From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #95 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 Saturday, June 10 2006 Volume 08 : Number 095 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] patty sings the blues ["kunigunda" ] [RS] New RS bio at Koch Records [Adam Plunkett ] Re: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. ["kunigunda" ] [RS] First cd's the best? [Jason Stanley ] [RS] Richard Shindell [Greg Sheridan ] Re: [RS] Richard Shindell ["Chris Foxwell" ] Re: [RS] Richard Shindell ["kunigunda" ] [RS] Spring has sprung...a leak ["Gene Frey" ] Re: [RS] Spring has sprung...a leak ["Chris Foxwell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:30:56 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] patty sings the blues > -many of the new patty griffin songs are Blues numbers. Oh phooey! I'm not a big blues fan. Sounds like I'm gonna have to make a compilation of several cds to get one I can listen to all the way thru. carrie in kc. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:15:40 -0400 From: Adam Plunkett Subject: [RS] New RS bio at Koch Records http://www.kochentertainment.com/richard_shindell.htm# ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:25:38 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. RG sez > Now, this list points up a whole other issue ... where are the great NEW > releases? Why, for the most part, does an artist's work impress me LESS as > his/her career progresses? Look at the list: in the case of Patty, Lori, > Hugh, Gillian, Dar, Shawn and Lucy, each one was their FIRST record. I think you are right on the mark. I've thought the same thing and I have multiple cds of all the artists you mentioned except for Hugh. Is it the fact that the first cd contains the best songs of their entire repetoire and that the next batch may be seconds and songs written in haste in order to get a new album out the door? Why do these artists feel they have to change their style? Is it because they become incredibly bored /tired of singing their songs over and over and need to hear something different? Do they feel the need to grow? Is it a money thing? Shawn Colvin's Steady On was great and she got a grammy for best contemp folk artist I believe. Then there was Cover Girl, Fat City, Whole New You not necessarily in that order. I can't remember because I quit listening. With Dar, Honesty Room and Mortal City were great. Then she went more mainstream with a pop sound I didn't care much for. With My Better Self she seems to be turning around a bit tho. Anyway, none of it's bad. The songs on subsequent releases just don't captivate me like they do on their debut cds. Ok, enough of my blithering. carrie in kc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:42:02 -0400 From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] New RS bio at Koch Records I especially liked the part where they're announcing his Fall 2004 tour. ;-) http://www.kochentertainment.com/richard_shindell.htm# ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:50:01 -0400 From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Essentials, and Old versus New. >> Is it the fact that the first cd contains the best songs of their entire repetoire and that the next batch may be seconds and songs written in haste in order to get a new album out the door? << I think I heard Cheryl Wheeler once say that artists have their entire lives to come up with their first record, then 2 years to come up with their second. So, yeah, that might have something to do with it. >> Shawn Colvin's Steady On was great and she got a grammy for best contemp folk artist I believe. Then there was Cover Girl, Fat City, Whole New You not necessarily in that order. I can't remember because I quit listening. << Except in Shawn's case, she actually ALSO won three Grammy Awards for her fourth record, "A Few Small Repairs." THEN she dropped off the face of the earth. Still, the bulk of her later work (in my opinion) couldn't come close to the stuff on "Steady On." RG ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Sheridan Subject: Re: [RS] easy listening Thanks again everyone for all the ideas for new music to check out. I got so many great responses that I don't even have time to respond to them all. I'm going to save all of them in a document and work through them. My list is growing faster than I can listen! Greg S. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:24:33 -0500 From: Jason Stanley Subject: [RS] First cd's the best? I have to disagree with you on this one at least for RS. If it had been up to his first few cd's I wouldn't be listening to him. Every since Somewhere Near Paterson I have been hooked. Most other artists though I can relate. A good example it the Be Good Tanyas. There first one was pretty good and the second only played once in my cd. Same thing with Slaid Cleaves although his best was "Brokedown" which was his first major release. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:33:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Sheridan Subject: [RS] Richard Shindell Hey guys, Speaking of folk artists, someone recently told me about this guy named Richard Shindell. And they said he has an album of covers that's supposed to be out very soon. Anyone know anything about this :-) Greg S. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:52:58 -0400 From: "Chris Foxwell" Subject: Re: [RS] Richard Shindell Yeah, he's okay. Kinda wordy, though. - --Chris On 6/9/06, Greg Sheridan wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Speaking of folk artists, someone recently told me about this guy named > Richard Shindell. And they said he has an album of covers that's supposed to > be out very soon. Anyone know anything about this :-) > > Greg S. > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > - -- "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: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:12:55 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] Richard Shindell >> Speaking of folk artists, someone recently told me about this guy named >> Richard Shindell. And they said he has an album of covers that's supposed >> to >> be out very soon. Anyone know anything about this :-) Doesn't he have a discussion group? c in kc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:10:46 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Spring has sprung...a leak Hey you guys, Greg S. queried: >>Speaking of folk artists, someone recently told me about this guy named >>Richard Shindell. And they said he has an album of covers that's supposed >>to be out very soon. Anyone know anything about this :-) << On April 5, Chris Foxwell noted: >>At the Lexington show, Richard said that the album "should" be out by May, >>and that it "might even be late April". As for the nature of the album, I >>believe he stated on his website, or one of his newsletter messages, that >>it is indeed a cover album. << So it should be another ten or eleven months at most. Gene F. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:30:24 -0400 From: "Chris Foxwell" Subject: Re: [RS] Spring has sprung...a leak On 6/9/06, Gene Frey wrote: > > Hey you guys, > > On April 5, Chris Foxwell noted: > > >>At the Lexington show, Richard said that the album "should" be out by > May, > >>and that it "might even be late April". > > So it should be another ten or eleven months at most. Don't kill the messenger! - --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 ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #95 **********************************