From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #73 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 Monday, April 2 2001 Volume 03 : Number 073 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Wayfaring Strangers [lucy-list] New CD title? [lucy-list] Clearer heads prevail...Title of new CD [lucy-list] Oak Center General Store [lucy-list] Seeing Lucy play this Friday [lucy-list] Addendum to Oak Center Review [lucy-list] some things DOC..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 08:17:37 +0100 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Wayfaring Strangers Lee Leewalling@aol.com wrote: > Melismatic music occurs when one syllable is sung over the course of six or > more notes. Bright Blessings to you too, Lee. Fascinating stuff! Thanks for taking the trouble. > KEENING: keening, that Irish form of lamentation virtually ceremonial in > form, a repetitive wail that begins in the bowels and rises into a near > shriek. Looks like I "keened" at Lucy's Jazz Cafe show a while back. I have also been known to "keen" on the morning after a particularly wild night before, it would seem! Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:39:10 -0400 (EDT) From: yvonneperalta@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] New CD title? It's like, couldn't this wait until the morning?... Just got back from Oak Center General Store where I we heard the title of the new CD for the first time. It is late (like 4:00 AM because we lost an hour) but I thought I'd mention it as I remember it (granted I'm really foggy at this moment and I didn't write it down). I believe I heard "Just Another Day" as the finalist. Does that resonate with y'all out there? And she mused aloud about photographing the rather funky Oak Center venue for the CD cover. That's the news from the Heartland, except that as we were driving away from this very rural venue, we spotted the Northern lights and stopped the car caravan for fifteen minutes to watch them from the side of the road. I DO hope Lucy got to see them when she pulled-out! Etimothy (back) in South Minneapolis. (review may follow) - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:45:34 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] Clearer heads prevail...Title of new CD Clearer heads have prevailed. The new CD title is now recalled as "Every Single Day". Sorry for the confusion. On the way out the door so still no time for a review. - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:49:35 -0400 (EDT) From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] Oak Center General Store Hate to review a show when I've already told most of the interesting stuff already, but here goes. A uncommon show for Lucy in an intimate venue out in the middle of no-where (unless you are an organic farmer in which case it is right in the middle of where you wanna be...) The charming storefront of the Oak Center General Store which doubles as the farm-house for the working organic farm. Downstairs tea was being brewed over a giant wood stove and all manner of herbs, whole grains, and useful farm and garden tools could be found for sale. Behind the scenes, we later learn from Lucy, the artists are treated before the show to a delightful home-cooked vegetarian meal in which everything was grown on site. She nicknamed the place (which has a beaten-down, old-west ambiance to its interior and exterior) "The Health Food Saloon". Later in the show, she got the cool idea to perhaps photograph the place and use it on the new CD....we'll see if the wonks in the Red House artistic department find it the best of what are likely many cool ideas floating around for cover art. Inside, the Host for the evening was updating the audience on current political events as has become his pre-performance ritual. He had a lot of fresh material for the audience coming, as it were, just a few days after the recent Bill Moyers' PBS "expose" about chemicals in our environment and the bioaccumulation occuring in our bodies. This place is about as benign a venue as one could imagine with composting low water flow toilets and recycling bins everywhere. I was left hanging onto a dripping tea-bag for about five minutes because I couldn't find a receptacle for just plain-old JUNK. You can't imagine how low-tech this place is. When he was doing introductory remarks prior to bringing Lucy up on stage, he mused about where one could find some obscure thing (I forget what it was). Someone yelled, "the Net!" To which he responded in that slow, down-to-earth farmer sort of way, "I got a lot of webs downstairs in the basement. Which one?" Truly a polar opposite of M! anhatten! Lucy played without any warm-up act. It was a very long and rich show punctuated by a couple of ladybugs flying around Lucy's head. She was a little put-off by this in-your-face display of nature, and asked (in a reference to the Madison show last week in which she had to play with her eyes closed), "you don't have any BATS here do you?" If you count the Happy Birthday song she sang for Henry, the young dairy farmer from down the road, she did twenty two songs, including a brand new one (?) on piano which she did not put a name to but is likely the new title track because there was this line "Every Single Day" that kept coming up. She explained the quandry that she had found herself in working up the current batch of songs in the studio with three of the nations top guitar accompanists, Duke Levine, Jon Herrington and Larry Campbell. It made some of her new songs nearly impossible for her to do justice to live, so she was endeavoring to re-arrange some of them for solo piano. "Every Single Day" had become a piano tune during the sound check earlier in the day. She also did "Just You Tonight" on the same stage piano, a mini-grand (?) which sounded great and in-tune. (Hooray! Must be some food-for-tuning barter arrangement with a piano tuner.) It was "tribute to Julie Miller" night with two offerings. "Broken Things" was awesome....My bet is that she does it solo acoustic on the album because it is so powerful that way. So I was well into the show when I realized that someone on the list had asked me for a set list and a review. I asked my sister if she had a pen and paper in her purse and she handed my a squishy rubber dolphin that doubled as a pen and the yellow copy of a credit card charge slip. For all of you out there who have felt self-conscious about being a distraction writing during a show, try doing it with a giant rubber dolphin pen! I started writing after about the fifth song, so I may have actually missed one. Here's the set list: 1) Small Dark Movie 2) One Good Reason 3) No More Excuses 4) Broken Things 5) Ten Year Night 6) Crazy Dreams 7) Don't Mind Me 8) Just You Tonight INTERMISSION 9) The Kid 10) End Of The Day 11) Scorpion 12) Guilty As Sin 13) Just You Tonight (On piano. Not exactly sure where this one fit-in.) 14) Happy Birthday to Henry the Dairy Farmer. 15) Dad's Angry ABC Song 16) A Song About Pi 17) Every Single Day (?) (Also on piano. Possible title track?) 18) Five In The Morning 19) Turn The Lights Back On 20) By Way Of Sorrow ENCORES 21) Somewhere Out There 22) Guineviere (sp?) As I indicated, we were all surprised and delighted by the breadth and magnitude of this show. It was an all-wooden, upstairs music room fifteen miles from the nearest small town! This played a part in the FIRST surprise ending of the night: when the six of us piled into two cars for the 45 minute drive back to Cannon Falls we were treated to a rare showing of the Northern Lights. I immediately thought of Lucy and how much the consummate City Girl would have enjoyed seeing these as she was probably just about due to drive away from the gig. I tried to get the number for the venue from directory assistance to pass her a message to look up, but to no avail. I was really sad. She was in a perfectly dark place at the perfect time (the biggest solar storm in the past ten years). I only hoped she spotted them on her own. When we got back to the house where we had set off from earlier in the evening, it was already past midnight. My sister then did the unthinkable thing and set the clock ahead one hour, making it even more daunting. Nevertheless, I had brought my guitar and my 21 year-old nephew picked up another and we started playing. he commented upon an unusual chord he had seen Lucy playing. (200230) and I said, oh THAT one, it's in this song and I played the first couple bars of "Ten Year Night". He said something to the effect that "That's the song!" so I pulled out RonG's transcription and chord tabs and we slogged through it once. My Neph had only heard the CD once and then heard ME torture the song once so we went through it again, this time with me whistling the melody. That was just about enough for him to pick it up. Then he said, "Can you SING it?".... So I SANG "Ten Year Night" with two guitar accompanyment for a room full of six people who had just come from a Lucy show. Recipe for a letdown, if you ask me! It is noteworthy, however, because there was this running joke on the list for over a year where the listers would fabricate reports of anyone and everyone doing covers of Ten Year Night at every far flung folk show in the land and they were just a bunch of HOOEY! I actually DID it! And what do I have to say afterwords? In the words of Steve Earle, "It's a chick song". But singing and playing guitar is my goal for this summer so once the genie was out of the bottle, I tortured them with another, "Cowboy Singer" by Dave and Tracy off of "Tanglewood Tree". All of you out there who have busted through that barrier of singing and playing in front of others without dying of fright or embarrassment can appreciate the moment. It was a small start, but a start all the same. Finally, wouldn't you know it? Just like the internet to get the name of the CD wrong by trying too hard to be the one to "scoop" it first. But after three hours of sleep and a long distance call to the three youngest in our party (the ones with the most remaining fully-functioning brain cells) we concluded that the name Lucy had uttered during a string-changing interlude was "Every Single Day", a name it seems Bob Feldman at Red House lobbied pretty convincingly for. Finally, Lucy had just picked up the new "Nod To Bob" CD (which she performs on) and was selling it at the show so those of you with Lucy on your planner for April or May might wanna bring along a couple extra bucks because there will be something new to buy. That's the news. Whew! I'm back from my brother's triplets first birthday party (my five-year-old Wolfgang calls them "The Three Twins") and I am going to take a well deserved nap! It was a zoo! ETimothy in South Minneapolis - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:39:35 EDT From: LoriAnnTaylor70@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Seeing Lucy play this Friday Hi everyone! This is my first time posting. Lucy is going to be playing in Bryn Mawr PA (her husband is from there, which I am sure you all know.) on Friday. Going to the 10 colock show. Can't wait. Haven't seen her in a long time. (well since the summer.) Can't wait to hear her new songs. She is playing at The Point. It is this great coffee house club. A perfect place to see her play because the seats are great everywhere! Has anyone seen her recently? Lori ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:48:57 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] Addendum to Oak Center Review >>Someone yelled, "the Net!" To which he responded in that slow, down-to-earth farmer sort of way, "I got a lot of webs downstairs in the basement. Which one?"<< Well, obviously, that someone yelled "the Web!" otherwise this wouldn't have made any sense!! >>she did twenty two songs. I started writing after about the fifth song, so I may have actually missed one<< I did. It was "More Than This", by Brian Ferry. And would you believe that story just keeps getting bigger and bigger! Now it's an entire box of cough drops in the care package from Ricola!! I am absolutely positively done with this review now. It's the first time I've ever posted from home! Maybe if I had written the review from work it wouldn't have become so lengthy..... ETimothy - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:26:31 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] some things DOC..... thanks timothy.. us east coaster who havent seen the DOc in a while.. needed a boost... the centerpiece song theory.. comes through... the tide... the tide flesh and bones... oh timothy.. you know which one.. 10 year night.. you can imagine my shock when norman johnson mailed me that dylan sang it on the oscar award.. i thought how did dylan get that song.. larry campbell is a sneaky one.. i think this was the national debut of 10 year night... and now.. a centerpeice song lends to a title.. i have heard the DOC sing.. IT aint you babe.. man dylan would weep.. DOC nailed it.. i have also heard her harmonies with Richard at the emerlin.. she was made to sing willin.. and springsteen.. hey who said DOC was singing jimmy webb.. 'he is a lineman for the county" has anyone heard this... in person.. sharon to shake the lonliness and shine the light take all your tears and save them for a rainy night go and wish on every star that's fallen shake your head and wonder when its all too good to be true like a WHOLE NEW YOU shawn colvin ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #73 ****************************** 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