From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V11 #94 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, December 10 2007 Volume 11 : Number 094 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Gospel Truth tops Folk Alley list! ["Tracy J. Wells" ] ahh... ["Tracy J. Wells" ] the susie blues, coming soon to a music venue near you... ["Tracy J. Well] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:26:38 -0500 From: "Tracy J. Wells" Subject: Gospel Truth tops Folk Alley list! WOO, check it out!! Gospel Truth is #1 on Folk Alley's top CDs of 2007 list! Go Susie!! http://www.folkalley.com/archives/000958.php o?< Folk Alley's Top CDs of 2007 v.5 December 08, 2007 Jim Blum - Folk Alley Music Host - Top CD List for 2007 In reverse order, 10) Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem - Big Old Life 9) Mamadou Diabate - Heritage (released late in 2006) 8) Neil Young - Live from Massey Hall, 1971 7) Terri Hendrix- The Spiritual Kind 6) Grada - Cloudy Day Navigation 5) King Wilke - Low Country Suite 4) Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby - Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby 3) Emmylou Harris - Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (4 CD boxed set) 2) Laura Love - Negrass 1) Susan Werner - The Gospel Truth Near Misses - 2007 releases by Loreena McKennett, The Roches, Mountain Heart, James Taylor, The McDades, Eric Bibb, Buddy Greene, Over The Rhine, Steve Earle, and, of course, Eliza Gilkyson. Posted by Linda Fahey at December 8, 2007 11:37 AM 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: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:30:02 -0500 From: "Tracy J. Wells" Subject: ahh... ah, upon further investigation, it appears that the folk alley staff people all get to post lists of their personal top picks for 2007 so there are like 6 different "top 2007 CDs" lists and Susan is at the top of two out of the six. Here's the other one... http://www.folkalley.com/archives/000958.php Folk Alley's Top CDs of 2007 v.2 December 06, 2007 Ann VerWiebe - Folk Alley's Website & Newsletter Editor - Top 10 CD List for 2007 Susan Werner - The Gospel Truth Werner uses her singer/songwriter talents to create an unusual collection of ruminations on faith told from an agnostics point of view. A CD that makes you think while youre enjoying the well- crafted songs. Favorite Song - Probably Not Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter A large, wonderful CD filled with humable melodies and powerful storytelling  stretching Ritters acoustic roots. Some have criticized Ritter for his Dylanesque sound on a few numbers, but if we had to silence every neo-folkie who had Dylan moments, it would be a very quiet room. Favorite Song - Rumors Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby - Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby An unexpected acoustic collaboration that draws on the strengths of two talented musicians. Skaggs has long been the master of the trad bluegrass revival and he uses his instrumentation to blend with the versatile Hornsby. Favorite Song - Mandolin Rain Uncle Earl - Waterloo, Tennessee A more than convincing example of the good that comes from groups comprised of legitimate solo artists  here KC Groves, Abigail Washburn, Rayna Gellert and Kristin Andreassen  as they combine their musical parts to create an engaging whole. Favorite Song - Streak o Lean, Streak o Fat Mountain Heart - Road That Never Ends: The Live Album Mountain Hearts first CD with new lead singer, Josh Shilling, demonstrates the roots rock side of bluegrass with high energy live cuts. One of the rising young bands in bluegrass nearly crackles in its natural setting  live performance. Favorite Song - While The Gettings Good Marc Cohn - Join the Parade The long awaited new CD from the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter who was blown out of his writers block by a 2006 gunshot to the head. Cohn has been under the radar for awhile (his last CD came out in 1998), but his bluesy voice and storytelling skills are winning new fans. Favorite Song - Giving Up the Ghost The Greencards  Viridian American bluegrass filtered through a foreign perspective in the guise of two Aussies and a Brit who met in Austin, TX. A good range of traditional roots music and a more contemporary sound. Great chops that drew the attention of Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, who took them out on tour last year. Favorite Song - Here You Are Loudon Wainwright III - Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up Not your average film soundtrack, Knocked Up director and admitted Wainwright fan Jud Apatow asked the singer/songwriter to write the score after hearing him perform many of these songs in LA. One of Wainwrights most well-rounded recent collections. Favorite Song - Daughter The Roches  Moonswept All three sisters  Suzzy, Maggie and Terre  plus Suzzys daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, on a new collection of great songs that prove theyre still the best when it comes to heartfelt lyrics and sing- along harmonies. Favorite Song - No Shoes Raul Malo - After Hours The former lead singer of The Mavericks returns with a solo collection of covers honoring the country crooners of the 50s and 60s  including songs by Buck Owens, Roger Miller and Hank Williams. Favorite Song - Crying Time Posted by Linda Fahey at December 6, 2007 04:23 PM 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: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:32:26 -0500 From: "Tracy J. Wells" Subject: the susie blues, coming soon to a music venue near you... A recent article... from the Asbury Park Press (N.J.) She's planning to release the blues thing NEXT YEAR? Man, she's really crankin' em out, isn't she? Not wasting any time on this one... http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071207/ENT/ 712070313/1031 December 7, 2007 THE GOSPEL TRUTH She's got a right to play the blues By RICHARD SKELLY Correspondent Singer/songwriter Susan Werner burst on to the Philadelphia folk scene in the early 1990s with a stunning debut album for the Private Music label. Since then, she's proven her versatility and resourcefulness dozens of times over. Her latest CD, "The Gospel Truth," was released on her own label. As its title suggests, it's a gospel-themed album, a departure from her previous album, "I Can't Be New," a collection of original songs written in the Great American Songbook tradition. Werner makes a stop in Titusville on Saturday, when she'll be singing songs from "The Gospel Truth." Late next year, she plans to release her first album of blues material. Living in Chicago, she should have plenty of inspiration for that. For Werner, it's all just another way to keep challenging herself and her loyal audience. An accomplished guitarist and a talented piano player, Werner is teaching herself slide-guitar for her next album. In some ways, blues music is as contemporary as ever, according to Werner. "There are a couple of elements of blues that are eternal," she said. "If you look at the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis that's going on in this country, it shows us: It doesn't matter how rich we get, there's still never enough money. Or, we just don't manage it right. "The blues has always been so eloquent and funny when it comes to being broke. It's a kind of music I'm finding out I can do well," she added. o?< 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 #94 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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