From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V4 #116 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, July 5 2000 Volume 04 : Number 116 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re:believers-digest V4 #115 (Out of the Office.) ["Kevin Fitzpatrick" ] Re: SW on July 2nd [johann johann ] Re: SW on July 2nd [meredith ] Fw: SW on July 2nd ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: July 2 in King of Prussia [Stephen P Murphy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 02:43:47 -0500 From: "Kevin Fitzpatrick" Subject: Re:believers-digest V4 #115 (Out of the Office.) I will be out of the office Monday. If needed contact Dave Santore or Roger Vandervest. 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, 4 Jul 2000 07:34:14 EDT From: WyserNow@aol.com Subject: Re: July 2 in King of Prussia Pamela, Susan was wonderful Sunday night. Of course, Susan is almost always wonderful. The last time I saw her, at the Bridgeton Folk Festival a few weeks before, she had been struggling with her guitars, but Sunday everything went smoothly and she seemed to be having fun. I was amused that some of the cracks about Main Liners she made at Bridgeton she left out in King of Prussia, which is the sort of audience that "got" the Dow Jones song from the first line and loved it. David Roth, who opened, was very good. Great voice, and funny, too. The audience seemed to like him. Looked to me as if he already had fans, and made a few more : ) Happy Fourth of July !! Tess from Wayne, PA 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, 4 Jul 2000 11:42:42 EDT From: Loris1127@aol.com Subject: Re: believers-digest V4 #115 In a message dated 00-07-04 03:42:49 EDT, you write: << They were both at the Rocky Mountain folk festival last August, but I don't believe they played together there (Janis was Saturday night and Susan was Sunday daytime). >> << They were both at the Rocky Mountain folk festival last August, but I don't believe they played together there (Janis was Saturday night and Susan was Sunday daytime).>> Both Janis and Susan played the Newport FF in '98, along with Tom Rush, Brooke Williams and Vance Gilbert. Also a very cool show - Vance commented on the quality of the "lady guitar players" present - "this ain't just Oh, Susannah, ya' know!", and Susan sang the "Born a Little Late" - after an intro about how hard it had been for her to break into "traditional" folk music - "and some of that is because of you - you folks right here!" Lots of guts! FYI, she got a rousing round of applause for the song and a standing O at the end of her set. But I think the Bottom Line show last week topped this one - truly a memory of a lifetime - I am very jealous! 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: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:50:58 -0700 From: Gregg Subject: re: RMFF 2000 Schedule Earl Higgins wrote: Any details of this year's Rocky Mountain folk festival available yet? Looks like no Susan :-( Unfortunately Earl's correct, no Susan at RMFF this year .......... but the line up is still awesome, Emmylou Harris & Spyboy, Nanci Griffith, The Nields, Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Tom Rush, David Crosby, Victoria Williams (and Mark Olson?), Martin Sexton, Cheryl Wheeler, Catie Curtis, Stacey Earl, Guy Clark, Solas, Willy Porter ............. check out the details here: http://www.bluegrass.com/Pages/folks.html p.s. Susan WILL be up at the Summerfolk Festival in Owen Sound, OT that weekend :^) G. Humphrey 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, 04 Jul 2000 13:17:47 -0400 From: johann johann Subject: Re: SW on July 2nd when we last left our heroes, Scoop52256@aol.com exclaimed: >OK, who was able to see Susan's show in Philly on July 2nd? *raises hand* meth and i drove down from connecticut to see the show (and our-ex-northeastern-neighbor smoemaster jeff wasilko who came up from virginia for the bottom line and upper merion shows). it was a good show. susan seemed pretty relaxed. several new songs: shot tower (which just has to be the best thing she's written since bonsai), misery & happiness (also a good one, though it has a more amusing affect than the hair-raising shot tower), all of the above/none of the below, blue guitar, tall drink of water, and probably a few others i can't remember. i'm sure dave kaskela will post the setlist shortly. (nice to meet you dave! and good to see charlie and courtney again after the brief hello at falcon ridge last year.) >I'd love to hear about the opening act, David Roth. i didn't care for him but his schtick is not generally my kind of thing. he does have a strong voice, but didn't really care for his songs, his musicianship or the way he worked the crowd. regardless, the rest of the audience seemed to enjoy him a whole lot. there was small core of already-fans there and the applause at the end of his set was strong. woj 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, 04 Jul 2000 14:27:53 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: SW on July 2nd Hi! Pamela inquired: >OK, who was able to see Susan's show in Philly on July 2nd? I'd love to hear >about the opening act, David Roth. He was a local Seattle guy until 2 months >ago. I think he's wonderful, and have been going to his shows for several >years. How'd the crowd like him? Think he won over a few new fans? Um. woj came up with a good phrase, I guess -- "not my thing". It looked like he did win over some new fans, though, which quite frankly boggles my mind. I will agree that he has a nice voice, but his songwriting skills leave a LOT to be desired, particularly when placed in such vivid contrast with Susan's. His songs are basically paragraphs put to (not very interesting) music. I'm not expecting every line to rhyme, but it would be nice if the words at least fit the meter. He also needs to go to a dictionary and look up the words "metaphor" and "imagery". He's telling stories with his songs, all right, but the kind that you read in a newspaper, not the kind that work in a musical setting. For example, his ditty about the time he sang the national anthem at a Chicago Bulls game was basically a journal entry. "I went here, I did this, this happened." All of his songs were like that: absolutely nothing left to the imagination. Then Susan got up there later and sang the story of the kid in "Shot Tower", with its evocative descriptions (even while keeping the number of words to a premium) and killer final chorus, and really drove home how important the words are to making a song. But then I've always been a lyric person over all else, so if the lyrics are bad I can't get past that to enjoy the music at all. Sorry, just had to post an alternate opinion of Mr. Roth. But at least he didn't approach the utter horror who was Kevin Briody, who opened for Susan at the Towne Crier Cafe a year or so ago. (Why does Susan get saddled with so many excruciating openers?) P.S. Sherlyn, time to update the lyrics site, eh? "Shot Tower" and "All Of the Above" aren't up there, I see ... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ 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, 4 Jul 2000 12:29:32 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Fw: SW on July 2nd > words at least fit the meter. He also needs to go to a dictionary and look > up the words "metaphor" and "imagery". He's telling stories with his > songs, all right, but the kind that you read in a newspaper, not the kind > that work in a musical setting. I just love the way Susan wrote: "Got my collar bone cracked and my handlebars bent." Instead of saying, "I was in a bicycle accident." 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, 05 Jul 2000 00:29:43 -0400 From: Stephen P Murphy Subject: Re: July 2 in King of Prussia David Roth is outstanding! If you want to be laughing one minute, and in tears the next, go get David's Album "Irreconcilable Similaraties"! Steve WyserNow@aol.com wrote: > Pamela, > > Susan was wonderful Sunday night. Of course, Susan is almost always > wonderful. The last time I saw her, at the Bridgeton Folk Festival a few > weeks before, she had been struggling with her guitars, but Sunday everything > went smoothly and she seemed to be having fun. I was amused that some of the > cracks about Main Liners she made at Bridgeton she left out in King of > Prussia, which is the sort of audience that "got" the Dow Jones song from the > first line and loved it. David Roth, who opened, was very good. Great voice, > and funny, too. The audience seemed to like him. Looked to me as if he > already had fans, and made a few more : ) Happy Fourth of July !! > > Tess from Wayne, PA > > HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org > Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com 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 #116 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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