From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V1 #226 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 Monday, November 8 1999 Volume 01 : Number 226 In this issue: [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V1 #225 [lucy-list] RockinRonD, we hardly knew ya.... Re: [lucy-list] the queens of folk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:39:25 EST From: Scharri@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V1 #225 In a message dated 11/7/1999 3:19:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org writes: Oh, and Christine lavin was in that package too, she's really great, anybody know more abotu her? > jenny* Yes, a little. It was actually Christine Lavin that got the careers of Richard/John Gorka/Lucy/ etc going. She is really famous throughout the folk community for promoting people and getting people started. She is an amazingly intelligent songwriter and a hilarious performer. With that said, lots of her songs are not serious thought provoking songs. i.e. Fly on a Plane, New Age Sensitive Guys (audience participation song) and Bald Headed Men. She is queen of the flaming baton folk shows. She even gives sparkle manicures before her shows. There is a cd with about every performer alive that did a tribute cd to her. Cheryl Wheeler wrote a song..Christine Lavin Can which extols the virtues of Christine Lavin and her power in the folk community. She is queen. Yes, I know Nanci and Emmylou are very popular but they really don't get behind the performers at Richard and Lucy's level and push like Christine Lavin does. Her shows are so funny then serious then funny again....ya gotta go! Sue ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:46:25 EST From: SpecGlobal@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] RockinRonD, we hardly knew ya.... Ron: I realize that my/our loss is the New York Times's gain. If we lose your wit and wisdom so that thousands and thousands of others are turned on to good music, I guess that it becomes a sacrifice we all have got to be willing to make. A few questions and observations: 1) If you are given an assignment to cover a Ricky Martin show, will you go to jail before you compromise your principles? If so, I will bring you a cake with a file and a copy of Ten Year Night, and drive the getaway car myself (unless Lucy has a show that night). 2) Will you always remember that we were your friends (cyber and in the flesh) before you were a Pulitzer-winning music journalist? Will you let us see the prize or kiss your ring or something? 3) Is it true that, in addition to forcing you to no longer associate with us, the Times tried to give you a musical lobotomy so that you could truly be able "to maintain objectivity and remain uncompromised?" If so, question 1 (above) could be a problem. 4) Will you be covering the rap and hip-hop circuit? If so, how will you shield your daughter, and other impressionable listeners, from the "reality" of some the language? 4) If we see you at a musical venue, must we refrain from looking at you, saying hello, or trying to get your autograph? I assume we can tell people that we know you, or must we say "knew?" 5) Will the Times give you an assistant to count the number of people in the audience at a show? Your recent Outpost estimates were way too high. I assume that this person could also serve as a cushion to sit on if the seats are too hard, or as an extra ear if you are placed too close to a speaker. Will you cover Lucy's show there in January? 6) Does the Times give discounts to subscribers who know/knew reporters? 7) Will you be using sharon's spellchecker for your articles? More importantly, does sharon know? I assume not because the earth has not yet begun to tremble. 8) Will you be able to use your expense account to pay for a trip to cover Lucy's upcoming "offshore" gigs? If so, can I come? Please? I would continue with this foolishness, but assuming that everyone hasn't hit the "delete" button already, I just want to express my true pleasure at the taste the Times has exhibited in signing you up. I hope that the assignments bring you great joy and professional fulfillment. You will be missed around these parts my good friend. Harvey ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:09:03 -0000 From: "Jenny" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] the queens of folk Wait a minute.... ><< and shawn has totally sold out. >> > >Um, excuse me? Why, because she records for a major label? Because she made >a video? Because she won a Grammy? SHe won a grammy? when was that...i never noticed.... >Because she does more than strum behind >an acoustic guitar? Because she decided to take time off to have a >baby? well...i guess it would be hard to strum behind an acoustic guitar when you're pregnant. and i know for a fact that it is impossible to play with toddlers trying to join in...little hands and feet everywhere. i don't judge who's sold out and who hasn't by where there career is...call me a freak, but it's just this feeling i get. when the music isn't what it used to be...because...oh, never mind. i ain't expaining myself properly... jenny* ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V1 #226 ******************************* 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