From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #5 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 Wednesday, January 18 2006 Volume 08 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: List CPR [John McDonnell ] Re: [RS] Re: List CPR [Chris Foxwell ] [RS] Since you're all looking for posting.. [Peter Booth ] [RS] Re: List CPR [john mcdonnell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:28:34 -0500 From: John McDonnell Subject: [RS] Re: List CPR Hi All, Great to see some life breathed back into the list--I was too busy at home and work to write anything, and the hiatus was killing me--it gave me no reason to procrastinate (like now). I, too, was interested in the covers CD--any word in the last two days? Looking forward to the Spring shows--I want to catch the IMAC in Huntington *and* the Irvington show (4/7 and 4/8), but my wife wants just the Irvington show--Saturday night, stay over at a local hotel, etc.(it's only about an hour's drive from us, but any excuse will do) Any inside scoop on these venues? Heard AYHN on WFUV the other night as I was leaving the office--had to stick around and listen; like seeing an old friend. John McD ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:55:10 -0500 From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] Re: List CPR On 1/17/06, John McDonnell wrote: > > Hi All, > > Heard AYHN on WFUV the other night as I was leaving the office--had to > stick > around and listen; like seeing an old friend. I heard "Money for Floods" on the radio over the weekend. For some reason, I was really struck by its tension and hushed delicacy. It's not a song that I usually seek out when I go to put Richard on, and maybe that was the source of its surprising power; I had to stop what I was doing and go listen. Or maybe the song just takes on a certain gravitas after the tsunami, Katrina, etc. I dunno. Just a random thought. - --Chris - -- "We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." - -- J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:44:32 -0500 From: Peter Booth Subject: [RS] Since you're all looking for posting.. Since people are looking for postings, I'll say this... I love Vuelta. One of the top 3 or 4 albums ever recorded. Could be the best ever. I haven't listened to it in about 6 months. Put it on this evening and I've listened to it twice (so far...) Just so damned good. Wish it were longer, but of course the old adage "Leave 'em wanting more" applies. Richard could retire today and his career would be complete. (not that I'm advocating this or anything) Peter Booth (Freezing my keester off up in Vermont) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:25:39 -0800 (PST) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [RS] Re: List CPR John wrote, > > Heard AYHN on WFUV the other night as I was > leaving the office--had to > > stick > > around and listen; like seeing an old friend. - --- Gee, they used to play Richard Shindell on my local radio station, WXPN in Philadelphia. Deb This I have learned: Because we can, we must try to change the world -- fully, wisely, restlessly. -- Rudy Nemser == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:52:10 -0500 From: john mcdonnell Subject: [RS] Re: List CPR Hi All, Peter wrote: >>I love Vuelta. One of the top 3 or 4 albums ever recorded. Could be the >>best ever.<< I seem to remember discussing this before--I had a question to veteran listers about "progress" in RS work which some others felt Vuelta represented. I didn't see it then, and still don't, though I have to say having seen RS perform "There Goes Mavis," the song has grown on me. This is not to say I don't like the album--I do--but at the risk of repetition, some of his early work represents songwriting at its finest from which anyone would be hard pressed to progress. Also, I've already weighed in on LFOTD--and we don't need to go through that again--but I also don't like "Hazel's House" very much.. I know it's about his old aunt Hazel, and she was ill so he wrote the song, but it sounds to me like a Harry Chapin B-side (don't attack me for that--I have tremendous respect for HC and the charitable work he did; I just found some of his songs too cute). However, my wife likes the song because it reminds her of her grandmother's house, which was a meeting place for all her relatives at holiday time, so I recognize that the song has resonance--just not for me. I think the best RS song on there is "Che Guevara T-shirt," but I'm inclined to think that the album's strongest song is Pete Seeger's, though RS does a great version. I'm now running into the problem which always arises when "evaluating" a work--what makes one "better" than another?? I don't really know why I don't like certain RS songs since I think he's the best singer/songwriter I've heard in decades. Hazel's House may be his best song to date--what do I know? John McD. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #5 *********************************