From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #200 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 21 2001 Volume 03 : Number 200 In this issue: [lucy-list] Re: ESD Re: [lucy-list] Re: ESD [lucy-list] thinkin buddy and julie Re: [lucy-list] thinkin buddy and julie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:31:40 -0600 From: Jessica Byers Subject: [lucy-list] Re: ESD wow, upon paying closer attention, i'd venture that probably is about nanci griffith. how many situations have there been like that? "you heard them laughing at you but it was just a falling star so you threw the face you'd pasted on at those bodies in the dark" and lucy was singing with nanci during that set. i have heard that things have not been so easy for nanci, and i dont just mean that night in lyons... the first time i ever saw lucy, actually, was when nanci brought her out to sing harmonies with her at rocky mtn folks fest some years back. maybe 96 or something. jess <> - -- Jessica Byers jess913@blackfoot.net 23373 Highway 93 North ~~~ http://www.blackfoot.net/~jess913/ Arlee, MT 59821 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:58:04 -0700 From: John Alvord Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re: ESD On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:31:40 -0600, Jessica Byers wrote: >wow, upon paying closer attention, i'd venture that probably is about >nanci griffith. how many situations have there been like that? > >"you heard them laughing at you >but it was just a falling star >so you threw the face you'd pasted on >at those bodies in the dark" > >and lucy was singing with nanci during that set. i have heard that >things have not been so easy for nanci, and i dont just mean that >night in lyons... > >the first time i ever saw lucy, actually, was when nanci brought her >out to sing harmonies with her at rocky mtn folks fest some years >back. maybe 96 or something. Lucy Kaplanski is credited with background on several Nanci Griffith records in the middle 1980s. Last of the True Believers and Lone Star State of Mind if memory doesn't deceive. It was a real shock to me when I first heard Lucy... it sounded like a echo of NG... and of course her voice was on those two albums. LK can blend with another voice like no one else. The lyric quoted above refereing to Nanci doesn't ring true to me... the words are too abstract and lack reference. Nanci has had a tough time physically the last few years. In interviews she has talked about breast cancer and a year later thyroid cancer. A good advertisement for NOT smoking, incidently. But she has trooped onward, touring regularly and producing albums. She has been in benefits for voting, breast cancer, and most recently elimination of land mines. There is one song of hers that referes to a "river of falling stars", but that seems rather distant from LK's lyric. The suggestion that people were laughing at her feels all wrong to me. There have been bad nights, but people were more shocked then laughing. And throwing a pasted on face... that is what every performer does. Nanci is an acquired taste... strong Texan varietal wine. Her Other Voices, Other Rooms [17 songs by modern singer-songwriters, everyone from Buddy Mondlock to Kate Wolf to Steve Goodman to Bob Dylan] is a masterpiece of production and song choice. It won a Grammy and sold a bunch. It is great. Last of the True Believers and Lone Star State of Mind are both amazing. john alvord ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:58:11 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] thinkin buddy and julie as much as i love the music of julie miller and the guitar playing of buddy.. BUT..you hear it.. i dont think the record is consistant.. it just aint.. maybe itll grow on me.. maybe. i need to see julie HIT the TRASH can.. maybe.i need to take ESD outta my cd player.. in contrast... ESD is a consistantly good records...track after track.. i drove to work today.. listening to Written on the Back of his hand.. off the new lucy kaplansky record.. said my favorite morning DJ.. sharon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:09:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Elizabeth (Libby) Wiebel" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] thinkin buddy and julie On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 Sdgold60@aol.com wrote: > as much as i love the music of julie miller and the guitar playing of > buddy.. BUT..you hear it.. i dont think the record is consistant.. > it just aint.. maybe itll grow on me.. maybe. i need to see julie HIT the > TRASH can.. > maybe.i need to take ESD outta my cd player.. > I'm kinda so-so on it, myself... kind of a disappointment. Except for track #10... "Rachel" Like you said... maybe it'll grow on me... This hasn't exactly been the best week for me to play music critic! Libby - -- - --------------------------------- Libby Wiebel | ewiebel@cs.wm.edu http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ewiebel - ----------------------------------------------------- "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." ~ Diane Ackerman - ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #200 ******************************* 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