From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #48 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, February 27 2002 Volume 06 : Number 048 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- TBT Chords ["Ron Rosen" ] A First-Time Reaction to Susan ["Ron Rosen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:05:36 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: TBT Chords Someone on the Jefferson Airplane list sent me this, and I thought I'd pass it on. > http://www.insurgentcountry.com/susan_werner_time_between_trains.txt 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: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:18:19 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: A First-Time Reaction to Susan This is from Mike Thompson of the Dar List after seeing his first Susan show in Seattle the other night: I became a serious Susan Werner fan at Falcon Ridge last summer after seeing a couple of her sets there. I bought the "Time Between Trains" CD, which is fine, but didn't capture what I saw at FRFF. So I was excited to go again live last night. The Tractor Tavern is really just a little dive in Seattle, the entire crowd was about 100 people, I was surprised that she would play there, I imagined her in much bigger venues. Have you seen her live before? Whereas Dar is all subtle and pretty and a bit reserved, with all the emotion hidden behind her New England liberal intellectual poetry, Susan Werner just lays it all out there. Her songs are much more direct in her message, and she is almost violently into her music at times. She is bolder, brassier, more openly sexual, and there aren't so many layers of the onion to peel to get her message. Also - one of my pet topics - her diction is wonderfully clear, and you can listen to a song for the first time and follow all the lyrics. She's got a song called "Misery and Happiness", contrasting the "bad boys" who are so attractive and seductive and make a woman's life miserable in the end, versus the "good boys" who just tell you they'll be waiting when you stop the foolishness and return home (that's a gross simplification, but you get the idea). Anyway, I was in the second row, and I was a bit disturbed by the fact that Susan seemed to look directly at me every time she sang a verse about the Misery guy. : ) My son is just learning the guitar, and I wish I'd taken him to the show, I think he'd have gotten quite an inspiration. For the last third of the show, she changed the pace quite a bit with several songs on the piano, most of them on the lush romantic side, which I could listen to all night. Her piano style incorporates a lot of classical, which was a complete switch from the rock-ish guitar stuff. I know she started out with classical training, and it shows through, and I really like that. Anyway, I just loved the show, especially in the intimate setting. My wife enjoyed it too, which doesn't always happen with the folkie stuff. 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 V6 #48 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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