From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #412 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, November 24 1998 Volume 04 : Number 412 Today's Subjects: ----------------- EBTG for ectoguide [neal copperman ] Re: ecto-digest V4 #411 [AURALG@aol.com] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: Karen Peris [samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.)] Re: Karen Peris [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Karen Peris [Neile Graham ] Imogen dates [Neile Graham ] Re: Imogen dates [Bill ] Re: guest vocalists [Sherlyn Koo ] new list for fans of Trina Hamlin [cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar)] cruel/raspberry swirl single [desmond in a tutu ] Vartinna on PBS [kerry white ] Re: Vartinna on PBS [Cathy Sandifer ] Re: Karen Peris [samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.)] Nick Drake special [Valerie Kraemer ] Re: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) [meredith ] Junkies/OTR [Mark Lowry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 23:50:42 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: EBTG for ectoguide I'm working on the ectophiles guide entry for Everything But The Girl, which doesn't look as hard as I feared, since there aren't really that many comments. There are a handful on Walking Wounded and Amplified Heart, but not too much else beyond that. If anyone wants to toss out some comments or first album recommendations, now would be a great time to do it. If you want to say something but don't want it included in the guide entry, please make that clear in your post. (Jeff Hanson, you needn't bother. I'm sending the whole thing to you when I'm done with it, and you can add all the comments you want :) Actually, what I'll really want is for you to add the album info, since, being generally ambivalent about the band, I don't have any of their discs) Neal np: Grand Piano - Grainger plays Grainger nr: Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 02:46:44 EST From: AURALG@aol.com Subject: Re: ecto-digest V4 #411 Thank You for my Birthday wishes. I hope everyone is doing well. Best warmest wishes to y'all for the Holidaze KB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Claudia Spix (no Email address) ********************* ********************** Anja Baldo (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 Sagittarius Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 COOL BANANAS Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:40:49 -0800 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) At 10:31 PM -0700 11/22/98, neal copperman remarked: > >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. Drecker did guest vocals on the 1994 Jah Wobble album "Take me to God." The tracks are "Becoming more like God" (a fabulously slinky funky tune) and "When the Storm Comes." Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries) does a surprisingly yodel-free track, and Baaba Maal also makes an appearance. It's a marvellous album, and as an added bonus features deathless spoken lines like "Change is a misnomer promoted by Californians with strange haircuts and symmetrical teeth" and "The 22 year-old Glaswegian checkout girl *is* the Divine Mother." Jah Wobble sure has come along way since his PiL days. A story I heard claims that John Lydon picked him at random to be the bass player, and Wobble spent his first concert trying to figure out how actually to hold the instrument, eventually sitting down in exhaustion because he was astonished at how heavy the bass was. Whether that's true or not I obviously don't know, but I heard it on Brave New Waves so at least it's been canonized as definitively inaccurate. - Neil K. - -- t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada phone: (604) 254-0520 * email: tela@tela.bc.ca web: http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 07:09:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Burka Subject: Re: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) neal sez: meth asks: > >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. and then Neil pointed out which Jah Wobble album features Anneli (along with Dolores). But I wanted to point out that any fans of Anneli should keep their eyes open for Tsunematsu Matsui's _Song of Joy_, on which she wrote and sang a number of songs (it's been ages since I've played it, and I can't recall if there are any songs where the two sing together, so it may or may not qualify for the duets tape). I don't think the available is in print any more, but it's quite amazing. jeff ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:49:34 -0500 From: Paul Kim Subject: holly cole article from reuters/variety Deck the halls with boughs of Holly -- Cole, that is By Steve James NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Singer Holly Cole's gift to Americans this Christmas is the show she has staged in her native Canada for several years now. ``Holly Cole Holiday Celebration with Strings'' plays New York's Irving Plaza Nov. 27 -- the day after Thanksgiving -- and then at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre Dec. 7. In addition, she is touring Canada -- Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa -- during the holiday season, playing with symphony orchestras there. In New York, it's a little less grand, but the smoky-voiced singer, best known for introspective jazz and pop interpretations with a trio, will be backed by 18 strings. ``It's so much fun with strings, it gives you more color to play with,'' Cole told Reuters in a recent telephone interview from Toronto. ``But I also want to maintain the integrity of the minimalism we have.'' ``The songs are arranged for a trio or quartet, and we like to see if strings will fit. Some songs sound better, some don't,'' she said. One she thinks is definitely better with the lush sound of violins is the old Johnny Nash song ``I Can See Clearly Now.'' ``It's not Christmas favorites,'' she said of the show, ''but rather, unusual Christmas songs. It's designed to be fun and we do other music too.'' That would include selections from her critically-acclaimed last album ``Dark Dear Heart'' such as the evocative ''Timbuktu'', her reworking of the Beatles' ``I've Just Seen a Face,'' Joni Mitchell's ``River'', or the enigmatic ``Onion Girl.'' She may throw in some of her Tom Wait interpretations, too, like ``Jersey Girl'' or ``I Want You'' and her scat-version of ''Tea for Two'' that had audiences wowing during her U.S. and European tour this year. ``We've been playing a lot in the U.S., especially after 'Dark Dear Heart' came out and we wanted to offer people something out of the ordinary, not what we usually do,'' she said of the decision to do the Christmas show outside Canada. ``The big difference is the 18 strings. It's not classical music, I'm not a singer of arias,'' laughed Cole, the daughter of classical musicians, who grew up in Nova Scotia. ``In Canada, we play with full symphony orchestras,'' she said. ``The difference is that with my trio, if one guy is late, I just say 'don't do it again' and we move on. ``With the symphonies, it's more rigid, with eight-minute union breaks and things...but it's an opportunity to really hear what the music can sound like.'' Cole is no stranger to New York, having played everything from small Greenwich Village clubs to Carnegie Hall. ``The show's not all orchestra sounds, there's small band tunes too, I like a variety of sounds. But the sound is usually better in a bigger venue. Her new CD, ``Treasure'' (Alert Music) which was released last month in Canada, is ``sort of like a greatest hits, with some new songs and some we never recorded.'' It is available online at hollycole.com She hopes to start work on a new album in the new year, although she has no producer yet. It will be recorded in Toronto with post-production in Los Angeles or New York. Reuters/Variety ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:10:45 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Imogen Heap Live at The Baltic Room Hey, all-- Just rubbing the sleep out of my eyes on the morning after hearing a lovely (but brief) show by Imogen Heap here in rainy Seattle. The Baltic Room is really a beeyootiful 2-level bar (we're talking a '90s version of '30s decor with art deco light shades, lots of dark polished wood, red velvet curtains draped all over the place, and twinkling lights in the ceiling). When Michael Peskura and I got there the sound man was making all kinds of horrible noises, which we didn't think boded well for the show, but the only bad thing about the sound was that at first we couldn't hear a word she spoke. The piano and vocals came through wonderfully clearly (despite the bar crowd noise). It's a fairly small place, and it was clear that only a few people were actually there to see Imogen. I was wondering how well the songs would come across since it was only her there and none of the band members--her and a grand piano--but like Tori she can make the girl and a piano thing carry across very well because of the range in her powerful voice, excellent piano technique (I was amazed at how diverse the songs sounded in this format) and her strong songwriting. The set was brief--I'm not sure how long she played, but it couldn't have been over 45 minutes. She played most of the songs from _I Megaphone_, one B-side from the "Come Here Boy" single and 1 new song. She was well-received by the small crowd, but there was not even enough applause to raise an encore, though there were a couple of shouts for one. There were probably maybe 50 people in the bar, and only about 25 in the part where she was playing, and I'm guessing some of them just wandered in (because some of them wandered out again and were replaced by other drifters). The show was free but hadn't been well-promoted except that Tower was giving away tickets (for which there was no ticket taker) to people who bought a copy of the cd. Afterwards I followed her to the upstairs and asked her to sign the singles I'd brought. She was very surprised I had them (thanks, Geoff!--even one of her entourage hadn't seen all 3) and asked where I'd heard of her, so I mentioned ecto (thanks everyone for talking about her!), and then told her she had a page on The Ectophiles' Guide and she asked for the URL. I think she was disappointed in the crowd or lack thereof, but didn't show it, just saying it was difficult to break in here, and that they'd had trouble finding a place for her to play that had a piano (something we discovered when trying to find places for Ingrid to play when she was passing through town). Delightfully down to earth and easy to talk to. Anyway, Imogen live was really delightful--an emotional and impressive performer. She's playing in Vancouver tonight and Portland I think tomorrow night, then a few shows in California, then a couple on the East Coast. I highly recommend catching her this time through to hear her play solo in an intimate setting. Next time through she'll be bringing the band, which will be great but very different. - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:14:05 -0800 From: samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.) Subject: Re: Karen Peris >>- - Mila Drumke (w/Karen Peris), "Motorboat" on _Illinois_<< Does anyone know what Karen Peris is doing these days? Last I knew she was with a local Minneapolis band called "Bug" after several years with "Holiday Ranch" (also in Minneapolis) and I knew she did some singing for local T.V. commercials, as well. She has such a rich and beautiful voice, if she's doing anything professional I would love to know about it! Thanks! ~Sami~ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> "...reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confusing." --from "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" by Jane Wagner ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:09:44 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Karen Peris On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:14:05AM -0800, Sami T. wrote: > >>- - Mila Drumke (w/Karen Peris), "Motorboat" on _Illinois_<< > > Does anyone know what Karen Peris is doing these days? Last I > knew she was with a local Minneapolis band called "Bug" after several > years with "Holiday Ranch" (also in Minneapolis) and I knew she did some > singing for local T.V. commercials, as well. She has such a rich and > beautiful voice, if she's doing anything professional I would love to > know about it! Thanks! Don and Karen are (were?) in Innocence Mission (http://www.huan.com/im/) and Karen also sung on Natalie Merchant's most recent CD. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:09:47 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Karen Peris Sami T. wrote: > Does anyone know what Karen Peris is doing these days? Last I >knew she was with a local Minneapolis band called "Bug" after several >years with "Holiday Ranch" (also in Minneapolis) and I knew she did some >singing for local T.V. commercials, as well. She has such a rich and >beautiful voice, if she's doing anything professional I would love to >know about it! Thanks! Are you sure this is Karen Peris you're thinking of? She's from Lancaster PA, and I don't believe has worked with other bands than Innocence Mission other than appearing as a backup singer for Natalie Merchant and Mila Drumke and maybe a couple of other places. The Innocence Mission is still alive as a band. She and Don recently had a baby, and one of the band members has left the band, but they have a new recording contract with Kneeling Elephant, and have a cd planned for release next spring. Here is a message from a friend on the Innocence Mission mailing list (Don here writing with the double quote marks would be Don Peris): > >At 12:11 PM 8/31/98, Don wrote: >>Yes, we are releasing a record in Spring of 1999. We are now with a >>division of RCA called Kneeling Elephant Records. It is a smaller >>label, but the freedom that comes with a small label is a welcome change >>after the A&M/Polygram Empire. > >I checked just now, and Kneeling Elephant has a web site: > > http://www.kneelingelephant.com/ > >No IM info there just yet, but there's an article about the formation of >the label that might be of interest. There are two acts on their roster you >can read about. Seems like the type of intimate >small-label-with-big-distribution arrangement that would be perfect for >IM--they won't get lost in the shuffle, and they'll still have a chance at >wider exposure. > >>Our record is 95% finished and we are finishing the remainder during >>the months of September thru December. > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:46:58 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Imogen dates Hey all-- Just a reminder about upcoming Imogen Heap dates: 23rd Nov (TONIGHT!) Chameleon Urban Lounge, 801 W Georgia, Vancouver BC 8:00pm $7 25th Nov Cubberly Community College, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto CA 9:30pm $6 27th Nov Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market St, SF CA 8:00pm $5 28th Nov 815L, 815 L St, Sacramento, CA 7:00pm $8 1st Dec Rosebud, 1650 Smallman St, Pittsburgh PA 8:30pm $5 2nd Dec Milestones, 170 East Avenue, Rochester NY 8:45pm $5 3rd Dec Tin Angel, 20 South 2nd St, Philadelphia PA 11:15pm $7 6th Dec Radio interview on WSSR in Tampa Florida. 10th Dec The Pickle Barrle, Killington. 10:00pm $6 15th Dec CBGB'S, 313 T he Gallery 8:00pm $5 - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:04:01 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Subject: Re: Imogen dates > 23rd Nov (TONIGHT!) Chameleon Urban Lounge, 801 W Georgia, Vancouver BC > 8:00pm $7 I'm heading up to Van tonight for this one; anyone else will be there? Anyone wanting a ride from Bellingham or anywhere in between? - - Bill. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 07:29:31 +1100 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Re: guest vocalists Hey folks, meth said: >- Patty Larkin (w/Bruce Cockburn), "Me And That Train" on her >second-to-last album (was that _Perishable Fruit_?) "Stranger's World". :) >- 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 :}) Hehe... "Mystery"... >- Jane Siberry with Patty Larkin, a couple tracks on Larkin's last album >(see above disclaimer) "Coming Up for Air", on "Perishable Fruit". :) >Lucy Kaplansky also sings backup for various songs on Richard Shindell's >first two albums. Strangely enough, I now have copies of all three "Cry Cry Cry" members singing "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene" - Dar Williams on the Cry Cry Cry album itself, Richard Shindell on his album "Blue Divide", and Lucy Kaplansky on a Fast Folk compilation album I picked up a couple of years ago... Random notes for Australians: - - apparently Natalie Merchant's tour was cancelled due to illness. - - The "coming-out" episode of "Ellen" will be airing on network 7, Thursday at 10.25pm (check your local guides, they might not be showing it in regional centres, I see they've got something else scheduled for Wollongong...) - - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is coming back to Australian TV next Monday night! Whoohoo! :) sherlyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-= a+e=ig Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@fl.net.au [Sydney, Australia] "Once again, I play midwife to my dreams..." - Peter Mulvey ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:03:18 -0500 (EST) From: cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar) Subject: new list for fans of Trina Hamlin The Hollow is a newly created list for fans of Trina Hamlin. I think there are a few of you lurking here on nields-nook, ammf, and ecto. If you want to subscribe, send email to hollow-request@smoe.org with the word "subscribe" as the body of your message (what you put in the subject doesn't matter). You'll get back a confirmation message, and you have to reply to that in order to get added to the list. Talk to you (some of you) there! -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org cos@leftbank.com -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ "I'm going down to the hollow, where the trees meet the soul" -- Trina Hamlin, Down to the Hollow ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:23:32 -0500 From: desmond in a tutu Subject: cruel/raspberry swirl single tori's cruel/raspberry swirl single is released tomorrow, but i found a copy this afternoon (yeah -- a day early; the same store which was selling the jackie's strength single a couple days early had this out as well -- i would have checked on friday afternoon if i had a chance, but i didn't). as everyone knows, it's all remixes. my usual reaction to such things are *yawn*, but i don't mind spending $3 for a good yawn every once in a while. for the most part, my rule holds true. the shady feline mix of "cruel" emphasizes the beat making it a shade dancier than the original, but not different enough to warrant a remix. there are two "raspberry swirl" mixes, of which the scarlet spectrum feels mix is by far the more interesting with its stretchy taffy tempo twist on the original -- but both it and the ho-hum lip gloss version were already released on the european "raspberry swirl" single, so they aren't new (at least not for everybody). the "mainline cherry - ambient spark", though, is pretty cool. it's not as much a remix as a minimal cut-up of the song, interspersing the keyboard riff from the song's intro with the rest of the melody. over this, the vocal remains. kinda neat and maybe even worth $3, if you're feeling generous. woj n.p. skulpy -- chopper (wheee!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:00:43 -0600 (CST) From: kerry white Subject: Vartinna on PBS Hi, Part of my job is being forced to watch Arthur. Today they fell in love with an oh-ee-ohee-ooh song. I only heard snippetts but it sounded familiar. End credits said (???) by Vartinna. KrW "Just a spoonfull of sugar helps the medicine go down." Lucretia Borgia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:09:31 -0500 (EST) From: Cathy Sandifer Subject: Re: Vartinna on PBS kerry white wrote: : : Hi, Part of my job is being forced to watch Arthur. Today they fell in :love with an oh-ee-ohee-ooh song. I only heard snippetts but it sounded :familiar. End credits said (???) by Vartinna. It's called "Matalii ja Mustii (Sad and Mournful)", and is on the album "Seleniko". - -- cathy@radix.net "Richard Grieco, you see right through me." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:36:56 -0800 From: samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.) Subject: Re: Karen Peris >>> >>- - Mila Drumke (w/Karen Peris), "Motorboat" on _Illinois_<< > > Does anyone know what Karen Peris is doing these days? Last I > knew she was with a local Minneapolis band called "Bug" after several > years with "Holiday Ranch" (also in Minneapolis) and I knew she did some > singing for local T.V. commercials, as well. She has such a rich and > beautiful voice, if she's doing anything professional I would love to > know about it! Thanks! Don and Karen are (were?) in Innocence Mission (http://www.huan.com/im/) and Karen also sung on Natalie Merchant's most recent CD.<< Oops, I just realized I made a mistake--the Karen I was talking of is Karen Parus. Karen Parus not Peris is a local singer from Minneapolis. Slight difference in spelling. Nevermind the question now! :-) Thanks! ~Sami~ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> "...reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confusing." --from "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" by Jane Wagner ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:37:33 -0500 From: Valerie Kraemer Subject: Nick Drake special For those of you in the environs of New York City: I just heard an announcement that the New Sounds program on WNYC-FM 94 is going to have a Nick Drake special tomorrow night (Tuesday). I guess this is the anniversary of his birth date (??). Along with music by Nick Drake, there will be an interview with his biographer. The program airs at 11:00 p.m. All I can say is Yippeee!!! - --Valerie Kraemer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:46:45 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Cowbie Junkies/OTR (Re: guest vocalists) Hi! Jeffy added: >But I wanted to point out that any fans of Anneli should keep their eyes >open for Tsunematsu Matsui's _Song of Joy_, on which she wrote and sang a >number of songs (it's been ages since I've played it, and I can't recall >if there are any songs where the two sing together, so it may or may not >qualify for the duets tape). I don't think the available is in print any >more, but it's quite amazing. Whoa, talk about ectosynchronicity!!! woj found this on tape last night and put it on. I didn't even know we had it. Tasty stuff! In another complete bit of ectosynchronicity, I just realized that the Sara Ayers Neile and others have been talking about here is the same Sara Ayers who desperately wanted to come to my Veda house concert, but she had her one gig of the year in New York City on Friday night and so couldn't make it. Now how weird is that?!? Someone who did come to the performance brought her CD and played it beforehand. I was too busy suffering from what Veda called "hostess anxiety" to pay much attention, but I remember it sounded intriguing. I'll definitely have to check it out. +==========================================================================+ | 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: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:38:39 -0600 From: Mark Lowry Subject: Junkies/OTR Saw CJ/OTR tour Thursday night in Dallas, I guess right before Neal saw them in NM. Actually, I missed OTR because, well, ne'er mind. Gotta be honest, I've never heard them, and I wanted to see them because of the good things I've heard here. I'm very intrigued, if only from Karin Bergquist singing bv with CJ. I didn't pick up an album, though. So, everyone, give me the scoop. What's their sound like? Which albums should I start with? Etc. The Junkies' set was: Cause Cheap Is How I Feel Crescent Moon Blue Guitar Misguided Angel Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning Ring on the Sill A Common Disaster Just Want To See You Something More Besides You Anniversary Song Miles From Our Home Good Friday Sweet Jane Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) A Horse in the Country This was my first time to see them, although I've kept up with them on-and-off since Trinity Sessions. My best friend went with, he's a big Junkies fan. They played all the right songs, as in ones that have had an important place in our friendship over the past nine years. It was a very emotional show. The full band and the refined orchestrations were great, but sometimes I wished for their traditional lo-fi sound. Margo also forgot the words to a couple of songs, the most prominent lapse happening on "Miles From Our Home," which I found ironic since it's the current single. Has she always had a problem with this? Gillian Welch is playing in Dallas Tuesday, and I'm upset because I've been assigned to review Motley Crue that night. I don't suppose anyone wants a report on the Crue show? Just kidding. Mark n.p. Wilco _Being There_ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #412 **************************