From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V4 #99 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Thursday, June 15 2000 Volume 04 : Number 099 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- A PLEA: Kellie's "Quilt" Book [Laura Burgess ] bottom line [Sdgold60@aol.com] Riverbend! (LONG review) [Laura Burgess ] Fw: Riverbend! (LONG review) ["Ron Rosen" ] Something music fans might be interested in. ["Ron Rosen" Subject: A PLEA: Kellie's "Quilt" Book Yeah, I begged Kellie to give y'all one last chance to submit pages for this thing, because it's such a GREAT idea! I mean, c'mon--this is your chance to tell Susan everything you've ever wanted to tell her and never got a chance, and it will be in a format that you KNOW she will keep forever and cherish--a book to her from her most devoted fans! When Kel told me that she only had SIX pages, I couldn't believe that there were only six Believers who wanted to participate...I thought maybe most of you just forgot, like I did the first time. Hey, Kellie's offering to do the hard part--all you have to do is email her your favorite Susan stories and she'll put them in attractive format...you can't lose here! I don't know which of you have already submitted something to her for this, but c'mon Ron...Lee...Paul...Suzie...Charlie...Bearded One? This is for SUSAN! Since I do scrapbooking, I made something for the book myself: I put photos and information about myself on one side and wrote a long letter to Susan on the other telling her about "discovering" her at Riverbend in 1995; finding this list last year so I could talk with other Believers; and how much it meant to me that she sent us CD's to replace the ones we lost in our fire in July. (Most performers wouldn't do that!) Okay, I'm done begging...just DO IT! Laura (SB1/NF2) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:41:12 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: bottom line hey bob and george and more i'll be there for jules. janis, jimmy and jsusan at the bottom line... george I got your voucher yesterday for dar sharon HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:47:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Burgess Subject: Riverbend! (LONG review) Wow! How can I describe my latest SW Riverbend experience? In a nutshell: 3 hours of agony, followed by an hour and a half of bliss, followed by 5 minutes of ecstasy! Here's the rundown--at Riverbend (Chattanooga, TN), which is an outdoor music festival, you have to "stake your claim" early at whatever stage you want to spend your evening. Therefore, we arrived 3 hours before "Susan Time" to get a good seat, and had to sit through 3 other acts (one of them twice). One of them, Priscilla and Little Rickee, is a local band I like (I know the bass player's Mom :) so that wasn't so bad, but I was anxious for Susan! Finally, it was 9:30. I had had a few "Jane sightings," and when I saw her come on stage I knew it was almost time! Interestingly enough, Jane and Susan were a study in opposites--Jane dressed in white t-shirt and black pants, with Susan in black tank top and white pants with black sandals (and sporting a slightly-longer brunette head of hair!) She started with comments on how great it was to be back in Chattanooga (and later on she asked about buying a summer home here...:) then she got down to "business." She was in great form tonight, with tons of hillarious and rapid-fire dialogue between songs, only some of which I took time to record. Here's the set list (assuming the titles are all correct, based on what I remember on her new songs from previous reviews on this list): Another Shade of Gray Time Between Trains Shot Tower (followed by a brief PSA about gun control, saying, "some folk singers say that guns are at fault [for recent shootings] but I think it's something else, if I may [say so]") Last of the Good Straight Girls Gypsy Lips, Vagabond Mouth followed by a hillarious lead-in to the next 2 songs where she talks about feng shui and proposes "white trash feng shui," in which "one wonders which corner of the basement to place the pool table for maximum energy" and she mentions that she is "as white trash as they come." Then she mentions that the next 2 songs are "ones they wouldn't let [her] perform in Dallas" (she's gotten so much milage out of that, hasn't she? :) Then she sang Sorry About Jesus, and Ain't I Lonely Tonight (with a great little riff on "I Honestly Love You" in the middle with a dead-on impersonation of Olivia Newton-John) Then she mentions that 60% of all college students are now women, and wonders if men will now be going to college to get their "MR" degree. She follows this with Like Bonsai, and Dow Re Mi (which got loud applause and cheers!) Then she took her traditional mid-concert walk to the piano for Summertime/Tall Drink of Water Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter (where she invited the audience to "sing along if [they] remember the words from [her] first Riverbend") and into which she inserted a little "Rocky Top" (UT fight song) after the line "maybe if I spoke some football..." and she added "...or some NASCAR." She concluded this song by paying tribute to "Eddie," a Riverbend volunteer who introduced Susan to how to chew Red Man tobacco a few years ago (!) Then, she sang Much At All, and returned to guitar for Misery/Happiness, and Standing in My Own Way Of course, she got a standing ovation, and returned to the mike for All of the Above/None of the Below, and Help (the slow version) After the encores, Tony and I hurried over to the table to talk to her and thank her in person for the CD's she sent us after our apartment fire. (BTW, I realized too late that I think we were standing in line behind Lee Gross...was that you, Lee? Talking about Signal Mountain?) When we told her who we were, she reached over the table to hug me and asked us how we were doing since the fire. We chatted a couple of minutes, then I asked her if she had time for a photo with us and she came around the table so someone in line could take the photo! It was pure heaven. Finally, we said goodbye and I gave her messages from Ron and Kellie, and she said, "yeah, I know them...I know all these people!" She was very bubbly and vivacious...maybe it's the breeze off the river or something...:) We told her we were moving to Murfreesboro on Saturday, and when she asked and found out that was close to Nashville, she said to be sure to come see her then next time she's playing there (well, duh!) Sorry for the awfully long review, but I'm so excited, and I knew all of you would understand. It was just a perfect, perfect encounter, one which I will remember forever. Oh, and Kellie--I'll have to take the photo of Susan and the two of us and make another page for your quilt book...:) Laura in Tennessee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:06:54 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Fw: Riverbend! (LONG review) Thanks for the wonderful review Laura. It was definitely not "awfully long." Now that you mention it, I do believe she did the USC fight song (yuck) in Cole Porter when she was in LA. Can you imagine any other artist taking the time an interest to learn and add local fight song? Amazing. Sounds like you must have been taking notes like mad during the show!! See you next year at the Bluebird!! HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:21:44 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Something music fans might be interested in. > For a truly brilliant and insightful article by Courtney Love about the utter > greed of the music industry and how artists get screwed by the major labels, > and how the Napster/MP3 controversy is changing everything, go to: > http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html 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 #99 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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