From: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org (bklist-digest) To: bklist-digest@smoe.org Subject: bklist-digest V1 #100 Reply-To: bklist@smoe.org Sender: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "bklist-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. bklist-digest Sunday, November 9 1997 Volume 01 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BK Video Now $15.99 at OnlineTV.com [Gordon Wong ] REVIEW: Outside The Beauty Salon (Morning Call, Allentown, PA) [Gordon Wo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 16:50:01 -0800 From: Gordon Wong Subject: BK Video Now $15.99 at OnlineTV.com For those who haven't already blacklisted onlinetv.com, the Brenda Kahn Sidewalk Cafe video has gone up from $12.99 to $15.99 ... a 23% increase in two months. Anybody have anything good/bad to say about onlinetv.com? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 07:09:58 -0800 From: Gordon Wong Subject: REVIEW: Outside The Beauty Salon (Morning Call, Allentown, PA) (from Morning Call, Allentown, PA newspaper, 10/4/97) BRENDA KAHN: Outside The Beauty Salon (Shanachie) It's not easy keeping track of Brenda Kahn. After her her startling major-label debut, 1994's "Epiphanies In Brooklyn,'' where she came on like a hepped-up beat poet with an acoustic guitar, record company problems delayed the completion and release of the follow-up, "Destination Anywhere,'' until 1996. Her new disc, "Outside The Beauty Salon,'' had to be recorded in two parts: six songs in Detroit, seven on a horse farm in Saline, Mich. It starts off with two weak songs, where Kahn sounds like former Concrete Blonde singer Johnette CQ Napolitano imitating "Ziggy''-era Bowie. But things get better in a hurry, and Kahn comes up with some stellar tracks -- the impressionistic ballad "Door Locks,'' about the aftermath of a one-night stand; the squalling "Lincoln Hotel,'' where she mocks a timid ex-lover, and "Destination Anywhere,'' about a neighboring couple who indulge in their own version of repetitive stress syndrome -- quarrel, part, makeup, repeat. "Outside The Beauty Salon'' is no "Epiphany,'' but it should open some eyes. (--Len Righi) QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: [1] Whaddaya mean, "It starts off with two weak songs"? I think he's referring to "Matador" and "Smoking in the Jane Room" ... I kind of like those. [2] It wasn't "Epiphanies in Brooklyn" ... it was "Epiphany in Brooklyn". [3] What does the CQ mean in Johnette CQ Napolitano? ------------------------------ End of bklist-digest V1 #100 ****************************