I'd like to pipe up for "Summershine" if I could. I tend to identify much more with the darker themes of Bill's music as I think many if not most of you all do. Having acknowledge that fact, Summershine for me was a ray of light in an extremely dark tunnel I was in at the time it came out. I had sort of rediscovered "Bill" (if you will) after an extremely long lapse when I ran across "Audible Sigh" at a Border's Bookstore I frequent. I felt reconnected to something through that album and listened to it religiously. I think it helped me feel not so alone in my view of the world and was a welcome friend and sort of coping device. Then came Summershine soon after and completely unexpectedly. The contrast blew me away, but didn't knock me out of whack or anything (that would have been a true impossibility). Summershine gave me a kind of fanciful hope. One that seemed clearly impossible to ever achieve at the time, but that nevertheless seemed somehow possible, and that's really all I needed to keep me going. I think it is a much much deeper album than what anyone who doesn't muse over it's meaning will realize. It is a commercial album so excellant that it got ignored, but yet a love story for all time. My heart felt opinion is that anyone who disregards this record is sadly and sorrowfully mistaken. >From: "Jeff Summers" <since_91 at hotmail_com> >Reply-To: "Jeff Summers" <since_91 at hotmail_com> >To: sherry at snowplow_org, over-the-Rhine at actwin_com >Subject: Re: Music--VOL Summershine >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:53:14 -0500 > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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- From: "Jeff Summers" <since_91 at hotmail_com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:53:14 -0500
I'm glad somebody likes Summershine--it's been taking a bit of a beating lately. It did take me a while to come around to it, though. It came out in 8/01, and I wasn't sure about this bright, shiny, brit-pop whatever it was thing. I was happy with the old VOL sound. Fortunately, I had a copy of the VOL show at Cornerstone 2001 and when I listened to it in late December, I realized it was actually pretty good. I bought it in 1/02. After that, I regretted waiting so long. I love this record.
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>From: Sherry Johnson>Reply-To: Sherry Johnson >To: over-the-Rhine at actwin_com >Subject: Re: Music--VOL Summershine >Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:11:16 -0500 > >I adore _Summershine_. I really didn't like it at first, but I >listened to its material at two different live venues in two days (a >wood-buttressed church and my pastor's living room), and then sat in >a 6-speaker car with it on full blast. > >I guarantee you'll fall in love, if you do these things. > >I love the "old" sound. And I actually quite like Bill's new sound. > He seems pleased with the direction things are taking. It reminds >me of the same kind of growth that Stickman Jones => Annie Quick has >done. The unique lyrics and sound are still there, but the quality >and the rhythms and, yes, the marketing, has gone up considerably. > >Don't hate it because it's beautiful. > >Sherry > >--------------- >Unsubscribe by going to http://www.actwin.com/OtR/
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