From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V7 #162 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, October 6 2003 Volume 07 : Number 162 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Acoustic Cafe [meredith ] Recommendation and high praise -- Tommy Emmanuel [PBCoustic@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:32:53 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Acoustic Cafe Hi, Ms. Werner played a remarkable show at the Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, Connecticut this afternoon. As soon as she took the stage she announced that this was going to be a different kind of show, and she wasn't kidding. Things started pretty normally, with "Time Between Trains", "Shade of Grey" and "St. Mary's of Regret", but then she said there was another song she had written around the same time as "St. Mary's of Regret" but it didn't make it onto the record, but she was reminded of it because she was in Rhode Island this morning, and proceeded to play a song none of us had ever heard before: "Blue" (or so it's called on Sherlyn's lyrics site). Lovely stuff. The set included an "a cappella portion", in which she followed up "Big Car" with an a cappella rendition of the "Motorist's Prayer" and then did the architect's song, to everyone's glee. Then she did "None Of The Above", which I hadn't heard her do in a while. Moving to the piano, she produced a new toy -- a resonator dobro that she bought at Blue Note Guitars before the Iron Horse show last night. It made "Red Dress" sound even dirtier than it already is. The funny thing with this song was the microphone -- she doesn't have a pickup in the dobro, and there wasn't an extra instrument mic set up, so she sat at the electric piano and tried to play and sing into the vocal mic. This would've worked ok if the boom mic hadn't had issues and kept sliding down. Finally Jane jumped up on stage and held the mic, alternately pointing it at the dobro and at Susan while she sang. There wasn't really a piano portion of the show -- I suspect because the electric piano at the Cafe isn't the greatest, but that's just my guess -- but she did do some of the new songs anyway, most notably "No One Needs To Know" on another new toy, a gorgeous nylon-stringed classical guitar that sounded just scrumptious. (Apparently it was done on this guitar in the studio too, instead of on piano.) Then she brought out a ukelele (!), yet another new toy, and did "Seeing You Again Again" on it!! The boom mic didn't misbehave so badly on this one, though she did have to sing and play into it again. :) After ending with "I Can't Be New", she came back to the piano and started to play "Light Sleeper". The boom mic stand lost it for good halfway through, but she shook Jane off and finished the song singing off-mic. Then she got up and, noting that it was a technical-difficulty kind of day, stepped in front of the microphone and filled the room with "La Vie En Rose", which was stunning as ever. I can't remember the last time I heard her do that. It's always great to see Susan let loose a little bit. Her standard setlist is wonderful (last night's Iron Horse was top-notch, as always), but it's fun to hear her pull out some older songs, take requests, and present alternate versions of her songs. (You shoulda been there, Jeff! ;) P.S. The album is pretty much in the can!! It's heading into the mixing stage now, and is due out in February. Yay!! =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== 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: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 23:04:29 EDT From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Recommendation and high praise -- Tommy Emmanuel Hey, listers... I just caught Tommy Emmanuel at McCabe's (LA) last night... good LORD, what a guitar wiz... For reasons that will remain unknown, I wasn't familiar with him at all, but went simply due to the McCabe's writeup, being out there over the weekend... and was NOT disappointed. AWESOME chops, and excellent stage presence, playing in many styles. He's an Aussie who's apparently been around for over 20 years, so I feel silly not knowing of him before. But I HIGHLY recommend any of you budding (or not so budding) players out there to keep an eye out for T.E. in your area... He's one of those who make you either want to go woodshed for a solid 5 years, or just go home and burn the guitar... He's in Dallas and Austin through the last half of this upcoming week. www.tommyemmanuel.com Enjoy, Paul " Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?" -- Anon. 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 V7 #162 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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