Re: The Biggest Chill?

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

boots wrote:
> 
> Hiya folks,
>  I've got a question for you that maybe you've never asked yourselves
> about
> Kate's music... What single line of a Kate song (vocally) has caused
> the
> most intense reaction? The biggest chill to roll through you as if
> threatening never to let go...
> 
> I though of that just recently when I was watch the Line, the Cross,
> and
> the Curve...she hits a distinctively Kate note in And So Is Love that
> had
> me (grown man that I am) shivering... predictably it was the last very
> soulful iteration of the title line.
> 
> Other times it's happened to me?
> at the end of the Big Sky where she hits that unbelievable screech,
> sustains it and pulls it down into a deep rip that sounds way too rich
> to
> be some white woman.
>
---Well, well, she's half Irish, which in some ways may not be so much
different... :-)

> in This Woman's Work (with the help of the exquisite string
> arrangement)
> Ohhh darlin, make them go away.
> 
> During her duet with Peter Gabriel, doing Another Day, pretty much the
> whole thing, really, but the very end... and I walk away
> 
> During Under the Ivy, perhaps the strongest response of them all, just
> because of the emotion range in the one segment
> and it's not easy for me
> to give away your secret
> It's not safe
> 
> Okay, so these are mostly the sad moments, but hearing Kate tug at my
> soul
> has always been more a pleasure than most other musicians could
> provoke
> from me in their most brilliant moments.
> 
> I'd really love to hear from you, hear what moments do it to you.
> 
> boots
> (who's really glad he found this group)

--An excellent question. So good, in fact, that I'll have to think about
it a while...

--Ron
-- 
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