From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #16 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, January 20 1999 Volume 03 : Number 016 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Susan's show in Chicago (12.12.98) [Bill Karnoscak ] Isn't It Ironic - oh no, that's Alanis ["Connors, Rosemary" Subject: Susan's show in Chicago (12.12.98) Greetings folks... This is my first post (I think -- yeah, it's been one of those weeks/months/quarters). I currently live in Chicago, since 8/89 (was born here), but have also lived in Austin, Texas and Danbury, CT. Just wanted to chime in regarding the variations in Susan's shows. I'd seen her twice at a very small venue in town (Schubas), which holds about 175-250 (depending on seating configurations). Most recently I saw her last month at the new Old Town School of Folk Music (holds 425). She opened for John Gorka, whereas the other two times I'd seen her, it was just her, no opening act. Her set wasn't even as generous as the 16 songs mentioned at the shared show with Jimmy LaFave. It was REALLY short, probably less than a dozen songs. So it was hard to not be disappointed about that. But the upside is that she was really on and brilliant, and the full house must have won her many converts. She also came on later in the show to join John Gorka on a tune (which I can't recall the name of at this point in time -- but that's another story all together!). But she did sing "Like Bonsai" and as far as that goes, she didn't have to sing anything else. It was so moving (but Susan remained composed, unlike one previous show where she completely lost it during "St. Mary of Regrets" and couldn't finish singing the last chorus and turned away from the audience). Anyway, thanks for having me here. The list is really fun (tho I am NO skier!), and I appreciate all the insights and stories folks have to share... kind regards, Bill HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:46:46 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: St. Mary's I think St. Mary's is one song that Susan got from her own life, rather than someone else's, so it has special meaning for her. I heard somewhere something about an ex-long-term-boyfriend that inspired it, but I could be misremembering. I saw her once at Tin Angel when she seemed so tired and so down that I was worried about her. She seemed almost in tears at some points in the concert, and St. Mary's was one of them. I just wanted to give her a hug, but obviously I couldn't...:( I feel bad for her sometimes that her chosen profession demands so much of her emotionally -- to have to lay it all out there for the general public several times a week has got to take its toll. If I had a whole lot of strangers evaluating the songs that I had nurtured, based on raw emotions that I and my loved ones had felt, I'd probably have sarcastic nights, and teary nights, and euphoric nights, too...:) Leslie Dreyer Kalra lbd@techiesinc.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:14:57 -0500 From: "Connors, Rosemary" Subject: Isn't It Ironic - oh no, that's Alanis I only have email at my office, so I've been reading the last two days of postings about Susan and her performance modes/moods at work. While I am generally a very upbeat, wisecracking, supportive person in my workplace - the one who organizes the softball team, and has the office people come to to cry, and wears the nickname "The Singing Hall Monitor" with pride - I have been in a *horrible* mood all week and people in my office are flipped out about it and letting me know. I realize they are concerned, but I just want to stand in the hallway and holler, "Happy people can be in crappy moods too. Don't let it upset your equilibrium." I realize that most people who have entered into this discussion have been sympathetic with Susan's dealio onstage. Here's just one voice of empathy for being a public person - although my "audience" is small and not on the other side of footlights - and going through the crap of life in a public way. One big thing that attracts me to Susan is her ability to get inside my head and tap into some hard places I don't always want to go, with the result that I get some comfort, if not wisdom, from her effort, from her simpatico. It's something I long to be able to do as a writer, as a performer, as a person just trying to get by day to day. Bless her for going out and doing it all for all of us. Off of the soapbox and on with the day, Rosemary HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:28:30 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Re: Isn't It Ironic - oh no, that's Alanis > One big thing that attracts me to Susan is her ability to get inside > my head and tap into some hard places I don't always want to go, with the > result that I get some comfort, if not wisdom, from her effort, from her > simpatico. It's something I long to be able to do as a writer, as a > performer, as a person just trying to get by day to day. Bless her for > going out and doing it all for all of us. > Well said, Rosemary. I wanted to mention how much Susan's work resonates with so many of us, but couldn't figure out to say it without sounding goofy (though that usually doesn't stop me). I get a lot of comfort from the fact that there's someone out there having the same trials and tribulations as I am, but who talks about it much more eloquently than I can... I did thank her once for "saying it all so well", but she didn't understand what I meant. Could it be that she doesn't realize how much she gets inside our heads? leslie 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 V3 #16 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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