From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #21 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, June 27 2011 Volume 12 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Re-recordings. [Vanessa Wills ] Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? [Janet Cinelli ] Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? [rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? [Carol Love ] Re: [RS] Re-recordings. [LN Davis ] [RS] Since you asked... [Pete Jameson ] Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? ["Matthew Bullis" Subject: Re: [RS] Re-recordings. What's "Sparrow's Point"? ;-) On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Carol Love wrote: > With some notable exceptions -- like the song > Sparrow's Point ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:34:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? I don't know what key it's in but there is a slower version on the sampler he did with Peter Mulvey. And for some reason, he left off the last stanza. I've heard him sing this slower version, as he said the way it should've been recorded.And Ron, those two songs were the first two I also thought of, Ascent and TV Light. I'd like to hear May as well.If he does include any covers, I would love it if Paul Simon's America would be included. And another song he did in concert, Streets of London. What an incredible job he did singing that one! I wonder when these albums will be coming out. Also, I hope that anyone on this list who is lucky enough to go to either that train thingy or the 3 day concert at the inn in Vermont, gives us a nice long post about that experience!!! Janet - --- On Sat, 6/25/11, Matthew Bullis wrote: I sure hope he re-records the slower version of Beyond The Iron Gate, since I prefer that arrangement to the album version we have. The slower version is in a lower key, B instead of D, and is more beautiful, I think. He could record it with just voice and one guitar, and it would be just fine. Matthew ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:58:54 -0400 (EDT) From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? Ok, folks, let's say Richard hadn't already recorded the CD, and wanted our ideas for songs to include. What would be your twelve-song tracklist of solo acoustic re-recordings? RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:25:09 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:58 PM, wrote: > Ok, folks, let's say Richard hadn't already recorded the CD, and wanted our > ideas for songs to include. What would be your twelve-song tracklist of solo > acoustic re-recordings? > > RG > I think I'm a little heavy on the earlier catalog. Besides what I listed, I would love to see him take on another REM, Springsteen, Dylan cover or maybe something from the Beatles. Since his backing vocals send shivers down my spine, I wonder what he would sound like out in front on Lori McKenna's "Never Die Young". Castaway The Courier You Again A Tune For Nowhere Blue Divide May Wisteria The Last Fare of the Day Nora Lakes of Pontchartrain Once in a Very Blue Moon Balloon Man .....Carol ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:27:15 -0400 From: LN Davis Subject: Re: [RS] Re-recordings. Me too. I was listening to a lot of Sparrow's Point in the car with my son (the 18-year-old who was in utero during my first 4 concerts) (now I get to be the passenger and play with the Ipod while HE drives) and enjoying so much the production of that album, more than I did of some of the others. That is, those songs did have backing vocal (Lucy etc) and maybe sometimes a little more country than i always like, but seem pretty stripped down.... that CD is still practically perfect in my eyes. Which I guess means, why re-record any of THOSE songs, stick with simpler versions of some later ones. but I'm a bit out of step anyway, these days. Lisa Davis PS for Lake of Ponchartrain which is Dylan, and presumably was folk before Dylan, another cover of that song I like is a Breton singer-songwriter Gilles Servat who sings it in French, fun to listen to Richard's and Gilles' side by side! On 6/25/2011 6:21 PM, Carol Love wrote: > I'd hope for some of the covers he used to do in the old days that never > made it to vinyl (or whatever the kids are calling it these days). > > He had a couple of Irish ballads like "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" or > better yet one I think was called "The Shores of Ponchatrain" (sp). I loved > his Nancy Griffith cover, "Once in a Very Blue Moon" and even the Dolly > Parton cover "Making Plans". > > I'm going to disagree with Ron and say I wouldn't mind hearing "Next Best > Western" *if* it got the "unplugged" treatment. I prefer that one with just > RS and his guitar -- no backing instruments. Actually, I'd probably want > the whole thing "unplugged". With some notable exceptions -- like the song > Sparrow's Point which has some of the most haunting instrumentation of any > RS song -- I prefer the man with just his gee-tar. > > But, I'm probably take what I can get. > > .....Carol > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:35 PM, wrote: > >> I'm just hoping that some of the old warhorses stayed on the shelf for this >> project, including the ones already re-recorded for "Courier" or the ones >> that >> seem to show up on most set-lists. You know, like "Arrowhead," "Next Best >> Western," "Summer Wind, Cotton Dress" and of course "Are You Happy Now." >> Give >> me "Ascent" or "TV Light" or "I Saw My Youth Today" or "Waiting for the >> Storm" >> or "Whippoorwill" or others that don't get as much play, like some of the >> songs from "Not Far Now." I'll love the project no matter what, but now >> that >> I don't get to see Richard anymore, I'm more desperate for stuff I haven't >> heard dozens of times. >> >> RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:55:43 -0400 From: Pete Jameson Subject: [RS] Since you asked... 1. Sing Me Back Home 2. Arrowhead 3. On a Sea of Fleur-de-lis 4. Che Guevara T-shirt 5. A Summer Wind, a Cotton Dress 6. The Next Best Western 7. Transit 8. Kenworth of My Dreams 9. Are You Happy Now? 10. Howling at the Trouble 11. There Goes Mavis 12. The Ballad of Mary Magdalene On Jun 26, 2011, at 7:58 PM, rongrittz@aol.com wrote: > Ok, folks, let's say Richard hadn't already recorded the CD, and wanted our ideas for songs to include. What would be your twelve-song tracklist of solo acoustic re-recordings? > > RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:36:18 -0700 From: "Matthew Bullis" Subject: Re: [RS] An album of re-recordings? Speaking of Lakes Of Pontchartrain, Harvey Reid does a version of this on his album Of Wind And Water. http://www.amazon.com/Of-Wind-and-Water/dp/B001O3B9LG/ref=sr_shvl_album_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1309149216&sr=301-3 Matthew ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #21 ***********************************