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dads-yard-digest      Monday, September 10 2001      Volume 03 : Number 126



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [dads-yard] Catie & Ryan at The Foley in SF             [Mail2masa@aol.com]
  RE: [dads-yard] the show at foley's...  ["Susan Krauss" <susankrauss@earth]
  [dads-yard] ahh, the final show..                      [CampGrrl63@aol.com]

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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:29:02 EDT
From: Mail2masa@aol.com
Subject: [dads-yard] Catie & Ryan at The Foley in SF

One of the best Catie's show I've been to.  Full of energy and fun - 
interaction between Catie and Ryan was very infectious.  I strongly feel 
Ryan, who really knows and understands Catie and her music, adds depth and 
more layers to Catie's performance and it so happens Ryan is a male - could 
have been a female partner who could do the same, such as Nina Gerber added 
such a beauty to Kate Wolf's music and now to many other musicians who pass 
through the Bay area -- (Catie, when she first started to tour, did ask Nina 
if she wanted to be her sideperson.)  Catie said Elizabeth came out of 
missing Ryan one night and feeling lonely when he couldn't backup at one of 
her concert

Back to the concert.  I have to say there were some songs in her new cd I 
didn't care that much but after you hearing her perform live and hear her 
stories, they do become very personal and feel they come from her heart -- 
especially when Catie was alone with only Ryan providing the backup.  I do 
understand that as an artist, she has to grow and take up her own path.  I 
may not like the direction she is taking her music to - especially in the 
studio version.  But then you go to her concert and hear her perform, 
you come out reaffirmed of her commitment to her music and to herself -- 
these songs are hers with full of real emotion and heart -- that she had 
written them for herself.

So make sure to catch her in her concert.

Masaki

ps.. it was so wonderful to catch many of the Dadyarders at the concert :)

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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:26:38 -0700
From: "Susan Krauss" <susankrauss@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [dads-yard] the show at foley's...

I echo everything said by Heather and Masaki.  Wonderful show.  Wonderful to
see so many folks.  Uncomfortable chairs (worse then the Freight & Salvage
<g>).

Here's the actual set list:
Patience
Heaven
Big Reprise
Magnolia Street
You Can Always Be Gone
I'll Cover You
Fisherman <Waterboys' song>
Soulfully
Love Takes the Best of You
Now
Jane
Troubled Mind (w/Julie Wolf)
Kiss That Counted (w/Julie Wolf)
Elizabeth
Radical
Memphis
Stay Up All Night
Dandelion
What's the Matter
Dad's Yard

The show was just under 90 minutes long.  Catie and Jimmy both looked like
they were having a great time - lots of smiles and laughing (always makes
the best performance).  Great show.

susan in oakland

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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 03:05:40 EDT
From: CampGrrl63@aol.com
Subject: [dads-yard] ahh, the final show..

Alas and alak, "Catie Week" has drawn to a close here in the SF Bay Area.  

I just got home from the Club 47 show at Villa Montalvo...Tom Rush, Catie, 
Janis Ian and David Bromberg.  Tom was funny, but his music would have to 
grow on me to want to buy the cd.  David Bromberg will never grow on me...he 
annoyed me for some particular reason.  Although, he can flatpick pretty 
damned well!  The only fun thing about his set was that we got to see Mr. 
Jimmy Ryan wail on the mando like nobody's business!  Never really gotten to 
Jimmy crank it out like that before...Woo hoo! : )

Janis Ian can play the hell out of that wee little guitar!!!  From a 
distance, I swear it looked like a graphite guitar...and jeez-us, does she 
have the effects pedals and shit DOWN!  I'd never seen her play before, but 
she sure is a little dynamo!  And for a little lady (she can't be more than 
4'11"?), she sure can pound it out!

And then Catie, of course.  The shortest, obviously, set of the 3 nights I 
got to see her...each show very different!  She and Jimmy were great as 
always...but only for 5 songs:
Patience
The Big Reprise
Soulfully
Love Takes the Best of You
Dad's Yard

Overall, the audience wasn't exactly Catie's regular audience, but I know 
there were several us out there that knew and loved her...and they all voted 
(along with those just voting by song title) for her to close with Dad's Yard 
instead of Memphis...my vote was for a rousing Memphis...I lost!

It was a great run with 3 wonderful shows...I can't wait to see Catie again 
headlining with her own band in November.  Until then, I'm sure "Shirt" and 
the others will be spending more than their share of time in the old cd 
player.

Now, I'm tired...and tomorrow is a Monday...sigh.
Have a great week, y'all!
Heather

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