From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #175 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 Friday, November 10 2006 Volume 08 : Number 175 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Notes from the Wednesday 11/8 show at Club Passim [Adam Plunkett] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #174 ["John McDonnell" ] Re: [RS] Notes from the Wednesday 11/8 show at Club Passim [Janet Cinelli] Re: [RS] Concert reviews [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Concert reviews ["kunigunda" ] Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #174 ["Chris Foxwell" ] [RS] Notes, etc. from the Thursday 11/9 show at Passim ["Chris Foxwell" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:20:58 -0800 From: Adam Plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] Notes from the Wednesday 11/8 show at Club Passim Thanks for the awesome review, Chris. I can't wait until Friday! On Thursday, November 09, 2006, at 02:52AM, "Chris Foxwell" wrote: >Hi gang, here are the set list and assorted other notes from the show >tonight. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:30:00 -0500 From: "John McDonnell" Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #174 Hey all, Nice review of the Club Passim show, and I'm glad to hear there was a political component. I went on the MSNBC website to get election results and the headline was not "Dems Take House; Senate Hangs in the Balance," but "Britney Spears files for Divorce." It was more than a little disheartening. Glad to hear there's some new stuff. Patch the juggler song with "One Man's Arkansas" (??) and may be get a little EP action to keep us going 'til the covers CD drops. Hope springs eternal. John McD. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:29:23 -0800 From: "Pam Pickering" Subject: [RS] Concert reviews Chris - not only do I read them all the way through, I am left wanting more! No west coast dates this year have me attending these concerts vicariously. Pam Somewhere near Sacramento ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 06:29:54 -0800 (PST) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] Notes from the Wednesday 11/8 show at Club Passim I agree, what an awesome review. what an awesome concert from the sound of it! I would've loved to hear You Again and Lazy! All of his concerts I've been to, I don't think I've ever heard either of those. Janet - --- Adam Plunkett wrote: > Thanks for the awesome review, Chris. I can't wait > until Friday! > > On Thursday, November 09, 2006, at 02:52AM, "Chris > Foxwell" wrote: > >Hi gang, here are the set list and assorted other > notes from the show > >tonight. Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:47:06 -0500 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Concert reviews >> No west coast dates this year have me attending these concerts vicariously. << Tell me about it. I'm thinking of giving up reading the list, just because of the frustration factor. RG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:23:23 -0600 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] Concert reviews ditto carrie in kc > Chris - not only do I read them all the way through, I am left wanting > more! No west coast dates this year have me attending these concerts > vicariously. > > Pam > Somewhere near Sacramento - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.0/525 - Release Date: 11/9/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:50:30 -0500 From: "Chris Foxwell" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #174 On 11/9/06, John McDonnell wrote: > > Nice review of the Club Passim show, and I'm glad to hear there was a > political component. I went on the MSNBC website to get election results > and > the headline was not "Dems Take House; Senate Hangs in the Balance," but > "Britney Spears files for Divorce." It was more than a little > disheartening. > Funny, Richard mentioned the same thing during the show. He said he suspected that Rumsfeld's resignation was a bypartisan gambit to wrest attention back from the Britney Spears headlines. - --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: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:36:38 -0500 From: "Tom Neff" Subject: [RS] REK mentions Richard, C3 Caught this from a Google News Alert - in the Charleston Post & Courier. - --------------------------- Preview: I first heard of you a few years back after hearing Jill Sobule cover your song "Merry Christmas from the Family." What covers of your songs have you heard that really knocked you out? Robert Earl Keen: "I have yet to hear a cover that I didn't like. It justifies my position in life. I call myself a songwriter, and I write songs that other people actually (record). If I were the only one doing these songs, I'd say it was a pretty big vanity project. This guy named Richard Shindell one time did a cover of "Shades of Gray," and he was in this band with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky, kind of a folk group. They did a version of "Shades of Gray," and the band was called Cry Cry Cry. (Shindell) has a really cool voice, and it was really a great version." - --------------------------- If you want your own Google News alerts on Richard, visit http://www.google.com/alerts/ and enter richard.shindell (no quotes) as a search term. You can choose to search news, blogs and other sources, and have it delivered as text or html mail. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:37:59 -0500 From: "Chris Foxwell" Subject: [RS] Notes, etc. from the Thursday 11/9 show at Passim Time for round two. This show was just as good as the previous night's; what little was lacking in the overall crowd energy--inevitable, given the particular circumstances of that other show--was made up for by Richard's intensity. He was very very expressive and emotive during his songs, employing a great deal of intensity, emphasis, and passion during key passages/words, etc. This increased as the set went on, building to a tremendous finale of "Last Fare" and "Transit." Overall, another wonderful show. A few more tidbits about the new album: it will be mastered on November 27th, and is due out next March, although with no definitive single date. Richard confirmed that Eliza Gilkyson is singing harmony on "Deportee," which is very exciting. Set list: 1. Big Muddy, following a toned-down version of his political comments from the night before 2. Courier, on the electric guitar. It was a slower, melodic version, but not nearly as slow as I've heard at other times. 3. The new juggler/street performer song, which has already grown on me a LOT. His voice in this song is just beautiful. (John, I requested "One Man's Arkansas," as I haven't heard him do that in a while, but no dice.) 4. So Says the Whippoorwill, again with the Father Brown verse. Lovely. 5. Mavis, on the electric guitar. One of the best performances of this song I've heard. 6. Cancion Sencilla, this time with the introduction/translation. 7. Fishing, on the electric guitar, again with the slow interpretation. This was absolutely the best guitarwork I've heard on this song; very intense yet subdued at the same time. 8. Deportee 9. Fenario. Guitarwork was, just, wow. 10. Lazy. He clearly enjoys playing this song a lot, and again the audience ate it up. I've never cared that much for it on his record, but seeing him have fun with it live is really pretty cool. After having commented on the John Donne verse from Fenario, he said that perhaps Andrew Marvel could have written "Lazy," only to change his mind to Walt Whitman. "Definitely Walt Whitman." 11. AYHN. He really hammed it up, exaggerating all the right parts, etc. It went over really well. 12. Cold Missouri Waters, a very passionate and fiery rendition. (See above comments about overall intensity.) 13. Mercy Street, on the electric. 14. Hazel's House, very pretty. At times, it really looked like Richard was picturing the scene as he was singing; you could see it in his face, and it was really sweet. Several girls in the back of the room cooed during the song. (Honest.) 15. Last Fare, again very intense and passionate. 16. Transit, also intense, but with a very funny ending. Before each of these two Passim performances, and at various times between songs during both of the shows, Richard repeatedly broke into the lively "Happy Days Are Here Again" tune (referring to the political situation), never failing to receive loud clapping and laughter. He did that a few times tonight, during the first half of the show...and then, at the end of Transit, he brought it back a final time, extending "Transit" by an additional impromptu final verse that had the "Happy Days" lyrics. It was hysterical. 17. Encore #1: Sittin' On Top of the World 18. Encore #2: Reunion Hill. That concludes my reporting from Boston. :) Adam or Beth will have to pick it up for Friday's show. - --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 #175 ***********************************