From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #128 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 Friday, May 19 2000 Volume 02 : Number 128 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Associated Press Article on Lucy [lucy-list] Lucy on Joni's List [lucy-list] Lucy's and her "Joni moment" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 08:35:42 -0400 From: Jeff Bernstein Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Associated Press Article on Lucy >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.'' There is a new Tom Lehrer compilation box set being released by Rhino next week. It contains a previously unreleased song from 1993 called "That's Mathematics." I wonder if it is the same song that Lucy sings. Has anyone ever seen Irving Kaplansky and Tom Lehrer in the same place at the same time? They both sing, write silly songs, play piano, and are mathematics professors, so... Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:04:20 -0400 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on Joni's List As a relative newcomer here, I thought I should come clean right away and admit that I have been taking some of the many 'best bits' from here and posting them on to friends who I know will want to hear. I hope Harvey will forgive me for stealing his thunder a little, but I could not stop myself posting extracts of the Associated Press interview on the Joni list. I thought, the least I could do is to post it here, too. To: joni@smoe.org I know, just by observing people's 'NP' choices, that there are quite a few Cry Cry Cry/Lucy Kaplansky fans here. I saw Lucy here in London a while back and was most impressed; not only with her own songs (moving), but also her choice of covers (right up my musical street). Looks like I'll never get to see her with Dar and Richard now, but l hear that she'll be coming back here pretty soon. A track from her 'Ten Year Night' album has been released as a single which has got onto the BBC national Radio 2 playlist. I've heard the track [End of the Day] three times in recent days. A really good radio single. I can't resist singing along.... "I used to hear him sing in a Bleecker Street Bar On that tiny stage with a borrowed guitar His voice cut through like a speeding car Tearing through the deals of the brokers at the bar" up-tempo with a 'Last time I saw Richard' meets 'The Arrangement' type lyrical theme. I wonder who she's natterin' about. This morning I spotted an Associated Press interview that Lucy-lister Harvey posted over there. I just knew I would find some Joni Mitchell in it. Lucy says, "``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." >>>>snip>>> There's quite a lot more so if anyone would like a copy ask off-list, but, like Harvey on the Lucy-list, I particular like this comment from LK, talking of the current musical climate: "There's a real hunger for acoustic music that has emotional resonance.'' Long Live Lucy! PaulC (I was going to say I Love Lucy but you'd all think I had a thing about Lucille Ball!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:04:16 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy's and her "Joni moment" Lucy goes into this "How the album Blue changed my life forever" spiel in her interview footage on The Artist Profile video. That and many other revealing peeks at her early influences and upbringing make this a real treat. Of course, "BLUE" made itself emotionally useful to me, too, at a suitably wrenching point in my own life, but that's a different story....It's a great album and a blast-from-the-past. Has she ever covered "A Case of You" to anyone's knowledge? Maybe she'd take it as a request if she knew it was coming.....Someone on the Richard List said recently that Richard groaned when a certain favorite song of theirs was requested....the underlying reason being that it required a rather elaborate re-tuning of his guitar just for that song. Maybe some of Joni's songs are problematic like that as well and so we don't hear them. ETimothy ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #128 ******************************* 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