From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V11 #7 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, January 23 2007 Volume 11 : Number 007 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- W. Des Moines - 1/19/07 ["Tracy J. Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:08:42 -0600 From: "Tracy J. Wells" Subject: W. Des Moines - 1/19/07 Hi everyone, Well, here's the report from the West Des Moines show on Friday. Sorry it's taken me a while to get to writing this up; it's been a really busy weekend for me. My sister Ashley has been in town visiting from South Carolina; we planned this trip around the date of Susan's concert so that she could see Susan in concert (I'd turned her on to Susan's music but she'd never gotten to see her in concert). Ashley's an aspiring singer/songwriter herself (http:// www.ashleywells.com) and has really been inspired by Susan's writing. Overall, it was a great show Friday night, although the energy level was a bit lower than some Susan shows I've seen. And the audience was a bit unresponsive, I thought -- they didn't laugh at a lot of things that usually get lots of laughter. In any case, they all applauded very enthusiastically after all the songs with lots of screaming and whistling and stuff, so obviously they liked everything... they were just pretty quiet DURING the songs. It was really fun to get to see her perform in her home state. Her accompanist Friday night was her nephew and godson, Brent Werner, a 17-year-old high school senior who just put out his first CD, apparently. Musical talent must run in the family. :o) Other highlights of the show included: - - Doing "Let's Regret This in Advance" as a duet with Scott Stilwell, the guy who had been in charge of running the Lighthouse concert series for the past however many (seven?) years. After a little introductory banter in which Scott mentioned he'd had a nosebleed before coming out there and that this duet could turn into a little "Ozzie and Harriet" routine, they launched into their duet, complete with a little Ella Fitzgerald & Louie Armstrong imitation during the interlude... HILARIOUS. (Susan even lost her composure for a second and laughed a bit. :o) - - Susan commenting on wanting some pie after the intermission, calling out to the people in the kitchen that she wanted them to set aside a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie (which she said was "evidence of God"). Then someone brought her out a piece and set it on the piano for her, and she goes over and picks it up and proceeds to start eating it off the plate without any fork or anything -- HILARIOUS. I about fell out of my chair. I was about to say "I can't believe she did that," but no, actually, I can. :o) - - A little preview of some of the songs from the new project, which were stunning. "My Lord Did Trouble Me" was one of the most incredible songs I've heard... it just spoke to me so deeply in relation to my own faith life... hearing her perform it was a truly holy moment for me. And you all are right -- that "mysterious beautiful song about death" really is fantastic (and no, I didn't find out what it was called! Sorry!) -- she did it for her encore (at least I'm assuming this is the same piece y'all have been talking about -- the lyrics talk about "I would like to think there's something after this..." etc.) Now I'm even more excited about the new CD than I was before!! Ok, and now for the set list you all were asking for... notably absent was "My Strange Nation"... this was the first show I've been to in the past several years that she didn't do that song. Set 1: Unread Book Don't Work With Your Friends Let's Regret This In Advance (duet with Scott Stilwell) Stay On Your Side of Town Give Me Chicago I Can't Be New Time Between Trains Barbed Wire Boys May I Suggest Set 2: Big Car Standing in My Own Way Yellow House NEW STUFF!!!: My Lord Did Trouble Me Alternative Lord's Prayer (deliver us from those who think they're you) -- still not sure of the title of this one -- she called it "The Our Father -- The New Revised Version" -- but I'm not sure if that was a joke or what she's actually calling it -- or both, LOL. A little preview of Probably Not (she didn't do the whole song -- I wish she had -- from what I heard, it was HILARIOUS and wonderfully clever) I Know Good Fortune Waits for Me Somewhere (again, title unsure?) Sunday Mornings Much at All Movie of My Life Encore: "the mysterious beautiful song about death" ("Something After This"?) La Vie En Rose 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 V11 #7 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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