From: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org (harbinger-digest) To: harbinger-digest@smoe.org Subject: harbinger-digest V3 #212 Reply-To: harbinger@smoe.org Sender: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk harbinger-digest Saturday, July 18 1998 Volume 03 : Number 212 HARBINGER DIGEST To post, mail harbinger@smoe.org To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger-digest To get list info file, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info harbinger-digest Today's Subjects: ---------------- (harbinger) Green River Festival ["Steve Bornstein" Subject: (harbinger) Green River Festival Hi All Is anyone going to the Green River Festival in Greenfield MA Saturday? I am in desperate need of a ride. I live in New Haven but there are various public transportation possibilities (train, chiefly) which make pick-up/drop-off a littlemore flexible. I have an extra ticket for anyone interested in going. Here's the lineup: Koko Taylor, Chicago blues Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, zydeco Don Walser, western swing Cheri Knight, roots rock Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, country Brooks Williams, folk Maria Sangiolo, folk/children As you can see, it's rootsy but pretty diverse. I'm more interested in the openers - Gillian Welch, who was the surprise hit of last year's Newport Folk Festival, and Cheri Knight, semi-reclusive farmer/rocker. whose album "The Northeast Kingdom" is a shoo-in for my Top Ten List. I am currently without wheels and several alternative modes of transport have noy panned out so I'm putting the word out here in case anyone is sufficiently intrigued. The show is from 12 - 9 on the grounds of Greenfield Community College. Tix are $15, but with me it's free! Thanks all Peace JourneyBear ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Harbinger Public Service Announcement: Emergency contraceptives are methods of preventing pregnancy *after* unprotected sexual intercourse. They do not protect against sexually transmitted infections. For more info, browse to: http://opr.princeton.edu/ec/ - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:30:33 PDT From: "Dusti Yamaguchi" Subject: (harbinger) Seventeen Article, PC on TV, & Sarah Hi ya. If there are any fumblers on the list please post that the August issue of Harper's Bazaar has a Sarah feature in the article "The New Achievers." It's about one page of Sarah interview/article and a one page picture of her holding her guitar in Alberta Ferretti and Dolce & Gabbana and looking strung-out. Less make-up than the Levi’s ad...ha ha. There will be a Best of Hard Rock Live on NBC Sunday with Paula, Indigo Girls, Jewel, John Fogerty, INXS, Barenaked Ladies, and Shawn Colvin. I don't know about the times, but check the TV guide. well, here it is. i don't really care for seventeen, but hey, it's paula... Worth the Wait by marisa Fox (august 1998 issue of seventeen magazine) It's ironic that Paula Cole, 30, Grammy's Best New Artist of 1998, grew up in a house without a radio. Both her hits, "Where have all the cowboys gone?" and "I Don't want to Wait" (better known as the theme from Dawson's Creek), received heavy airplay for months, propelling her to stardom after years of being an opening act for her sister-in-song Sarah McLachlan and for singer Peter Gavriel ("I was the only woman on the tour who didn't want to sleep with him," she quips). Along the way, she has mapped out her own musical territory, not only as a writer and a singer but also as a producer. Cole's musical talents revealed themselves early on (legend has it that she could sing before she could speak). Her father, Jim, who plays several instruments, helped instill in her a n appreciation for classical music by introducing her to classical piano at home, in rural Massachusetts. As a child, she composed her own music on the piano to entertain herself but dreamed of something bigger-stardom. "My father would laugh and say, 'You can't just be a star,'" Cole recalls, while eating pasta and a salad at a cafe in NYC's Greenwich Village (where she lives). "But deep inside I knew. Deep inside, I think we all know. It's a matter of trusting that voice and believing in yourself." That self-confidence, plus a first-class musical education at Boston's Berklee College of Music, inspired Cole to go where few women have gone before in the music business-the producing end. But her desire to pilot her won albums was more controversial that you would think. "Production traditionally has been male," she says. "Ridiculously male. There just aren't too many women wor are studio engineers or producers." When Cole wanted to produce her first album, Harbinger, she was made to feel that she wasn't up to the job. "I was treated like a little girl: I was taken by the hand to a male producer who would handle everything for me," says Cole, wincing at the memory. "I was not taken seriously. They didn't understand the depth of my musicianship or my knowledge of recording." By the time Cole was ready to go into the studio to record, This Fire, her platinum CD, she knew enough about the technical aspects of music making to get the sound she wanted. She produced the record by herself and was rewarded with seven Grammy nominations. In person, Cole looks more like a college student than a pop star. She comes to the interview dressed in a long-sleeved black T-shirt and white overalls. Her long brown hair falls loosely around her shoulders, and there’s not a trace of makeup on her face. Cole openly discusses her musical roots and the dues she paid along the road to stardom. As a scholarship student at Berklee, she immersed herself in jazz and, in particular, scat singing while supporting herself by playing at coffeehouses, bars and weddings. She also sang in a gospel chior. When she found she couldn't master the jazz singing style of her idol, the late Ella Fitzgerald, Cole began to question what she wanted to express in her music. "That's when I started writing my own songs," she says. "I realized it was time to peruse something more immediate and personal, instead of trying to be someone else." A demo of her first album landed in the hands of Peter Gabriel, who asked her to join him as a backup singer and duet partner on his 1993-4 tour. Suddenly the awkward, introverted singer was performing in front of stadium-size crowds-a giant leap that forced Cole to overcome her shyness and command the stage. "It was a very difficult experience at times because I was so much younger than everybody else," she says. "I was one of the only women. And I was very, very alone. I felt insecure." Cole’s career gathered momentum as she gained strength as a performer and built up her fan base by opening shows for dynamic artists like Melissa Etheridge and Sarah McLachlan. Today Cole headlines her own concerts, where the shows run the gamut from acoustic sets of diary-entry-type narratives to raging, cathartic rockers that have her wailing while passionately playing the piano or banging on a drum like a banshee “I’m a rhythmic performer,” says Cole, who races, paces, hops, bops, breakdances and prances around the stage. “I love to dance and shout. I like music with a big fat bottom. That’s why I love hip-hop and [Bob]Marley. Right now, I’m not Missy Elliott. We just did a remix of “Feelin’ Love.’” (Says Elliott of that musical partnership, “Paula’s just dope. She’s very talented. She’s just a black girl trapped in a white girl’s body.”) The intensely personal nature of much of Cole’s work- Songs like “So Ordinary [sic]” (about a woman who lets herself be used by a boyfriend) and “Hush, Hush, Hush” (About losing a friend to AIDS)-has won her many female teenage fans. “They’re probably the people I want to touch the most,” she says. “That was the hardest time in my life. I just want to let them know that these are the hardest times in many women’s lives-that may help ease their burdens a bit.” Cole’s fans can see her in concert this summer as part of the H.O.R.D.E. tour and Lilith Fair, her second year with the all-female festival. To her mind, Lilith offers teenage girls musical opportunities she never had at that age. “When I was growing up, there certainly weren’t any summer tours of only women artist.” she says. “I was starved for that. To know that I’m speaking to the needs of the girls in my audience is satisfying enough. And they are usually so grateful and gracious.” She has already started writing songs for her next album, and she is planning to act in her first movie, directed by her boyfriend, Seyi Sonuga, a Nigerian-born musician whom she met at Berklee. But the biggest challenge, according to Cole, is staying grounded and keeping her perception. “You have to fight really hard to be healthy [in this business],” she says. “I see people burning themselves out for the empty, ephemeral kick of being a ‘rock star.’ It’s a waste. When I see musicians doing that, I just know they’re not going to make it unless they transform. You have to look after your body. Sleep is really important, and so is yoga. It’s amazing. It keeps me centered, because my world can be a very lonely place.” ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Harbinger Public Service Announcement: Emergency contraceptives are methods of preventing pregnancy *after* unprotected sexual intercourse. They do not protect against sexually transmitted infections. For more info, browse to: http://opr.princeton.edu/ec/ - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:56:12 EDT From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: (harbinger) Seventeen Article, PC on TV, & Sarah thanks for posting the seventeen article. i appreciate the effort you went to. i enjoyed reading it, but probably would have never gotten around to picking up 17 thanks evets - ------------------------------ Harbinger Public Service Announcement: Emergency contraceptives are methods of preventing pregnancy *after* unprotected sexual intercourse. They do not protect against sexually transmitted infections. For more info, browse to: http://opr.princeton.edu/ec/ - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:20:28 PDT From: "Steve Bornstein" Subject: Re: (harbinger) Re: Kenn's post and other things Jean wrote: > >I'm sorry to hear Kenn is offended by "sniping posts" among other things >on Harbinger...I do not agree with every person's opinion on Harbinger, >but I do believe our list members are entitled to their thoughts, in >fact, I've appreciated information on Paula and some on new artists that >Kenn has provided in the past. I also appreciate Steve B.'s "novellas". >Steve has a great wealth of musical knowledge, as does Hol or Momrox and >other Harbinger members, who have enlightened me..I thank you all.... > > Hi Jean Thanks for the kind words. I know some times I do go on and on, and I never am sure how well what I say is being received. I would never presume to have a "wealth of musical knowledge" - whatever I know I've learned from listening to a lot of music and trying to investigate and understand the sources. I hope nobody gets intimidated by my long-winded explanations or expositions. I didn't go to music school or study music history or anything - it's all from listening, trying to understand why I liked what I did, and learning how to express that. This whole magazine thing came from wanting to get off the sidelines and do something with this love of music. You'd be surprised how easy it is to get started in this business. Just about every town of a certain size will have some publication only too glad to publish your writing - the trick is making it work for you so it's worth your while. I am always grateful for the privileges I've been granted and often amazed by the extent to which musicians and their colleagues grant me access to their personal space. They attach much more importance to what i do than I do. After all, I write for a small regional monthly - it sure ain't Rolling Stone. When I post to the list, I consider myself to be just another lister, with tastes like anyone else, not some kind of authority. As a matter ofd fact, I've learned a great deal from other listers - for examplr, Raquelita for Mary Lou Lord, Kenn for Heather Nova, Zia Michelle for Margot Smith. Sometimes I will bounce a lot of ideas around, as I'm forming opinions, so I must tend to ramble a good deal. As the irascible Mr Z points out, I could use an editor. I guess I'm saying all this because I know a lot of people believe that people who are involved in the media - musicians, actors, press, whatever - have some kind of mystique, and it really isn't so. They are just people, this is what they do for a job (I'm really still an amateur at this point), and they do it because they are made a certain way - not necessarily special, but just that way. Anyway, I'm rambling on again, but I do thank you for your consideration. Peace JourneyBear ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Harbinger Public Service Announcement: Emergency contraceptives are methods of preventing pregnancy *after* unprotected sexual intercourse. They do not protect against sexually transmitted infections. 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