From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #29 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 Tuesday, February 24 2009 Volume 10 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] fast folk [jimcolbert@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:36 -0500 From: jimcolbert@aol.com Subject: [RS] fast folk I believe at one time Richard was associate editor during the Fast Folk days. I know the bulk of the longtime listers here first heard him on the lavin compilation, but for me it was Fast Folk. And I'd bet most of us were not as enthusiastic until we had seen him perform live. There are also FF takes on (from memory) May (with some verse tweaks), A Summer Wind, AYHN, AYHN, the Courier, Memory of You, Sparrows Point, hmmm, can't recall if Kenworth showed up there at one time, too. There are definitely some hidden gems and names you'd know (gorkacolvinhardylylelovetttomrussellvegakaplansky)among the rubble in the FF archives... although not necessarily RS hidden gems! I was pretty happy to see them come out through iTunes, because some of their releases were very spotty, and I've replaced some of my old favorite tracks from vinyl days with the downloads. Smithsonian Folkways actually owns these recordings now, btw. Jim C Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:50:12 -0500 From: Carol Love Subject: [RS] "lost" shindell tracks I just had the iTunes "Genius" feature recommend this album to me, and lo and behold there was a track of RS singing "On a Sea of Fleur de Lis" three whole years before he released "Sparrow's Point". Here's the link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=276711373&id=276711186&s=143441 I'm not sure that this recording is better than the versions on "Sparrows Point" and "Courier", but what you can hear is how the song sounded before he "tuned it up" -- literally. Ron G is going to have to verify this for me, but I believe he is playing his guitar in a different key/tuning for this older version. C ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #29 ***********************************