From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #80 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, April 10 2001 Volume 03 : Number 080 In this issue: [lucy-list] Review of Lucy at Wolf Trap [lucy-list] Lucy at the Point Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Point [lucy-list] 4/7 story in Washington Times Re: [lucy-list] World Trade Towers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:34:18 -0400 From: "Jay Votel" Subject: [lucy-list] Review of Lucy at Wolf Trap Lucy Kaplansky and Stacey Earle, April 7, 2001, at The Barns of Wolf Trap, Vienna, Va. Reviewed by Jay Votel  jvotel@megapipe.net Mark Stuart: 1. Boss is Watching 2. Lorraine 3. Midnight Special 4. If You Want My Love (With Stacey Earle) Stacey Earle: 1. Is My Love Enough? 2. Maybe, Thats Just Me 3. It Must Be Love 4. Makes Me Happy 5. Losers Weep 6. Simple Gearle 7. Dancin With Them That Brung Me 8. The Next Door Down 9. Goodbye e: Just Another Day Lucy Kaplansky 1. The Angels Rejoiced in Heaven Last Night 2. Back of His Hand 3. One Good Reason 4. Dont Blame Me 5. Ten Year Night 6. More Than This 7. Just You Tonight (on piano) 8. Alphabet Song 9. A Song About Pi 10. By Way of Sorrow 11. End of the Day 12. Turn the Lights Back On 13. Song For Molly 14. Scorpion e: Guinevere e: (with Mark Stuart and Stacey Earle) You Aint Goin Nowhere This show was the folk happening of the Washington area for spring 2001. As a trio, Lucy, Stacey and Mark were superb harmonizing in the old Dylan Basement Tapes chesnut for an encore. (Lucy had had a request for It Ain't Me, Babe, but declined.) Each of them took a verse and they had the capacity 350 theater singing along. Lucy told the Ricola story introducing the Brian Ferry song. She announced that recording of her fourth album, Every Single Day, concludes Tuesday and that her opening Louvin Brothers song and Back of His Hand were on the record. It was good to hear a new song from Irving Kaplansky, too, the twisted Alphabet Song. Mark Stuart displayed his incredible lead guitar playing talent to the max; and Stacey Earle won over some new fans in her second appearance at Wolf Trap. Lucy has lost count, but she thinks it might be six shows at the Barns. She returns to Washington in early May at the Cecile Goldman Theater. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:20:07 -0400 From: "Bill McDonough" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Point Saw the early Lucy show at the Point last Friday. She was in good form in front of a full house, some of which included her husband Rick's family. You know the performer has the crowd in the palm of her hands when she announces her nephews and they get a round of applause. She performed most of the standards plus a bunch of new songs to be included on the new disc. And added the Alphabet Song and the song about pi by her father. When she introduced those songs, she was amazed that someone in the audience had actually read her father's books and articles. Another interesting thing was brought by a local dj. Anyone of a certain age in the Philly area probably listened to Michael Tearson at one time. He is a big fan of Lucy's and brought her these old comic books featuring a psychologist as the hero. She read a bit from one of them. Then mentioned how we all could understand why they didn't catch on. Also picked up a copy of the Bob Dylan tribute disc, A Nod to Bob. I really like it so far, particularly the Lucy, Greg Brown, and Eliza Gilkyson tracks. Will have to hear more of Eliza Gilkyson's stuff. Was not able to stay for the late show. Anyone go to that? Bill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:56:57 +0100 From: "jenny" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Point Yo It's nice to be talking about the actual *music* again... thanks for the reviews guys. jenny* > Saw the early Lucy show at the Point last Friday. She was in good form in > front of a full house, some of which included her husband Rick's family. You > know the performer has the crowd in the palm of her hands when she announces > her nephews and they get a round of applause. She performed most of the > standards plus a bunch of new songs to be included on the new disc. And > added the Alphabet Song and the song about pi by her father. When she > introduced those songs, she was amazed that someone in the audience had > actually read her father's books and articles. > > Another interesting thing was brought by a local dj. Anyone of a certain > age in the Philly area probably listened to Michael Tearson at one time. He > is a big fan of Lucy's and brought her these old comic books featuring a > psychologist as the hero. She read a bit from one of them. Then mentioned > how we all could understand why they didn't catch on. > > Also picked up a copy of the Bob Dylan tribute disc, A Nod to Bob. I really > like it so far, particularly the Lucy, Greg Brown, and Eliza Gilkyson > tracks. Will have to hear more of Eliza Gilkyson's stuff. > > Was not able to stay for the late show. Anyone go to that? > > Bill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:01:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "'Votel, Jay - Spec. Sect. 3288'" Subject: [lucy-list] 4/7 story in Washington Times ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Page D2 Singers travel musical odyssey By Jay Votel THE WASHINGTON TIMES (Photo, Singer Lucy Kaplansky performs tonight at the Barns of Wolf Trap.) Stacey Earle and Lucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriters coming from entirely different perspectives on life, will share the stage at the Barns of Wolf Trap tonight in what could be a celebration of second careers for women in music. Miss Earle, little sister of country maverick songwriter Steve Earle, lives in Nashville, Tenn., where she landed after the breakup of her first marriage (She married in her native Texas at age 17). She went to work for her brother as a nanny while he toured after the release of his seminal 1988 ''Copperhead Road`` album. She then wrote commercial songs for a Nashville publisher only to discover her own voice welling inside. Ten years after arriving in ''Music City,`` she released ''Simple Gearle`` on her own Gearle label and has been touring relentlessly, to wider audiences, ever since. In 2000, the more heavily produced ''Dancin' With Them That Brung Me`` was released, and currently, a double live CD, ''Must Be Live,`` is scheduled to begin limited distribution, at concerts and via the Internet, this June. ''I've never been a big fan of live records,`` Miss Earle said just before hitting the road with husband Mark Stuart on their way to tonight's 7:30 showat the Barns. ''But people kept approaching us about the stories I tellonstage about the songs.`` The live album will capture those stories as well as the songs. Although she has appeared with her brother on occasion, Miss Earle is definitely her own person, practically a feminine version of John Prine. ''There's no comparing it. I have things to say a girl would have to say,`` she says. ''I don't think I could have written `Copperhead Road.'`` But she says brother Steve is ''a heavy-duty critic to have.`` Miss Kaplanksy, a Chicago native now living in New York, teamed up with Shawn Colvin to sing in Greenwich Village folk clubs in the early 1980s. The success that catapulted Miss Colvin to stardom also came knocking on Miss Kaplansky's door, but she declined to answer. Instead, she returned to heruniversity studies, obtained a doctorate in psychology and began work as a therapist. She then she realized that music was her true calling. Miss Colvin produced ''The Tide,`` Miss Kaplansky's first solo recording on Red House Records in 1994. In 1996, with ''Flesh and Bone,`` Miss Kaplansky emerged as a serious songwriter, a reputation she solidified with the 1999 release of ''Ten Year Night,`` a critically acclaimed collection of rock-edgedand romantic songs, many of which were co-written with her filmmaker husband, Richard Litvin. Interestingly, the disc contains a Steve Earle cover, ''Somewhere Out There.`` In the meantime, Miss Kaplansky toured for a year with songwriters Dar Williams and Richard Shindell in the folk ''super group`` Cry Cry Cry. Her audience has steadily grown. Her fourth record, tentatively titled ''Every Single Day,`` is due out at summer's end. Although it has the same producer - Ben Wittman - and same lineup of musicians as ''Ten Year Night,`` Miss Kaplansky says the current project is ''a little more adventurous musically, but it is consistent with what I do and who I am.`` ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:38:44 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] World Trade Towers the twin towers...lucy and her guitar were listed on the flem/tam site.. as the world trade outdoors i happen to know the summer venue as i have meetings near city hall and pop in periodically.. my favorite country station also uses. similiar space near the "other TWO towers" ( there are four trade towers) and it like once you know about the lincoln center outdoors space you just know where it is.. and that there is a summer program.. NYC has lots of free summer shows.. on the battery two years ago was ani defranco. last year billy bragg, down by the waterfront.. in central park.. at summerstage.. i saw joan and dar in separate shows.. this year bela fleck is scheduled so far... allison krauss and crycrycry were at lincoln center in separate years... all for a price of a ride on the MTA... donna.. GAWD willin you will be the first.. i tell sharon ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #80 ****************************** 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