From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #49 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, March 1 2002 Volume 06 : Number 049 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Fwd: Your Folkwax Ezine ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Susan Article in SF Chronicle [John DeFord ] Santa Barbara ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: greatness [PBCoustic@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:02:44 -0500 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: Fwd: Your Folkwax Ezine >From: Folkwax >To: ookpik@mindspring.com >Subject: Your Folkwax Ezine >Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:00:20 +0000 >X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server >List-Unsubscribe: >Reply-To: folkwax@visnat.com > > >Folkwax >Home Page Feb. 28, >2002 > > > >Coda > > > >Last week we mistakenly called J. P. Richardson the Big Popper instead of >the Big Bopper, as he was known before he died in the fateful plane crash >in 1959 that also killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Thanks to Don >Piper for chiming in with this correction. FolkWax regrets the error. > > > > > > >Susan Werner Live > > > > > >Iowan-turned-East Coast Folkie gives > > > > > >us the news with a few laughs, too > > > > > >Story and photos by Mark Harbeke > > > > > >Susan Werner plays her acoustic guitar at The Lighthouse. > > > >When Conan O'Brien introduces a comedian (or comedienne) on Late Night, he >often says that so and so "brings the funny." Susan Werner also brings the >funny, though she mixes it up with current events, personal history and a >whole lotta great Folk, Jazz and Classical music. (Read more about Susan >in her own words from >FolkWax's >interview with her.) > > > >Werner, who grew up in Eastern Iowa, but now lives in Pennsylvania and >tours mainly between Boston and Washington, DC, played one of several >"homecoming" shows at West Des Moines' Lighthouse Coffeehouse, a >medium-sized venue in the style of the place of worship only 30 yards >away, West Des Moines Christian Church. She played two sets - one on the >guitar and the second on piano - that spanned about two-and-a-half hours >on the brisk evening of January 25, 2002. Tickets were, as usual, more >expensive at the door, but the majority of the crowd of about 300 must >have paid in advance, as they were there early and seemed eager for >Werner's songs. > > > >During her guitar set, Werner switched between this > >Dreadnaught-style acoustic and a Spanish acoustic guitar. > >Werner got things off to a Jazzy start with scat-filled renditions of >songs from her new release, New Non-Fiction. We at FolkWax thought the >songs on this album had a lot of potential when we first heard them more >than a month ago, but onstage Susan turns them into little vacations - the >kind of side trips a few birds might take on a warm spring day. (Read our >review >of >New >Non-Fiction). The first three songs in Susan's opening set, "Stationary," >"Shade of Grey" and "Blue Guitar," are all from NNF. Before changing >guitars from a Spanish-style to a dreadnaught acoustic and launching into >"Petaluma Afternoons" from her 1998 album Time Between Trains, Werner made >known she was spearheading the political cause of "eliminating standard >time" based on her observations that "the farmers don't care, the cows >don't care and then we could back school up an hour." Susan brought the >funny that night. > > > >Another great track from NNF was one of the evening's standout songs. >Werner played "Barbed Wire Boys" more swiftly than it comes across on >record. Her vocal delivery and trills on the guitar made the song's lyrics >about the pressures of modern country livin' erasing childhood innocence >come alive in a spectacular way. Susan possesses that singular ability of >being able to speak to a crowd of several hundred people and touch each of >them individually. > > > >Later, it was back to "bringing the funny." Susan prefaced another song >from NNF, "Misery & Happiness," by telling us in advance that the song >contained a swear word. With The Lighthouse being connected with (and >almost, literally, to) a church, all performers are urged not to be >profane. No problem. Susan hummed "mm-mm" over the two-syllable present >tense of a certain f-word. The whole ordeal was ladylike and very funny. > > > >Werner serenades the large but intimate crowd at the piano. > > > >Susan sang 10 songs before calling it quits for the night on guitar and >hopping over to the piano after a short break. Now it was time for some >serious Jazz and Classical music in the style Cole Porter and Gershwin. >Only six songs long, this set was about as long as the first because Susan >likes to embellish her piano arrangements and take chances vocally. "No >One Here But Me," off 1995's Last of the Good Straight Girls, was full of >power and energy and reminded this reviewer of a great Broadway voice >sitting down and belting it out at the Met. Werner immediately changed >direction with a song not on any of her albums called "Light Sleeper." >This was very much a "last-call" song, the kind that would fade into the >smoke inside a nearly deserted tavern. > > > >Werner, right, speaks to two fans and > >signs an autograph after the show. > > > >Susan's encore was the final song on her new album, "Epilogue: May I >Suggest." A song about ignoring the weight of the world for a while and >realizing one's own accomplishments and strengths, it made a warm >conclusion to quite the evening of music. After she had finished playing, >Werner came back out and spoke with at least half the crowd, who inquired >about her local roots and got her autograph. > > > >Don't miss this dynamite performer when she plays and sings near you. Her >new album may be about all the useless drivel that floats around in >today's society, but Susan Werner has something to say: Loosen up once in >a while and come have fun with me. > > > >Mark Harbeke is the editor of FolkWax. You can reach him at >folkwax@visnat.com. > > > > > >j FolkNews > >Heard on the Road... > > > >- Mark Humphreys' new CD The River Road is finished and scheduled for an >April 2 release. Playing with Humphreys on the album are Tim Cupps, Andrew >Lorand, John-Michael Kaye, Jeff Gold, Albe Bonacci, Randy Wolchek, Richard >Humphreys, Julissa Bozman, Rob Dobbins, Judy Kreuger and Lisa Johnson > >- Duane Jarvis will play at the free "Behind the Barn" performance on >March at Barleys Taproom & Pizzeria in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also coming >up in Knoxville: Nanci Griffith and The Blue Moon Orchestra on March 2 at >the Tennessee Theater and Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time on March 2 >at the Palace Theater > >- Elvis Presley Enterprises has licensed a company to replace George >Washington on some of Tennessee's 2002 quarters with a color illustration >of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. The coins, souvenirs honoring Presley on the >25th anniversary of his death, went into production this month through the >International Collector's Society > >- The Man in Black is back! Johnny Cash, who turned 70 this week, said >he's beginning to feel the itch to perform again. He's even finishing work >on a new album > >- Bob Dylan is in talks to return to the big screen for what would be his >first major role in a film in 15 years, Daily Variety reported yesterday. >The movie, a drama from production and financing house Intermedia Films, >would star 60-year-old Dylan in the role of Jack Fate, a wandering >troubadour who is brought out of prison by his former manager for one last >concert, Variety said > > > > > >This Week in FolkWax: > >- In our >E-zine, >we review a live performance by Susan Werner > >- On the >Home Page, >Arthur Wood interviews Kate Campbell > >- On the >Pickin' > 'n' Grinnin' page, check out Kate Campbell's Wandering Strange. PLUS: >David Peterson and 1946 Band and a Simon & Garfunkel box set > >- Don't forget to play the >FolkLore >Trivia Game. Everyone who plays is in the drawing for a great prize this week! > > > >CONGRATULATIONS!!! " sealsmom " is this week's winner of the FolkWax >prize, an Alice Peacock CD, Real Day. Go to the >Backstage to >collect your prize. Remember to play the quiz each week for your chance to >win great prizes! > > >Other fine Visionation >publications. My >Page >To >unsubscribe > >Folkwax is an electronic publication from Visionation. >Copyright ) 2000-2002 Visionation, Ltd. All rights reserved. (Listowner's note: OK, so I know some of the factual information is off. This is what happens when writers *think* they have the facts) 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: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:20:17 -0800 From: John DeFord Subject: Susan Article in SF Chronicle I was happily greeted by this article in my email box this morning; check it out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/28/derk.DTL&type=printable Can't wait for the show on Saturday... Maybe there's hope for the world given that O Bro' won five Grammies. - -john Now playing in the changer... NNF 7 Worlds Collide - Neil Finn & Friends Speaking of Now - Pat Metheny Group Barricades and Brickwalls - Kasey Chambers Together at the Bluebird Cafe - Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark The Invisible Band - Travis ........... Sometimes the beauty of life John ...... Hits like lightning .... DeFord Washing everything clear ........... -Shawn Colvin jdef@yahoo.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: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:38:09 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Santa Barbara If anyone has been to a show at SoHo in Santa Barbara, and if anyone's planning so see Susan there on March 10, please contact me off list. Thanks. Thanks John, for posting the SF Chronicle article. It looks like someone's doing some serious publicity for Susan around the new album. Don't suppose any of the talk here a few months back had anything to do with it do you? If you saw the Grammies last night, you will continue to wonder at the amount of crap that is popular, while greatness haunts the small clubs. 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: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:58:35 EST From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: greatness In a message dated 2/28/02 9:38:17 PM Central Standard Time, ronsopas@earthlink.net writes: > If you saw the Grammies last night, you will continue to wonder at the > amount of crap > that is popular, while greatness haunts the small clubs. > > Amen, brutha..... PB 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 #49 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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