From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V8 #57 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, March 31 2004 Volume 08 : Number 057 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Susan in A2 3/27 ["Suzanne Thiel" ] Re: Susan in A2 3/27 ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: Susan in A2 3/27 [Scoop52256@aol.com] A2 P.S. ["Suzanne Thiel" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:26:51 -0500 From: "Suzanne Thiel" Subject: Susan in A2 3/27 hey all, Long time no talk to. Thought I'd stop playing ICBN long enough to write. Had the great pleasure to see Susan in Ann Arbor Saturday 3/27. This was the end of an uber-concert-weekend consisting of Great Big Sea (Thursday), Vance Gilbert (Friday) and Susan on Saturday. Had I been on the ball a few weeks ago, I could have also gone to see Joan Baez (at the ARK, no less, which would be like seeing her in your friggin' living room) on Sunday, but that show sold out in a record 1.5 hours, so, no Sunday show for me. I had to make do with ending the weekend with Susan. Gosh, like THAT was a chore. An aside - Vance Gilbert on Friday (also at the Ark) was quite effusive in his praise of Susan, asking the audience who all planned on coming back the following night, guaranteeing everyone they would not be disappointed - he also said, and I quote, 'tell that hussy she's a booger eating moron and to e-mail me'. He then did a beautiful cover of "May I Suggest", as done by he and Ellis Paul on their newest/first collaboration. So, Susan. After spending almost 2 hours in line out front so as to guarantee myself that perfect spot/angle for seeing both Susan's face AND hands while she played piano, I was quite disgruntled to find that the entire center main floor was reserved for a very large group of mega-buck Ark donors. Sigh. So we settled for a perfect guitar view and a mostly back/ass/occasional profile view of the piano portions. But once she started playing, it really didn't matter. She was alone, and she played all of her guitar stuff sitting down. I really don't EVER recall her doing this. She also was wearing, from the sounds of it, the same outfit that Chuck saw her in in Rockford, that being black slacks, white blouse, black patent leather heels (complete with hosiery), pearls, dangly earrings, and loose tousled hair. And, for the first time EVER, I did not take a set list. Gasp. Suffice it to say she did everything on the new CD. In addition, she did Bob Marley's 'Waiting in Vain', as well as the song about small planes/Patsy Cline - saying prior to it that, well, not EVERY song made it into the new project, because, well, some of them just didn't warrant being played ever again - like THIS one - and a stunning presentation of 'Montgomery Street'. Sigh. Someone in the audience spoke up and said that Vance had done 'May I Suggest' and had said that if we were lucky we'd be able to hear Susan do it the way it was supposed to be done. She paused, and seemed slightly disconcerted, and hesitated a bit, and then just went ahead and did it, right then and there. It didn't really fit in the set right then - and you could tell that she struggled with that; it was interesting to watch the process of resistance, turmoil, then acceptance in her face and hands. But she did it, and it was beautiful, and she made it work. I gotta say I LOVE 'Give me Chicago Any Day'. What a GREAT song!!!! Before doing 'You Come Through' she really seemed like she was preparing herself for battle, and then she announced 'I will now attempt to swing with myself'. It was incredible. In the second set, she did pause for a moment and go to the guitar, saying that perhaps she should take a minute to do a few of her older tunes, for those people who'd seen her before and might want a taste of some of the older stuff. There were the obligatory obnoxious yelled-out requests, which she handled with aplomb and grace, and then proceeded to do 'Barbed Wire Boys' and 'St Marys of Regrets'. Before the intermission, she allowed as how she would be going away, so as to remain mysterious and enigmatic, and then would return to perform more songs. She encored with 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face' on piano, then 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly' on guitar. Stunning, both. I have to say, seeing Vance and Susan back-to-back, they just HAVE to consider doing something if they're ever on the same bill - and that would be Vance doing his 'Unforgivable' to Susan's 'Let's Regret This in Advance' - as both are torchy, sort of tongue-in-cheek songs with the same adulterous theme with both approximating jazz trumpets vocally. I could just see them both up there trading 'trumpet' riffs. Oh, and 'LRTIA' is the 'theme song of conventioneers'. And may I say without hesitation that ICBN is a mighty fine slow-dance/makeout CD. Happy Listening 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: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:06:46 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Susan in A2 3/27 > An aside - Vance Gilbert on Friday (also at the Ark) was quite effusive > in his praise of Susan, asking the audience who all planned on coming > back the following night, guaranteeing everyone they would not be > disappointed - he also said, and I quote, 'tell that hussy she's a > booger eating moron and to e-mail me'. Funny you should mention that. Someone sent me this the other day: Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies. He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up. Dr Bischinger said: "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner. "And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system. "Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine. "Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free." He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social. He said: "I would recommend a new approach where children are encouraged to pick their nose. It is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well." And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered. 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, 30 Mar 2004 09:40:23 EST From: Scoop52256@aol.com Subject: Re: Susan in A2 3/27 In a message dated 3/30/2004 6:11:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, ronsopas@earthlink.net writes: Funny you should mention that. Someone sent me this the other day: Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it Oh, Ron, I worry about who your friends are! Pamela 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, 30 Mar 2004 15:30:01 -0500 From: "Suzanne Thiel" Subject: A2 P.S. Forgot this bit from Saturday's show...when Susan moved to the guitar to do a few older songs, some woman yelled out 'the appliance song!!'. Susan was immediately flummoxed, and just sat there in the chair, oblivious to others yelling out requests, peering into the lights toward this woman, who kept talking, trying to describe the song in question, that it was funny, that it talked about beauty salons, etc. and kept referring to it as 'the appliance song', saying that she'd heard Susan do it in Marquette, MI, last summer (Hiawatha Music Festival) at one of the workshops. Susan finally snapped out of it and started in on 'Barbed Wire Boys', just sort of shaking her head in bewilderment. Never did figure out what the song was. Anybody know? Was anybody there? I sort of wonder if it was 'Au Naturelle', based upon the beauty salon reference, but who knows? I also loved the way she kept adding on the city puns at the end of 'Give me Chicago'. Too funny. Although I gotta say I was surprised she didn't customize one for Ann Arbor (or wherever she happens to be playing at the moment). 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 ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V8 #57 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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