From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #130 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 Wednesday, June 20 2001 Volume 03 : Number 130 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Spelling counts [lucy-list] bad frog ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 06:27:17 +0100 From: "Iain Geddes" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Spelling counts Jay for what it's worth HMV in Edinburgh have Lucy in the Country section (they do have the three solo albums however). Iain, Edinburgh, Scotland - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Votel To: Sent: 18 June 2001 21:38 Subject: [lucy-list] Spelling counts > Hi lucy-listers: Let me rant for a moment, please. > Nancy and I visited the new Best Buy store at Dulles Town Center (near our > house) yesterday. I came away with several questions: > 1. Who was the idiot who put the bluegrass records in the blues section? > I'll admit that both forms are traditional, American and formulaic, but > that's about all they have in common. Does the guy who put these two > together even know the difference? > 2. Was it the same guy who spelled out the individual artists' names? Poor > Lucy is listed as Lucy Karlansky. They had one copy of TYN in stock. This > was only one of many, many spelling errors in the artists' names. > I know I shouldn't complain too loudly because most retail stores don't > carry any of the artists I like to listen to. > But this store allegedly stocks one of the best collections of recorded > music available at prices that are substantially discounted compared to the > "name" book and music stores. Yet Best Buy has has no folk section as such. > Of the thousands and thousands of titles the store carries, the folk section > (when we finally found it) consisted of about three rows of discs jammed in > between country and blues. We did notice artists like John Prine listed > under Rock and R&B. There is a separate World Music category that was 50 > percent Reggae adn 50 percent Celtic. Best Buy surely could reorganize its > stock to create a larger collection of folk music that makes more sense. > We didn't buy any CDs there, but we found a larger -- and cheaper -- > collection of folk titles at the CDepot in College Park Saturday. We bought > seven records (some used and out of print titles), including the Christine > Lavin singer-songwriter compilation, Vol. 2, still in the wrapper for $11.99 > for a two-disc set. > Take that, Best Buy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jenny Jones Subject: [lucy-list] bad frog Yo bListers. sorry to use the list to do this, but haven't got my email adresses on my web-based mail and i need to find witchy who eluded me at Clearwater. Frog calling witchy come in witchy. frog hopped the pond and got polaroided with pete seeger and flyer. woah. jen* If i could i'd tell you now there are no roads that do not bend Days like flowers bloom and fade and do not come again we've only go these times we're livin in *** KAte WOlf, POet's heart Yahoo! Buzz Index - Spot the hottest trends in music, movies,and more. ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #130 ******************************* 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