From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #180 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 Monday, November 13 2006 Volume 08 : Number 180 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] good news ["kunigunda" ] [RS] Club Passim, 11/10 [Adam Plunkett ] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #178 ["Doug Ashford" ] [RS] Northampton 11/12 ["Kristen Myshrall" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:39:54 -0600 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] good news >> thought of recording his shows and making them available to any >> audience members who might want to buy a copy of the show. >> I assume this is a sound recording and not a video recording? carrie in kc - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.3/530 - Release Date: 11/11/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:48:13 -0800 From: Adam Plunkett Subject: [RS] Club Passim, 11/10 Sorry for the late report on this one - been a crazy weekend! I attended Richard's final night at Club Passim on Friday. While I enjoyed his show, the last tour it was one of my least favorite RS shows and it was good to see Richard in prime form. Siprisingly, the set featured only oje song from the upcoming album, but I enjoyed hearing him play great versions of so many of his own songs (and I am sure come next year he will play that album in concert). The one song he sang from it was great (he actually started another onbe then stopped since he had never played it onb the acoutstic.) Like Chris said, "Happy Days" came into the mix more than a few times. :) One note: He inro-ed Juggler as going to be on his album after his next one which one would hope that means he has planned an album of originals. But he could have just said that to clarify since it won't be on the next album. The Courier - on the acoutsic because of issues early in the show with the electric Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - - dedicated to Rumsfeld Fenario There Goes Mavis - - great version on the electric So Says the Whipporwill - - a highlight for me. He seems to always not play this when I go to see him! Great song Fishing - - he completely screwed up the middle of this song but still was haunting when he remembered the words :) Sitting on Top if the World - - he has really made this a great version on the electric. this should be on the covers album Cancion Sencilla Lazy - - not one of my favoirite songs of his but the live version was fun Juggler in Traffic - - nice new song - didnt blow me away but was good Are You Happy Now? Hazel's House Reunion HIll Last Fare of the Day - - great version - it seems like this song brings out the intensity when he plays it live Cold MIssouri Waters Transit - - great version with only one slip up - -encore- Che T-Shirt - - awesome version on the electric ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:48:56 -0500 From: "Doug Ashford" Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #178 On 11/12/06, Ron wrote: > > Neil wrote: > > >> where the three acts on the main stage are Richard, Kate Rusby and Bellowhead (pretty close to my dream line-up! << > > I don't know Bellowhead, but I can safety say that (aside from Richard and > Tracy Grammer) Richard and Kate Rusby are pretty much my dream duo. Ron, It's going to be a lot harder getting Bellowhead (and Kate, come to think of it) to visit the States than to get Richard to the UK, so I'd encourage you to go visit them! Bellowhead are a great 12(?)-piece English country band led by the duo of John Spiers and Jon Boden. They do insane arrangements of trad British songs, e.g. "Prickle-Eyed Bush" as a cha-cha, etc. They've got a full brass section, and strings as well! Brilliant stuff -- I like to think of them as what would have happened if the Bonzo Dog Band had visited the Cecil Sharp House rather than listen to old 78s of early American jazz... Neil, that's great that you've booked Richard for the festival. I'll likely be over in the UK in August with Festival Tours for Cropredy (Fairport's 40th anniversary!) and the Edinburgh festivals. (Festival Tours is run by Nancy Covey, wife of a certain British guitar legend who'll be on Richard's next CD and is also named Richard.) I hope to be able to get to Shrewsbury as well -- lovely town. And to everyone else -- Neil runs a terrific record shoppe and you should all give him your online business wherever you live, especially for UK releases. He's very helpful and absurdly prompt in dispatching orders! http://www.fishrecords.co.uk Doug ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:30:21 -0500 From: "Gregory Dennis" Subject: [RS] New Live CD I drove over two mountain ranges in the rain Saturday night, from Middlebury to Randolph, VT for a terrific show by Richard, and Lucy Kaplansky. The venue was the Chandler Center for the Arts, an old-style, refurbished opera house from 1900. Richard and Lucy were practically gushing over the acoustics and their warm reception from a nearly sold-out house of about 500. Richard was his usual terrific self. I got there a little bit late after attending a friend's birthday party so I missed the first few songs. Among his set ( wouldn't you know it, he played first) were: Mavis (silly song IMO but a great guitar part) Reunion Hill Whippoorwill (complete with Farmer Brown verse) Fishing Last Fare of the Day, with Lucy, the last song before the break. Richard said the show was being recorded and he was selling CDs of it. He was approached by a friend who said he could produce a live CD of the show -- leading to several jokes about what would and would not be on the CD -- and he had a sign-up book in the lobby where, for $12, a long stream of us signed up to buy the CD. Richard didn't say when the delivery date would be but he did promise it "within several weeks." He said this was an experiment and he wasn't sure how it would go, but he thought it was worth a try. He made no mention -- sorry -- of how people who weren't at the show might be able to buy the CD. He said that any of his stuff that included Lucy would be on this CD, though not Lucy's set "because that would mean getting lawyers and agents involved." As for Lucy's performance, I've seen her before and enjoyed it but not been overwhelmed. This time she captivated me. Some of her new songs, including those about her daughter, are quite touching, her stage presence was really warm despite her having a cold , and she did a couple of terrific covers which will be on her new album, of Ian Tyson's wonderful chestnut, "Someday Soon," and Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." Richard joined Lucy near the end to support her on "Someday Soon" and another song. They concluded by doing three more (or maybe four, I seem to be missing something in my notes), By Way of Sorrow and (double encore) Cold Missouri Water and in a really touching closer, Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat." Not a bad night at all. - -- Greg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:36:53 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [RS] Northampton 11/12 I finally got to see Richard at the Iron Horse last night! I've been trying to see him there for years but I'm always out of town when he plays there. Lately I've been out of the country every time he's in it so it's been quite awhile since I've seen him live. It was an absolutely fantastic show. While the set was pretty typical, his voice was perfect, he was in a great mood, and he had Greg Anderson with him. This was the first time that I have seen Greg play with Richard and he is by far my favorite accompaniment, he added so much to the songs that I was entranced for most of the show. He did mention that the two of them were going today for their very last day of tweaking the new album before sending it off for mastering. He didn't mention recording it :( Was anyone else there and did they record it by any chance? I would love to have a copy of it!! I didn't keep a setlist but from my memory, though probably not in order, he played... Waist Deep Senor (I just love that song!!) There Goes Mavis (because 2 adorable little girls who were sitting near me requested it, along with the story of how Che is known as the "Merry Widow" because he's lived through 3 female companions who they keep finding at the bottom of the cage while he sits on his perch singing and how his mother in law says that's "Typico!" and also how this is his daughters favorite song of his...but not overall...that is Richard Thompson's Wall of Death and how she has good taste but that one day the true meaning of that song was going to smack her upside the head) So Says the Whippoorwill (prefaced with how given the age of the person who requested the previous song, he probably shouldn't have mentioned Mavis' demise but that this was about another bird who he promised was alive and well) Cancion Sencilla Fishing (the best version I have ever heard...slow and with Greg playing bouzouki) Reunion Hill The Courier Che Guevara T-Shirt (and he actually had them there) You Again Texas Rangers (a cappella...he was hesitant at first, said he had never done this before, sat up straight, put his hands on his knees, almost started it and then said forget it and reached for his guitar but at the encouragement of the audience he belted out the most gorgeous thing I have ever heard! Sadly it's not like that on the album but it is a "rocking version" with Richard Thompson, Viktor Krauss. Tony Trischka, and someone else playing on it) Are You Happy Now Fenario Transit (prefaced with "Rick Santorum.......Gone!, Ken Mehlman.....Gone!, Rumsfeld.....GONE!, with "Happy Days are here again" ending) Last Fare of the Day Encore: Arrowhead - -Kristen _________________________________________________________________ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.live.com/partnerredirect.aspx ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #180 ***********************************