From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #220 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, September 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 220 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Nanci recommendations (NLC) Re: [lucy-list] venues [lucy-list] Lucy K in "the off season" and LKCF's new CD [lucy-list] backing vocals nad LKCF Re: [lucy-list] backing vocals and LKCF [lucy-list] Small Venues Re: [lucy-list] Small Venues [lucy-list] Small Venues [lucy-list] footnote ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:38:31 +0100 From: "Walter Wolfe" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Nanci recommendations (NLC) Jenny, for some reason your message came trough about 8 times! don't know why. I'm also very interested in your smaller music venues-that came from the list in the notes on 'One Fair Summer Evening'. I'd like to compile a list of places like Passims and the Bottom Line so that I can organise a Road Trip around them. I love driving in the USA and I can't think of a better way to give a journey some purpose. So come on Lucy-List, this is you challenge, I need to compile a list of America's nicest and best small music venues. Nothing fancy or formal, the super wee folk clubs and famous spaces, I could meet List members on the way too. Don't let that last suggestion put you all off too much!! Walter from Glasgow - ----- Original Message ----- From: jenny* To: Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Nanci recommendations (NLC) > Nanci again. > > Other Voices video is a good idea. I would go with Other Voices Other Rooms > if you want Pete Kennedy. It's fresher and sunnier than Other VOices Too. > Walter's suggestion of Little Love Affairs is good. Otherwise, go for > FLYER. Hey walter, i think you're right about us recommending OLD > albums... except Blue Roses From The Moons; that's good if you already have > one OLD nanci album. > jenny* > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:21:14 -0400 From: "Kristina Plath" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] venues Nice small places, you want? Hehhe... The Bottom Line is a good start. Just in NY alone you can get sooo many places... Cafe Lena in Saratoga is beautiful-- never heard music there, but it looked like the kind of place that would make anything sound good. The venue I have commandeered as my home is in Oxford, NY. Which is in the middle of absolutely nowhere, so it probably wouldn't be good on the road trip. It's called the Night eagle. I'm sure other people have longer lists because other people, unlike me, have cars. : ) Froggy, remember our plan? Flyer Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:19:10 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy K in "the off season" and LKCF's new CD >>It's so great to see some action on this list again!! Well, Richard released his album (oops, showing my age) cd....Dar released hers....now when is Lucy's??? I love Richard's and Dar's.....come on Lucy!!! << >>Just start, "Lucy K's Cry friend...", then you'll be ON topic!<< I like LKCF's new CD a lot even as it seems to be part of a metamorphosis of sorts that (among other things) has sort of rocked her list lately. It's a much more big and produced sound. Two noteworthy aspects of this are 1) on several tunes you can hear layer upon layer of keyboards, drums, bass, and sometimes electric guitar but no LKCF playing an instrument of her own and 2) LKCF apparently does all of the harmony parts by and for herself (which may prove difficult to reproduce live!) giving it the sound of a heavenly choir of clone angels singing down from the clouds. I am scheduled to see her and her band perform on October 1st and I had an amusing "vision" of the keyboard whiz in the band actually downloading her voice into his MIDI synthesizer so that he can facilitate that effect. It wouldn't be that hard to do and, technically, it wouldn't be one of those much derided "pre-recorded tape clips". It's been really exciting (and overwhelming!) with all of the activity on the LKCF list lately after the release of this new CD....It's actually hard to keep up with all of the posts...33 digests posted in the past 8 days! Still, my heart belongs to Lucy and her body of work and I, too, have wondered if there is somewhere out there (in the world tonight), just out of my reach, a general timetable for a new disc...at least as a twinkle in Lucy's eye right now---like maybe SPRING, 2001? I just hope touring so much doesn't wear poor Lucy out. Well when the new release happens we'll have a lot of new material for this list and it will be great fun indeed! Right now it feels sort of like the "off season" in ones favorite sport....not much in the headlines but presumably some important "moves" going on in the background (players trying to make the team, established players coming over from other teams, etc.) that will ultimately affect the next season's record. Is anyone keeping track of the new material being worked up out on the circuit right now that may or may not be part of a new CD? (Let's not dismiss covers like The Swimming Song and Broken Things, though I sense she will really strive to limit their number this time around.) Winning an award for Ten Year Night was truly a validation of Lucy and Rick's songwriting abilities but it may have had the unexpected effect of raising expectations and making beginning the whole creation process again more daunting. Let's hope not! Go for it, you guys! ETimothy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:31:42 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] backing vocals nad LKCF the backing vocal on the dar cd is all dar there arent even any nields- she broke tradition though I found a great place for lucy if dar needed the Queen of harmony- i guess like on the honesty room she wanted to solo the angels... as i have seen the three shows.. dars band provide the backing vocals... gail dorsey is wonderful and is talented in her own right- the piano guy has a billy masters groove but is not as groovy as billy.. he does the firmament vocals.. steve holley on drums also provides some so the band and it is a porche of a band does the work needed... the second and third show- dar came out and did acoustic solos and took requests expect band versions of Are you out there Iowa, as cool as i am, she did when i was a boy -solo and the first night she did Better things though i think she will not be doing that with the band... she also did blessings acoustic man i think i never heard that live back to lucy- who will be at the bottom line in late november... and she and rick - mostly lucy have been writing new songs. i think we are a way from a cd though..not three years lucy is getting better and better at writing and i love the new stuff any word on the greg brown cover sharonG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:46:58 EDT From: SoccrDawg@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] backing vocals and LKCF this isn't the right list for this but the LKCF bg vocals seem, to me, to not even be her voice but just a "choir" or some other sort of voice from a synthesizer. maybe that's just me though... ..nicole I believe in mystery and miracles and the magic of a new day. I believe in angels and natural wonders and the beauty inside people. I believe in rainbows and happy endings and dreams come true. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:49:30 EDT From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Small Venues In a message dated 08/31/2000 1:48:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dunfionn@btinternet.com writes: > I'd like to compile a list > of places like Passims and the Bottom Line so that I can organise a Road > Trip around them. I love driving in the USA and I can't think of a better > way to give a journey some purpose. So come on Lucy-List, this is you > challenge, I need to compile a list of America's nicest and best small music > venues. Ok, Walter - Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA (www.thefreight.org) - in the next 2 months some of what you could get there - Lucy K, Slaid Cleaves, The Nields, Judith Edelman, Odetta, Tish Hinojosa, Patty Larkin, Bill Staines, Tom Rush, Eddie from Ohio, Ellis Paul, Dave Van Ronk, Carrie Newcomer and so on... check their website. The Palms Playhouse in Davis, CA (palmsplayhouse.com) lots of the same people as the freight. In SF, CA - Slims, Noe Valley Ministry. In Monterey, CA - there is a good coffeehouse with similar acts the name of which I've forgotten. In Santa Cruz, CA there are a couple (www.henflings.com). Lots of these can be found at Musi-cal.com So - on to Austin folks, Boston folks, etc. Tricia Berkeley, CA Thankful to have the freight so close.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:15:21 EDT From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Small Venues I just wanted to second what was said about Caffe Lena's (http://www.caffelena.org).....though I wouldn't call it beautiful from a visual point of view. It's a loft-like space with old wooden floors with a tiny stage and maybe even a borrowed guitar. Lena's is an old time folk venue, very similar to Passim, if not maybe one table bigger. It has the same history....Dylan, Baez, etc. It's very small....I road-trip there from Boston because I have places to spend the night there (having grown up outside of Albany)....I saw Katryna and Nerissa Nields there last winter, and my table had to keep getting up and moving their chairs in whenever the gals went to or from the stage!! I'm planning on being there in a few weeks for my beloved Kennedys :-) It is an amazing space....if you're planning a trip, I might suggest heading in during August, as that's when the track is open, as is the Saratoga Center for the Performing Arts, a huge indoor/primarily outdoor venue. Saratoga is the "summer place to be," as the commercials inform us. As far as Boston, I'm relatively new to the circuit, but there are an amazing number of places and I'd need to focus to come up with a list. sharonG, where was that divine place you sent me to see the Doc in Haverhill? The sound kicked butt....Lucy's voice filled the space wonderfully and Kevin So stole all of our hearts as the opening act. Peace, Sheila }i{ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:29:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Katie Stohlmann Subject: [lucy-list] Small Venues The place in Monterey is called Morgans Coffee and Tea. Silly me, I discoverd it AFTER i moved away from Monterey. Incidently, Morgans was the fisrt place I saw Lucy solo. I was sitting so close she could have smacked me upside the head (luckily she didn't). That was a great show, by the way. Over a year ago. Actually, I haven't seen Lucy in almost a year. Good thing for me (and other NorCal people) she's coming back! And Nina Gerber is playing with her at the Powerhouse in Sebastopol (NOT a good club, but I'll go there to see Lucy. THey should rename it the PowerTRIP). It will be fun. I'll be slaving it at that show, as usual. :) Anyhoo. take care, katie Katie Stohlmann stohlman@sfsu.edu http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~stohlman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:39:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Katie Stohlmann Subject: [lucy-list] footnote ok i'm an idiot. i have seen lucy recently. i forgot i went to the rocky mtn folk festival two weeks ago. derrrr. let's just blame this shocking mistake on the first week of school (my last year of college, scary) kt Katie Stohlmann stohlman@sfsu.edu http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~stohlman ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #220 ******************************* 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