From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V14 #1 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, February 28 2011 Volume 14 : Number 001 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Ark 2/26 [capitoltee@comcast.net] And [capitoltee@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:02:22 +0000 (UTC) From: capitoltee@comcast.net Subject: Ark 2/26 Hey, Been awfully quiet here lately - I think perhaps Facebook has done a number on this e-mail list. Had a stellar evening at the Ark last night with Susan and Trina Hamlin - Gail Ann Delaney (sp?), slated to play bass, got snowed in in Albany and couldn't make the show. Not to worry, Trina more than made up for it. That woman is amazing, a true one-woman band - drum kit, shaker, harp, and tambourine, all at once. I wouldn't be surprised if she could've sung at the same time, too. At one point she commented 'it's just like juggling' and Susan was emphatically shaking her head no, and said something like 'I can juggle three oranges - it's nothing like what you do!'. Opening act was David Berkeley. He was pretty good, but I'm biased. An opener has to be amazing to get through to me while I'm waiting for Susan to take the stage. So I'm probably not being fair to him, and my opinion would probably be more positive if I'd seen him solo. He had a nice voice, he was impossibly cute, and his banter was clever, which is always good. He did a beautiful song about being homesick. I think Susan just gets better with age. I didn't get to go to the Ann Arbor Folk Festival this year, but the buzz was that she totally OWNED the night, and many people were there last night to have their first real SW show because of her emcee gig at the FF. It was a sold out, enthusiastic crowd! Susan was resplendent - yes, resplendent is the word - in brown slacks, a cream and brown tapestry vest, sparkly/dangly earrings and fun snakeskin boots. I swear that woman NEVER has a bad hair day. The chemistry, both personal and musical, between her and Trina is so rich! You can really tell how much fun they're having, and how much respect they have for each other. Trina added so much to every song - how fun! Didn't take a set list...in no particular order, we heard Let it Happen, Our Father, Heaven So Small, My Lord Will Trouble Me, May I Suggest, Chicago Any Day, My Different Son, Kicking the Beehive, I Know What I Want (WOW), Time Between Trains, Barbed Wire Boys, two by Trina - Living on Love...and dammit, I'm blanking on the other one, Trina played piano on it..she wanted SW to play the kick drum, but she chose to stay on guitar. Well, in spite of my faulty memory, it was spectacular. Final encore was SW on guitar with a jazzy 'Woudn't It Be Loverly'. A top-notch evening, two beautiful, talented, strong women at the top of their game - amazing! One thing I've noticed over the years, and it's happened already with 'Kicking the Beehive' - Suze records a song, and then immediately proceeds to morph it, live, into something completely different. Which is not to say that the studio version is bad. And it's not just a matter of the live version having more energy or whatever - it's that she pretty much totally changes the arrangements, and then does it THAT way henceforth. Witness 'Barbed Wire Boys', which on CD is pretty much a bluegrass tune. And listen to it now, in concert, especially when there's Trina's soulful harmonica accompanying. And now 'My Different Son' has already turned into this amazingly funky, driving piece! But I guess that's just one of the many reasons we love Ms. Werner, huh? Hope everyone is keeping warm - we were numb last night after 2 hours in line, but the front-row center seat was worth it! Suzie Tee 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, 27 Feb 2011 13:11:36 +0000 (UTC) From: capitoltee@comcast.net Subject: And Forgot two things - one was that Susan and Trina were fresh off a show at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, a show apparently attended by Rahm Emanuel. Trina asked Susan to reprise her composition from the night before, whereupon she sat at the piano and did a number to the tune of, what else, 'O Come Emmanuel', whose last line was 'Carol Mosely Braun'. Of course, cuz I'm old and forgetful, that's all I can remember, other than to say it was brilliant as usual. The other thing was that SW was talking about thinking that this past Christmas was going to be the family's last 'on the farm', but that her dad, at age 78, had announced he was giving it one more year, having already bought his crop seed. Anyway, she likened her family holiday gatherings to 'Normal Rockwell meets Glee'. Happy listening 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 ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V14 #1 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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