From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #411 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, November 23 1998 Volume 04 : Number 411 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ottobar cancelled/Other shows [neal copperman ] guest vocalists [meredith ] Nields Grammy News [meredith ] Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) [neal copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:42:41 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Ottobar cancelled/Other shows I got this recently from Lisa Cerbone: At 1:09 PM -0500 11/20/98, Lisa Cerbone wrote: >NEWS!!! Mark Kozelek of my favorite band, The Red House Painters, has >asked me to record a song for The John Denver Tribute album he is putting >together. The song I'll be doing is called "Darcy Farrow". I don't know >for sure if my interpretation of this song will make it on the actual CD, >but I was flattered to be asked. Also, Lisa just won a WAMMIE for best female alternative vocalist. (Wammie is the Washington Area Music Awards. Oddly enough, it is also the Weekly Alabi Music Awards, which is the music awards from the free weekly here in Albuquerque.) I've railed against the DC Wammies before, but it's cool that Lisa won. Other ecto-friendly winners that I can recall were The Kennedys (in various incarnations), Lisa Moscetiello (Best folk and best celtic), Bernice Johnson-Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock), and amazingly enough, Esmerelda as both best female underground/punk performer (for the umpteenth time) AND song of the year. Neal np: Dar Williams - MOrtal City ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 18:36:54 -0500 From: meredith Subject: guest vocalists Hi! I'm a little late, but here are a few guest vocal songs I didn't see mentioned as I blew through the past week's worth of ecto just now: - - Emmylou Harris (w/Neil Young), "Wrecking Ball" - - Natalie Merchant (w/Katell Keineg), "Carnival" on _Tigerlily_ - - Mila Drumke (w/Karen Peris), "Motorboat" on _Illinois_ - - Patty Larkin (w/Bruce Cockburn), "Me And That Train" on her second-to-last album (was that _Perishable Fruit_?) - - The Nields (w/Dar Williams), "Merry Chrismas Mr. Jones" on _Bob On The Ceiling_ - - Pamela Means (w/Ani DiFranco), "Speak" on _Bone Spurs_ - - Jane Siberry with the Indigo Girls, that track from _Swamp Ophelia_ (you know, that one ... sorry, I'm too lazy to get up and look :}) - - Jane Siberry with Patty Larkin, a couple tracks on Larkin's last album (see above disclaimer) Lucy Kaplansky also sings backup for various songs on Richard Shindell's first two albums. And if you wanna get *really* esoteric, ecto's own Hillary Jackson sings backup (with Lindsey Horner and I think Jeff Berman too) on "There Is No Rose" on Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner's _Through The Bitter Frost And Snow_ CD. :) Neal added: >Visions of You - on Jah Wabble & the Invaders of the Heart "Rising Above >Bedlam" disc. Didn't Anneli Drecker do a guest vocal on that Jah Wobble album too? Or am I thinking of a different disc? +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 22:50:02 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Nields Grammy News Hi! I don't know if anyone lurking here has a Grammy vote, but I figure weirder things have happened, so just in case (plus, it's interesting news for Nields fans anyway): >Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:35:17 EST >From: Primecity@aol.com >Subject: Grammy Nominations > >Very Cool Nields News. > >The first cut for Grammy Nominations were announced yesterday and the Nields >made the first cut in 2 categories. > >Category 7: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal >#072. "Easy People" > >Category 60: Best Contemporary Folk Album >#084. Play > >There are about 125 other artist that made the cut in each of these categories >but we are really excited to have gotten this far. The next cut are the >artist that get a honest to goodness "Grammy Nominations." If any of you are >members of the grammy nominating committee, please don't forget to fill out >your ballots and vote for THE NIELDS!!!! +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 22:31:36 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) At 6:36 PM -0500 11/22/98, meredith wrote: >Neal added: > >>Visions of You - on Jah Wabble & the Invaders of the Heart "Rising Above >>Bedlam" disc. > >Didn't Anneli Drecker do a guest vocal on that Jah Wobble album too? Or am >I thinking of a different disc? You are thinking of another album, though I have no idea what it is. The only albums I own that she is on is the Bel Canto ones. Sorry about that horrible subject line yesterday. It started as a forwarded note and I forgot to change it. Saw The Cowboy Junkies & Over The Rhine yesterday. It was a night of interesting contrasts for me. I last saw Over The Rhine about 6 years ago, opening for Squeeze at UCSD. They were a 6-piece, and I didn't really like them that well. I was struck by the beauty of their CD packaging, and picked up a copy of 'til we have faces based mostly on that and promise. I loved the CD, and picked up a few more over the years. Last night, they were a 2 piece augmented by a stand-up bass player who plays with the Junkies. I thought they played a really solid, short set, and this time I didn't buy their latest disc (Good Dog, Bad Dog). Go figure. They played an excellent cover of Gillian Welch's Orphan Girl, as well as a lot of new stuff. I'm sure some of you remember how much I gushed about the Cowboy Junkies New Years Eve show in DC last year. It was my first introduction to the band live, and really my first introduction to the band at all. I was totally smitten. Since then I've acquired pretty much everything in one form or other, and can't understand how I had been ignoring them for 10 years. The DC show was just the core group, the three Timmons and the bass player. It was a one-off 2 night stand, and it was lose and carefree. The arrangements were relatively sparse, and they were just taking a break from recording Miles From Home. So they played pretty much all of that album (at the time unreleased) as well as a healthy smattering of songs from all albums. Not being prepared for a tour, Margot sang most songs out of a song book, which also meant we could hear anything that she had the lyrics for. Last night, the Junkies were doing 2 shows in one night. I've always hated that. I feel like the first show has a time limit on it, and you and the performer feel it looming over you. Maybe they wouldn't play any longer otherwise, but you both know they can't even if they want to. I like the idea of going to the second show for that reason, though the only time I've done that, for Toni Childs, she lost her voice during the second show. So the show had a somewhat rushed feeling to it. Plus, it was part of a tour, and the set was down. I had been toying with staying for the second show, but I figured it would have been exactly the same set. It was about 75 minutes, much shorter than the DC show, and I thought the elaborate arrangements actually took the edge and spontaneity away from many of the songs, though it was great to hear Margo and Karen (from OTR) harmonizing. And, surprisingly enough, they only played 3 or 4 songs from the new album, which I totally love. Despite all that, my complaints were more of a comparative nature. It wasn't as good as the last Cowboy Junkies show, but it was still a damn fine show and I'm quite glad to have gone. Margo got huge bouquets of flowers ("why is it that when we play in giant halls, we get tiny bouquets, and when we play a place like this, where we can't even get everything on the stage, we get this gigantic flower arrangements?") She even had to pick all the tall ones out because they were obscuring the drummer. The Paramount is a very small club for them to be playing in. In fact, she said let's give a special hand for the roadies, since they've been struggling all day with our equipment. I don't know if you noticed, but we have a giant truck outside that's full of equipment (and it's still full, quipped one of the roadies). Anyway, she was as charming and amusing as before. neal np: Margot Smith - Taste ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #411 **************************