Hi Emily-
Conceal (sorry i mistakenly typed an ed unintentionally) is from
Ludwig's Tune. Magnet and Iron kind of sum up FTR for me (my fave of all
time even though I play all most all of Hejira and only a couple from FTR).
They are such powerful words. When I played with a rock band in Honduras we
thought of both of those words when naming the band. As it turns out we
didn;t use either of them and went and entirely different way. Zorzal was
the bands name. It is a bird indiginous to Honduras esp. the North Coast and
there are beautiful birds that you sometimes even see at night and they tend
to dive in front of your car headlights as you drive. I think they tend to
nest in underbrush (strangly enough). Conceal-when she sings this I FEEL so
much emotion and I can't tell you why. Many of her songs do that to me.
Banquet often makes me tear up. In Lesson in Survival I often think of my
folks although I never painted my eyelids green or worn a kick pleat skirt
(I did wear a flapper dress once but i digress) it brings me inages of my
youth and my first guitar and mom and dad...
I find the inflections in her voice combined with the tunings and execution
of the entire songs are so over the top. This mainly why I choose not to
change her stuff too much when I play it and just try to put myself in the
song that she wrote and feel from there.
Later
Michael
NP-Message Man-the subdudes
on 1/15/01 6:17 AM, Emily Kirk Gray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi michael! i don't know if we've ever written directly
> to one another before! how fun!
>
> anyway, you wrote:
>>> Another couple of single words
> that did it for mer were:
>
> "magnet and iron"
> "concealed"<<
>
> ok, i recognize "magnet and iron" immediately from
> "lesson in survival" (one of my favorites) -- but "concealed"
> is on the tip of my brain, and yet...no dice (nice
> mixed metaphors, emily!). what song is that? and
> also, if i may, why do these specific words/phrases
> strike you? what do you hear her voice doing in them?
>
> i'm so interested.
>
> --emily
