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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] ResoSummit Reflection: Josh | | Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2007 09:51:34 (-0500) | | From: | mikelist <mikelist @...net>
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Betty Wheeler wrote:
> This Josh recording of GSB is one of the most brilliant live performances
> ever recorded, in my opinion. You could write a doctoral dissertation
> analyzing every aspect of this performance.
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> I also thought that the version that Michael Witcher played as the encore at
> the closing event of ResoSummit (the Missy Raines & the New Hip performance
> at the Station Inn on Sunday) was brilliant. Hilarious and deadly serious
> all at once. It worked as both high camp and a highly respectful tribute.
> Worthy of a master's thesis analysis, I'd say.
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> You should be able to hear the Josh / live at the Ryman version on
> Rhapsody.
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oz used a lot of trills, and sometimes pretty close to breaking time, a
couple of instances on the first circle album come to mind. to walk that
close to the edge and not fall shows the intimate familiarity he had
with the instrument. apparently the same with michael witcher.
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