From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #194 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 Tuesday, August 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 194 In this issue: [lucy-list] hot burrito NUMBER 1 [lucy-list] "my corrina" and "my darlin'" [lucy-list] Gracias a la vida - Joan Baez - OT and LONG [lucy-list] Chicago!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:05:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "goldberg, sharon d" Subject: [lucy-list] hot burrito NUMBER 1 coming to work i heard the mavericks doing the aforesisa graham parsons tune Lucy has recently begun doing this tune at the piano and witchbaby, she sings it in gender.. she says IM your man the only song she swtiched gender on is Down By the Sewer, as i call it.. when that big swoosh opens... hey next stop for DOC opening newport who else can PROCLAIM they opened NEWPORT two years in a row.. last year crycrycry and lucy who didnt know my new england connection kept up ... sharon you are out of context this year i am in context... sharon congratulate jenny* for seeing joan baez for teh first time, ani and odetta she was teh new folk kid in with the old folk of folk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:25:27 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] "my corrina" and "my darlin'" Jessica (who I saw more in her Brooklyn apartment BEFORE FRFF than the entire weekend on the farm) wrote <> I can understand why singers change he's to she's in some of their songs or even a clear reference to a more encompassing one like "darlin"...that's fairly common and essentially harmless. But on the cassette flip side of on of my Lucy albums, I put a copy of TRIO-II (Dolly, Emmy-Lou, and Linda) and they totally lost my respect when they changed Neil Young's "There was a band playin' in my ear / and I felt like getting high" to "...I felt like I could cry". Now there's a cosmic wimpout IMHO! Must have been a decision by committee! (The three superstars, their three managers, three record companies...you get the picture.) Timothy (BTW "Down By the Water" is one of my current Lucy favorites, which is unfortunate because I don't think it is possible for her to do it live solo. Has anyone ever heard her do it solo?) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:35:35 +0100 From: "Jenny" Subject: [lucy-list] Gracias a la vida - Joan Baez - OT and LONG Yo I have been told by recipients to copy this to lists. Just following my orders. Watch out it's long and off-topic. **** Hey As i fall asleep over my keyboard... Yes. It was busy, it was packed... it was the Mainstage tent on Saturday Night with eager folkies infringing upon my front center blanket spot. It was impossible to find your pockets to get your hands in them. It was the Cambridge Folk Festival. It was smokey and stinky and weedy and everybody smelt of cider and anticipation. And Dr John came on stage to play his piano and we swayed and we danced to the the man from N'orleans and a roar from the crowd was the only way that i could tell that something interesting was happening onstage. My five foot something height was not helping me out. I stood on tiptoes and i balanced on Shona's shoulder and there she was. She was dancing nearly on all fours on the stage, her silver hair shining and the pig tail down her back jumping madly. And she danced like the latin divas from I sabel Allende novels with the coffee coloured skin and eyes so dark they look like shining caves. And there was a rush of camera flashes and a wave from Joan and she was gone again. Until later. THe blanket was packed up and making my way to the front of the stage. The six foot somethings in blocking any view. UNtil you come across a man who wants to know how you can appreciate Joan Baez at the age of something teen. And you just smile because you know he knows nothing. But he keeps asking you if you want to stand in front of him and eventually you do... You're a few people away from the stage when she walks on. And you are singing No Mermaid and watching this beautiful woman you have heard about, been reading about. She is singing Reunion Hill and you sing along and you think about the war songs. And when she launches into The Night They Drove Old Dixie DOwn you find yourself crying because everyone is singing along and you never thought this was possible in the nineties. You never thought it was possible in your lifetime. You thought you had been born a little late. And everytime she moves her capo to the first fret you wonder if she will play dar, but it never comes. SHe doesn't play Diamonds and Rust or Lily as you willed her with all your might. But you sing to Jesse and Joe Hill and then everyone is singing Gracias a La Vida and you are crying again because you think of those freed from Franco and how she sang to them and those in CHile and all over the world who have called for this song and LA lil la la la lil laaa la li la la la. SHe's not talking very much, but what she does say is beautiful and suggests to you many more things than what is processed by the microphone. ANd you cry because you have two unfolkised friends beside you who are singing along. ANd you cry because you have been brought to a place where you understand this woman. ANd then she's singing Don't Think Twice It's Alright and you can't believe it's the last song. The last verse is a perfect dylan impression and we are roaring with laughter with the love of you. Then we can't believe you are gone. jenny* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:54:55 -0500 From: Rob Knautz Subject: [lucy-list] Chicago!!! Schubas has Lucy on their calendar for 9/26 (though it is not on Musi-cal yet), $10 advance through their website (soon) or $12 at the door. They also just posted two shows for Ellis Paul on 10/7 and Carrie Newcomer on 9/29 (unfortunately opposite Dar @ the Vic Theatre). It will be a very nice b-day week this year seeing Richard and Lucy twice (together once) and capping it off with Dar and Hank Williams III. ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #194 ******************************* 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