From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V9 #44 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Thursday, June 9 2005 Volume 09 : Number 044 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- one song ["Suzanne Thiel" ] Re: one song [Leslie Dreyer Kalra ] Re: one song [meredith ] Re: one song ["Chuck Ellingson" ] Re: one song [Sherlyn Koo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 07:43:30 -0400 From: "Suzanne Thiel" Subject: one song I like this thread....I was shopping at my local folk music gold mine, Elderly Instruments, fall of '94, and they always have great music playing in the CD showroom. I noticed it was a female voice, and the longer I browsed the CDs the more I was distracted by this voice, until I stopped what I was doing, and just listened to 'My Soul's Not at War', from 'Tin Angel'. I stood there like an idiot listening to the rest of the CD, then walked up to the counter and pointed to the CD in the 'Now Playing' holder, and said 'I must have this music'. It's a wonder that CD still works, for as much as I played it in the weeks following that encounter. My first live show with Susan was a 'Take a Chance Tuesday' at the Ark in March of '95 - it was free, and the first 25 people got autographed copies of 'LOTGSG'. I'm not sure there were even 25 people there. And now she's hosting the A2 Folk Festival and selling out the Ark in the coveted Saturday night spot. It'll be interesting to see what the next 10 years bring for Susan. 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: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:07:05 -0400 From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Re: one song The song for me was "Rubber Glove Blues". I was driving home from my then-boyfriend's apartment one night in 1991, and "Artscape" came on WHYY. Susan was interviewed, and she did that song and one other I've forgotten -- it might have been "Midwestern Saturday Night". I watched the Godfrey Daniels lineup obsessively until she finally played there, and I've been a huge fan ever since. Her stage presence then was very different -- more folky, less confident -- as was her wardrobe: plain jeans and a black t-shirt. My now-husband (same as the then-boyfriend) and I went to a concert in NJ once where Susan took requests. I asked for "Rubber Glove Blues" because that was the song that introduced us to her. She looked at me funny and said something about that song only getting played on college campuses, but she played it anyway...:) Then there's the time at Tin Angel, not long after the Tin Angel album came out, when we sat right in front of the stage and she actually stood on our table to play "The Great Out There". That was unforgettable. After the show, while autographing the new CD, she asked us if it was okay. As if it could ever *not* be okay! 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:41:56 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: one song Hi, Like many others I'm sure, I first heard Susan on WFUV ("Last Of The Good Straight Girls"). I liked the song, but didn't think that much about it. Then on July 1, 1995 (my god, that's 10 years ago!) woj and I went to the Canada Day Peace Festival, just across the Peace Bridge from Buffalo in Ontario. It was an all-day concert in a park, and we mainly went to see Wild Strawberries, Jann Arden, the Rheostatics, Barenaked Ladies, and Billy Bragg. Many others were on the bill too, including Moxy Fruvous ... and early on in the proceedings, a solo woman with a guitar who stood on this huge stage and for the first time in the afternoon got the thousands of people there to shut up and pay attention. It wasn't until the end of her set, when she played "Last Of The Good Straight Girls" that I realized it was Susan Werner. We didn't pay attention to an entire set of hers until Falcon Ridge the next summer (well, woj did -- I missed that set), and then the next day Sherlyn dragged us to The Turning Point to see her again on the way home. And the rest, as they say, is history ... *g* =============================================== 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:10:06 -0500 From: "Chuck Ellingson" Subject: Re: one song Hello, fellow believers! I found "Last of the Good Straight Girls" in the stock room of the Musicland where I was moonlighting back in the mid-90s. The CD was a cutout so I asked if I could take it home (after bragging to everyone working at the store that Susan and I had attended Luther College together in '83/'84 and that we had performed on several bills together). I took the CD home and listened to it, then wrote Susan a letter and mailed it to her c/o Larry. I then found out that Susan was going to be performing at Schuba's in Chicago, and I convinced some of my friends to journey to the Windy City from Beloit, WI and from Milwaukee to see her. I remember the hall being dark and packed. After the show, I was told by one of my friends (from my day job at the time) that she had spoken with Susan (while I was using the facilities), and that Susan was hoping to speak with me. So we went back into the hall to look for her. We were just about to give up the search when Susan reappeared. We spoke about what we had been up to since leaving Luther and she signed the "Midwestern Saturday Night" CD I bought. In the years since then, I've seen Susan at least a dozen times - the most recent in Chicago on New Year's Eve when Susan helped my partner Brian and I ring in our thirteenth anniversary. I've even caught two of Susan's performances while cruising on the Chain of Lakes in WI. I've introduced Susan to several of my friends, and I've made even more friends through the believers list, including the marvelous Kellie Lin Knott. (Make sure to catch her in concert when you can!) I don't know if Susan is performing less (or performing in the Midwest less) or what, but I don't foresee being able to attend a SW gig again until January '06 in Brookfield, WI. :-( Peace, Chuck Ellingson "We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal... We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:27:25 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Re: one song Hey folks, On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:41:56 -0400, meredith wrote: > We didn't pay attention to an entire set of hers until Falcon Ridge > the next summer (well, woj did -- I missed that set), and then the > next day Sherlyn dragged us to The Turning Point to see her again > on the way home. And the rest, as they say, is history ... *g* Yeah, by '96 I was already at the point of being a stalker. It's lucky for Susan that I live on the other side of the world. :) I'm trying to remember the first Susan song I heard - it would have been in Ann Arbor in 1994 when I was staying with my friend Kristina (hey K - who's the bad friend now? :). It might have been "My Mother's Garden", but I can't quite recall. I did pick up a copy of "Live at Tin Angel" then, and I think I got LotGSG a couple of weeks later in Atlanta. And then it was all over, red rover... :) sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia 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 #44 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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