From: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org (harbinger-digest) To: harbinger-digest@smoe.org Subject: harbinger-digest V5 #40 Reply-To: harbinger@smoe.org Sender: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk harbinger-digest Tuesday, February 29 2000 Volume 05 : Number 040 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: ---------------- Re: (harbinger) Hi all! [Honoku@aol.com] Re: (harbinger) Hi all! [Bandera199@aol.com] (harbinger) Paula Tampa Show Preview. [bobs@compass-dist.com (Bob Smith)] (harbinger) Tampa Tribune Review [bobs@compass-dist.com (Bob Smith)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:22:06 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: (harbinger) Hi all! i like sarah's music. her voice and energy cry out for more production, but it sounds like an album/artist you could one day say that you miss the personal intimate days. sarah, you would have to be familiar with the nudes ? walter singer song writer guitar player, and stephanie cello and backing vocals. they were a great live act, and made some albums which i really like. good luck sarah, i will be buying your album. i like your voice and the lyrics fit very well with the romantic mood i am in these days. steve - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:42:07 EST From: Bandera199@aol.com Subject: Re: (harbinger) Hi all! Hi Steve, Thanks so much for your nice words about our stuff... People who listen to Paula are generally more discriminating than the average listener, so I appreciate your opinion! I just heard The Nudes for the first time back in November... a friend of mine who is also a cellist played them for me. Interesting stuff! Our album is pretty stripped down, but we did that on purpose, mainly for budget purposes but also because it's pretty close to what we do live (it's usually just David and I), so we didn't want to overproduce. Hopefully next album we can be a bit more creative with the production (or maybe convince Paula to produce it!!! Ha!). Anyway, thanks so much for listening! Hope you enjoy the CD.... Take care, Sarah ***** Sarah Hoover -- lead singer/cellist Lady Jane Grey www.MP3.com/LadyJaneGrey - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:44:04 -0500 From: bobs@compass-dist.com (Bob Smith) Subject: (harbinger) Paula Tampa Show Preview. Hi all, Started searching for a review in the local paper in Tampa and found this might be interesting to some of you. This was a Preview of the show to come. Cole eschews irony on `Amen' By Curtis Ross The Tampa Tribune Published: 2/25/00 Paula Cole's biggest hit, ``Where Have All the Cowboys Gone,'' was dripping with irony, something scarcely in evidence on her latest album, last year's ``Amen.'' ``I always knew from my perspective that `Cowboys' was an aberration for me lyrically,'' Cole says from her home in New York City. ``I don't like cleverness in art,'' she says. ``It's the hiding of feelings. I like art that is all about feelings.'' Suffice to say, then, that when Cole sings ``I Believe in Love'' on ``Amen,'' there's no hidden meaning or sarcastic punch line. That's not to say the new album's lyrics won't spur comment or debate. On the title track, Cole seeks amens for a list of heroes and villains. Among them: Ghandi, Gloria Steinem, Saddam Hussein, O.J. Simpson, Presidents Clinton and Reagan and Marilyn Manson. ``It's for us to take a look at it all, to understand that we're all unified by being members of the human race,'' Cole says. Although Cole's lyrics are included with ``Amen,'' she'd prefer they weren't. ``I feel like it divorces the content from the song,'' Cole says. ``I'd prefer people just put in the CD and be part of the music. A lot of people tend to sit down to read the lyrics and not pay attention and make a judgment based on that. I think it's much stronger when they are together.'' Her lyrics get a lot of attention, but Cole's musical credentials are first-rate. She graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music and sang with Peter Gabriel on his 1992-'93 tour. Her first album, 1994's ``Harbinger,'' was released to critical acclaim but poor sales. The follow-up, 1996's ``This Fire,'' was Cole's commercial coming-out, containing ``Cowboys'' as well as ``I Don't Want to Wait'' (featured on the WB network show ``Dawson's Creek''). But the popularity brought some pigeonholing. ``One of the best things I do is perform live,'' Cole says. ``I'm frustrated 'cause I don't think people know that about me. They know `Cowboys' and Lilith Fair, which I am vomitously sick of.'' Cole calls Lilith Fair organizer Sarah McLachlan ``a sweetheart'' but feels that their musical styles are ``such opposites.'' .``I'm intense and kind of primal,'' she says of herself in concert. A performance at a children's music camp shocked some of the adults there. ``One of the directors came backstage afterward and was so confused,'' Cole says. `` `Where is the squeaky clean Paula Cole from VH1?' - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:03:16 -0500 From: bobs@compass-dist.com (Bob Smith) Subject: (harbinger) Tampa Tribune Review Here's the Review from the Tampa Tribune.... Feb 28, 2000 - 08:06 AM Cole's `Cowboys' lassos local fans By CURTIS ROSS Paula Cole played for a crowd of the faithful Saturday night at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Playhouse. The faithful, in this case, are fans who know more of Cole's music than her two hits: ``Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?'' and ``I Don't Want to Wait.'' Cole and her band performed those songs to cheers of recognition, but the audience responded to something deeper than familiarity. Cole's music is filled with up-front emotion. ``Cowboys'' aside (Cole told the Tribune that the hit was ``an aberration for me lyrically''), her songs are irony-free. On stage, Cole is a dynamic performer, swirling, dancing and illustrating the songs with gestures, movements and facial expressions. ``Come see our live show,'' she pleads in the liner notes of her latest album, last year's ``Amen,'' and it's easy to see why - that sort of intensity can't be transferred to tape. But the show's most compelling element was the music made by Cole and her four-piece band. Guitarist Kevin Barry drew cheers for some searing solos. Drummer Jay Bellerose paced the band on a handsome, antique-looking drum kit. Barry and Bellerose, Cole's long-time musical companions, were augmented by Rakiya Diggs and Doug Wimbish. Diggs provided tonal colors throughout on keyboards and violin. Bassist Wimbish provided the deep grooves for Cole, much of whose material draws on hip hop and R&B. Cole herself played guitar and keyboards on some songs. She was behind the electric piano for ``Feelin' Love,'' a slinky soul ballad punctuated by Wimbish's rubbery bass, a Barry solo full of bent, metallic notes and Cole's bedroom moans and whispers. Cole dedicated one of her encore numbers, ```Jolene,'' to the song's writer, Dolly Parton. Cole's version would never be confused with Parton's original, though. Cole emphasized the song's emotions with animal growls and beat-box noises. Cole invited the audience to the front of the stage for ``Cowboys,'' illustrating one key line - ``I will wash the dishes while you go have a beer'' - with an extended middle finger, in case anyone missed the point. ``Me'' preceded ``Cowboys,'' drawing sustained applause. ``Tiger'' was another highlight, with Wimbish sketching a blueprint over which Barry layered heavily sustained guitar, and Cole's vocal went from jazzlike to guttural by song's end. Peter Stuart, formerly of Dog's Eye View, opened the show with a well-received set of solo, acoustic pop and chatty stage patter about an ex-girlfriend and the wonder that is the Hooters restaurant chain. - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. 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