From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #92 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, April 13 1999 Volume 03 : Number 092 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: believers-digest V3 #91 SW and PHC?!? [Loris1127@aol.com] Re: SW and PHC?!? [PBCoustic@aol.com] Fwd: Response to "Oops . . . my bad :)" [PBCoustic@aol.com] Re: believers-digest V3 #91 [Bodaceah@aol.com] Re: Falcon Ridge/berklee workshop [Kristina Spencer > Were there any other PHC fans at the Nashua show - did you catch the accent in her ad-lib finish to "Boy from East D"? Way more Minnesota than Iowa I thought. Garrison Keillor always has an eclectic selection of musical guests - - leans towards folk and Celtic. I discovered Allison Kraus and Iris Dement on PHC. Does any one know if SW has ever done that show? I think she would fit right in - music and comedy. Any thoughts, all? The Nashua show, incidentally was great, not as long as we would have liked because it was a benefit and Child and Family Svcs wanted lots of time for you to bet on their silent auction. One item for auction - original sheet music, autographed, of course, to "Cole Porter". Last bid I saw was $450. Susan was in fine voice in spite of the fact that she had done 2 shows the day before and the workshop at Berklee earlier that day. The only songs new to me were Boy from East D, which I know she has been singing for a while, and In Brazil I had no Shadow, which is definitely a keeper, and the ballad-y cover of Help, which was much better than you would expect. It's Beatles a la Don Mclean - very nice.\ Ciao Lori in Amherst HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:07:30 EDT From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: SW and PHC?!? In a message dated 4/12/99 9:02:56 AM Central Daylight Time, Loris1127 writes: << Garrison Keillor always has an eclectic selection of musical guests >> I agree -- Susan would be an excellent contributor to the show!!!!!!! Paul HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:16:29 EDT From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Response to "Oops . . . my bad :)" - --part1_669c29e7.24435a3d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey there, listers... I've met one of the WXPN volunteers through AOL that works the "World Cafe" show with David Dye who knows Susan... I forwarded the note from the recent "XPN-related" list posting to her, and got this note back from her... >>> Hi Paul, Thanks for sending this! I bet she was a station volunteer at one time, but I don't know her. I sure do remember that Singer-Songwriter weekend when it got to 124 degrees (heat index) at Penn's Landing (the Delaware River outdoor waterfront venue on the east border of Philadelphia -- the river separates PA and NJ). I didn't even try to go because I couldn't stand being outside, but my friend Ann, who is fearless & of tough Welsh and German stock, actually volunteered to WORK at the festival. She said that people were packing themselves in ice to stay alive for the concerts! Even she got sick, and she never gets sick from the heat. I suppose you Texans are used to these conditions, but we aren't. That medley they did in Canada with Fruvous sounds awesome! Even though I know Susan's a fabulous talent & performer, it's still kind of funny to think of someone that I know primarily as one of my younger brother's buds as someone with her own list-serv & devoted following. But she sure does deserve it! R <<< - --part1_669c29e7.24435a3d_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Rochell640@aol.com From: Rochell640@aol.com Full-name: Rochell640 Message-ID: <669c29e7.2442f2db@aol.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:55:23 EDT Subject: Re: oops . . . my bad :) To: PBCoustic@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 86 Reply-To: Rochell640@aol.com Hi Paul, Thanks for sending this! I bet she was a station volunteer at one time, but I don't know her. I sure do remember that Singer-Songwriter weekend when it got to 124 degrees (heat index) at Penn's Landing (the Delaware River outdoor waterfront venue on the east border of Philadelphia -- the river separates PA and NJ). I didn't even try to go because I couldn't stand being outside, but my friend Ann, who is fearless & of tough Welsh and German stock, actually volunteered to WORK at the festival. She said that people were packing themselves in ice to stay alive for the concerts! Even she got sick, and she never gets sick from the heat. I suppose you Texans are used to these conditions, but we aren't. That medley they did in Canada with Fruvous sounds awesome! Even though I know Susan's a fabulous talent & performer, it's still kind of funny to think of someone that I know primarily as one of my younger brother's buds as someone with her own list-serv & devoted following. But she sure does deserve it! Take care, Rochelle << Hey, Rochelle... Somebody you know??? LOL Paul >> - --part1_669c29e7.24435a3d_boundary-- HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:39:26 EDT From: Bodaceah@aol.com Subject: Re: believers-digest V3 #91 In a message dated 4/12/99 2:40:59 AM US Eastern Standard Time, owner-believers-digest@smoe.org writes: << As for Falcon Ridge and the July 22 show: Sherlyn - my calendar shows that 7/22 is a Thursday. FRFF does not start until noon on Friday, just so you know - i.e., you will either have to spend the evening in NJ or come to Hillsdale and go to a hotel there. >> Another Fruish person coming out of the closet here. I don't usually have too much to say, so you probably won't be hearing from me again anytime soon. Just wanted to clarify some things on FFRF. The festival doesn't officially start until Friday. However if you are on site camping they have early arrival on Thursday evening. I believe it opens at 6:00 but it may be 4:00 and continues until 11:00 or so. They don't want you to arrive too late for obvious reasons. You can get a better campsite this way and there is always an impromptu jam going on to pass the time before the "actual" festival begins. For me it definitely starts the weekend off on the right foot (or in my case the left foot) jude HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Kristina Spencer Subject: Re: Falcon Ridge/berklee workshop On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Vika Zafrin wrote: > As for Falcon Ridge and the July 22 show: Sherlyn - my calendar shows that > 7/22 is a Thursday. FRFF does not start until noon on Friday, just so you > know - i.e., you will either have to spend the evening in NJ or come to > Hillsdale and go to a hotel there. There is a list of hotels on the FRFF > web site ( http://www.falconridgefolk.com ), but be advised that most > hotels/lodging facilities are already booked for that weekend, though > Thursday may be considerably easier to get. I doubt I'll be able to make Actually, they open earlybird camping on Thursday night if you buy a weekend pass. Sherlyn, we'll be getting there on Thursday, with baby in tow! K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you cannot find the truth Kristina Spencer right where you are, where else kspencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu do you expect to find it? -Dogen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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, 13 Apr 1999 01:28:10 -0400 From: Paul Kim Subject: susan at passim sunday, various responses well, firstly, i guess my post about susan's workshop here was coherent since various people thanked me for it's in depthness. *whew* :) secondly, hey kate, the XPN Singer-songwriter weekend in '95 was the first time i saw susan live, too. I remember that that spring, XPN had been playing a lot of stuff off of LOTGSG and at one point i had gone in to Record and Tape Traders and seen that album and Joan Osborne's _Relish_, which they were also playing the heck out of, in the New Artists section and, after much deliberation, chosen _Relish_. It wasn't until after the SS Weekend that I bought Susan's album and fell in love with it. If I remember correctly, Susan was on before Ani and Paula Cole during the early part of the afternoon, but she still managed to wow the entire audience and get a callback for an encore. thirdly, sherlyn, I'm probably going to go to Falcon Ridge this summer...i'm not entirely positive on that, but it should fall into place since I'm staying up here in Boston for school instead of going home to Maryland. fourthly, susan put on a sizzling performance at the early show at Passim on sunday. she played for about an hour and a half (although, oddly enough, it seemed like much longer than that...in a good way of course) and covered quite a bit of material. She started with Last Go Around and finished with the encore one-two-punch of Born a Little Late and Help! In between she had the standards of her sets Tappan Zee, the piano diptych (as someone, perhaps meth, has so eloquently dubbed them) of Cole Porter and Much at All, and Standing in My Own Way. Also in there was Got to See the Body, Sorry About Jesus, Ain't I Lonely Tonight, the brazilian suite of Brazil and the Boy from East Dubuque, Like Bonsai, Year of the Bad President, and Movie of My Life. I was pleased to hear LOTGSG again after not having heard it at the past several concerts; it was also very nice to hear Time Between Trains again. She also did a new song on the piano that she introduced by saying "bob dylan said when in doubt write a hymn"; i'm guessing at a title of "bring on the beautiful chains of love"...it definitely used some typical chord progressions and the cadences of hymns. after the workshop, i noticed lots of little things that she had mentioned about her songwriting and i also noticed how she really does keep changing bits and pieces of her songs...I've sorta noticed it in Much at All over the years, and she altered several lines in Late for the Dance (the part about "i looked up at the sky and cussed, as the band members loaded up the bus" has been slightly altered to include the line "as i thought about what could have been for us" or something like that), and i could hear a little bit of her trying to alter the last part of Year of the Bad President since she mentioned how she felt that it needed something else to help it maintain the audience's interest. I brought my brother to the show and he was amazed; he'd borrowed LOTGSG a couple years ago and taped it and liked the songs off the album, but this was the first time he'd seen her live...he has very eclectic tastes (broadway, some folk, modern rock, grunge, although he's been really heavy into r&B, hip hop, and rap the last 4 years or so) so i was kinda worried about how he'd receive the show. Anyways, he now joins my sister and my mom in family members who i've taken to susan concerts and who have fallen in love with the music. I'll have to see about getting my dad to a concert...which leaves my cat, who i don't think would be allowed to a concert unless there was a house concert at my house in MD...hmmm...we do have a nice baby grand yamaha in the living room for susan to fiddle with and the house can fit a good number of people...nah, mere pipe dream :) I debated staying for the late show, but opted not to while susan launched into her set...of course, i rue that decision now, in hindsight, but i guess i have to live with my choices. As i left, she was playing a new song on the guitar that i would have loved to have listened to. notably missing from her opening set were : saint mary's of regret, old mistake (has she officially gotten rid of the parker fly, by the way?), the effects on Bring Round the Boat (actually, it was just toned down). Paul "golden slumbers fill my eyes" 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 #92 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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