From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #13 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, January 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 013 In this issue: [lucy-list] back from florida - lucy and i [lucy-list] RE: lucy-list-digest V2 #12 [lucy-list] Re: First Time [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V2 #12 [lucy-list] Richard's new cd/CBS piece on house concerts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:51:19 PST From: "sharon g" Subject: [lucy-list] back from florida - lucy and i hey ho it just happens that lucy and I were in florida at the same time no way are we the same person... i had a great time at the south florida folk fest- i hear interesting regional music- as in New England we have sea shanty songs and the revolutionary war songs- there are swamp songs and eveglades tunes and key west songs and even a disney reference one of the head liners was david massengill- who i ran into int he afternoon- i asked him if he was planning to play My name Joe- he said yes he was opening with it and he did i said i recently(may) heard Lucy do it live- he said he was pleased with her version and liked the fact that she was singing it he explained to me that she didnot sing it for a while because of her preceived difficulty of the guitar parts- he advised her to just play a simpler version of the song he played it on the hammer dulcimer and in honor of lucy being in west Palm beach,not even an hour away- *he* covered 19 year night on the dulcimer thanks goes to dave Mckay and susan moss who welcomed me to 40 gently and with the sweet sounds of Kris Delmhorst who sang happy birthday to me at the borders showcase with two other songwriters- bob Mcdonald of boca raton and david stocker and julio pabon of illionis i even got to play the triangle- i found my instrument they even brought*me* a cake sharonG who will report on the list when i catch up ooooh it is cold up here and was warm there... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:05:01 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] RE: lucy-list-digest V2 #12 >>From: witch baby >>Subject: [lucy-list] richard doing tyn >>is this a joke?=20 I just found Richard's new CD in my mailbox last night but couldn't get = it unwrapped and in the CD player in the available time. Surely tonight = though, after we get 6-10 inches of snow, 30 mph winds and subzero = (fahrenheit!) temperatures all at once! Winter has arrived in = Minneapolis (actually, for you sports fans, it arrived during the third = quarter of last Sunday's VIkings game...) Regarding Richard doing TYN on his CD, I don't even have to check that = one. It (covering TYN) was an ongoing gag on this list a few months = ago. On a more serious note, however, is what is Lucy to do with = "Broken Things". Much as I love Julie Miller her twangy country = deliveries sort of categorize her and probably limit the growth of her = "contemporary folk" audience. Lucy's interpretation is, I feel, the one = that can get it noticed by the most new listeners. I recently heard a = version of Peggy Seeger doing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", = which I learned she wrote. Huh!? It was thin and folksy with a = "quirky" delivery. Roberta Flack made it a haunting melody that now = resides permanently in tens of millions of peoples' brains--some thirty = years later. =20 So, what to do? It's the title track on Julie's new album! My = suggestion is to make it the HIDDEN TRACK (track zero) on Lucy's next = album. That way it gets recorded for us and for posterity, it doesn's = detract from Julie's promotion of her new album, "Broken Things", and if = Lucy's next CD is as well received as her last (or even better!) it = would get airplay and--over time--could become the "standard" version. What do you all think? Is this an affront to Julie Miller? Would Lucy = do it? Signed,=20 "T-shirt Timmy" (Where it is snowing....hard....and Argentina sounds pretty good right = now, especially an evening under the stars at a Buenos Aires sidewalk = cafe drinking Chilean wine while Richard Shindell plays acoustic to a = crowd of twelve "apostles for the evening".) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:03:58 -0500 From: Jeff Bernstein Subject: [lucy-list] Re: First Time Timothy Bruce wrote: >I recently heard a version of Peggy Seeger doing "The First >Time Ever I Saw Your Face", which I learned she wrote. That was actually written about Peggy by Peggy's husband, one of the giants of the British folk revival, the late Ewan MacColl. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:26:43 EST From: Scharri@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V2 #12 Witch Baby says: From: witch baby Subject: [lucy-list] richard doing tyn is this a joke? > I think that the new cd is WONDERFUL. Some classic Shindell songs. The > first one is definitely one that will be played on public and possibly > commercial air. Loved that hidden track covering Ten Year night! > Sue No, not at all, Richard's new cd is great. I heard....but don't remember where. Richard's cd will be heavily promoted in cities that weren't so strong before. The more I listen the more I like it. But, Sparrows Point is still my "if I could only own one cd for life", cd. Sue ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:41:51 EST From: SpecGlobal@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Richard's new cd/CBS piece on house concerts In a message dated 01/16/2000 11:36:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Scharri@aol.com writes: << I think that the new cd is WONDERFUL. Some classic Shindell songs. The first one is definitely one that will be played on public and possibly commercial air. Loved that hidden track covering Ten Year night! >> Sue speaks the truth about Somewhere Near Paterson being WONDERFUL. It truly is. World Cafe (from WXPN in Philadelphia) just played Waiting for the Storm (with Lucy doing beautiful harmony) and Transit (which sure sounded great over the airwaves) followed by Ten Year Night (the Lucy version). I have only had a chance to listen to the cd a couple of times but sure like what I've taken in so far. I woke up yesterday singing Wisteria and My Love Will Follow You (on which Lucy and Dar back Richard, thereby qualifying the song as a genuine Cry3 work of art) and I woke up this morning singing Abuelita and Confession for a good part of the morning. Really good stuff. Worth way more than a listen.... I picked up the cd on Saturday at Richard's house concert in Wayne NJ (which really is somewhere near Paterson by the way). Terrific show--30 people in the living room of a beautiful log cabin watching and listening to Richard play. In case there are people here who haven't read about it elsewhere, CBS had a film crew at the gig to film the show as part of a piece that they are doing on house concerts. The report should air in February and I will let everyone know if I hear anything about it. This list was well represented--happily we didn't have to wear nametags. Harvey ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #13 ****************************** 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