From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V5 #202 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 Tuesday, September 23 2003 Volume 05 : Number 202 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: RS in Hartford [Jean Katherine Rossner ] Re: [RS] Re: RS in Hartford [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: RS in Hartford [rfoxwell@wso.williams.edu] [RS] RS in Hartford--p.s. [Jean Katherine Rossner ] [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum [Katie Mahoney ] Re: [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum [Chris Foxwell Subject: [RS] Re: RS in Hartford >. >From: Rongrittz@aol.com >Subject: [RS] RS in Hartford. > > >Tons? TONS? Tons is good. I wonder if that means there's even newer stuff >than "Gray Green," "Che," "Fenario" and "Last Fare." Did anybody from this >list go who can fill us in? The newest one is the Spanish song--"Cancion Sencilla", if I remember the word correctly--which he also sang in Boston. Basically it says: I'm trying to learn your language so that I can sing you a love song; then it goes into details about difficulties with Spanish, including "your impossible subjunctive" and three different words for "stay/remain", and I think he also talks about the two different words for "know"--with a plaintive chorus about "and my intention is just to tell you that I love you!" Here's what I remember him playing--not in this order, alas; I didn't keep a list. Fennario Cancion Last Fare of the Day Gray Green Che Guevara T-shirt Fishin' Arrowhead Reunion Hill Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Transit Ballad of Mary Magdalen Kenworth of My Dreams Sparrow's Point Before You Go I may be forgetting one or two new songs; it was a long show, and wonderful. (BTW, hi! I'm new to this list--it was the Music for a Change concert that made me finally join--but I I know a bunch of you from elsewhere.) Jean Rossner - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:59:18 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Re: RS in Hartford >> The newest one is the Spanish song--"Cancion Sencilla", if I remember the word correctly--which he also sang in Boston. << Ah, yes, Boston. Another foreign language unto itself. ;-) >> Waist Deep in the Big Muddy << Wow. I hope he knows that if he keeps playing that one, he's gonna get his ass banned from the Smothers Brothers Show. RG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:12:39 -0400 From: rfoxwell@wso.williams.edu Subject: Re: [RS] Re: RS in Hartford > Ah, yes, Boston. Another foreign language unto itself. ;-) Hmph! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:53:24 -0400 From: Jean Katherine Rossner Subject: [RS] RS in Hartford--p.s. What I left off the set list was "So Said the Whippoorwill". Gaa. I love that song. Jean ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:22:20 -0400 From: Katie Mahoney Subject: [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum As either the first or second song of his "On the Road" workshop set (with Anni Clark, Richard Berman, and an only-there-for-the-last-couple-of-songs-because-he-had-to-finish-up-his-a wkwardly-timed-mainstage-set Greg Brown) Richard played "Willin'"... Anni helped him out with background vocals and with the command, "Chorus!" when he forgot the words to the second verse one line into it. When he finished, Anni shook her head and said, "I love that song." To which he replied, "How could you not? It's a song that sings itself." Pause. "Except when you forget the words." It was pretty excellent. He also sang "There Goes Mavis," a cool song about "a canary and a sandcastle," which he'd debuted the night before in New Hampshire. That, too, was pretty excellent, though I still prefer "Fennario," "Last Fare," "Che Guevara," and "Grey Green." Good lord. This is going to be the album to end all albums. And I get to see him all over again on Tuesday. What a lucky girl am I... Katie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:36:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum >Good lord. This is going to be the album to end all albums. Hear, hear! It will be the "Lost In Translation" of folk music. I just can't wait. (That's a brilliant, beautiful, amazing movie, by the way.) - --Chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:59:27 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum >> That, too, was pretty excellent, though I still prefer "Fennario," "Last Fare," "Che Guevara," and "Grey Green." Good lord. This is going to be the album to end all albums. << Damn. Can this guy REALLY keep getting this much better, album after album? RG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:55:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] Boston Folk Festival addendum > Damn. Can this guy REALLY keep getting this much better, album after album? > > RG My sources say "yes." Or, well, "hopefully" at least. Hell, even if he were to plateau out with this next album, we'd all still have tremendous, tremendous material to look forward to in the future. - --Chris ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V5 #202 ***********************************