From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #127 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, May 18 2000 Volume 02 : Number 127 In this issue: [lucy-list] MEG leaves fuv [lucy-list] lucy gets air time [lucy-list] lucy airplay [lucy-list] Associated Press Article on Lucy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 03:23:05 PDT From: "sharon g" Subject: [lucy-list] MEG leaves fuv well whatta place to be last night MEG griffin walked in to see cliff eberhardt who was in NYC then sitting with my friend,George, i hear him say hey julie how are you? if it wasnt ms julie gold as i looked at her i saw christine lavin another Nyer in tow and then Pete Granata (the man who makes the guitars for cliff and cheryl wheeler) with a songwriter from east texas named denise franke.. liz Queler (who says hi paul) was also there to sng with cliff cliff eberhardt puts on a great show...and plays a darn good guitar.. i did speak to meg who announced her leaving her spot at FUV NOt the station she is moving to programmabel radio for cars, like cable TV called satalite radio..she will be programming alt-country she is working on a deal with FUV to do a weekly segment.. Rita Houston is also leaving her midday slot for a similar project.. without MEG who will play Lucy? or will lucy get larger play in this new format... that was my night and i am sleepy and will get cranky later... from sleep deprivation.. sharonG ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:14:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] lucy gets air time about 10:30 i was at my desk and heard "hi im lucy kaplansky" promo for FUV and then the TIDE and then a plug for the july MAKOR show FUV may be losing meg and RITA but they are spinning lucy.. not even a 10 year night you can imagine my surprise when Cliff started to pluck it in that cliff eberhardt style.. and he broke into that first verse... sharonG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:48:45 -0700 From: Katie Stohlmann Subject: [lucy-list] lucy airplay sharon g wrote, >>without MEG who will play Lucy? << Don't worry sharon, Lucy gets plenty of airplay on KRCB radio in Rohnert Park, CA. Everybody loves Lucy there (including the production people like me) Now if only people could actually get the station on their radios... Oh and speaking of Sonoma County, LUCY is COMING BACK in OCTOBER!! She's playing at the Powerhouse in Sebastopol on October 26 and I, for one, cannot be more excited. Tickets are NOT on sale yet but mark your calenDARs anyhow. katie http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~stohlman/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:19:15 EDT From: SpecGlobal@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Associated Press Article on Lucy Hi all; The following article was released by the Associated Press. Very well done piece. I particularly love the quote about there being "a real hunger for acoustic music that has emotional resonance." Harvey Psychologist Becomes Folk Singer .c The Associated Press By JEFF SIMONS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Mick Jagger studied economics and became a Rolling Stone. Jim Morrison had a fling in film school and morphed into a rock legend. Clinical psychologist Lucy Kaplansky analyzed her dreams, gave up her practice and followed her heart to become a folk singer. ``What pulled me away from psychology was my passion for music,'' said Kaplansky, who has carved out a career doing TV commercials and film soundtracks, and recording three solo albums. ``I haven't looked back for one minute.'' Her solo albums on Red House Records are ``The Tide,'' ``Flesh and Bone'' and ``Ten Year Night,'' which just won an American Federation of Independent Music award as best pop album of 1999. At the Outpost Performance Space here recently, she delivered two sets of effusive love ballads to a capacity audience that couldn't get enough of her music. With her cascading black curls, cherubic face and a luminous voice floating over a flood of resonating guitar chords, the 40-year-old Kaplansky melded music and lyrics that rendered an autobiographical sketch of a woman who ultimately chose passion over her profession. In her version of Buddy Mondlock's ``The Kid,'' she was a young, romantic girl recalling how she was once ``the kid who always looked out the window. ... The kid who has this habit of dreaming.'' In ``Scorpion,'' she was a brazen lover, poised to ``sting you with a kiss from my lips. ... Sting you with a piece of my mind. ... Sting you with a taste of my skin.'' And in Richard Shindell's ``The Ballad of Mary Magdalen,'' Kaplansky sang the part of the jilted lover, lamenting her own share of unrequited love: ``He was always faithful, he was always kind/But he walked off with this heart of mine.'' Defining her brand of music is tricky. She loosely labels her style ``alternative country'' - along the lines of Lucinda Williams. ``There's a real hunger for acoustic music that has emotional resonance,'' said Kaplansky, who grew up in Chicago and got her break in New York City in the early 1980s. Her soundtrack credits include singing with Suzanne Vega on ``Pretty in Pink'' and with Nanci Griffith on ``The Firm.'' She has also landed a few TV commercials, including Chevrolet's ``The Heartbeat of America'' ad in 1986. Like many folk musicians, Kaplansky learned to play guitar and piano pretty much on her own. At 11, she started imitating pop songs, quickly developing an attraction to the music of Jim Croce. ``I played whatever was on the radio. But when I was 15, my older brother turned me on to Joni Mitchell's `Blue' album,'' she said, referring to the 1971 work that set a new standard in folk music. ``I wanted to play like (Mitchell), so I started learning her tunings because it was more than just playing chords.'' Mitchell's influence drew Kaplansky away from mainstream music. She started gravitating toward Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and the Roches. When she was barely out of high school, Kaplansky started playing in folk bars in Chicago. In the late 1970s, she moved to New York, where she immersed herself in a flourishing folk scene that was attracting Vega, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey and Cliff Eberhardt. ``I'd been singing for two or three years in New York, doing well - and I even got a great review in the (New York) Times,'' she said. ``But I decided I didn't want to do it anymore. I thought it wasn't what I wanted.'' Kaplansky went to college and graduate school and became a licensed clinical psychologist. During the '80s and '90s, she juggled full-time clinical work with part-time singing, harmonizing with Shawn Colvin on her Grammy-winning album ``Steady On'' and with Griffith on ``Lone Star State of Mind'' and ``Little Love Affairs.'' But in January 1997, Kaplansky closed her practice to focus solely on her music. The following year, she collaborated on the critically acclaimed album ``Cry Cry Cry'' with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell. In 1999, she did 160 shows in small venues across the country, and has been touring again this year. Part of her performance in Albuquerque wasn't planned - but it demonstrated her versatility. Whether it was the high desert altitude or plain bad luck, she snapped a steel string four times in midsong on her Martin guitar, an infrequent occupational hazard. She sailed through it with a little schmoozing, a few backup pieces on the piano and a touch of musical comedy. In a tribute to her father, a mathematician and music dilettante, she reeled off a few a cappella measures of Irving Kaplansky's quirky ``Song About Pi'' and ``That's Mathematics'' - a little ditty she sang to the tune of ``That's Entertainment.'' She wowed the crowd with her stage presence, poise and singing. Although most of her fans are 30 to 50 years old, many teens are listening to her music, Kaplansky said. ``There's a vibrant, independent scene with a lot of people making great music. And smart kids go for great (song) writing.'' She has no doubts about her future as a full-time musician. ``I don't like being away from home, but I like the life,'' she said. ``I'm grateful every single day I can do this for a living.'' On the Net: The official Lucy Kaplansky Web site is: http://www.folkartists.com/kaplansky/ AP-NY-05-17-00 1211EDT Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #127 ******************************* 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