Kendall's 2008 CD: I Remember Loving You

Subject: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: kendall
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:22 PM

Step right up folks, it's hot off the press. A new CD made up of old field recording of stuff I did years ago, and right up to when I started to lose my voice.
Dennis Cook has done an unbelievable job on cleaning up these old recordings and made them fit to sell. We sold a few at the Getaway, and anyone who bought one is welcome to post what they think of it here. The cuts include:
Come by the hills......................Gordon Smith
A $5.00 fine for whining...............Sammy Allred
Field of the willows...................Dave Goulder
Going Away.............................Utah Phillips
The Faded roses of December............Utah Phillips
Before they close the minstrel show....Bob Coltman
The Loch Arcray........................John Masefield
Old Fid................................Bill Lowndes
Whose Gonna buy you ribbons?...........Paul Clayton
The Last Letter Home...................McDade/Brown
Lonesome Robin.........................Bob Coltman
Rye Whiskey Joe........................Bill Staines
Starlight on the rails.................Utah Phillips
The Basque.............................Tom Russell
Song for the animals...................Dave Mallett
The Lock keeper........................Stan Rogers
I remember loving you..................Utah Phillips
I don't look good naked anymore........Sheb Wooley

Subject: RE: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:30 PM

DAMN ! That is one I should have picked up last weekend !

Subject: RE: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: kendall
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:32 PM

You snooze you lose.
Jacqui can bring you one when she comes over in December. You don't get off that easy! LOL

Subject: RE: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:37 PM

Kendall-

I've got one and it was great company on the long road North!

Who did the mastering?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:53 PM

I never got past the cover. Jacqui picked out that photo didn't she? Leather jacket...black cowboy hat...dimples and the grin...SIGH!
Bring some Saturday, Captain, I will buy at least one.
SINS

Subject: RE: Review: Kendall's brand new CD
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:54 PM

You didn't include the recording you made for your mother when you were 16?
That was a keeper.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 03:07 AM

Well, about all I can say is that this is Kendall at his best - good songs, well-sung. Classy-looking production, too. I guess he had to wear that damn leather jacket in the cover photo - it seems to have a mesmerizing effect on the womenfolk...
My favorite track is "Starlight on the Rails. What a great song!

Nice job, Kendall.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: open mike
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 03:20 AM

great news--glad to hear about this project--good choices!

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: bbc
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 07:00 AM

Congratulations, Kendall! Does Folk Legacy have copies?

Barbara

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: bbc
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 07:01 AM

BTW, I've really enjoyed the DVD you did with Utah Phillips!

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 07:56 AM

Congratulations on your CD, Kendall!

Please post information about how folks can purchase it.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: bigchuck
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:00 AM

Please save one for me. Kendall. I don't know when I can pick it up, but I'll find a way.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:06 AM

Wished I'd knowed it was there at the Getaway, Capt'n... But I'll buy one if you'll mail it to me...

B~

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:16 AM

Send me a PM if you want one. They're going for $15 plus $2 mailing cost. We've got some left but may have to get another batch done before too long!

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:11 AM

This project was the result of labor from many people, starting with Jacqui. She got to digging around in old boxes of tapes that I never got around to throwing away. Some of them were recorded in Steve and Terri Messenger's living room in England, some were recorded at bluegrass festivals, and still others were copied from tapes onto CD discs by Judy Barrows.

Dennis Cook did the mastering at his studio in Maryland, and if you could hear the originals you would call him a genius!

BBC, Folk Legacy may have some in the future, but for the time being we are the only source.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Morticia
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:26 AM

Glad to know we contributed in some small way, I'd like two copies please.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:55 AM

Jacqui, I have just sent you a pm.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 04:57 AM

I'll have a cheque in the mail Tuesday.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 06:51 AM

I need all buyers to know that there are mistakes and glitches that couldn't be removed.For instance,
In Rye Whiskey Joe, it's two POUNDS of bacon, not cans.If I could do them all over I would.
That sounds like a country song..."If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you."

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Morticia
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 07:05 AM

Oh noes, not mistakes!!! Well, I've changed my mind then *G*.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 07:05 AM

I need all buyers to know that there are mistakes and glitches that couldn't be removed.

That will just add to its charm. I'm posting my cheque on Monday.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 11:45 AM

Hey... you sound like my Gramma Owens... if she hadn't told everyone while she was serving dessert that she put too much milk in the pumpkin pie by mistake, everyone would have enjoyed it without thinking about the milk.

If anyone called me when I messed up lyrics, I'd just say that's the way my old man used to sing it, rest his poor departed soul.

Who says you can't can bacon anyway?

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 07:32 PM

Bill Staines

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: stallion
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 08:35 AM

Kendal
gliches and mistakes! no matter it is you Kendal, I'll get my hands on one, even if I have to wait til Mystic 2009
Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: GUEST,GUEST maeve, away from home
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 09:37 AM

You know I'll buy one, Kendall.

maeve in SC

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 09:59 AM

Stallion

I'm in the UK in December and will be bringing some with me. Hopefully I can get to your neck of the woods this time - I'll be based in Newark.

Are you all coming over in 2009? If so, can we book you for a house concert??????

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 10:16 AM

Save a copy for m when you come over Jacqui ! And I will pay you for it when you're here !

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 10:19 AM

I've ordered more CDs from Dennis and just spent the last hour pricing up and ordering jewel cases.

Looks like I'm going to be kept busy!

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 10:57 AM

I'll order one as soon as two nickels pass by close enough to rub together but I gotta' tell ya'...........I don't see how this can be too good a CD without "Surfin' Bird" on the track list. The other stuff looks okay but the omission of "Surfin' Bird" makes it much less desirable........................***sigh***.................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 11:42 AM

Spaw - when he sorts out the next CD we'll get him to croak "Surfin' Bird" - just for you. :0)

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 12:27 PM

I am listening to the CD now. It takes me back to that party at Barry Finn's when about thirty people sat in a circle and filled the room with music. All warm and fuzzy. Kendall sang at least a dozen songs including Phoebe Snow. Roger sang Four Little Pigs. John Nolan did The Selkie. Someone did Palace Grand. The Chucks had us rolling on the floor with In My Socks In The Dark.

Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons is worth the cost of the entire CD.
Nicely done, my friends.
SINS

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 12:30 PM

Ah, the Amanuensis!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 02:44 PM

They are all favorites so it's hard to pick one, but Come by the hills is right up there near the top.

Spaw, surfin' bird? never heard of it.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: stallion
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 05:40 PM

jacqui

We are planning to be at Mystic for the festival, probably doing something in NYC before that and may stay over for a festival the w/e after, depends if Ron can fix himself up with some work whilst he is over as to how long we stay, Martin is retired and I can take time off as I am the gaffer! were you thinking of Maine? Plans are still flexible and going north we would be able to do the beer promo gigs in Falmouth and Gloucester. December would be good to meet up, PM me and see if we can sort something out. oh, and save a cd for me!

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Lanfranc
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 06:40 PM

Jacqui

Please can I have two, one for me, one to raffle at the Winter Sing (signed would be nice!).

Can I pay you via PayPal? PM me if I can or suggesting alternatives. I need them before 15th November, so I can't wait 'til you come over in December.

All the best to you and the Captain.

Alan

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 06:50 PM

Kendall,

I MUST have one too---of course!

Dennis Cook is a miracle worker. He did the same with my recent Folk Legacy CD. The tapes I had were recorded all over in halls large and small. People gave me copies of copies over the years and I tossed 'em in a box where they sat until I gave 'em to Dennis.

I'm looking forward to hearing this.

All the best,

Art

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 08:46 PM

Kendall-

You can always be relied upon to bring home the bacon! No one will be disappointed with this recording. Dennis Cook did a fine job with a variety of recordings from live presentations. These are not studio recordings but "field recording" as you describe them and they are the finest kind.

Ideally I would like to see in the notes where each track came from. But I love this CD.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 08:05 AM

Charlie, I have no clue where all this stuff originated because they go back over 30 years. However, I do remember that some of them were recorded in Terri Messenger's living room in 2003, and some of them were recorded at the PORTLAND fOLK CLUB by your dear wife, Judy.

As I mentioned, it all ended up in a box or three never to be seen or heard again until Jacqui got the idea to try to do something with them. I had almost nothing to do with the production, graphics, notes or photos. Not my bag, man.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 08:35 AM

Well, he had to be there for the photos - I think I took close to 100 before I got one that we all liked. (Ain't digital cameras just the best!) I also bullied Kendall into making short comments about each track - 'bossy as all get out', me!

The graphics team, Judy & Dennis Cook, ClaireBear, and I worked very well together and I was well pleased with the final result.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 09:50 AM

Kendall-

Actually it was Norris Dale who ran the sound system for the Portland Folk Club and did the recording. Judy was acting as MC at your concert back on March 24, 1994, at Luther Bonney Auditorium and last year transformed the treasured tape to CD format.

I'm now wondering if Nor still has a tape of the Utah Phillips concert where you did the introductory set. I know we didn't necessarily record all concerts but I'll check it out.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 10:08 AM

Right you are. Now you know why I don't rely on my memory. I've been performing on a regular basis since November of 1971, and the venues have been from Hell to Hackney. Only a few of them stick in my memory.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 02:09 PM

Kendall-

Well, there's the first time I ever heard you sing at the Ark in Ann Arbor with Sandy Ives, I believe, way back in the Pleistocene.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 13 Oct 08 - 04:16 PM

Ah yes, that old steam powered amp worked well.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 03:50 PM

Help! I'm falling over the edge....

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 04:01 PM

I'll catch you. THUMP!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: GUEST,Steve in Idaho
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 10:49 PM

Congrats Kendall - are you singing still? When I saw the thread title I thought perhaps you were back at the recording industry again.

I had one of your earlier CDs, Pheobe Snow was on it as well as the one about the dead lady?? But I made the mistake of giving it to my son-in-law. Never saw that dude, CD, again.

If I was a rich man I'd buy it again and your new one - till then - I am glad you are still putting the music out -

Be well and God bless ya -

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: kendall
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 07:32 AM

No, I'm not singing...probably never will again. The new CD is all old stuff that I recorded on tape way before I lost my voice.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: maeve
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 07:38 AM

He may not be singing now, but the stories, humor, and guitar of wonderful Kendall are still plenty able to hold a crowd spellbound! Some things never change.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 08:12 AM

Beginner's Luck is the CD you mentioned Steve. A treasure.

Subject: RE: Kendall's brand new CD: I Remember Loving You
From: Art Thieme
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 09:04 PM

This is the best truly folk recording I've heard in many years. I have listened to it a half dozen times since it arrived here yesterday. There isn't a song on it that doesn't hit me right where I live.

Say, Kendall, realizing that our music is surely the purest form of what we folksingers do and are, putting this CD together from the best of other years' concerts, ones that were, thankfully, tape recorded at diverse venues over your life, well, I'm certain that you had a ball putting it all together along with the amazing Dennis Cook. (Dennis did the same with my last CD too--and working with him and Judy was a hoot.!) "Field Of The Willows" is an astounding statement from the pen of Dave Goulder. The random pageantry of life's ups and downs inherent in those verses is remarkable. That I should hear that song in the same week I also read Bob Coltman's masterful re-telling of Paul Clayton's life in his new biography (Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival) is just too wonderfully strange.

In the song list of your CD, Kendall, as you know, are two of the finest songs written by Bob Coltman --- "Lonesome Robin" based on the last of all the Robin Hood ballads-- "Robin Hood's Death" and also his song called "Before They Close The Menstel Show" another "Closing time---gentlemen--please" type of song. Actually, now that I think about it, MOST of these songs on this CD are topically on the subject of loss of various kinds. That said, none of the songs are proverbial 'downers.' They all ARE philosophically insightful though! One of the songs is featured in Bob Coltman's book too! That song is Clayton's own composed song "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone." That is the song Paul Clayton's so-called FRIEND, Bob Dylan, re-wrote to create "Don't Think Twice It's O.K." -- a million seller for Peter, Paul and Mary while Paul Clayton got no credit of any kind.

People, I never heard the Captain sounding better. I've already gone on too long, but I had to say how much we are enjoying this CD.

Love to Kendall and Jacqui --- and to all of you as well!

Art Thieme