From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #58 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, March 12 2002 Volume 06 : Number 058 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Courting the Muse (Susan Werner) [OzWoman321@aol.com] Lucy Kaplansky on CBS ["Beth McConnell" ] Re: Lucy Kaplansky on CBS [] A Sunday Kind of Love (Santa Barbara 3/10/02) ["Ron Rosen" ] susan werner on the radio [Sdgold60@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:34:17 EST From: OzWoman321@aol.com Subject: Courting the Muse (Susan Werner) Hello, All - > Anybody else just hear NPR's piece on houseconcerts? I happened to be in > the > McDonald's drive-through, with the radio on.... otherwise I woulda missed > it. They interviewed Ellen Bukstel down in Florida about her series, and > who > was playing the houseconcert? Susan Werner... The piece included a couple > > minutes from the gig itself, including "Shade", as well as comments from > Susan about the houseconcert concept... > > What a cool surprise on Sunday morning.... Very cool indeed! - I am "the other Susan" (Moss) they interviewed, and it was a total surprise to hear it aired yesterday morning... Even more synchronistic, though, is that this particular Susan Werner house concert is the one Mosh reviewed a few months ago when he came down to Miami/Ft. Lauderdale in mid-January for our South Florida Folk Festival - we (along with two other friends) had front and center seats on Ellen's black leather couch... :-) Susan http://www.heartsdesireconcerts.com "For the record I have fought the fight and chased the darkness Now I'm looking for a soft light and where the heart is..." ~ Christine Kane 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:41:14 -0600 From: "Beth McConnell" Subject: Lucy Kaplansky on CBS painful to watch, but there is a memorial to the events that occurred 6 mos. ago on 9/11 -- Lucy just sang a recent song that she wrote w/hubby. 'Land of the Living' silent and sniffy, Beth 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:20:41 -0500 From: Subject: Re: Lucy Kaplansky on CBS I'm not a huge Lucy fan, but I did hear her perform this song at a small club in Kansas. I think it's the best thing she's ever written. It made me silent and sniffy, too, Beth. Charisse in Wichita Beth McConnell wrote: > painful to watch, but there is a memorial to the events that occurred 6 mos. ago on 9/11 -- Lucy just sang a recent song that she wrote w/hubby. 'Land of the Living' silent and sniffy, Beth 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 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:36:08 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: A Sunday Kind of Love (Santa Barbara 3/10/02) This might have been the best SW show I have ever seen. Soho's is a large one-room restaurant with high ceilings, brick walls on the outside, and a hardwood floor. It's like one of those warehouses or old factories that have been refurbished. Kind of like a loft. There's a low stage at one end with a grand piano. When I arrived, Paul Barr, who tapes shows and usually goes to at least 4 or 5 Susan shows when she is here, was sitting at a small table back by the sound board. I saw Susan and Jane and two friends ordering dinner at a table near the front and went over and asked Susan if she was bummed by the Iowa loss to Ohio State. "Yes, Ron, I am bummed. Thank you very much for bringing it up again." I briefly explained that my own interest in basketball is only in March and only the last 5 minutes of each game. We then briefly talked about baseball parks. I told her that I'd once been sprayed with water by Bill Veeck on a hot at Wrigley. She said, "You were baptised." I went back and sat down at Paul's table and had dinner. At some point Susan came back with a half-consumed bottle of Chardonay and offered it to Paul and I. She said she would rather kick back and finish the bottle of wine on a Sunday evening, but unfortunately she had to work. I asked her what the dessert specials were. We talked about how wonderful the McCabe's audience was. I told her she would have had a second encore if they had not turned up the lights. Susan explained that this is arranged in advance. "The show has to end somewhere and keep with the theme." Interesting. When it was showtime I moved to the table where Susan and Jane had been eating. One of the women at the table was Kenni Feinberg, a San Francisco-based singer/songwriter who has been on this list and with whom I've corresponded about the time Susan sang the Star Spangled Banner at a Chicago Bears game. There were about 30 people in this big room having dinner. Maybe 1/3 of the tables occupied. Most of the audience was new to Susan. Without an introduction, she sat down at the piano and played the old standard, Sunday Kind of Love. The theme of the show became Sunday Kind of Love and Church. After the piano opener Susan did Stationary, All of The Above, and Blue Guitar on guitar. She then returned to the piano for It's OK to Feel Good. At this point, I realized this was not going to be the usual show and, contrary to my original plan, began to keep a setlist. She then remained at the piano for Beautiful Chains of Love which she said was originally intended for New Non-Fiction, but didn't quite fit the theme. Back to the guitar for Shade of Gray. Then the Church theme with Sorry About Jesus, Barbed Wire Boys...and then... Boy From East Dubuque (!) which I had not heard her do since she played an antique shop in Monrovia, California in 1995. The long conversation between two mid-western women who sound like Francis McDormand in Fargo is just wonderful. She then returned to the piano and introduced the next song, Movie of My Life, by saying she had dinner the night before with blues guitar picker Keb Mo and he said, "I like that song where you (demonstrates motion of pounding on the piano with both hands). Keb Mo is part of the answer to the celebrity question from the night before. At the end of Movie she ad libbed about how she's a genius and Barbara Streisand, (someone else), and Alicia Keys would record her songs and Clive Davis would make this movie and she would be famous. At this point Jane turned around and rolled her eyes as if to say, "Susan is really out there tonight." About this time Susan explained that this was not her usual show, that it was very unstructured - "I'm not usually like this." Back to the guitar for Like Bonsai, Big Car, and Misery/Happiness. After one of the songs, Susan found herself sticking out her lower lip and making a very intense face. She said, "Hey, I just made a Gorka face." To the piano for Don't Hang the Moon On Me (which I'd never heard before) about her friend Ted, Philanthropy, Maybe if I Sang Cole Porter, Every Time We Say Goodbye (actually by Cole Porter), Much at All. Susan explained that she got the idea for Much from Jaques Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas, which is a song that starts out with the small things and gradually "deteriorates" into more and more desperate examples, culminating in "I would be the shadow of your dog if I could remain by your side." Light Sleeper. You're a Dream (new one). Encore: Time Between Trains and the Gladys Knight 1974 hit You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me. Twenty-three (23) songs in a 1:45 set. Because of the small audience, the Sunday evening/ end of tour atmosphere, Susan was more relaxed and loose than usual. This came across in the way she sang so easily. Because of this, and the way this show varied from her usual format, I loved this show. But I'm weird like that. As we were leaving Jane said, "That was an 'end of tour' show for sure!" What I learned: (1) Don't pass up the chance to see Susan on a Sunday night or other obscure night with a small audience. (2) If you're in Santa Barbara and you want to stay at a not-too-expensive, but very quaint little motel in a very nice area, try The Coast Village Inn in Montecito. 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:28:47 EST From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: Lucy Had the experience of hearing Lucy K. do "Land of the Living" twice in a week, first at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, then as part of the Winter's Night Tour at the Ark with Gorka, Eberhardt, and Cheryl Wheeler. It was new enough that she was still glancing at the words off a piece of paper. Very powerful stuff indeed. st 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:46:52 EST From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: 9/11 song Not wanting to start a thread along this topic, but I heard a damned fine song on the subject last Friday, by Tom Paxton... "The Bravest", which is on "www.efolkmusic.com" as a free download... written from the viewpoint of an office worker who was going down the stairs as the firemen/women were going up, and can't get the sound out of his head/dreams.... 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:57:08 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Land of the Living (lyrics) LAND OF THE LIVING (L. Kaplansky, R. Litvin, c.2002, ASCAP, administered by Bug Music) Late afternoon, back in New York town Waking up as the wheels touch down Pick up my guitar and walk away Wish I was going home to stay Line of taxis, I wait my turn Tar and asphalt, exhaust and fumes Beside the road on a patch of ground Taxi drivers are kneeling down Beneath the concrete sky I watch them pray While the people of the world hurry on their way I think they're praying for us all today And the stories that fell from the sky that day CHORUS: This is the land of the living This is the land that's mine She still watches over Manhattan She's still holding onto that torch for life Back home fire's still burning, I can see it in the air Pictures of faces posted everywhere They say "hazel eyes and chestnut hair Mother of two, missing down there" I pass the firemen on duty tonight Carpets of flowers in candlelight And thank you in a child's scrawl Taped to the 3rd Street firehouse wall There's shadows of the lost on the faces I see Brothers and strangers on this island of grief There's death in the air but there's life on this street There's life on this street CHORUS This is the land of the living This is the land that's mine She still watches over Manhattan She's still holding onto that torch for life Got in a taxi, said "Hudson St. please" He started the meter and he looked at me I glanced at his name on the back of his seat And I looked out the window at the ghost-filled streets I noticed cuts on his hand and his face I said "You're bleeding, are you okay?" He said "I'm not so good, got beat up today And I'm not one of them no matter what they say I'm just worried about my family My wife's in the house and she's scared to leave" And I didn't know what to say I didn't know what to say But I said a prayer for him anyway CHORUS This is the land of the living This is the land that's mine She still watches over Manhattan She's still holding onto that torch for life Holding on for life 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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:30:10 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: susan werner on the radio Friday afternoon.. at 1pm susan will be interviewed by darren devivo on WFUV 90.7 or wfuv.org for the stream... sharon There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke 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 #58 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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