From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V1 #62 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Thursday, December 18 1997 Volume 01 : Number 062 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Susan in Des Moines. 12/13/97 [duncan ] intro to list--Re: Susan in Des Moines. 12/13/97 [happy Jack Dalton Subject: Susan in Des Moines. 12/13/97 It had been over 2 years since Susan had played in Des Moines, so we were excited to get to see her again. She played several of the new songs, along with some of the old ones. I liked the new songs, but can't remember them now. Susan was the opening act for Kenny Rankin. She played for only about 50 minutes, so I was a little dissapointed. I think there were a lot of other people there to see her, and not Kenny Rankin. There was some talk about Susan getting a new record label soon. Does anyone know the details? Is this going to be a major label? - ---Derek - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers"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 - -Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:38:05 -0600 From: happy Jack Dalton Subject: intro to list--Re: Susan in Des Moines. 12/13/97 Hello -- I'm new to this list. I actually only found it on sunday, the day after I caught Susan in Des Moines. I felt a little bit obligated to lurk for a bit and learn something of the character of posts here, but y'all are so *quiet*. I first learned of Susan Werner a little over two years ago, when she was doing a radio station visit to promote LotGSG and a Des Moines performance that evening. I was painting a room when I heard that broadcast, and was already stuck for the duration, with tarps spread all over, so jaunting to Des Moines was out of the question, but I made certain to get the name right, so I could get the cd. I'm kicking myself for it now, but I did not choose to see her with Joan Armatrading a few months later. I didn't want to see her as an opening act. I wanted to see her when she had some time to play! Who knew she'd be two years getting back? duncan (---Derek) wrote: > It had been over 2 years since Susan had played in Des Moines, so we were > excited to get to see her again. Susan was the opening act for Kenny Rankin. She played > for only about 50minutes, so I was a little dissapointed. I think there were a lot of other > people there to see her, and not Kenny Rankin. "a little disappointed" would certainly be an understatement in my case. I found out about this concert about five weeks earlier from a pollstar (http://www.pollstar.com/) search of concerts in Ames and nearby cities. Therefore, I missed the contact information that I would have found had I only noticed that Susan had joined the growing list of Fleming Tamulevich (http://www.flemtam.com/) clients. In my humble experience, FT&A are simply the best at getting schedules and contact information out to their clients' internet fans, so I'm happy to see Susan with them. :) Be that as it may, on Saturday, I still hadn't figured out the right place to go for information, and all I knew was the date and that it would be at the "Masonic Temple." Not even a curtain time, and certainly no promoter's phone number. And Ticket Master had no clue either. Since there are about 20 masonic lodges listed in the Des Moines phone book, I took my best shot and drove to the wrong one, then went to a coffee shop, where I read through two local free papers before finding an address and time, and incidentally learning that she was opening for Rankin, that it would cost me and extra five dollars for a ticket at the door (after I had tried to get them from TM 5 weeks earlier) and that I was already late. :( But I still believe. :) I found parking a block from the venue, and I only missed the first two songs. I was able to purchase _Midwestern_Saturday_Night_ and _Live_at_Tin_Angel_ on my way in, so I no longer have to "special order" them.(and she signed them for me after the show.) I found a seat way in the back, at a table with only one shadowy occupant, who turned into Kenny Rankin once my eyes adjusted to the dark. I wish that man only good things, but when you're getting ready to perform, it's gotta be disconcerting to see someone sit down near you, with 2 of your opening act's cd's and none of yours, who proceeds to "bliss out" to your opener. You've gotta be thinking, "this could be someone who doesn't stick around for my whole set." Oh, well. Kenny is a trouper. His agent told him about the gig two days earlier, but he came because, "If I didn't then *I* would have looked like the idiot." But he didn't have to do it for me. He has a pretty voice, but to me, all it seemed to be saying was "no more Susan Werner!" During the 40 minutes or so that I heard, she did one song that I have not heard on any of the albums, nor on the one lonely performance tape I have from an e-pal (3/11/97-cat in the cream-oberlin,oh) It was about hiding the effects of aging with "a bottle of blonde" and "the knife." ("And no one can tell, if it's done well" ..." it takes strength to go au naturale." something like that.) She must perform it fairly often, since she spoke in the present continuous, saying that women are always coming up and saying how much that song means to them, and how nobody's talking about these things. So someone here must have heard it. If any of you have the words or a sound recording, please let me know. :) (happy.jack@ames.net) I left a few songs into Mr. Rankin's set, at the same time as some friends from ames did, including the owner of a venue there. Along with them was a guy who works the door there. Turns out that it's his birthday, and that Susan is his cousin. (he accidentally tuned into the same radio broadcast that introduced me to Susan, only he recognized the voice from her singing Christmas carols when he was a kid!) So here's my plan. First I get Tom, the venue owner, to book her at "Peoples", then we get cousin Jim to get her to hang out with us! (It could happen!) best wishes for joyous holidays, :) jack " It's a black void, and you're trying to chum up with the darkness." - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers"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 - -Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V1 #62 ****************************** -************************************************************************************* -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "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 -Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com -*************************************************************************************