From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V4 #82 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, May 7 2000 Volume 04 : Number 082 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- ellis meets susan or susan meets ellis [Sdgold60@aol.com] For Mosh and Trace ["kellie lin " ] Susan Sighting - Needham MA April 29th.... ["Murphy, Steve" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:49:49 -0400 From: "kellie lin " Subject: For Mosh and Trace Sorry to post to the list, but i don't know how else to reach these two... Hey Guys- Kell here from the Needham show...can ya'll drop me emails so I have your addies? Also, I have a question for ya both. Thanks- -- Kellie Lin Knott HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 15:22:34 -0400 From: "Murphy, Steve" Subject: Susan Sighting - Needham MA April 29th.... I am sorry that I'm so late with this report.... I went to see Susan with two friends who had never seen her before. They were very very impressed! I always like turning new people on to Susan. The Venue was a charming little Unitarian Church in the heart of Downtown Needham. Jane wasn't there and I missed her, but Kellie Lin was there, in black, filling in, and doing a fine job. Mosh and Trace were in charge of the merchandise department. We got right up front (because we arrived the required hour early (needed to get good seating when the show is General admission)). Next to us was a couple whom we struck up a conversation with. The first thing I was asked was "What has Susan been doing for the last 10 years?". I said "Gee... Everything!". Aparently, they had just moved here and noticed that Susan Werner was playing. She knew Susan back when she lived in Philly 10 years ago and the last place she saw her perform was in her own house!" She had no idea where Susan's career had gone since and asked me "Is she doin' okay?" Boy - did I have a great time filling her in on Susan's last 10 years! And needless to say, she could not believe how great a performer Susan has become. Can you imagine? Anyway, The place was filled to capacity (seats about 250). There were even people sitting on the window ledges around the sanctuary. When Susan came out onto stage she said "Oh - I see you're all in there... you're just... in there.... you're all lined up like little flower arrangements". She opened with; 1. PETALUMA AFTERNOONS and then talked about how Unitarian's have done so much for Folk Music while Catholics haven't done much at all and the Jehova's Witnesses haven't done a damn thing for folk music. The Unitarian Church is folk music heaven while the Catholic church is folk music hell. And if she had to choose a religion, she'd like to be a catholic (since she's familar with it) but she'd prefer to be a "Catholic Light"... and she said that someone pointed out "That would be Lutheran". Segway... "This is a song that has nothing to do with Modes of Transportation"; 2. TIME BETWEEN TRAINS (and today there were 122 tiles out in the hall. Earlier, she told me that the number is constantly changing, but not necessarily in a planned way... she decides just before she says it). Then she did a great rendition of; 3. LAST OF THE GOOD STRAIGHT GIRLS. It was a completly different than in recorded versions. I loved it. It was slower. She followed it with a new song that I had never heard before and I think it's great; 4. SHOT TOWER. A beautiful song. Very powerful lyrics! "That'll close out the Smith and Wesson portion of the evening". She describes a couple where one is flirtacious and outgoing while the other is reserved and introverted. "One is Sizzle, the other Steak and in this song... the Steak speaks"; 5. GYPSY LIPS/VAGABOND MOUTH "I'm not allowed to perform these next two numbers in Texas" 6. SORRY ABOUT JESUS "You'll find Hymnals in the slots in front of you. Please turn to Page 251 where you'll find...." (and then she mentions the name of some hymn and started leading the audience to sing it and several members join in) "Now if you turn to page 253, you'll find this country/western song"; 7. (JESUS CHRIST) AIN'T I LONELY TONIGHT (This was my friend Suzette's favorite song... she got Tin Angel because she had to have that song because she called it her anthem :-) Now she introduces a brand new song that I am guessing is called; 8. BLUE GUITAR. It could have also been called "We Can't Paint that Blue Guitar Again". I think this might have been the first time she'd performed it. As everything she does. It was perfection! She took a seat at the Grand Piano off stage... 9. MAYBE IF I SANG COLE PORTER Interesting angle, Normally she's facing us when she's playing the piano but this was off stage and only faced the right side of the audience. People sitting several rows back on the left side had a susan-sideview, but the front rows were behind her. Still, this time I got to watch her hands throgh the whole song and you can truely see just how at ease she is with a keyboard. Amazing to watch her hands dance. Then there was an intermission. . . time passes . Susan comes back on stage and performs Tom Kimmel's; 10. TRIP ON LOVE (which I have never heard before) then talked about a woman in Seattle "which is west of here" who works at Avis. Again - this is the first time I'd heard another song that I've been hearing a lot of buzz about on the list; 11. FIRST WORLD WOMAN which blew me away. I can't believe all the great stuff that she keeps on churning out. If she wasn't such a perfectionist, she could have 15 albums out with all her great unrecorded material (my favorite of which comes later - thank goodness!). 12. GOT TO SEE THE BODY 13. LIKE BONSAI 14. DOW RE MI Then she went back to Piano and I got to watch the dancing hands while she performed; 15. TALL DRINK OF WATER 16. NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW aaaaaaahhh... she went back to her guitar and made my night. I think that; 17. MISERY/HAPPINESS Is my favorite not-yet-recorded Susan song and I hope it appears on the next album (#5). "This is going to be my last number and then we'll call it a night"; 18. STANDING IN MY OWN WAY The Standing o - She strides off stage - She meanders back on and steps down to the piano; 19. MUCH AT ALL Then hops back up onto stage to perform yet another song that I'd not ever heard (and loved of course) 20. ALL OF THE ABOVE (NONE OF THE BELOW) What a great song. Anyway - All's said. Sorry so late. Twas a glorious night. My friends were very impressed. Especially Suzette. Steve 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 #82 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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