From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V3 #59 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Wednesday, March 17 1999 Volume 03 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [s-r] The Writing of Polaroids ["Sam Lisman" ] Re: [s-r] I'm sending this again, just in case the first one didn't get thru [Kat McLeod Subject: [s-r] The Writing of Polaroids Following the discussion of how this song came to Shawn...this past summer I was talking with Mary Lou Lord (I love the way that sounds!) after a concert she did here in Vermont. It had been a tiny crowd very late on a Sunday night (Monday morning, actually) and she had asked for requests at the beginning of the show. In addition to asking for just about every song off of her disks, I requested Polariods -- which she had recorded on a benefit CD. Now, it wasn't as good as when I've seen Shawn perform it (how could it have been?) but it was really good. Mary Lou, like so many of favorite performers, stayed after the show to talk to those of us who had stayed. She noticed that I was wearing a Shawn shirt, and we started talking about Shawn in general, and Polaroids in specific. Mary Lou explained that she and Shawn were pretty close at the time Shawn was writing that song -- which took a long time to complete. In fact, Mary Lou said, Shawn would write a line or two or three, and get all excited and show it to her. Mary Lou would agree that it was fantastic and push Shawn to finish it. Shawn would then wait a long time to get the next part, and then come running back to show it off. Mary Lou said this went on for months. She mentioned that Joni Mitchell always refers to her songs as her children, so Mary Lou has decided that she was the midwife for Polaroids. Thought you might like that one. They'd seemed to have drifted apart when we spoke -- Shawn had had the baby about a week earlier, and Mary Lou didn't know about it. But hey, the work they did together is incredible (for anyone who hasn't heard Mary Lou, go buy Subway, which is dedicated to Shawn). Sam - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:10:15 +1100 From: Kat McLeod Subject: Re: [s-r] I'm sending this again, just in case the first one didn't get thru Fred said Shawn said.... >"It had a cadence to it that was really infectious, kind of sing-songy and I just spent a lot of time >getting involved in the rhythm of it and jotting down anything that came into my mind." Damn.... so *that's* where I got the word 'cadence' from in my own description of Polaroids.... and there I thought I was just being really insightful and poetic and musically intellectual.... rats. Oh well, if you're gonna accidentally plagiarise, may as well accidentally plagiarise from the best, I always say.... ;) kat (still slightly shaken but not stirred from Sydney's first earthquake in oh... about 20 years... and I moved home from San Francisco because......?) :) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of small-repairs-digest V3 #59 ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs-digest' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http ://www.tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line ------------------------------------------------------------------------