From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #163 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, June 29 2000 Volume 02 : Number 163 In this issue: [lucy-list] Re: Gordon Giltrap [lucy-list] from one believer to another [lucy-list] Riding in my Car and the scourge of the BOOMbox ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:25:25 -0400 From: Gerry_Tyrrell@email.whirlpool.com Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Gordon Giltrap I saw Gordon Giltrap play while I was in college in Limerick - I think it must have been in '93. I don't think that I've seen any other posters for him since then! The guy's been around for a while and some really great pieces. I recall a good sense of humour too - especially when talking about one piece that he had written and was about to release as 'the world's first concept album', only to be pipped at the post by Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells. Gerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:41:30 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] from one believer to another NIcked off the believers list Just for your collections From: Carolyn Andre Subject: New compilation CD available from WDIY-FM Thought the artists on this compilation might be of interest to folks on either list (if you're not on the folk music list already). Some really great ones! Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:56:09 EDT >Subject: [FM] New compilation CD available from WDIY-FM >List-Id: New American Singer Songwriter list > >This year, WDIY-FM < http://www.wdiyfm.org/ > celebrates five >years of public radio broadcasting in the Lehigh Valley area of >eastern Pennsylvania. WDIY (heard at 88.1 and 93.9 FM) is a >National Public Radio member station, and also offers a wide >variety of locally produced music and public affairs programs. > >As part of the celebration, WDIY proudly announces the release >of "Studio Sessions Volume 1," a collection of in-studio >performances recorded during the station's first five years on >the air. The CD includes performances by singer/songwriters >like John Gorka, Ellis Paul, Susan Werner, and Lucy Kaplansky, >as well as from bands like Eddie From Ohio and The Nields, and >from acoustic instrumentalists like Don Ross and David Grisman. > >The track list is as follows: > > ANN RABSON - Hallelujah, I Just Love Him So > DON ROSS - Klimbim > JOHN GORKA - Cypress Trees > SUSAN WERNER - Montgomery Street > LUCY KAPLANSKY - Ten Year Night > THE NIELDS - Easy People > BOB MALONE - You Think I'd Be Over This By Now > THE KENNEDYS - The Coo Coo > ELLIS PAUL - Conversation With a Ghost > REV. BILLY C. WIRTZ - Cousin Cupcake's Got the Blues > EDDIE FROM OHIO - The New James Bond > DAVID GRISMAN & ENRIQUE CORIA - Pigeon Roost > HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE - Judgement Day Blues > ROY BOOK BINDER - New Age Woman Blues > AL PETTEWAY & AMY WHITE - New Moon > JACK WILLIAMS - That's All > >These are NOT the "album versions" of these songs; every track >was recorded in the WDIY studio. These are intimate performances >by some of today's finest acoustic musicians. The disc was >released on the Lehigh Valley based Bummer Tent Records, and is >available by mail order directly from WDIY. > >To order your copy of "Studio Sessions Volume 1," send a check >payable to WDIY-FM for $16.50 ($15.00 plus $1.50 shipping) to: > > WDIY-FM - CD Sale > 301 Broadway > Bethlehem, PA 18015 > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > OTTO BOST Producer/Host of "Acoustic Eclectic" > FolkDude@aol.com Mondays 7-9 PM > Quakertown, PA USA 88.1 & 93.9 WDIY-FM, Allentown >=-=-=< http://members.aol.com/folkdude/acouecle.html >=-=-= > > >_______________________________________________ >folkmusic mailing list >folkmusic@grassyhill.org >http://grassyhill.org/folkmusic Regards, Carolyn Andre - - ------------------------- candre@house-of-music.com Support Independent Music! Use the Internet SharonG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:13:19 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] Riding in my Car and the scourge of the BOOMbox >> Bringsteen's Riding in My Car will keep me singing in my sleep.....and just heard Arlo comment that it is only recently that people let their TVs and their radios do their singing for them and that he is happy that albums such as this continue the tradition of people singing together<< I must have skimmed too fast over somebody's post! I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about! What I DO know is that I put Woody Guthrie singing "Riding in My Car" at the beginning of a 120 minute road tape (roughly 1/4 of the 120 minutes was from an Woody-assisted Arlo CD; roughly 1/2 Peter Paul and Mary classics; and the rest Bill Staines doing standards and John Denver doing childrens' songs about the railroad that I'd never heard.) Well, to make a long story short, my son picked-up "Riding in My Car" after the first listen-through and was Ppputtering away in the back seat (like in the song) through much of central South Dakota, so we eventually did a reprise. We also sang several of the Peter, Paul, & Mary tunes as a family. He's still singing a couple of these tunes (especially PP&M) around the house this week. My desire was to plant the seeds of some of the classic campfire singalongs of my youth in his head by giving him his very own road tape. It appears to have worked. Now I have to continue convincing him that certain other classic songs like "This Old Man" and "Yankee Doodle" are not creations of Barney, but had a rich existence (with different words!) long before the reign of the purple dinosaurs. Now, to make short story long... Regarding the comment above about the recent trend for people to let their TV's and radios do their singing for them....It's sad enough for this to happen to us (the country with no "culture") but sadder still to see it happening to folks in the third world who appear to be increasingly averse to doing the work necessary to retain their traditional "vibe". In the megalopolis in dirt poor Tanzania where I spent two very lean years in the early nineties, boom boxes ruled. Ordinary people were just beginning to be able to afford them and pirate tapes were only a buck apiece. It is sad but true, but I jammed less in those two years than in an average two months in Minneapolis. And it followed me home! Argh! Last summer I and about 6 or 7 friends were making some highly percussive live music in a public park under a gazebo where a friend had just finished performing his show. A group of recent East African immigrants (God bless em) were attracted to the pleasant scene, but plugged their jumbo boombox into the wall outlet not 20 feet from us and cranked the volume. Having never faced this particular challenge before, we tried to take it in-stride and play through it. (Anyone who has ever tried playing with loud recorded music in the background knows how hard it is.) After about a half hour, we succumbed and packed it in. The odd thing is, I think they thought they were doing us some kind of favor, bringing to the gathering some highly polished recorded music. Pushing the play button on a boombox is too easy and cheap. Learning to play an instrument well enough to do it in public is a bit of work but that's how culture gets transmitted best in the real world---the universe is, after all, run by those who show up. People in this age tend to take the easy way out, given a choice. Call me old-fashioned, but I am a bit concerned for the cultural capital of this planet being squandered. I'm pleased that the Native Americans have managed to interest many of their young in keeping their traditions alive and I was similarly heartened by my four-year-old taking a fancy to Woody Guthrie's and Peter Paul and Mary's work on the road trip to South Dakota. "This land is my land, this land is your land......" ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #163 ******************************* 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