From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V9 #39 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, May 18 2005 Volume 09 : Number 039 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Interesting Item on Ebay ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: Interesting Item on Ebay [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:49:52 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Interesting Item on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4730012071&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW Does anyone know anything about this? Any hard core collectors out there? 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: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:00:44 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Interesting Item on Ebay Hi, Ron posted: >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4730012071&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW > >Does anyone know anything about this? Any hard core collectors out there? Google reveals this info, which jives with my recollection: >http://www.balladtree.com/folk101/a_fastfolk.htm > >Fast Folk was founded by Jack Hardy in 1982, its mission to document >serious, non-comercial songwriting in the U.S. During the fifteen years >that the combination recording and magazine was published, over 600 >writers and 2000 songs were captured first on LP, then on CD, and >distributed across the country and around the world. Most of these writers >and songs were unknown then and most remain so today. But some of today's >top songwriters first recorded on Fast Folk: Suzanne Vega, Michelle >Shocked, Lyle Lovett, John Gorka, and Shawn Colvin. > >When it first came out, most singer-songwriters had no other way to record >their songs or get them to radio stations. Good recording equipment and >studios were prohibitively expensive, as was pressing and packaging vinyl >LPs. Only full-time, professionally touring artists could justify the >costs and make it profitable. With the advent of digital technologies, the >cost of making and distributing radio-quality recordings has plummeted. >Many artists who are just beginning to perform in public already have >full-length CDs to hand out and sell. Most independent labels put out >their own compilations of new music and some public radio stations even >use them as membership premiums. Thematic compilations are also common >these days. The result is that Fast Folk no longer fills a unique niche in >the musical eco-system, at least not in the form of the CD/Magazine. > >After a final attempt to revive the legendary Fast Folk Musical Magazine >in the late 1990s, long-time editor Richard Meyer and the board decided to >retire it for good. Meyer then entered into negotiations with >Folkways/Smithsonian to find a home for the magazine's 100+ past issues in >the archives. All back issues are now once again available - many for the >first time in almost 20 years - as CDRs. There are also several >compilations planned, the first of which "A Community of Songwriters" was >released in February 2002 in time for Fast Folk's 20th anniversary. The >merger promises to keep these historic recordings safe and to make them >available to the public far into the future. For a short time in the mid-to-late '90s there was also a Fast Folk Musical Cafe in lower Manhattan, but it didn't last long. My guess is the CD on eBay is one of the above-mentioned reissued CDRs, but who knows? Besides Susan, the only other name on the track listing I recognize is John Flynn. Anyone know any of the others? =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.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 ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V9 #39 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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