From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V1 #14 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, August 16 1997 Volume 01 : Number 014 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:39:52 +0000 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: Live@tTA, O'friel's, admin stuff Hi believers, Susan's management asked me to share some info with you regarding the disappearance and re-appearance of "Live at the Tin Angel". When Susan went with Private Music in 1994, PM obtained the rights to L@tTA with the intent to re-release on their own label. It never happened, obviously. With the assimilation ("resistance is futile")of private music by Windham Hill early this year, Susan's mangement team was able to re-acquire the rights to the album and the sales have been excellent! Susan at O'friel's Irish Pub My trip to Wilmington started off unauspiciously enough when I got a late start (drooped my 6 yr old off at Football practice) and continued through a huge thunderstorm that literally drove me off the side of the road. I then proceded to get lost in Wilmington for about half an hour. So, I arrived very late. I walked in to find Greg Simon taking tickets at the door. For those who don't know, Greg is the composer of the song "The Great Out There", and has had songs covered by other artists as well. After a little business schmooze, and after the first act had finished (It's really impolite to walk in in mid act, IMHO) we went upstairs to a standing room only audience. We met with John Gallagher, from Folk Survivors, the organizer of the event with whom my companion and I had worked at Appel Farm Fest, then sqwunched (i just invented this word) into a spot against the back wall, the last available free space. The first thing that hit my eye was the barely identifiable flying object named Jane Paul, Susan's road manager. Back and forth, checking the board, mic placement, setting up the instruments, running into the dressing room, guarding the door to the dressing room, doing those things that road managers do. And being a perpetual motion machine all night long. I gotta say, Jane is a consummate professional in her craft. Tuning instruments while the show goes on ten feet away, running expensive tuned instruments through the crowd to the stage, two at a time. It's such a pleasure to watch a pro at work. The unsung hero of the Susan Werner act. After the setup, Jane popped out the door followed by Susan and Jay Scott, who played lead for most of the evening. After a suitable period of schmoozing with the crowd, Susan began. Now, I have to tell you, I can never remember set lists, and it would be hard in any event since Susan played a lot of new material, so I would only be guessing at names. All of the new material shows a progression, a growth from previous efforts. I you like "Rubber Glove" and "Ain't I Lonely Tonight", you are going to love "Au Naturel", a song about our reaction to the aging process. It had the audience in stitches. Susan did a particularly cooking version of "Tappan Zee" with Jay Scott laying down tasty solo work in the spaces. I was stunned by the beauty of "St. Mary's of Regret". Susan seemed to be very much in the moment when she played this song, as she was when she played a new tune, which will probably be titled "Benediction". Sorry I can't give you more specific details right now. Other list members please chime in with details (I was hoping someone would beat me to it so I wouldn't have to do this) I've been a musician all of my adult life (and a good chunk of my childhood as well) and when I listen to a concert, or an album, or when I am playing, for that matter, I pretty much *feel* rather than hear the music. Susan is particularly good at making people feel her music, so I am very swept away when I listen to her. So be warned, if you go to a Susan show, *you* write down the set list, 'cause I'll be on another planet! Jay Scott, Susan's lead guitarist took center stage for two tunes, finger-picked ragtime style numbers from his recently released CD. Jay provided very tasteful and stylish lead work on acoustic and electric for most of the show, and keep your eyes peeled, cause Jay will be doing his solo act around these parts, and he is well worth seeing. Overall impression: The new material is terrific. It's still Susan, but not just more of the same. It's more. ([internal dialogue]Yo, stupid, you can't describe music, like how ya gonna do that?) The funny songs are funnier, the sad songs more poignant, the melodies and song structures more rich, more complex. Susan has clearly taken her music to the next level. What a thrill to be along for the ride! Boring Admin Stuff (but don't skip it) I will be offline from Wed 8/20 'til Tues 8/26 while attending the Philly folk fest. If you're attending, and want to hook up, simply go to the Information booth and ask for me. I'm famous. No, seriously, myself and most of my friends work the info booth so they can tell you where I am going to be and when I will be there. Just don't expect any real quick answers, and don't feel you are being ignored. You know I wouldn't do that :-) Also it has come to my attention that a link has been placed on the Fleming-Tamulevich Booking Agency page. I don't have the slightest idea how it got there. The link leads to the links page in the signup site. If you know how the link got there, or if you had flem-tam link to this page, could you please let me know privately. I'm not ruling out random search here as a reason that this link appeared . And I'm not upset, just real curious. The flem-tam site is: http://www.flem-tam.com Finally, Susan has expressed a concern that the sign-up page does not reference my name and that people don't know who I am (except for the sex crimes unit of the New Orleans Police, but we won't go into that). Actually my name does appear on the page now (at the very bottom-copyright) but I expect that will disappear soon, since I intend to assign my rights to Susan at the earliest opportunity. But I promise that if, while walking the grounds of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, I have a burst of enlightenment, and discover who I am, I will publish a bio on myself when I return. And last, but not least, thanks for all the nice mail you folks have sent me. It means a great deal to me, it makes me feel very good, it's a truly appreciated and unexpected aspect to the job. You're terrific!!!! Your Fiendly(oops, Friendly) List Janitor, Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black charlies@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies "Passion's always half impossibility the lovers that we lose we never dare to forget we visit them in mourning in December and in May in the graveyard of St Mary's of regret" .....Susan Werner Join Susan Werner's E-mail http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies/swmail.htm - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. - -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org - -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V1 #14 ****************************** -************************************************************************************* -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com -*************************************************************************************