From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #109 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, May 25 2002 Volume 06 : Number 109 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Cutting Edge of the Campfire at Club Passim? [Kellie Lin Knott ] Re: SW/Ann Arbor 5/23 [] Campfire Favorites at Passim [S L L ] Re: Campfire Favorites at Passim [] Re: Campfire Favorites at Passim ["Charlie Sweeney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:15:45 -0500 From: Kellie Lin Knott Subject: Cutting Edge of the Campfire at Club Passim? Hi All - Just wondering if anyone is planning on coming to any of the Cutting Edge of the Campfire Festival this weekend at Club Passim. Lots of good music...Here's the schedule.... http://www.clubpassim.org/campfire Club Passim 47 Palmer St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-492-7679 The Festival runs from Friday, May 24th through Monday, May 27th with music starting at noon each day (starting at 3PM on Friday) and ending sometime after 2am. Tickets are $15 for a weekend pass and $8 for a day pass. Also, for those of you who are out of town, if you see someone on the list that you'd like to listen to, you can! The festival is broadcast over the web at http://www.radioboston.com - Channel 5 is Club Passim. Kellie Lin Knott klknott@earthlink.net http://www.kellielinknott.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: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:19:17 -0400 From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: SW/Ann Arbor 5/23 hello all Saw Susan at the Ark in Ann Arbor MI last night 5/23. First time seeing her since Rockford on November 25. It was a small crowd, unfortunately - probably about 100 people (the Ark seats 400) - small but extrememely enthusiastic, not to mention in possession of impeccable musical taste. She came out alongside the Ark volunteer doing the intro's, arranging her guitars etc. and with little fanfare launched into 'Stationary'. For those of you dying to know, she was wearing (shade of) gray pinstripe slacks, black shoes, and a sort of shiny pink/orange/red striped shirt - whose sleeves didn't wanna stay rolled up in the least little bit. And May I Suggest that she should've brushed her hair just a little before coming out - except for the very first time I saw her in concert in '95, wherein she ended up slapping an Iowa baseball cap over her (bad) hair, I've never seen her hair look quite so unruly. She looked like she just got off a plane from Europe...oh....wait.....she DID..... As mentioned, she opened with 'Stationary', followed by 'Shade of Gray'. She talked of how she'd not played guitar/piano/sang for 8 days, having been on vacation in London and Paris - she said that she recommended that everyone consider a vacation at some point, they're quite nice. She also went on a brief rant about having been up since 6, and how that was unheard of for a musician, and then queried 'how do you people DO it?'. Overall, she seemed tired to me, and a little spacey. And she warned us that she might launch into speaking French with no warning. Then, 'The Year of the Bad President'...I'd forgotten how powerful this song is. And am amazed anew at the incredible volume of unrecorded material this woman has in her repertoire. 'Yellow House' Then, after saying that she was going to do some older material so those hearing her for the first time could get a better idea of what she was all about, told the brief story about, while assembling material for TBT, she sent a tape to the president of her record co. who responded 'I really like the song about your cat'...um, I think you'd better listen to it again...'I really like the song about your girlfriend'...ummmmm.....perhaps you should listen to it AGAIN....' 'Courting the Muse', with a divine little vocal pass through 'O Sole Mio' at the end. 'St Mary's of Regrets' After which she quoted Cheryl Wheeler and demonstrated the sorts of guitar chords used by individuals in their 20's when writing love songs - and admitted that SMOR did indeed contain at least one or two of them...and then contrasted that song with the next one, written by a woman in her 30's...and proceeded with 'Misery' - can her facial expressions get any more descriptive than they are in this song? ("I think Misery is French") She also went on a another brief rant about French men, and how they LOOK at you when they talk, and are very animated - and recommended that the men in the audience try it. She then paused, and said 'yup, I'm gonna do this one now - departing from the set list, now' and did 'Au Naturelle' - with quite an extended tirade against Bonnie Raitt at the end, after which she affected embarrassment and apologized. 'Ode to Billy Joe' - what a thrill to finally hear this one live, after reading about it for so long. I love her treatment of this song. In fact, before the show, my friend, who is relatively new to Susan's music, asked me just what it was I liked so much about her. Hah. Well, I proceeded to gush and rave and be fairly inarticulate, using words like 'amazing' and 'awesome' and 'that voice' and 'that piano playing' and 'those faces'...but then said that one thing that always delighted me, without fail, was the way that at almost every show she manages to cover a song in a way you'd never even expect, and make it work for her. And so 'Ode to Billy Joe' (and her final encore) were evidence of that. She then announced that she would do two more songs on guitar, and would then segue to the piano, and that 'if you don't like piano, you can just leave now, but I won't refund your money because I can't help it if you have bad taste'. As an intro to 'Barbed Wire Boys', she defined 'rural midwest' for those folks who may have thought that it stretched from (somewhere? I forget) to Sacramento, announcing that she was from Iowa. And as always, she made reference to the Big Ten and the Iowa/UofM rivalry. She finished the guitar set with a kick-ass version of 'Big Big Car', and told afterwards how it had been featured on Car Talk. Then, to the piano... 'Tall Drink of Water' 'Maybe if I Sang Cole Porter' - I have never NOT heard her do this song in concert - "maybe if I waxed my big, big car"...and she also played, as usual while in A2, the first few bars of the UM fight song after "maybe if I spoke some football" 'Philanthropy' - God, I LOVE this song...she announced that she'd been performing with a trio, and did a delightful little imitation of drums/bass...then said she'd try this one alone, but when she started, she did SOMETHING to the piano which affected the sound - She was reaching into it with one hand, she must've been holding/touching the wire/hammer or something, but it sounded like a bass, almost...hard to describe, but it was very cool. 'Light Sleeper' Then briefly to the guitar for 'I'm Not Sure' Back to piano, and 'directly to the break-up', 'Much at All' 'Stay on Your Side of Town' 'So Nice to See You Again' The end - and quickly back out for two encores, 'I Can't Be New', and her amazing cover of 'Starting Over'. Whew. Doesn't get any better than a night out with Susan. Respectfully Submitted, Suzie Tee 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: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:03:09 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: SW/Ann Arbor 5/23 Nice review, Suzie. It was almost like being there. But wait... for much of it... I have been there. >'Au Naturelle' - with quite an extended tirade against Bonnie Raitt at the end, after which she affected embarrassment and apologized. Don't know this one. But then, my musical focus is so very narrow. Except for the Springsteen show at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr from 2 / 75. > Then briefly to the guitar for 'I'm Not Sure' Don't know this one. Is it new? And you just slide it in there so nonchalantly. > Doesn't get any better than a night out with Susan. Except when she comes over to the house and I provide the setlist. > Respectfully Submitted, Motion to accept as submitted. > Suzie Tee Rocks ! 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: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:25:55 -0400 From: Subject: Re: SW/Ann Arbor 5/23 Hey Suzie Tee, Great review. Am concerned about the Bonnie Raitt tirade - what was that all about???? Charisse in Wichita (living vicariously through other listers.....) On Fri, 24 May 2002 07:19:17 -0400 ImSerius2@aol.com wrote: hello all Saw Susan at the Ark in Ann Arbor MI last night 5/23. First time seeing her since Rockford on November 25. 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: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: S L L Subject: Campfire Favorites at Passim Kellie should have mentioned that she's on the schedule too! Perhaps Ms. Knott is trying to not advertise herself too much, but there's no such thing as too much advertising when you're a musician starting out. Also Micheal Veitch (SW contributed to one of his albums). Amy Speace is playing and I have heard her stuff, she's quite amazing and definately worth a listen. Rachel McCartney, Racheal Davis and Deb Talan are also folks to catch. Oh, plus some guy named Cliff Eberhardt who maybe a few of you have heard of *grin* I'll be in New York City and Then In PHilly this long weekend and hoping to see SW at concert under the stars as well so I'll unfortunately miss the great online streaming (not complaing though). The one thing I would say to folks who see only a misty and cloudy picture on the online streaming don't mistake this for youir computer causing problems, that's just the way they come out. If you can turn the video streaming off and listen to just the audio you might be better off! If you have other problems with the Passim streaming there is a hand little chat thing that pops up with someone who helps with technical problems that you can "chat" with. ~simona Kellie Lin Knott wrote: Hi All - Just wondering if anyone is planning on coming to any of the Cutting Edge of the Campfire Festival this weekend at Club Passim. Lots of good music...Here's the schedule.... http://www.clubpassim.org/campfire Club Passim 47 Palmer St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-492-7679 The Festival runs from Friday, May 24th through Monday, May 27th with music starting at noon each day (starting at 3PM on Friday) and ending sometime after 2am. Tickets are $15 for a weekend pass and $8 for a day pass. Also, for those of you who are out of town, if you see someone on the list that you'd like to listen to, you can! The festival is broadcast over the web at http://www.radioboston.com - Channel 5 is Club Passim. Kellie Lin Knott klknott@earthlink.net http://www.kellielinknott.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 Simona L. Loberant Since November 2000, there have been more than 11,000 unprovoked terror attacks against Israel. www.isupportisrael.net "Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power." **Leonardo da Vinci LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience 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: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:26:05 -0400 From: Subject: Re: Campfire Favorites at Passim Good on Kellie! Also -check out Mark Simos on the 26th. He has written some incredibly beautiful tunes that have beenrecorded by bluegrass artists like Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, and Claire Lynch. Man, I am feeling soooo oldddddd. I opened for Eric Anderson, Wendy Waldman, and Jimmy Buffet at Passims back in the early 70s...Somebody find me a rockin' chair....... Charisse in Wichita 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: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:14:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: Re: Campfire Favorites at Passim Also on Sunday is Rachel Davis who opened for Susan recently, and her agent, Pat Power who has blown me away with some of his tunes. He recorded one tune called Michelmas for the Madman Poets compilation on the Dar-list that is so elegantly simple, and so affecting it will make you cry. Ask him for it! On Fri, 24 May 2002 11:26:05 -0400, wrote : > Good on Kellie! Also -check out Mark Simos on the 26th. He has written some incredibly beautiful tunes that have beenrecorded by bluegrass artists like Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, and Claire Lynch. Man, I am feeling soooo oldddddd. I opened for Eric Anderson, Wendy Waldman, and Jimmy Buffet at Passims back in the early 70s...Somebody find me a rockin' chair....... > > Charisse in Wichita > > 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: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:51:45 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Friday 5/24 concert I was finally able to get to a Susan concert tonight, after far too long an absence. I missed the panel discussion part of the gig, but I heard the concert afterwards. The set list was a lot like the one Suzie Tee posted from Michigan (Jane was back tonight, happy about being able to sleep in her own bed for a change). I took a friend who had heard only some of the studio CDs and didn't see what I was so impressed about. The festival is outdoors (under a tent), on a lake, in the middle of Allentown. It was a beautiful night, and there was a good crowd. The only drawback to the venue was its proximity to the hip-hop tent, where they had the volume cranked. Susan did her share of glaring in their general direction and the occasional dance move, but in the end, we outlasted them. She showed her usual professionalism and was not visibly distracted by the other music constantly blaring. The set list: Stationary Shade of Grey Blue Guitar Yellow House Petaluma Afternoons (with the Grateful Dead *still* on the radio) St. Mary's of Regret (with commentary, as noted by Suzie Tee, about it bearing the earmarks of having been written by a songwriter in her 20s) Misery/Happiness ("Now an update") Au Naturelle, complete with long riff on Bonnie Raitt Barbed Wire Boys Everybody's Talkin' (riff on What Women Want: "what matters is.... SIZE") Big Car Then to the piano: Tall Drink of Water Cole Porter Light Sleeper So Nice Seeing You Again (with Louis Armstrong impression) Back to guitar: Standing in My Own Way Encore: May I Suggest My friend, who had been pretty unimpressed with Susan's CDs, was sobbing at the end of the encore (the song just hit her like a ton of bricks because of her current situation). Needless to say, she is now a believer and bought two CDs. If you haven't heard Au Naturelle yet, it's about aging: to what lengths we'll go to keep looking young, versus having courage and remaining au naturelle. At the end, she was talking about how good Bonnie Raitt looks "au naturelle", with the gray in her hair, etc., but then, how can we really *know* if she's au naturelle? She even started to sound like Bonnie Raitt (she's a gifted mimic!). She made it clear at the end, of course, that she has no idea whether Bonnie Raitt has had any "enhancements", shall we say, that she was very nice to Susan when they met, and Susan has nothing but admiration for her. St. Mary's was dedicated to the folks at Godfrey Daniels. I remember the first time I heard that song was at Godfrey's, back in, jeez, 1993? 94? and I'm as blown away by it now as I was then. Maybe she thinks of it as a 20s effort song, but I still think the lyrics are some of her best. She skipped the breakup songs in the relationship song cycle because she said the weather was too nice to do depressing songs. She said nothing about having been in Europe or anywhere else, but she looked very tired once I got up close. On stage, she was fantastic, as always. I thought the sound setup had some problems, but it might just have been because I was sitting too close to one set of speakers. For the fashion folks, she wore plain ol' black, top to bottom. Sleeveless black top under a light jacket, and black capris. Her hair was held back with a pair of sunglasses. No frills, just bold, brash talent, just the way I like her. I'm sorry I still haven't had the chance to hear Ode to Billy Joe. Maybe next time. She made it clear that there would be exactly *one* encore, and they turned on the recorded music immediately after it, despite the standing ovation. I'm sure she was very tired. I got my autograph collection filled out, so I now finally have an autographed copy of each CD. Alas, there was no Sharpie to be had, so ballpoints had to do. BTW, I asked her about the upcoming piano album, and she said April, 2003 at the earliest. Don't know if that's been reported before, but I thought I'd let y'all know. Respectfully submitted... leslie 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 #109 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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