From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V2 #98 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, July 15 1998 Volume 02 : Number 098 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- SW interview ["Bill Page" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:37:52 -0000 From: "Bill Page" Subject: SW interview Hey folks, Not sure I'm still on the list -- I was away on vacation, and haven't seen a digest since I got back...hope I didn't cause any problems, Charlie. (My daughters are visiting for the summer from the Puget Sound area, and have really taken to Susan's music. The younger one (14) walks around all day singing "when you get there, is there a there there.") Back in the fall, Susan appeared on WAER (Syracuse)'s "Common Threads," in conjunction with her (awesome) performance that night at Happy Endings. I just discovered that a portion of Larry Hoyt's interview with her was published in Folk Notes, the newsletter of the Central NY Friends of Folk group. What follows isn't new information to most of us, but you might find it interesting: ................. SUSAN WERNER Q: How long have you been playing professionally? A: It depends what kind of music you’re talking about. I did a little stint in the world of opera, and just found I was in the minor leagues, but was not going to make the major leagues. I started doing the wedding band, society ball, Bar Mitzvah band kind of circuit, doing "Hot, Hot, Hot" and other things I deeply regret. It was about four years ago that this career began to take off and allow me not to have to sing "Come Fly With Me." Q: Had you been writing your own songs when you were studying opera? A: I had, but I didn’t take them seriously. (Susan continued in a stuffy accent): Because of course opera is the "great music, the serious music," and songwriting is a lesser art, in some people’s opinion. And temporarily in my opinion, but then I went to see a Nanci Griffith show, and she really changed my mind, because she was writing songs about Texas, and me being from Iowa, this great plains kind of epic song that really resonated with me. And I thought this is legit, this counts as much as "Aida." That’s art, sure, but this is art too, this counts, this works. .......................... Bill Page, Skaneateles, NY HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V2 #98 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message