From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V4 #48 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, March 11 2000 Volume 04 : Number 048 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: believers-digest V4 #47 [Loris1127@aol.com] Thursday in Sykesville [roylanghans@home.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:32:13 EST From: Loris1127@aol.com Subject: Re: believers-digest V4 #47 In a message dated 00-03-10 03:42:10 EST, you write: << I saw Vance and Susan on the same bill several years ago at a small venue in Seattle >> I still think the best combo of all was SW, Vince Gilbert, Brooks Williams, and Janis Ian at Newport in 98. (oh yeah, and Tom Rush was there too!) I recall Vince sayng something about "there are some mean lady guitar-players here tonite - and I don't mean Red River Valley" Lori in NH 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, 10 Mar 2000 14:29:13 -0500 From: roylanghans@home.com Subject: Thursday in Sykesville Highlights from Susan's appearance last night in Sykesville MD (Baldwin's Station): From our waiter before the show started . . . "I heard tonight's performer during her sound check. She has a great voice." From others at our table . . . "This is our first Susan Werner concert. We saw her at the January WFMA concert in Alexandria VA, and were so impressed that we just had to see her tonight." (I also learned that these same people are friends of the Limeliters' Rick Dougherty. It reminded me of the time at Baldwin's that I sat with a couple who had attended a Leadbelly house concert in the late '40s. Great stuff to talk about.) At the keyboard, Jane used that famous gaffer tape to hold a telephone book to the chair. Must have been uncomfortable for Susan to sit on, but she said a word about it. Susan said that George Bush is not fit to be president because he has never ridden in an airport courtesy van. Wait till you hear her "Shot Tower" song. Powerful. Another song I presume is new was "Misery and Happiness". Misery is the sleazy guy who tries to pick you up in a bar. Happiness is the guy in the corner who offers to see you home safely -- and means it. But the highlight for me was "Sorry about Jesus". She has certainly perfected that one, down to the absolutely perfect facial expressions. I cannot remember any other song -- ever -- that evokes laughter from the audience at the beginning, yet leaves them stone sober at the end. I've heard that song hundreds of times, and still can't get it out of my head today. She introduced "Time between Trains" by commenting that she has learned that when you value a relationship of any kind, you have to behave as though you do, or it goes away. True words we sometimes overlook. She said the "old standards" CD would be the one after next. And the one after that would be a "new standards" compilation of songs she has written. The objective is to make each standards CD indistinguishable from the other. I'm not entirely sure she wasn't kidding about the "new standards" CD, but that's what she said. At the end of her second set, she grabbed an empty chair in the audience, sat down, faced the performing area, and joined the rest of us in applause. Her second encore was an absolutely brilliant "If Not for You". Needless to say, I went home mesmerized yet again. Roy Langhans Cockeysville MD She sold out last night, and is sold out Saturday at Wolf Trap. 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 V4 #48 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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