From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #212 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 Sunday, October 28 2012 Volume 12 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 ["E. Wolke" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:22:05 -0400 From: "E. Wolke" Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V12 #210 Vanessa, I first saw Richard on that same tour with James Keelaghan -- he started out the set with "You Stay Here" and I think I almost dislocated my neck turning to hear it. I was entranced -- I'd heard of Richard and even heard a few of his songs, but at the time my children were 6 or so and I just immediately identified with the singer of that song so closely -- "You stay here and I'll go look for bread/ And if I can, some sugar for the kids", and "We'll wash (the coats) clean with melted snow/The kids don't ever have to know" -- I was too emotionally rocked to even weep. I could hardly breathe. I heard many of the standards that night -- I definitely recall "By Now" and "Fishing" and "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene" and "Reunion Hill" (the last two were the songs I'd heard before); I was totally wrung out by the time he finished playing. I was not ready for him, and he got me, thoroughly. There aren't many artists I can say that about. Keelaghan is one of them, and Garnet Rogers another -- but that night is outlined in my mind as a precious thing, especially watching Richard and Jim sing "Farewell to the Gold" together -- a song I first heard from Gordon Bok back before there was dirt. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jim's -- I go to see him every time he's in this area (the Washington DC metro sprawl). He knows me, at least by sight, and I enjoy his music whenever I see him and listen to him very often. I went to talk to them after the performance, and I was shocked when Jim said, "You really seemed to be listening to Richard closely," even seeming a little nettled. I figure my eyes must have been bugging out or something, for him to notice. I think I actually thought of the right thing to say, though -- at least for once... "You ought to know," I said. "That's how I listen to you." So much for the ego of folksingers. Loving these conversations, btw. It's fun. Back to lurkdom Evelyn Wolke ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #212 ************************************