but that they were going to have a lifelong career. That appealed to Dave very much. ''But the truth is,'' Olsen said, ''I always believed it would only take one cover by a major star to unveil his work to the rest of the world; and I was convinced that was going to happen. Somebody was going to open the door for them; and the thing about Dave's music is that once people heard it, they became lifelong fans.'' Mr. Carter leaves Grammer; his father and stepmother, Robert and Charlene Carter of Tulsa, Okla.; and a sister, Elise Fischer. This story ran on page B7 of the Boston Globe on 7/23/2002. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #212 ***********************************