From: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org (dads-yard-digest) To: dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Subject: dads-yard-digest V2 #26 Reply-To: dads-yard@smoe.org Sender: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk dads-yard-digest Monday, May 8 2000 Volume 02 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [dads-yard] Fwd: Catie Curtis weekly concert update [Deb Subject: [dads-yard] Fwd: Catie Curtis weekly concert update >Fri, May 5, 2000 (acoustic, folk) >Catie Curtis at Alice's Champagne Palace >Homer, AK > > >Fri, Jun 23, 2000 (acoustic, folk) >Catie Curtis at Slim's >San Francisco, CA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 18:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tawni T. Hoang" Subject: [dads-yard] You only need your toothbrush, fifty bucks, that velvet shirt that brings you luck.. Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:26:13 -0700 Message-ID: Sender: owner-dads-yard@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Aahh, sounds like a folk festival, doesn't it? Hello hello! Hope everyone's doing well. Out here on the West Coast, and especially San Diego, this is sort of a holiday weekend for us with Cinco de Mayo. Needless to say, I'm in a great mood. Plus, I'm listening to the Nields new kickass cd that rocks my world. I know a couple of the women who sing backup on This Town Is Wrong, and I have this overwhelming, happy feeling of pride for them right now. It reminds me of seeing Catie at Newport a few years ago playing her own awesome set and then seeing her on stage with the Indigo Girls during the finale. Seems kind of ridiculous now, but I felt so proud of her. If I ever have children, I think I might actually make a pretty good parent - - I'd be so easily proud of all their accomplishments. Anyways, digress much? I spent my Cinco de Mayo getting hoarse at what seemed like a mini-folk festival, more like a concert marathon, three and a half hours of Iris Dement and John Prine. Wow!! I still can't get over that show. Especially since I came to it excited to see Iris Dement for the first time and only fairly excited to see John Prine. I love it when musicians blow me away like that. First Iris, who seemed terribly shy on stage, but who's songs can just lift you into these incredibly sad places you've either been before or somehow can oddly relate to. It's hard to remember feeling more moved by anyone's music. In an amusing moment, she aknowledged that one of the shops in our downtown mall had recommended the most uncomfortable dress and shoes, making her fidget and squirm more than usual, thus the tugging and pulling and jerky movements on stage. She was deliciously adorable, Masaki. Then the magnetic presence of John Prine, who sports this boyish top-spiked haircut like my friend Spencer had when we were in the third grade, took the stage and well... pretty much.. THE.SHOT.GUN.FIRED. We were all blown away. The cheeze spills I know. I'm still feeling a bit giddy I suppose. Most of his songs were funny stories about cheating and loving and leaving and lusting and a song about dying at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes. This man is amusingly crazy and obviously loving life. I really hope you all are too. If anyone else is a John Prine fan, I'd love a list of album recommendations. Thanks y'all, Tawni ps. sorry for this bit of non-Catie rambling. The summer is thisclose and my concert excitement is building. I've been reminded a couple of times too lately that it's been forever since I lasted posted. But I'm not alone. Who are you guys listening to right now, who should the rest of us be listening to right now, and what amazing shows should we have kicked ourselves for missing??? ;-) "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anais Nin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:21:57 EDT From: WoodellDC@aol.com Subject: Re: [dads-yard] You only need your toothbrush, fifty bucks, that velvet shirt... Hi, Tawni, and everyone! << If anyone else is a John Prine fan, I'd love a list of album recommendations. I still love 3 early ones: John Prine, Diamonds in the Rough, and Sweet Revenge. This being the 30-year commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War, "Sam Stone," from the first album, is very relevant, and poignant. But I've loved, loved John Prine for decades. Who are you guys listening to right now, who should the rest of us be listening to right now, and what amazing shows should we have kicked ourselves for missing??? ;-) I happen to be listening to "Crash Course in Roses," actually. Hadn't listened in a while, but finally got around to putting in on a cassette (for personal use only), so I've been riding around to that for about a week. I'm "auditioning" Catie to be my pregame accompaniment for softball games. New millennium, new season, new pregame tape! And also listening regularly to the latest Bruce Cockburn, latest Richard Shindell, latest Melissa Ferrick. Take care, Deb ------------------------------ End of dads-yard-digest V2 #26 ******************************