From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #39 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, February 14 1999 Volume 03 : Number 039 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- [none] [dkaskela ] Re: Tin Angel 2/13 ["Tim Dunleavy" ] Tin Angel ["Charlie Sweeney" ] Tin Angel [Leslie Dreyer Kalra ] Susan on NPR [Leslie Dreyer Kalra ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 03:46:10 -0500 From: dkaskela Subject: [none] Hi all- Just got home from the late show at the Tin Angel 2/12/99. Great dinner downstairs at Serrano's. What a great surprise to find we had seats stageside center front. Wow. Thought the show was terrific. After hearing similar setlists at shows in November and January I wondered what she would play tonight. Some nice surprises- Brazil Time Between Trains Gotta See The Body Bad President Bring Round the Boat Deep River Blues Sorry About Jesus Boy from East Dubuque Ain't I Lonely Tonight Late for the Dance Cole Porter Much At All Standing in My Own Way a song in portugese (title anyone?) I Only Have Eyes To me one of the great things about seeing Susan play is knowing she could have played twenty more songs I love and still left me hungry for more. Maybe that's part of why I keep coming back. Charlie, Leslie, et al... I'm sure you guys were there but once again I missed the chance to meet you. Maybe next time. LATE BREAKING NEWS- Susan will be back at the Tin Angel on 4/17/99. Tickets will be on sale soon. I'll post the sale date as soon as I know. Gotta run. It's 3:40 a.m. and I'm leaving in 20 minutes to stand in line with my daughter at a ticketmaster outlet for her birthday present- nsync tickets that go on sale at 10a.m.I think she's obsessed. But then again, she thinks I am too (with Susan)! Keep believing. Dave HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:46:31 -0500 From: "Tim Dunleavy" Subject: Re: Tin Angel 2/13 Hey Dave, I was there too (late show, four tables from the front) and had a great time. This is the first time I've seen her this tour (unless you count the Borders Bryn Mawr record-release appearance), and it was great to finally hear the songs I'd read so much about here on the list. As Susan said jokingly (I think), it's the real fans who come to the late show... :>) My friend Phil came to the show with me. About two years ago we went on a weekend trip to Gettysburg, and on the way back I popped Midwestern Saturday Night into the cassette player. I guess I'd been following Susan's career for so many years that I took it for granted that people knew about her; three songs into the cassette, Phil started saying "This is amazing... where has this woman been all my life?" He's been in love with Susan's music ever since. (He's also been in love with Susan from afar... hey, join the club, pal.) We got to the show late-- Phil drove up from Baltimore through a bad storm, and the trip took three hours-- so we missed most of the opening act. What was his name? He was an opera singer-- an incredibly strong and vibrant tenor. (A pianist accompanied him.) All we caught was part of his last song, which was from The Marriage of Figaro, and his encore, Some Enchanted Evening. Susan later remarked that she was getting tired of only having singer-songwriters perform with her, and just wanted a singer for a change. While waiting downstairs at the bar for Phil to show, I overheard a woman (I think Susan's roadie, but I'm not sure) telling some people that the Barns of Wolftrap show on Sunday is already sold out. She also mentioned that the New York show opening for Jimmy Webb went really well-- and that Jimmy's pal Art Garfunkel was there! I don't know if he was looking for songs for his next album... but we can dream, can't we? :>) BTW, Susan closed with I Only Have Eyes For You... didn't Art record that once? Anyway, I've lost count of how many times I've seen Susan in the past nine years, but I think it's around twenty, which means I've seen her more than I've seen any other performer. Each show is great, and each show is a revelation. Can't wait for the next one. - -Tim - -----Original Message----- From: dkaskela To: believers@smoe.org Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 4:01 AM >Hi all- > Just got home from the late show at the Tin Angel 2/12/99. Great dinner >downstairs at Serrano's. What a great surprise to find we had seats >stageside center front. Wow. Thought the show was terrific. After hearing >similar setlists at shows in November and January I wondered what she would >play tonight. Some nice surprises- > Brazil > Time Between Trains > Gotta See The Body > Bad President > Bring Round the Boat > Deep River Blues > Sorry About Jesus > Boy from East Dubuque > Ain't I Lonely Tonight > Late for the Dance > Cole Porter > Much At All > Standing in My Own Way > a song in portugese (title anyone?) > I Only Have Eyes >To me one of the great things about seeing Susan play is knowing she could >have played twenty more songs I love and still left me hungry for more. >Maybe that's part of why I keep coming back. > Charlie, Leslie, et al... I'm sure you guys were there but once again I >missed the chance to meet you. Maybe next time. > LATE BREAKING NEWS- Susan will be back at the Tin Angel on 4/17/99. >Tickets will be on sale soon. I'll post the sale date as soon as I know. > Gotta run. It's 3:40 a.m. and I'm leaving in 20 minutes to stand in line >with my daughter at a ticketmaster outlet for her birthday present- nsync >tickets that go on sale at 10a.m.I think she's obsessed. But then again, >she thinks I am too (with Susan)! > Keep believing. Dave HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:00:06 -4000 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: Tin Angel Hi all, David wrote: > Charlie, Leslie, et al... I'm sure you guys were there but once again > I missed the chance to meet you. Maybe next time. Yep, I was the guy with the brown leather jacket followed by my wife, a little blond mathmatics genius, who passed you on the stairs at precisely 10:19. I don't live my life by the clock. Sure. After the first show, I snuck backstage and got about 5 minutes to chat with Susan before George, the sound man/stage manager/ former slave master on a Roman warship/ came back stage to drag Susan out to sign CD's. The opener for the first show was John Packard, baritone with the Philadelphia Opera Company. John gave us a selection that included Puccini, Mozart (as he said, "a tune popularized by the great baritone Bugs Bunny" from the Marriage of Figaro) and did "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific(?) as his encore. John's rich voice easily reached the back of the room, even when he was far off-mike. I thought John was great, and I thought this was a great idea. The biggest surprise of the evening was "Deep River Blues" (Delmore Brothers via Doc Watson) which I didn't expect. The Brazil song ("In Brazil I had no shadow") was up and running (someone had suggested that this tune was a little tentative at Godfrey Danials- now it's flying along just fine) As George dragged Susan kicking and screaming from the comfort of her dressing room, I did glean these following bits of info for the guitar players amongst us. Amy Miles - standard tuning with the low E dropped to D (drop D tuning) Old Mistake - G tuning with the low D dropped to C. The guitar with the tape uses a low E string of .056 diameter as opposed to .053 in a standard set of D'Addario mediums (I think) Th-th-th-th-that's all , folks ;-) Charlie (=}===# HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:05:34 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Tin Angel Alas, I was not there last night -- I can only go when it's closer to home -- but I was there in spirit. Charlie, I envy you your backstage access, even though I know if I ever got backstage, I'd instantly become a blithering idiot. You know how Susan introduces "Old Mistake" by talking about feelings of inadequacy, well, she neglects to mention someone else's incredible mind-blowing talent among the causes. Susan always makes me want to fade into the paneling... I'll be in Hightstown tonight in spirit only. Enjoy the concert, you lucky people... leslie 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: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 02:20:48 -0500 From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Susan on NPR Okay, folks, finally got around to capturing that NPR interview on disk. You'll find it at: http://www.techiesinc.com/susan/ in RealAudio format. Sorry about the 11.5 seconds of silence at the beginning, but I had more lead tape than I realized. If I find the time (yeah, right) I'll do it again. If I do it now, though (2:15 AM Sunday morning), my husband will probably divorce me. As it is I'm going to get yelled at... Looking forward to comments about the Rogers School performance... leslie 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 ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V3 #39 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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