From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V9 #70 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, September 7 2005 Volume 09 : Number 070 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- On the Waterfront ["Chuck Ellingson" ] RE: On the Waterfront ["ronsopas@earthlink.net" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:28:04 -0500 From: "Chuck Ellingson" Subject: On the Waterfront On Saturday, September 3rd, I saw Vance Gilbert and Susan Werner perform in downtown Rockford, Illinois at the On the Waterfront Festival on the banks of the Rock River. It was a bright, sunny day, and the stage was out in the open air. Vances set was, as usual, quite comical. He often spoke wittily to the three African American members of the audience, but not at the expense of the rest of the crowd. Susan really packed em in for her set. While she performed, Vance sat in the audience. When Susan called him onstage for a duet, he commented that her audience was about twice the size his was. Susan wore her hair down, cascading over a sleeveless chartreuse blouse. Her slacks were eggshell. Many of the numbers she performed were new (at least to me  so forgive me if the titles are incorrect). She began on the Kurzweil keyboard with a number that opened with the line, Baby, Youre That Unread Book, after which she performed You Come Through. Another new song followed: Dont Work with Your Friends, then Dont I Know you from Someplace. Lets Regret This in Advance followed, after which she spoke about how her music could be found at the musical intersection of The Indigo Girls and Marlena (Marlene?) Dietrich. Stay on Your Side of Town preceded Give Me Chicago Any Day. Susan called Vance up on stage and spoke about how if they had a child, it would be Alicia Keys. Together, Susan and Vance sang a somewhat ad-libbed number containing the lines Its not love and the nearness of you with vocal trumpets (with and without wa-wa) and Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday impersonations (genders reversed). Before picking up her guitar, Susan continued with another new one: Tell Me Something I Dont Already Know. On guitar, she performed Time Between Trains, Barbed Wire Boys, and Big Car, before commenting how she has been working on her slide guitar, paying homage to the queen, Bonnie Raitt. Using the slide method, she performed another new song, Get on My Red Dress Baby. Someone in the audience requested Last of the Good Straight Girls and Susan replied that it was too nice a day for such a depressing song. (Im paraphrasing, but she did use the word depressing to describe LOTGSG.) She continued to use the slide guitar method with another fresh tune: Plenty of Love Song. After yet another new tune, Help Somebody, Susans capo broke, so she performed another guitar song on the Kurzweil. Apparently it was a number five hit on the country charts in 1981, and Susan located the song on Google. It Takes a Lot of Water to Wash Away New Orleans  how timely. After that song, I think she said it was penned by Levon Helm. While chatting with the audience, Susan located a woman whose son works for Oprah, and she asked if he could get her and Vance on her show after Susan performed Movie of My Life. After May I Suggest, she received a standing ovation and then encored with I Cant Be New. All in all  a very nice afternoon/early evening, thanks in no small part to the multi-talented Ms. Werner. Keep believin'! Chuck "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: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:48:34 -0400 From: "ronsopas@earthlink.net" Subject: RE: On the Waterfront Nice review, Chuck. I just re-watched Susan's DVD, however, and you should know that Susan finds internet comments about her concert attire quite disturbing. ;-) - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.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 ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V9 #70 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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