From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #56 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, March 2 1999 Volume 03 : Number 056 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: Hi! And some reponses [Steve I ] Early Susan ["Chris Leonard" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 20:53:45 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: Hi! And some reponses Cameron wrote: >Forgive my ignorance, but what, is an Ectophile? Sorry, it's someone who belongs to the ecto mailing list (nominally for Happy Rhodes but in reality for anyone who likes music by women). In my egocentricity I forget sometimes that not everyone belongs to the same mailing lists that I do. :-) >>Sarah played with just her cellist, the talented Kevin Fox, who is much in >>demand these days with ectophilic artists from the Toronto area. > >Did anyone notice that he looked like Kevin Bacon? Ha, he does, a little bit! I'll have to mention it to him the next time I see him. [re: Sarah Slean] >I had never heard her before, so didn't know the song names, and she didn't >connect with me as much as Susan did, but was still entertaining. Susan is a better match for the Moxy crowd in terms of her performance style. Sarah is a much more introspective, mellow performer. Normally she also mixes in a few more upbeat songs in her performances too but she recently went through some hard times and the sad songs took center stage. Not really what the Moxy crowd was expecting I think. >God I love that track :), and the set was good, but I liked the set from >Saturday better, longer for one :). I am pretty sure it is her own. I went We went to that show too but we arrived late, it started ridiculously early for a Lee's Palace show. We didn't get there until Susan's set was almost finished. The ironic thing was, we were at Susan's in-store earlier that day and if we'd only asked her the simple question "what time do you go on tonight?" we could have avoided the mixup. >to get a copy of her CD just before Früvous went on (did anyone else notice >how fast it was between acts??? That is shocking, moreso if you know >Frütime! Considering it was an hour on Friday....), and it was sold out, I an *HOUR* changeover???? That's insane! But part of the reason for the quick changeovers on Sunday was that each of the performers was performing solo so there was very little in the way of equipment that had to be set up and removed. >gotten your fill of moxy? is that possible? (sorry, I am a big Frühead :) :) I think they're great and lots of fun but I can only take them in moderation! Errr... don't tell Jian I said that! [re: Sarah Slean and Moxy Fruvous] >Yeah, that was great :) Do you know if they worked together before? Dave >and her seemed to be... well.. I don't know, happy I guess, with wierd hand >stuff and stuff ;) I don't know about working together before but they *are* good friends. Hmm, sorry for the relative paucity of Susan content here folks. Only my third post and already I'm posting non-susan content! Steve 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, 2 Mar 1999 00:37:18 -0500 From: "Chris Leonard" Subject: Early Susan I am hesitant to post this - I am much more comfortable lurking in the shadows! That may be because I haven't been able to see Susan for at least 10 years, so I definitely can't carry my weight in a discussion of recent "Susan sightings," how her hair was cut last week, or even new guitar styles that she says are "well, hard!" I also don't want to inadvertently get nominated to be "List Historian" by virtue of having known Susan "way back when." In fact, I'm betting there are other "lurkers" on the list who knew Susan before I met her, which was at a roller skating rink (!) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in either late 1981 or early 1982 (any takers? and Susan, if you're there, remember Bob Dye?). In other words, I'm not trying to get into any one-upmanship here... so please, just let me de-cloak, put in my 0.02 worth, and then slip back into the shadows ... Having said all that, I thought I would surface just long enough to contribute to the what-did-Susan-play-way-back-when thread. I know Charles from Milwaukee mentioned having a tape of Susan's music from "pre-1984". If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was recorded in December 1982 and is a collection of 8 songs, all "religious in nature" as Charles indicated, and all of which she wrote herself. However, I also have another tape from May 1982 which I seem to remember being the first time she put effort into recording herself solo and then letting others hear the results. The tape contains just two songs - she covers "Long Ago and Far Away" (by James Taylor?) and "The Wall" (by Kansas, from Leftoverture). Both are very well-done, of course - Susan's talent was impressive and moving, even then. So did she do her own music back in high school? As Charles said: yes. And did she do covers? Again, yes. I think she admired James Taylor quite a bit. I specifically remember her saying that it would be great to some day have a group of loyal fans like his (like Believers?) who connected with her music similar to the way JT's fans relate to his music. I also remember her having an appreciation for the music of Phil Keaggy, a Christian singer and songwriter who is a great, great, uh, great guitarist. I think she let me sing along once while she played his song "Spend My Life With You" in the hallway at West Delaware High School. There's my brush with fame and fortune. Susan, if you ever find your way back to Tampa Bay for a concert, maybe you could cover "Full Circle"? Your concerts are just as rare down here as Keaggy's! I wish I could remember other Early Susan Tidbits that would be appropriate to post ... but I'm feeling the urge to run back to the shadows and hope that I haven't bored everybody too badly. Besides, I'm getting too old to remember that far back, you know. How is it that I'm getting older but she's not? We were the same age once... [grin] Seriously, I just thought people might want to know about the JT and Kansas covers in particular. Since they were among her very first efforts at recording, it's interesting to know what she chose to record. I know I had fun scrounging around trying to find the tape - can you believe what a pack-rat I am to still have it around at all? Re-cloaking, Chris 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 #56 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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