From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V4 #62 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, April 1 2000 Volume 04 : Number 062 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Somerville Theater 3/25/00: Somerville, MA [Keith Richardson ] Re: Somerville [PBCoustic@aol.com] [none] [owner-believers@smoe.org] Anyone have some extra tickets for Tin Angel? [Ockod@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:10:15 -0500 From: Keith Richardson Subject: Somerville Theater 3/25/00: Somerville, MA Last Saturday, Susan played a venue literally one block from my house...it was my 28th SW show since discovering her in Minneapolis 10/2/98. The show was a double bill with Vance Gilbert, put on by Songstreet Productions; Susan went on second and played the following set list. Do You Trip On Love Time Between Trains Gypsy Lips/Vagabond Mouth First World Woman Sorry About jesus Ain't I Lonely Tonight Shot Tower Dow Re Mi Tall Drink of Water Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter Movie of My Life Happiness The Boomer Song Encores: If Not For You The Nearness of You (w/ Vance Gilbert) I'm In the Mood For Love (w/ Vance Gilbert) I Only Have Eyes For You (w/ Vance G, a capella--at edge of stage) The first song, which I am guessing at the title of, was a Tom Kimmel song that she "did a little hubcap work to". First World Woman had '*in Russia* what I used to do' added which clarified the inherent meaning if Susan didn't relate the full intro. Sorry About jesus and Ain't I Lonely Tonight were introduced again as "the two numbers that they told me not to play in Dallas, TX." She has said this at both of the shows I've heard since the Cactus Cafe on 2/19/00, and I found this particularly amusing as I'm pretty sure I was the only one at the Somerville show who actually was AT that Dallas gig, and I met the person who likely requested she not perform those numbers at the church. I can see where artistic freedom comes into play, Susan took it in stride in TX, but I'm sure the request was demoralizing. The new song Shot Tower (my guess at a title) was incredible; "powerful" does not do it justice. I am posting the lyrics to it shortly, with some of the intros that Susan has given. Sherlyn, put this on your webpage asap. Cole Porter had an audience participation section, where Susan would play a well-known first half a verse then motion to the audience to finish it (perhaps first done at the Cactus this year?) Movie of My Life had a short, simple ending, "wait a minute, that song was brilliant." Happiness was introduced with a note that it applied to those who were "coupled up". And in light of the week of Calif. Prop 22 discussion over on the Dar-list, I'll say that in Austin 2/19 Susan directly addressed the question of gay and lesbian marriage, said it should be supported, that it always made her uncomfortable to have to say "Married and coupled up" when the inference was that "married" should really do just fine. The Baby Boomer song was led off by the line, "You know how in golf they have a senior tour?" Vance and Susan were an absoutely perfect pairing. Vance was witty and unceremonious, picking people out of the audience and playfully taunting them, including a couple who came in somewhat late and were sitting front and center. Later he did the same to a row of people in the right 3rd row who entered about 9pm, most of the way through his set. He asked them why they just arrived, they replied "we just got off work", and then Vance played a bit of the line "I was born a little late". But it was all in good fun. And lest you think that Vance was all fun and games and no substance, he has brilliant and poingnant songs which are even more startling after a funny intro. One of the highlights of the night was the final number, I Only Have Eyes For You, where both he and Susan ended up sitting on the edge of the stage each putting one of their arms around a stage monitor wedge and singing directly to each other, no mics at all, about 10 ft. away. Their voices filled the wonderful acoustic of the Somerville Theater. The theater was quite full, close to sold out (I couldn't see all the way up to the balcony). There was quite a bit of competition that Saturday night, the wonderful Lori McKenna, Jess Klein and Kris Delmhorst were in a triple bill at Sanders Theater on the Harvard campus, and it itself sold around a thousand tickets. I couldn't stay afterward at the SW/VG gig, I follow those three artists closely; and had technical obligations over at Sanders which means I set up some gear there beforehand, raced up to the Somerville, then went right back to Sanders to go retrieve some gear. In fact I consider myself lucky I captured all five sets. Perhaps that is what Susan meant when she said "there is a lot of competition for your folk dollar in the Boston area" (although I think she confused the CSNY shows at the Fleet Center on Sun. and Monday as being on Sat, there was a little hub-bub after the comment, psst, psst, who are the 4 no-names at the Fleet Center tonight??"). And although I never actually did post reviews of the College Station 2/18 and Cactus Cafe, Austin 2/19 shows, due to a crush of work after I returned, the short two-sentence version is that the College Station gig was in a simple but lovely wood-toned Unitarian Church and Susan was in a softer, laid-back mood, but great delivery. The Austin show was intense, fast-paced, with plenty of punch, one of the five best out of 28 I've seen. It was SO good in fact that the next time she plays down there I will seriously consider a round-trip flight for just the one show. How's that for endorsement? Keith 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, 31 Mar 2000 01:31:34 -0500 From: Keith Richardson Subject: lyrics to Shot Tower On 3/3/00, Portland, OR, Susan said: "Well, the second page of the Oregonian [local newspaper] was filled with articles that spoke to this next kind of song. This is a song that I wrote a while ago but I didn't realize that I had it in the songbook and I'll sing it for you, it just...seems to be current. This song came about after reading a book called 'Real Boys'. On 3/25/00, Somerville, MA: "This next song features a town called Watertown, it is not, I'm sorry, Watertown, MA...It is meant to be Dubuque, IA actually, which is........west of here." Shot Tower Danny was seven years old when he first went to Watertown His father took him to a tower in the middle of the square He wanted his son to see where they made the bullets for the Civil War He said, "Danny, one man sits up top and pours each shot from there." And he said, the hot steel falls through the air Cooling, hardening, shaped as it falls By the time it hits bottom, it fits the gun Shot tower, in the shot tower It was soon after that, Danny's father ran off with the neighbor's wife And all the kids knew it, and they talked about it all year His mother worked late, and she came home too tired to see the floor And she never noticed the crack in the hallway mirror And the hot tears fall through the air Cooling, hardening, shaped as they fall By the time they hit bottom, they fit the gun Shot tower And ten years alone with the video player Ten years alone watching prime-time TV Ten years alone at the Saturday matinee And Danny just turned seventeen when he drove into Watertown He parked on the street and walked down to the middle of the square He pulled out a shotgun and pulled down the lead on the evening news But he'd never see it and neither would nine people there Because the hot boys fall through the air Cooling, hardening, shaped as they fall By the time they hit bottom, they fit the gun In the shot tower. (c) 2000 Susan Werner 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, 31 Mar 2000 15:13:13 EST From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: Somerville In a message dated 3/31/00 5:40:14 AM Central Standard Time, krichard@netway.com writes: << Cole Porter had an audience participation section, where Susan would play a well-known first half a verse then motion to the audience to finish it (perhaps first done at the Cactus this year?) >> Nah, Keith... she did it at the Dallas show, remember??? <<"Sorry About jesus and Ain't I Lonely Tonight were introduced again as "the two numbers that they told me not to play in Dallas, TX."<< Which still pisses me off... of course, I'm not Methodist ... this is how stereotypes get spread, I suppose! <> Hopefully her future Dallas shows will be at Calvin's, which, although is in a Presbyterian Church, is MUCH less "religion-oriented"... she's played "Lonely" there before... C'mon down!!!!!! 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: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:15:00 -0500 (EST) From: owner-believers@smoe.org Subject: [none] 0-57968U12500L1250S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:26:15 -0500 From: "Paul Rafanello" To: "Susan Werner" Subject: Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:19:45 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01bf9b3d$b19c8b00$50dfc6cf@ucs.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000C_01BF9B13.C8C68300" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 000000004B0DD6AA39D2D311A96800A0C977E3C4A45A2400 Sender: owner-believers@smoe.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BF9B13.C8C68300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Unison is a tiny theater in New Paltz, not too far from the Mohonk Mountain House. A small room with wooden floors, and paintings or other art on the walls. A makeshift stage is put in the corner of the room I've seen a few songwriter in the round series there, and can't wait to see SW on 04.08, and Karen Savoca on 04.29. Hope to see some of you there. 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: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:50:06 EST From: Ockod@aol.com Subject: Anyone have some extra tickets for Tin Angel? Looking for one or two tickets to the late show at the Tin Angel for Sat. night.. I Thanks... Dan 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 #62 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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