From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #88 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, May 13 2001 Volume 05 : Number 088 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- News about John Hartford ["Charlie Sweeney" ] Re: News about John Hartford [Talbot10@aol.com] Re: Berkeley gig ["Ron Rosen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:14:12 -0400 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: News about John Hartford From: Charlie Sweeney To: dar-list@world.std.com Subject: News about John Hartford Send reply to: charlie@somethingblack.com Date sent: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:21:08 -0400 This was posted to Mark O'Connor's e-list Mark si one of the premier fiddlers in the country. From: Mark O'Connor Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: John Hartford A note to ask my friends to send out a good thought and prayer for one heck of a guy. John Hartford is about to pass on and is not able to communicate now. I have found out that his family is not answering any phone calls, but he is at home now from the hospital. John Hartford has been a friend of mine since he flew to Nashville from L.A. to be on my 2nd recording back in 1975 when I was just thirteen. He was a prince and has always been there for me as a friend and a colleague. When I was trying to figure out how to play unaccompanied performances twelve years ago, it was John who gave the words of encouragement I needed to have, while many others simply doubted the possibility of my doing it. John was also my mother's favorite person in the music business. Thought he hung the moon. Just before losing my mother to cancer almost 20 years ago, one of her last wishes was for my sister and I to drive her across the country from Seattle to see John one last time in Tennessee. It is also cancer that will take John Hartford away from us very soon as well. A collective prayer from my mailing list towards John Hartford would be something great. The wonderful modern day minstrel one man show, the author of one of the greatest hit songs of all time, Gentle On My Mind, and those early memories of him and Glen Campbell on "The Good Time Hour" in the late 60's prime time television will last with me for ever and I am sure will endure with many of you. He was a champion for the fiddle and collected as many original fiddle tune manuscripts and the various literature as anyone I know. He continued to practice furiously on the fiddle even until recently, setting out to get better and better. And he did! He would come to my fiddle camps in Tennessee and just hang out on the porch of the mess hall playing away until way past the sun going down. For all of that and more, I will think of you and love you forever John Hartford. I also love your home there looking over that Cumberland River. The thoughts of you dreaming about the old steamboats coming past you from days gone by is a poignant one at this time. I was on the nomination committee of the Kennedy Center Honors last year and did nominate John Hartford. I bet one day you will get that one too John. May God be with you. Mark O'Connor www.markoconnor.com Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black http://somethingblack.com http://susanwerner.com http://karensavoca.com http://lastgreatkiss.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:48:07 EDT From: Talbot10@aol.com Subject: Re: News about John Hartford Thanks Charlie, I am very saddened to read about John Hardford. I have so many great memories of his wonderful music. Like Mark says, he wrote one of the Great songs of all time "Gentle on my mind" and his original recording of it is still one of the most beautiful recordings ever. Hats off to Glen Campell to for his great version and for giving John the air time he deserved. He wrote other beautiful folk songs as well ("natural to be gone", "front porch" ) and the original "Gentle on my mind" album of John's is one of the great folk albums ever. Most importantly like Mark said, he is a great guy. I will pray for him and I know you all the gang in this mailing group will too.. I don't post very often but like all you guys I am a huge fan of Susan's. I first saw her perform at the Bottl-line in NY city as she opened the show for Kenny Rankin and I think Kenny was as facinated as all of us by her great performance. I remeber him complimenting Susan about her great performance after his first song! I will not be online to much in the next few months as my daughter Dana will be undergoing a bone marrow transplant for Leukemia at Cornell medical Center-NY hospital. If you could pray for her, I would deeply appreciate it Thanks Bill HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:23:44 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Berkeley gig The best place to get Susan's itinerary is http://www.flemtam.com/sw-itin.html Also, www.pollstar.com is usually pretty good. > I've seen a few recent postings that Susan is traveling back to California > (before her traditional annual pilgrimage in the Fall/Winter) along with > Ellis Paul. Can anyone confirm with the specific dates/locales? I can't > seem to find it on musi-cal or the SW website. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V5 #88 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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