From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V1 #51 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Thursday, April 15 1999 Volume 01 : Number 051 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] The production question [lucy-list] Re: Lucy Live on WFUV [lucy-list] Lucy connections: Hugh Blumenfeld tonight [lucy-list] Ten Year Night on WXPN Re: [lucy-list] [lucy-list] Re: The Cry Cry Cry Store [lucy-list] A Child's Hands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:20:41 GMT From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord) Subject: Re: [lucy-list] The production question On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:41:54 -0700, "Robert C. Phelps" wrote: >Tom asked: > >>So I wonder: what's the "purest" form of a song? The one the artist does >>live, with just a guitar or piano? Or the version they do on a CD, with >>full instrumentation? You have to figure that whatever they put on the CD >>is the "posterity" version, and should therefore be what they want to >>have people hear as the definitive version. Yet, I think we've all heard >>songs that just plain work better when stripped down to the bare bones. > >I've always wondered the same thing. IMHO, the answer is that there is no >"definitive" version of a song. The recorded rendition is simply one >version while the live rendition is another. For me, one nice thing about >hearing a good song live is to see how it gets changed/stretched/expanded in >the live interpretation. > I love to hear different versions of songs. Last Saturday (April 10) I heard Nerissa and Katryna Nields do a show at Morgan's in Monterey. Most of the performance was in a "in your face, full tilt boogie" style (sans drums/bass/lead) and was pretty effective. Two songs were done without mikes and pure acoustic guitar. Amazingly beautiful. One was "The Hush Before the Heartbreak" which they never did better. My wife said they sang like angels. John (Settled in Big Sur, Ca at last) Alvord John Alvord Music, Management, Poetry and more... http://www.candlelist.org/kuilema Cheap CDs @ http://www.cruzio.com/~billpeet/MusicByCandlelight ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:35:17 -0400 From: votels Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Lucy Live on WFUV Hi everyone: Harvey, did you tape the live show? If not, it's OK. I forgot to ask. *s* But did anyone on the list tape the show? After Harvey's glowing report, I'd sure like to hear it. - -- Jay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:45:04 -0400 From: votels Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy connections: Hugh Blumenfeld tonight Hi everyone: I probably should have posted this sooner, but it just occurred to me. Hugh Blumenfeld, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, on whose recordings Lucy appears frequently, will be performing tonight (Wednesday) at O'Brien's Barbecue in Rockville, Md., at 8 p.m. He is a tremendous singer-songwriter and radically funny. The venue is smoke-free and has the best barbecue I have found north of Texas (or Carolina.) If anyone from the list comes, let's hook up, OK? If you need more info, e-mail me at the office, as I will be leaving directly from work: jvotel@cpc.chespub.com - -- Jay Votel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:53:37 -0400 From: "Bill McDonough" Subject: [lucy-list] Ten Year Night on WXPN For any Phila. area listers, WXPN is featuring Ten Year Night in the shuffle between 9 and 10 this morning. The shuffle is where they put 5 discs into a player and randomly play tracks from each. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:59:09 -0500 From: regis lefebure Subject: Re: [lucy-list] excellent seats for cry3 at McCarter this Saturday! sell for list - $33. four together will break up into twos. front row balcony. Call Mary at (301) 495-7003. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:57:02 -0400 From: Kerry Bernard Subject: [lucy-list] Re: The Cry Cry Cry Store Rachel asked: >they will have shirts at the shows, too, right? Yep! Kerry :) "Why'd I leave it if I loved it so much?" - Peter Mulvey, "Out Here" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:40:56 -0500 From: kevin gibley Subject: [lucy-list] A Child's Hands Hello all, I have finally had a moment in my schedule that affords me time to really listen to TYN with the lyrics at hand and my ears actually listening. I like it more each listen. I was wondering, though, about the closing song. The music is beautiful, but I admit befuddlement at the lyrics--what, for instance, are these things that belong in a child's hands, and is that a good thing or a bad thing (assuming that the speaker is no longer a child and still holds onto child things)? Any and all help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Kevin Gibley (219) 631-8882 e-mail: Kevin.C.Gibley.1@nd.edu. ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V1 #51 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message