From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #45 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, February 20 1999 Volume 03 : Number 045 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: believers-digest V3 #44 [mbarker@groton.org (Margaret Barker)] Re: 4 Corners ["The Bearded One" ] Anyone who has not yet seen Susan? ["Ron Rosen" ] susan in noho tonight [Paul Kim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:39:15 -0500 From: mbarker@groton.org (Margaret Barker) Subject: Re: believers-digest V3 #44 Dear All, What a joy it was to see and hear Susan again -- we were at 4 Corners last night, 4/18. I had the pleasure of meeting up with two other believers (hi Peggy! hi Tom!) who adopted me into their table and we had a blast. Susan's off-the-cuff rendition of Johnny Mercer's "I'll Remember You" was extraordinary -- so beautiful, so right on, even though she joked that she would mess it up, and compared navigating through its modulations to driving around orange cones. The song made me want to fall in love again, which is a feeling I haven't had in a while. (Sorry for that moment of corny-ness, but it's true.) Peggy -- I figured out what Susan meant when she said "Get your mom to buy you a fancy car!" as we walked out. Remember, we'd been talking about scarves (hers with the feely-letters on it, mine with the feely-flowers on it that my mother gave me) and then I was complaining that my car didn't have a CD player, so I couldn't Werner my way home? Well, I finally put 2 and 2 together around Manchester... Get mom-the-scarf-giver to get me a fancy car (w/ a CD player) and I'd be all set. Alas, the beat up tape deck will have to do. For anyone who has not yet seen Susan live, just do it. Find a way. Peggy regularly flies in fom Toronto. It's worth it. Best to all, MJB 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, 20 Feb 1999 00:54:16 -0500 From: "The Bearded One" Subject: Re: 4 Corners What a treat. What a great show. What a great time. Where to begin? Susan was on. Scatty. More covers than I recall hearing at other shows. But everything was great (except for the New Hampsha accent and the picking on the native jokes which I found deeply offensive; just kidding Jane.) I'll do my best at a set list (others feel free to set me straight and fill in the blanks): The first one I never heard before. Some kind of lone vacation song??? (help me out yous guys) Tappan Zee (Brrrr. Glad to get that over early. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,. So sorry) Mistake (with "girlfriend's" instead of "lover's" car) Body (My first time hearing it and it was great, better than expected.) Last of the.. Year of the Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad, President. Sorry Jesus (no one walked out) Ain't I Lonely... (Still no one left though a woman at our table then had to wait to go the bathroom) Cole Porter Intermission Petaluma Boat (that male bashing song (-:) Deep River Blues by the Delmore (sp??) Bros via Doc Watson (this was supposed to make up for Boat; it did and then some) Some song about a nice blond, young catholic boy and/or girl?? (sorry; help) Bonsai Johnny Mercer?? song called "I'll Remember You" ??? (great song, from the piano; told us she never sang it before?? Put it on the next CD) Late for the Dance ??? (another new one to me; another one for the next CD) Movie (It is always amazing to me how many people haven't seen her before.) Standing in my own... I Only Have Eyes For You (a Capella) Encores Much At All Ain't Misbehavin' (an appeal to the gray hairs; I saw a couple of them swaying and singing along; really) That's all. A great set. All I could ask for is "The Great Out There". Maybe next time. Now I want you all to write to her agent and tell him that you want her in Peterborough, NH in the fall. Now for the best part. (Just kidding.) It was great fun meeting other believers. Kris, Kelly?? (the masseuse), Pat, Gail, Phil??, the groupie, and the guy with the spelling bee champ. (Susan was good with kids (cough, cough), well actually only one.) Was there anyone else there? Pat got it started. She bravely came over to my table and asked if there were any believers there. Everyone looked at her like they were about to get a fundamentalist spiel (just kidding). She brought Gail (a lurker, it's OK to lurk, it's fine to lurk, it can even be fun to lurk) and a bunch of other non-believers but they were converted so that's OK. When I told Pat I was a believer she asked if I was Charlie and later others asked the same thing. Now I have never met Charlie. As far as I know the only thing we have in common is that we spend too much time late at night glaring at our computers interacting with the believers list. Charlie is in PA. The show was in NH. I have a beard. Why did everyone think I was Charlie? Oh well; I wasn't offended Charlie; I hope you aren't. Now Jane is on the ball.The first time I walked by her (I know who Jane is but she didn't know me) she eyeballed me and pointed her finger and said "You're The Bearded One!". "And you're Jane!" I smiled back. After the show we found the rest of them. Kris, the "I'm about 6'5", mustache, and some freshly grown whiskers on the chin." guy and his wife?? Kelly?? the one who gave Susan a massage earlier in the day (Hmmmm, what gives her the right?) and the others. It was great. Now I don't want to read any more of those posts like "i must've been right behind you, dave, because i was at the second table back from the stage..." or "Charlie, Leslie, et al... I'm sure you guys were there but once again I missed the chance to meet you. Maybe next time..." I want to see y'all running around to all the other tables before the show, introducing yourselves to everyone and declaring "I'm a believer. Praise the Lord. Are there any believers here?" (-: OK maybe you can just put a sign around your neck. I asked Jane if Susan ever asked all the believers to stand up but I guess that would be kind of confusing, especially if it was right after, or even worse, before, "Sorry About Jesus". Pat and I decided we have to have buttons so we're going to do it damn it. Believers are perhaps the greatest people in the world even if most of the need powder milk biscuits. We are never going to be able to come together in her name if we can't find each other. So what do you think? we're making buttons. You have exactly one week to vote or offer a suggestion. Pat and I get final say (OK Pat?) and Gail gets to be the tie breaker if needed. Send in your ideas, art work (send directly to me in TIFF or JPEG format) include color suggestions if that seems relevant. To get you started here are some ideas: believers@smoe.org I'm a believer and I couldn't leave her.. I'm a believer@smoe.org I'm a believer! How about a caricature of Susan with that squinty grin with "believe her" under it. Believer! I still believe! OK now it's your turn. And I also think we should have a believers old fashioned tent revival this summer at Falcon Ridge. What do so you say. Praise the Lord. Anybody got a big tent? I'm serious about the buttons... and the tent. Sorry for the long post (not really). It was great seeing you all. Lets not be so shy next time. Keep believing, "The Bearded One" HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:07:56 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Anyone who has not yet seen Susan? Margaret Barker wrote: >For anyone who has not yet seen Susan live, just do it. Find a way. I am just curious. Do we have any believers out there who are unfortunate enough never to have seen Susan? 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, 20 Feb 1999 01:28:11 -0500 From: Paul Kim Subject: susan in noho tonight me and jeffysmoew drove out from boston to the show this past night at the Iron Horse. Wonderful show...upon reflection, it was kind of a not-typical susan show...hard to pinpoint what exactly was different. Susie and Jane were pretty pooped out after all this touring and driving...they are looking forward to their small respite at home the week after the New Mexico Folk Alliance thingy... Susan was sporting a new haircut that i think is excellent, although her bangs seem to droop sometimes...she was dressed up nicely (well, nicely compared to blue jeans and shirt)...red satin shirt, black jeans, understatedly styling :) Finally got to hear Boy from East Dubuque...hee hee...god, she's so funny...she started St. Mary's of Regret differently...beautiful as always...and she ended with reminisces (is that a word?) of the little things that she still remembers of the man of the song...it was touching, and when she finished, she said "it's all true..." she also played "I want you to want me" as an encore, this time using her crappy little bazouki to accompany her..."brazil" was an obvious result of her trip to rio (not just lyrically, but also musically) and again showcased her talent for being able to adapt to different styles... after her encore, jane cued the sound guy to turn up the house music and lights, but he missed the cue and the crowd was going nuts, so susan had to come back for a second, unprepared encore...she launched into "I only have eyes for you" which was oustanding...my appreciation of standards has grown a lot here at berklee and this was a joy to hear and see. I got to meet Mosh again and it was grea to see Tasha Z again... "then i saw her play now i'm a believer not a trace of doubt in my mind i'm in love ooooooh i'm a believer i couldn't leave her if i tried" Paul "yes it's blue...the lighting is too dark" Kim 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 #45 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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