From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V1 #130 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 Wednesday, July 14 1999 Volume 01 : Number 130 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange question [lucy-list] Winnipeg Folk Festival RE: [lucy-list] Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:27:12 EDT From: AlanisNM13@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange question They're asking $30 for it...do you think it's worth the money?? It's still sealed and everything Kris << I have this cd. It's wonderful. I don't think it's available anymore. It was also an LP (remember those - I have that too). I don't know how much they're charging but it's cool. We've heard Lucy sing Cliff Eberhardt's "Drive." Well this CD is the only place I've ever found that song. >> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:54:07 -0500 From: "E. Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Winnipeg Folk Festival While you folk(ie)s in NYC were gloating about your nearly back-to-back Lucy shows at the Fez in New York, I had the very rare privilege of seeing five (count 'em, FIVE) Lucy shows in the three days between the Fez shows. It was almost like I was her roadie going from gig to gig! True, all but one of the performances were merely workshop "appearances" with only two or three songs each, but still it was wonderful and rare. Well worth the long drive, the primitive camping, and the cold, 14-hour rain which chilled the thrilling mainstage performances by John Hiatt, the McGarrigle Sisters and Steve Earl on the first night (Thursday). The sun appeared the next morning and, with it, Lucy. (Coincidence?....Nah!) Two workshops on Friday under clear skies and oppressive humidity. Heavy on the newly recorded material all weekend. Friday saw Ten Year Night, End of the Day and By Way of Sorrow at one sitting and Turn the Lights Back On, For Once in Your Life, and One Good Reason just after on another stage. Lisa and I had our "I Love Lucy" jerseys on with gloves and caps and Lucy autographed a major league baseball that I had chased down at a Yankees game at the Metrodome years ago. She signed it like a pro and it looks great! Saturday was even warmer and drier but Lucy seemed to think that her Saturday fans had somehow stumbled upon her and needed a good first impression. (Unbeknownst to her) quite a few of us were disregarding the scheduling conflicts that six, sometimes seven concurrent workshop stages invariably present and were following her around. So she proceeded to repeat some of her catchier hits on day two with one major twist: This time she had at her side Nina Gerber! Some extra-ordinary, yet clearly spontaneous theme and variations occurred on End Of the Day, TYN, Turn the Lights Back On, The Swimming Song, the Mom Song and, if memory serves me correctly, Scorpion. It is here that I started getting disoriented about which songs were sung when and where (pity me!) and started writing it down on a piece of cardboard torn from a box. Later on in the day, I know she did Five in the Morning at a workshop about "grown up love". Sunday, Lucy performed once but I saw her twice. The first instance was her final appearance and the crowds were not only sweltering, but swelling. She said it was all so wonderful that she didn't want to go home (sorry, Rick!) Hoots and cheers would begin to erupt at the mere mention of her name. She sang TYN and then mentioned that a fan had told her that if she played "Promise Me" that it would make his entire festival....so she did. I will mention the second "appearance" only because it illustrates what a fine individual Lucy really is. The story starts in the middle of her final set on that final day when I remembered (argh!) that I had told my little sister back home that I would try to get her a signed copy of TYN at Winnipeg. Well how was I going to do that now? I gave up the idea. Later that day having just danced myself silly at an African Workshop and taken a quick run through the cold festival showers (well timed!), we were sitting in the shade and Lucy walked by on her way to the far end of the festival. We were just about to go to a Scottish/Celtic dance workshop ourselves and thought that she might be on her way to some other stage to volunteer her back-up vocals. So we glanced at the backstages during our walk and there she was on our first look, sitting with everyone else on the grass, listening attentively. I sat down and told her the situation and she said I should go over and buy the CD at the merchandise tent and that she'd wait for me. (Funny, she had just sung that song "Promise me / You'll wait for me".) Anyway, I rushed back with CD in hand and found her with another man! A very gifted (and well worn!) singer songwriter named Steve Forbert. a twenty year folk veteran--with thirteen albums!--Steve was practically lying down he was so relaxed. I figured he might be getting some kind of therapy so I decided to let them chat while I waited my "turn". Then suddenly he cried "(expletive!) I'm supposed to be on Stage 2 at five!" and it WAS five! Only goes to show, no matter fool around Lucy when you finally get your few minutes of direct light from her! My turn was no different. The evening closed with a spectacular display of the northern lights beginning about midnight during the mainstage show and going 'til just before we crashed at dawn. The waves reached the top of the sky (the "zenith") and just stayed there. Later that same morning (Monday), we packed-in the camp, got in the car and, just at that moment, it started to rain! Coincidence?...Nah! Practical Magic! Go Lucy! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:36:29 -0700 From: "Susan Krauss" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange question $30? I'm not sure it's worth that much. It's wonderful but I bought it used for about $8.00. susan mailto:susankrauss@earthlink.net ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V1 #130 ******************************* 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