From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #69 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, March 29 2001 Volume 03 : Number 069 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] lucy article [lucy-list] 'S no smoe... [lucy-list] the DOC promo Re: [lucy-list] lucy article [lucy-list] someone else loves lucy [lucy-list] they promised... [lucy-list] finally: the article I promised [lucy-list] Re: Vote [lucy-list] smoe.org downtime for move (Thursday) Re: [lucy-list] finally: the article I promised Re: [lucy-list] smoe.org downtime for move (Thursday) Re: [lucy-list] lucy article ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:31:49 +0100 From: "donald.anderson" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] lucy article CMI is certainly not the best mag in the world but it's worth checking out for occasional gems like the Lucy article . I'm in a great mood today cos I've just discovered that Shawn is confirmed as support to MCC during her May UK & Ireland tour & I've just booked tickets to see them in Glasgow on 30th May !! Any of you Glaswegian Lucy Listers going to the show ? Donald Kintore , Aberdeenshire - ----- Original Message ----- From: Katrin Uhl To: Lucy-List Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: [lucy-list] lucy article > hi guys, > > not sure if this has been mentioned yet: > While browsing a magazine store at the station I came across a British > magazine called > "Country Music International" - I'm not a big country person and usually I > wouldn't look at > country magazines much, but this one had on its cover the following words: > "Lucy Kaplansky - back to the roots!" Turns out to be a long article with > interview parts, > really interesting. wow! Cool! I'll be happy to type it up for you guys in > case this is not > common knowledge yet, but won't get around to that before the weekend. Let > me know > if it's of interest to you guys, > > cheers, > > Katrin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > i do it for the joy it brings > because i'm a joyful girl > because the world owes me nothing > and we owe each other the world > > ani difranco ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:58:10 -0800 (PST) From: Deb Woodell Subject: [lucy-list] 'S no smoe... Hey, folks, I got a post from the Melissa Ferrick list moderator that the owner of smoe.org's server is moving and that smoe will be down much of Thursday. She said they estimate it will be down from about 5 am to 6 pm Eastern Time. Mail will be queued until the server is back up, then sent on its merry way. Deb ===== You can take the rock band away from the girl and think you've tamed her. But, she'll just pick up an acoustic, give you that innocent little girl grin, quietly laugh and say? "Nevah!" Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:32:46 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] the DOC promo .i just heard the Lucy Kaplansky.. promo and plug to join FUV on that same radio station.. it was like Doc was here talking in my office she was extolling the benefits of living in NYC and having such a station and asking people to join.. i was in xpn turf yesterday.. and have to say that i was glad when i ventured into FUV turf.. i heard the mid day show.. and i was home almost.. i was in NJ..actually... sharon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:26:02 +0100 From: "jenny" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] lucy article hi donald > I'm in a great mood today cos I've just discovered that Shawn is confirmed > as support to MCC during her May UK & Ireland tour & I've just booked > tickets to see them in Glasgow on 30th May !! holy cow. okay, what kind of seats did they have left and do i hve an exam the next day? Okay, wait... you can't answer that second one, but maybe the first? jenny* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:19:56 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] someone else loves lucy . some guy who drove across country in three days because his now wife lived in Ct and he lived in oregon reported 10 year night was the song that captures the true meaning of love... and that was his entry in the city book song book he is married and in love and I get to hear "fuv favorite" said denis..Lucy kaplansky... sharon damn they played mine on monday and i was at dar.. missed my 15 minutes.. of fame.. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:35:33 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] they promised... after 10 year night.. the promise is to play the favorite song of lucy kaplansky and its not one of her own songs.. if its from last year then i know what it was... if its new .. i bet its steve earle.. how many votes for joni??? steve lucinda williams.. emmy lou.. the louvins.... richard... cliff ... john... hmmm... get teh votes in.. who is DOC's favorite sharon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Katrin.Uhl@t-online.de (Katrin Uhl) Subject: [lucy-list] finally: the article I promised I finally got around to typing up the article I mentioned. Don't let the wrong biographical detail at the beginning bother you, other than that it is quite an interesting read! Enjoy! Katrin Lucy Kaplansky  one lucky lady (Country Music International, March 2001) Lucys rootsy folk rock is winning new fans for the New York-based singer  fans like Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music. For this modern-day troubadour, moving people with her music is more important than fame and fortune (though she wants that, too) says Alan Cackett. Success and recognition in the music business has a lot to do with luck and timing. New York-born and raised singer songwriter Lucy Kaplansky is very much aware of that. A typical modern-day troubadour, she tours tirelessly, slowly but determinedly building an ever-growing fan base. Over the past few years, Lucy has built a sizeable following in the UK for her distinctively rootsy folk-rock. This has led to sell-out gigs in singer-songwriter venues that have helped her to land a lot of radio exposure. It was through a couple of radio shows that Lucy came to the attention of Bryan Ferry, one of Britains most distinctive rock voices. Lucy was in the midst of her latest UK tour last December, when Ferry heard her on BBC Radio 2s Johnnie Walker Show and again on BBC Radio 4s Woman Hour. Ferry was so impressed with her live work for both shows that he set about making contact with Lucy. He was helped in his quest by bass player Zev Katz, who was playing in Ferrys band. The ex-Roxy Music singer was oblivious to the fact that Katz was a regular sideman for Lucy, and was moonlighting as her accompanist for the tour. With Zevs help, Ferry tracked Lucy down to Broadcasting House, where she was completing an interview with Lisa Barsi for BBC Wales The Four Star. Lucy was invited by Bryan to sing backing vocals on his new album. The singer sent a car to Broadcasting House to take Lucy to the RAK studios in St. Johns Wood where he was recording. Lucy was somewhat overcome with emotion at the thought of meeting Bryan Ferry. I was almost completely speechless when Bryan phoned, says an incredulous Lucy.  I mean, Ive been a big Roxy Music fan forever. I just couldnt believe it. When I got round to the studio, I was shaking. Really. I was shaking all over. You just dont believe that these things will happen. Lucy put her voice down on three tracks and returned to the studio in January to record two more tracks. She still finds it all quite unbelievable. There she was, this relatively unknown singer-songwriter meeting Johnnie Walker, Jenni Murray and Bryan Ferry, all in 48 hours of a packed promotion tour. Just to add a little cream, Glenda Jackson walked into hospitality at Woman s Hour, to which Lucy responded, no, it cant be. You never know who you will meet on the road, sometimes you just cant believe your eyes. Ferrys as-yet untitled album, is due for release on Virgin Records this summer. In between all that action, Lucy has been busy in the studio working on her fourth album for Red House Records. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed Ten Year Night, she hopes to have ready for release by the autumn. I have quite a few new songs ready, she explains. Im not sure exactly which ones well use, probably some of those Ive been singing out on the road. There might be an outside song or two by someone I really rate. Id like to do one of Julie Millers songs. She is a singer and writer I really admire. Lucy met Julie and husband Buddy Miller in Nashville a couple of year ago. It was the first time that she actually got to play a gig in Music City. She was on a 10-day tour with the group Cry Cry Cry, and Buddy and Julie Miller were the opening act. We just basically all hit it off incredibly well, she says. I started doing Julies song Broken Things in my show. That has really been a huge hit for me. People are coming up to me after the show and asking what album is that one. Of course, I havent recorded it. I always tell them to go get Julies album. It was the first time Ive ever played in Nashville. Ive been there twice before. Both times to sing on a Nanci Griffith album. In 1987 for Lone Star State of Mind and then Little Love Affairs. I didnt see enough of Nashville either time. I was there so briefly, I didnt really see much of anything. That trip to Nashville turned out to be almost as eventful as the recent London stopover. A long-time fan of Emmylou Harris, Lucy was amazed to discover that the famed country-rock singer was in the audience. By coincidence, Buddy Miller was producing Jimmie Dale Gilmores One Endless Night album. Gilmore came to the show, and really liked the harmonies of Cry Cry Cry. The next day, they all stopped off at Buddys house where the recordings were taking place. Jimmie Dale said to us Do you want to sing on the album, you guys will sound really good on this. I said, We will do anything to sing on this right now. So we did. Buddy and Julie and I are friends and I am just a huge fan of theirs. I think they are the real thing and I love their music. We did see a little bit of different parts of Nashville with Buddy and Julie. Ive got a sense of what their life is like and their environment. Its certainly different to what Id imagined. My husband and I were there together and we went, Yeah, we could work here. Which we didnt know previously. Lucy is hopeful that maybe Buddy will work with her in the studio. She feels a close affinity with his musical integrity and loves the informal way that he works. The living room is where they record, and then hes got a little den, so the ground floor of the house is the studio, she explains.  I guess for me, its never really mattered that much where I record. What matters more to me, is who Im recording with. If I feel comfortable with the people, it didnt really matter. We made my last record in a little, very funky studio in Manhattan. Its a little place where everyone does their overdubs, because its so cheap. We did the whole album there. Everything sounded really good. Mostly, it was people having fun together, so I think it would be great to record in somebodys home, but I wouldnt make that a priority. Obviously, whats great is he doesnt have to pay for studio time. Thats a very big thing. Studio time takes most of the cost of an album. That last album, Ten Year Night, found Lucy going in a slightly different musical direction. Her previous two albums, Flesh And Bone and The Tide, had a folksy, singer-songwriter vibe to them, but Ten Year Night, had a slightly more rock band feel. I was really worried when I made it, like Oh God, this is kind of rock, Im going to alienate fans of mine, she admits. I was amazed, my sort of folk music fans like it. So go figure. Youre got to make the music you want to make, and people hopefully will go on with you because its good. Of course, I was doing some of the songs in my live shows for a couple of years, so t was not like this was some drastic change. These were songs Id been doing with a band behind me rocking out. If I had my way, I would be playing with that band every night. That is who I am musically. When Im up on stage by myself, I don think thats much o reflection of who I am musically as much as with a band. When I play New York now, I pretty much always use a band. Im trying to work more in that direction. It is, she admits, quite a transition. For years, she had been travelling across the States, a lone woman with a guitar, dropping into clubs to play music for a dedicated core of fans. She couldnt have done that without her husbands support. Ive been married for 12 years and one of the reasons I think I had the strength and guts to go out and do it was because my husband wanted me so much to go back to it. He had thought I was crazy to leave. I met him when I was kind of first leaving music and wanted to be a therapist. He thought I was crazy, because he loved the way I sang. He was a fan of mine. Thats how we met. So he really encouraged me to do this and helped me do it and wrote songs with me and that made it a lot easier. A woman on her own, travelling into strange cities, obviously can place Lucy in some very vulnerable and somewhat dangerous situations. It was something both she and her husband had to come to terms with. He doesnt like that at all, she says. He wants me to be really careful. When I tour the US, I drive and he always wants me to have somebody to walk with me to my car. I live in New York City, so Im not stupid, but he does worry about me. He always wants me to call him when I get to places. Let him know that Im safe. Being out on the road touring is vitally important for a singer-songwriter like Lucy. She doesnt have hit singles, platinum albums and regular TV appearances to keep her music in front of the public, so it is very much a case of getting out there at a grass roots level and taking the music to the people. It is a very incredibly competitive field, she says. I mean, there are really two levels on which it is difficult to crack. One is that there are a lot of really talented people out there, and the other is a lot of them have big money behind them. So when you are on an independent label, well its a different kind of ball game. You cant get the kind of huge publicity, the huge push. You cant have a hit record because you cant buy your way onto radio. To crack that level is really, really tough. But the independent label world is so sort of vibrant now, especially with the rise of the internet. The whole fan-base on the internet. I think Dar Williams is a really good example. Shes on an independent label and shes had a pretty huge following. With the power of internet and word-of-mouth shes really made a huge name for herself. There are ways to do it, and I guess the most important thing, ultimately for me, is if I have an audience that really likes what I do. Maybe someone will come up to me afterwards and say that song really moved me, yeah thats kind of bottom line. The rest of it doesn t matter that much. Moving people with music, regardless of the fame and fortune, is what separates the true artist from the stars. Many of the big star names in the music business long ago lost the thread of why they started making music in the first place. They are totally driven by the star-machine. Lucy Kaplansky could never really go down that route. That doesnt mean that she lacks ambition. Far from it. It is the drive to find more fans for her music that keeps her out there on the road, baring her heart and should for strangers who over time became friends. I would love to get famous. Anyone that says they wouldnt, I think are lying, she says. Why not? Then you really get to do what you want and makes lots of money and all that. But maybe you dont get to do so much of what you want. Things can get weird with record companies when you get really famous. I am very happy and gratified where I am. Very lucky. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world ani difranco ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:54:09 -0500 (EST) From: "The Myers Family" Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Vote Sharon, My vote goes with Steve Earle. Donna ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Bill McDonough" Subject: [lucy-list] smoe.org downtime for move (Thursday) Hi all. The wonderful people at SMOE who host our list are moving the servers and doing some maintenance on Thursday. They expect to be down pretty much all day. So don't expect to see any Lucy-list mail then. Anything you send while they're down should still make it to the list, but it would be good if you could hold on until it's back up. I'm out of town this week and have somewhat limited access but will try to send out a message when they are back up. If anyone has any questions, please email me directly. Thanks. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:31:58 -0600 From: "zoso 550" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] finally: the article I promised Thank you, Katrin! That was quite lengthy, too. Thanks for typing and posting it. You're the best! Sherri _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:01:09 -0500 From: Tom Neff Subject: Re: [lucy-list] smoe.org downtime for move (Thursday) Just FYI, the archives at http://grassyhill.org/stax/lucy will not be affected by SMOE's server move, and will be available Thursday if you need them. They won't show new list postings for that day, of course, since nothing is archived until it's sent to the list. - --On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:54 PM -0500 Bill McDonough wrote: > Hi all. The wonderful people at SMOE who host our list are moving the > servers and doing some maintenance on Thursday. They expect to be down > pretty much all day. So don't expect to see any Lucy-list mail then. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:03:03 +0100 From: "donald.anderson" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] lucy article all the front stalls are sold out - I got tickets for the raised section at the rear of the stalls call 0141 353 8000 for tickets - good luck with the exam ! Donald - ----- Original Message ----- From: jenny To: Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [lucy-list] lucy article > hi donald > > > I'm in a great mood today cos I've just discovered that Shawn is confirmed > > as support to MCC during her May UK & Ireland tour & I've just booked > > tickets to see them in Glasgow on 30th May !! > > holy cow. okay, what kind of seats did they have left and do i hve an exam > the next day? Okay, wait... you can't answer that second one, but maybe the > first? > > jenny* ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #69 ****************************** 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