From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #111 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 Sunday, April 30 2000 Volume 02 : Number 111 In this issue: [lucy-list] Janis Ian and Falcon Ridge [lucy-list] Folk City Revisited Re: [lucy-list] Janis Ian and Falcon Ridge Re: [lucy-list] wrong bar and janis ian Re: [lucy-list] Janis Ian [lucy-list] janis ian Re: [lucy-list] wrong bar and janis ian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:51:26 -0400 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: [lucy-list] Janis Ian and Falcon Ridge Hi all, Janis Ian was a folk icon when I was first exploring that music in my early teens, when dinosaurs roamed the earth :-) I became re-aquainted with her when Joan Baez released the "Play it Backwards" album which contained the song "Amsterdam", a film noire in 2 verses which she wrote with Buddy Mondlock. I had the privilege of meeting Janis as a stage crew member at Appel Farm a few years ago. She was very nice when I told her that her song was a movie and allowed me to play her very cool guitar. I don't remember the name(maybe a Rainbow?), but it's made of a graphite fiber material similar to the stuff they make Stealth aircraft from (your tax dollars in use) and is impervious to environmental changes. It floats, she told me, as if she had tested it herself. When they gave me the high sign, I told her it was time to go on. She waved to her guy on stage, and started to play the guitar right there. She was wireless and I was getting a private backstage concert. The audience didn't know where the sound was coming from until she appeared thru the curtains. Of course, for dramatic effect, she let them hang for a couple of minutes before her entrance, playing the most amazing intro, all slashing chords with hot licks interspersed. On the way to FRFF last year, while lost in Linden NJ, WFUV was playing a live interview with Janis, and she told the story of moving to Nashville, and fearing that she would be shunned for her alternative lifestyle. Nashville is really very "inbred" as she put it. Word of Janis's concern somehow made it's way to this corn pone country picker named Chet Atkins. Now, for those of you who don't know, aside from being a fine player, Chet Atkins is one of the most powerful men in the music business, and THE most powerful man in Nashville. He's responsible for the careers of a startlingly diverse group of musicians. So Ol' Chet picks up the phone and starts calling music types and "politely suggesting" that Janis is ok in his book, and he would deeply appreciate any cooperation they could lend - translation "you want to keep working in Nashville, don't hassle the lady, help her out". Then called Janis and said "you have any problems, let me know and I'll fix them". Since her re-emergence on the folk scene, Janis has consistently blown people away with the quality of her songs, her incredible guitar skills, her powerful performances. This isn't the 60's Janis Ian, this is the 90's Janis Ian. It's not the tormented teenager, but the fully realized woman. Prepare to be amazed!!!!!! Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black http://somethingblack.com http://susanwerner.com http://karensavoca.com http://lastgreatkiss.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:03:21 EDT From: RockinRonD@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Folk City Revisited In a message dated 4/29/2000 3:17:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sharong writes: <> While I'd be hesitant to credit Folk City with Lucy and Rick's decision to spend the rest of their lives together, I will say that Folk City is/was a folk icon of the highest order. As a lad, learning to play guitar and listening to Dylan, Ochs, Hardin and others, I would occasionally venture to the Village and just hang around FC as if to absorb all that wild, unharnessed talent that emerged there. The good news is that Folk City is back! In cyber space. Robbie Wolliver, the once and former owner and current keeper of the rights to the Folk City name, along with myself and a few other music writers, are working right now to create Folk City Online. There is already a temporary Main Page, but eventually it will be an incredible site, with loads of information, feature shows, interviews, open mics, etc. If you never got to play Folk City as a youngster, you may yet have the chance--a prospect that has me hugely excited. It's all just a matter of time, as the search continues for proper financial backing, which Robbie is working on. But we're confident it's going to happen. I, for one, can't wait. Ron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:35:21 EDT From: DBurke304@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Janis Ian and Falcon Ridge It's a ' Rain Song' Guitar. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:27:17 +0100 From: "Iain Geddes" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] wrong bar and janis ian Hiya No offence and I've no wish to refer to the earlier thread but what does this mean? My apologies if I'm being stupid, Iain > i took didnt want to relive AT seventeen or anything that brought be back > to society's child and I have avoided Janis Ian like the plague... > and dreaded reliving my adolescence at falcon ridge.. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:30:52 +0100 From: "Iain Geddes" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Janis Ian I presume you are referring to the David Byrne who hails from Dumbarton in Scotland:-) > Apparently some bad luck and/or bad financial advice caused her to lose out on whatever financial gains she had made early in her career and so she is now forced to continue to write and perform great stuff. Works for me! It must be true (in the words of the almighty New-Jersey-Yorker David Byrne) that the best art results if you "Stay Hungry". > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:56:41 PDT From: "sharon g" Subject: [lucy-list] janis ian thanks charlie that story made me smile and restored my faith in chet atkins.. the AT SEVENTEEN and Society's child references are actually titles of early Janis Ian songs that are angst filled Janis a child prodigy and master level pianist ( she still is) wrote the song society's child in her late teens and toured as a teen.. she was a folk darling who poured her adolescence out on the piano and WE adolescents or Me adolecent bought it Hook line and sinker if those are my associations with those songs and they are some of her greatest hits, who wants to sit in 90 degrees and relive that at falcon ridge.. its like shindell says. " i went to therapy, who needs all the work" does that help.. the real question is WHat does it have to do with lucy kaplansky nothing at all.. so let me on to the DOC.. sharon G ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 04:20:12 GMT From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord) Subject: Re: [lucy-list] wrong bar and janis ian On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:27:17 +0100, "Iain Geddes" wrote: > Hiya > >No offence and I've no wish to refer to the earlier thread but what does >this mean? >My apologies if I'm being stupid, > >Iain > >> i took didnt want to relive AT seventeen or anything that brought be back >> to society's child and I have avoided Janis Ian like the plague... >> and dreaded reliving my adolescence at falcon ridge.. > Janis Ian is a singer/songwriter. At a very early age she had a top 10 hit called "Society's Child" and later another one called "At Seventeen". Sharon G. didn't totally appreciate those songs, and avoided seeing JI at Falcon Ridge. Sharon missed hearing Jesse and experiencing JI channeling Jimi Hendrix, which is quite an experience. john alvord ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #111 ******************************* 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