You're right. The missing word is "mainstream," which belongs immediately before "singer-songwriter" - the operative notion being that many of these songs wouldn't sound out of place on a Triple-A format radio station, and yet there's usually something really interesting happening just below the surface since Holcomb's such a unique and distinctive composer. The connection between her more abstract compositions and her songwriting is very clear. She's got a very distinctive musical thumbprint, in that regard. I guess I was typing too quickly once this thing fell out of its envelope! My public apologies especially to Skip, who's written more than a few genuinely great songs himself. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Robin Holcomb, "I Want to Tell the Story," 'The Big Time' (Nonesuch) -----Original Message----- From: skip Heller [mailto:velaires@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 4:13 PM To: ssmith36@sprynet.com; Zorn-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Robin Holcomb, at last on 6/1/02 1:02 PM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
the wide gap between the singer-songwriter format and more adventurous fare
That's a loaded sentence fragment if ever there was such a thing. skip h NP: BEST OF LIGHTNIN' SLIM