From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #63 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, March 12 1999 Volume 03 : Number 063 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Spreading the Gospel (Sorry about Susan Werner ;-)) ["Ron Rosen" ] susan workshop at Berklee in april [Paul Kim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:29:52 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Spreading the Gospel (Sorry about Susan Werner ;-)) I just posted the following to 2400 Fulton, an email list devoted to Jefferson Airplane and their subsequent and current incarnations. >To Andy the Flying Scotsman and other young list members: > >Andy wrote: > >>>Imagine what it was like for me... > >>I often have - it's been so frustrating that most of my favourite music was >>made before I was even born, and the best I can do is live vicariously >>through other people's memories and experiences. > >Your comment made me think of a song by Susan Werner, a 33 year-old >relatively unknown folk/jazz/humorous singer. (www.susanwerner.com, >www.users.fl.net.au/~sherlyn/sw/ She is the only performer since the >sixties who has really interested me in a '60's way. People who hear her >think and probably her tell her all the time that if she was around in the >'60's she would have been as big as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, etc., which >is likely true. Here is a song she wrote about that: > > >BORN A LITTLE LATE (THE BABY BOOMER SONG) > >I was four years old in nineteen-sixty-nine >When everybody had their thing and I had mine >There were some people smoking weed, there were some others doing speed >But I was way big into raisins at the time > >And now I'm all grown up and I'm a-writing a-folky songs >But there are people telling me that I don't belong >These folk music consumers are Birkenstock-ed baby boomers >They say, "You're way too young and you dress completely wrong" > >They say, "You showed up just in time to miss the boat >You slept right through our rendezvous with fate >And though we're getting old and gray we still can gloat >Must be a thorn to have been born a little late" >That's what they say > >Yes they were all at Yasgur's farm in 'sixty-nine >They all made love to Country Joe and Johnny Prine >And every one of them adored young Bonnie Raitt >They love to tell me I was born a little late > >And at folk festivals I've seen them a-hanging around >I've seen them having sex and sleeping on the ground >They'll all be sitting around the campfire singing Beatles and The Byrds >And then they laugh at me 'cos I don't know the words > >And they say, "You showed up just in time to miss the boat >Yes you slept right through our rendezvous with fate >And though we're getting old and gray we still can gloat >Must be a thorn to have been born a little late" >Rub it in now > >I get upset about Social Security >It's like the government just steals my cash away >'Cos by the time I'm sixty-three there won't be nothing left for me >When all the boomers have retired and bought a house in Santa Fe > >And they'll say, "You showed up just in time to miss the boat >Yes you slept right through our rendezvous with fate >And though we're getting old and gray we still can gloat >Must be a thorn to have been born a little late" >Yes indeed, must be a thorn to have been born a little late > HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:02:26 -0600 From: "Charles Wm. Ellingson" Subject: WFMT show on May 1st Dear believers, For any of you who were interested in attending Susan's May 1st performance in Chicago, here is a copy of my recent communication with the venue for that gig: To: folk@midnightspecial.org From: ellingcw@alverno.edu Subject: Susan Werner Dear friend, Could you please e-mail me any information on Susan Werner's performance on May 1st? I need to know how I can get tickets to attend the show and how much they cost. Also, will it be possible to purchase a tape of the May 1st show? Thank you very much for your reply and your assistance! Sincerely, Chuck Ellingson From: Rich Warren To: ellingcw@alverno.edu Subject: Re: Susan Werner The concert is not open to the public. You can attend by joining the WFMT Fine Arts Circle (preferably during "The Midnight Special" tonight) at the $250 level, which gives you two tickets to *all* of our "Folkstage" concerts, as listed on the "Folkstage" page of our Website, now through August. Tapes of our "Folkstage" concerts are not available. rw Rich Warren, The Midnight Special, WFMT Radio - 98.7 FM 5400 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60625 www.midnightspecial.org / folk@midnightspecial.org So, fellow believers, if you were hoping to attend, I hope you're either a member of the WFMT Fine Arts Circle or that you have $250 burning a hole in your pocket. Bummed in Milwaukee, Chuck HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:02:54 -0500 From: Paul Kim Subject: susan workshop at Berklee in april A fellow student and friend of mine here at Berklee was at the Folk Alliance in Albuquerque and talked with Susan. She managed to convince Susan to do a workshop of some sort here at Berklee. Well, when she (kellie) got back to school, she worked with the proper official channels and it's pretty much set. Susan will be here to do a workshop on April 9th (probably in the afternoon before the Gardner, MA show at 7:30). I don't got the pacifics since it's not my boat to steer, but I'm hoping to get them from kellie soon (as in before i leave for home for spring break tomorrow *grin). Because I will not have access to this email addy for the next week, i'm unsubbing from my various lists...you can reach me at Paul2k@aol.com if you really need to :) oh, i do need to know again how to get tickets for susan's show at Passim on the 11th of April. Do i just call the club? i think their phone number is (617)492-7679, but i'm not sure. Paul "k" 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 #63 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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