From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V9 #36 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 Thursday, March 29 2007 Volume 09 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Ann Arbor show [Amy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:18:29 -0400 From: Amy Subject: [RS] Ann Arbor show Phew. Guess it's been a while since I've posted 'round these here parts. Figured I'd do a mini-review of tonight's show in Ann Arbor. Also, I promise not to gloat over the fact that I'm right now listening to South of Delia. Okay, maybe just a little. gloat. Richard was at the Ark (which is such a wonderful venue - I've spent a lot of time there since I moved here in August.) This was the first night that the band was together, and good lord is this a fine group! Greg Anderson is Greg Anderson, and he was as solid as you'd expect. The real surprise (for me, anyway) was Sara Milonovich. She was really lovely - warm and understated and totally on. Both of them were great at finding the spaces in the songs without ever being too obtrusive (ahem) like certain other sometime-fellows. There were several moments when the three of them just created this luscious wall of sound. It would build and swell and I'd swear it was going to break my heart. It was that beautiful, I swear. Our man was a bit more formal than I'm accustomed to. Or perhaps formal is the wrong word (particularly since he was wearing a muscle shirt?!) Less chatty, I suppose. I don't know whether this was a locale-specific mode (fewer diehards in the midwest than back east, perhaps?) or just the mood he found himself in, but there was much less conversation and more song upon song upon song. I love the patter, but it was a fair trade-off. Anyway, I'm still too caught up in the music magic to do a true blow-by-blow (and I forgot to snag the actual set list), so I'll leave you with the out-of-order list. Hope I haven't forgotten anything. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy There Goes Mavis Che Guevara Deportee Walden Well Reunion Hill Lawrence, KS Born In the U.S.A. Ascent You Stay Here Hazels House Senor Are You Happy Now? Fenario Arrowhead Last Fare of the Day Transit encore: Sparrows Point I will say that this show made me a bit more pensive and homesick than anything else has since I've been here. It was pretty surprising how powerfully Richard evoked Home for me (in the good way, not the creepy-you-complete-me-Jerry-Maguire sort of way) - particularly since he doesn't even live in NY anymore. Guess I'm getting maudlin in my old age. Cheers, Ame Amy Cocuzza, MILR Juris Doctor Candidate, May 2009 University of Michigan Law School cocuzza@umich.edu ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V9 #36 **********************************