From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #77 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, May 4 2009 Volume 10 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Florida House Concert (The Weather - RS) [Susan Moss Subject: [RS] Florida House Concert (The Weather - RS) Hey, All - Chiming in again with a few things I meant to add... but forgot (no surprise there!)... as well as follow-up to Carol and Bart's posts... Carol, it was definitely a religious experience - looking forward to your after-the-fact recap! Bart, the Dylan cover has come up before... and I went googling and came up with this... http://www.smoe.org/lists/shindell-list/v07.n165 Last time Richard played in South Florida (7 years ago), I pranked Gene (and the rest of the list) by swearing The Weather made it into the setlist - alas, no (but I thought some people bought it until I came clean)... Someone in the audience Friday night asked about his other instrument, and he explained it was a bouzouki... although he laughed and said that's not what he called it coming through Miami Airport (referring to it then as an octave mandolin... :-) He also said it was "a piece of crap $150 instrument" that he loved - lest we be curious as to who the luthier was, it wasn't the brand name at the end of the headstock but instead an ice cream store sticker his son had put on there! Richard used the bouzouki on three songs: Acadian Driftwood, Reunion Hill and... the other d*mn cover song I can't remember (Canadian writer, snow, home, blue, aaarrrggghhh)... Susan www.labyrinthcafe.com www.myspace.com/labyrinthcafe www.browardfolkclub.com www.southfloridafolkfest.com www.gotfolk.com "god bless the sound of music god bless the golden rule..." ~ Danny Schmidt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 10:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] Florida House Concert (The Weather - RS) - --- On Sun, 5/3/09, Susan Moss wrote: > From: Susan Moss > Subject: [RS] Florida House Concert (The Weather - RS) > To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 10:33 AM > Hey, All - > Richard used the bouzouki on three songs: Acadian > Driftwood, Reunion Hill and... the other d*mn cover song I > can't remember (Canadian writer, snow, home, blue, > aaarrrggghhh)... Was it Blue Northern Lights? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 21:48:23 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: [RS] Richard in Florida (The St. Petersburg Version...) >>>On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Susan Moss wrote: > Hey, All - > > I fairly recently returned from the Richard Shindell backyard house concert > in Sunrise, Florida - oh... my... god...<<< I had much the same experience as Susan. The show was intimate and excellent -- and boy am I glad I had the 5 PM tickets. Our show ran over and the folks for the 7 PM show got their RS fix an hour late. Well worth it, but I'm a high school teacher who has to be up at 5 AM for that first 6:50 bell..... Here's the song list (in order...) Out Beyond the Iron Gate (with a cool tempo change -- a bit slower) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (a tribute to Pete Seeger because today he turns 90!) Blue Northern Lights Lyrics -- something lifted from Ollabelle -- and beautiful and I wish it was on an album!!! Acadian Driftwood Hazel's House Get Up Clara (At the intermission I asked the big question -- "Is it roam or Rome". Guys, it's Rome -- and RS went on to explain the obvious references to Catholicism in the song. Being raised ULTRA Protestant -- this was lost on me. But then he did admit it was open for the word play of roam/Rome...I also found out that while a lyric sheet was not included -- to save cost and resources -- all lyrics are on his site. Look: http://richardshindell.com/index.php?page=songs&display=496&category=Not_Far_Now ) Reunion Hill (done on the bouzouki and really pretty cool that way...) Sitting on Top of the World ***Set Break*** The Next Best Western (which we now learn was really a Super 8, but that didn't sound good in the song...) Transit (Complete with a story that AFTER he wrote the song he heard from the REAL Sister Maria who really is at a St. Agnes in Paterson...) Kenworth of My Dreams Last Fare of the Day (where Carol learned the cabbie is picking up two DIFFERENT couples in the song. I always assumed it was a before and after portrait. I actually like my take better -- it has even more hope and rebirth in the ashes...) Are You Happy Now (Where Richard told a COMPLETELY different story about how this song was written during a pending divorce. Previous tales have all had this song written at the beginning of a relationship. The only sure thing is that it somehow involves his first wife. It also goes to show that although RS loves to say, "I shit you not..." he really does, on occasion, uh, bullshit....) State of the Union Arrowhead ***Encore*** There Goes Mavis (When it became apparent that this was THE last song -- people were frantically yelling out requests. I went with "I Am" -- a true "Hail Mary" pass. Someone inevitably shouted "Freebird". And RS actually started into the first line of "Freebird". Ah, his sense of humor DOES show up now and then.) I'll write more as it occurs. A great show. I only wish I could have found my daughter's digital camera before the show. I gave my email address to someone in front of me who caught a lot of pics on an iPhone. Hopefully that works.. *Ciao!* ....Carol ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #77 ***********************************