From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #149 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, July 4 2002 Volume 04 : Number 149 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy at Stephen Talkhouse Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at Stephen Talkhouse [lucy-list] Kate Wolf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:53:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Gravano Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Stephen Talkhouse My first Lucy show, she was great. Opened with Greg Brown's Dirty Little Movie and played nearly non-stop for forty-five minutes. Between songs she told the bug and Irish whiskey stories that I had read about here on line. Stephen Talkhouse offered an intimate atmosphere and she drew a nice crowd. Her encore was Song for Molly and Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe. Both were requests. I thought about shouting out for Flesh and Bone, but then I realized that I'd love to just sit there and listen to her play anything. She was simply magnificent. STeve Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:41:16 -0700 From: Benay Bubar Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at Stephen Talkhouse Glad you enjoyed your first Lucy show, Steve...thanks for reporting in! Incidentally, the Greg Brown song is Small Dark Movie...but Dirty Little Movie sounds like an interesting variant! :-) Was Still Life from the Flesh and Bone CD the one you were wanting to hear that she didn't play? Lucy hasn't done that one live in a long time (at least, not in the shows I've been to), but that's one of my favorites too and I hope it comes back into the cycle again sometime (and many of the older songs do show up occasionally in her sets, so it seems reasonable to hope). But I agree that hearing Lucy sing anything is a treat...I think even if I heard she was going to just sing scales somewhere, I'd still go listen if I could! Benay currently in upstate NY, home of the only CD player I've found that will play the hidden track on Flesh & Bone...so I will be listening to I've Just Seen a Face a whole lot this weekend (it's track zero on the CD, for anybody who may not know, and you have to have a CD player that will let you GET to track zero...I didn't even realize it was there for a LONG time after I had the CD) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:31:55 -0700 From: "Susan Krauss" Subject: [lucy-list] Kate Wolf Those of us at Kate Wolf couldn't write right away because some of us went to Mendocino for a few days after the show. This is just a short first report because I'm just home and tired after driving all day (and the wine tasting probably have something to do with my current state of mind). Lucy, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt & Ms. Cheryl Wheeler all graced the Kate Wolf stage on Saturday night. The did about an hour in the round - each getting about three songs (maybe four). They sang harmony with each other's songs and were all quite magnificent. Lucy sang "Ten Year Night" and told us it was the recent anniversary of their 16 year night (and that the 16 year night is the whole "kitchen floor thing" for those who didn't already know that). At the moment I can't remember what else she sang but I'm sure it will come to me. As John pointed out, she had the most leather of anyone on stage and was indeed a harmony dominatrix. On Sunday, John and Lucy did an hour workshop. They sat under a beautiful oak tree and alternated songs - each singing harmony with the other and talking about how some of the songs had been written. It was amazing. They were having a great time with each other and while there were lots of requests, Lucy only sang songs she knew had a good harmony part for John. So she did "By Way of Sorrow" instead of "Mary Magdalene" because she introduced John to Julie Miller's music on the drive down from Oregon and knew he could sing on that song. We also got to hear the 9/11 song, which brought many of us to tears. She said that "Song for Molly" was influenced by John's song for his mother, "Part of Your Own." They did "Grievous Angel" and explained that the did the song because they listened to Gram & Emmylou sing it several years ago while driving through Arizona and the song meant a lot to her because of leaving music for several years and going back to music was like coming home and the song was about coming home. And John sings the Emmylou part (and he said, looks pretty good in her clothes as well). Lucy also said during the workshop: "This is like the most fun I've ever had. This is...I swear....This is a perfect moment." I had to agree. I've heard her say that before and I think she means it every time. That hour was very special. She threw in some psychologist jargon during the workshop as well (when someone said they were crying their eyes out Lucy said that was good because it was cathartic.) Oh, she was wearing a very short dress and Cheryl Wheeler asked her right before she got on stage (Cheryl & Cliff did the workshop before Lucy & John), if that was her "cello playing dress." So Lucy was self-conscious about keeping her legs together during the workshop. Later that day, John sang the Kate Wolf song he does on the tribute album and Lucy sang harmonies. Then Lucy came out a few times during Nanci Griffith's set. Nanci talked about how Lucy had sung on Nanci's second recording of "There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)" and they sang it Saturday night. (Lucy added a jeans jacket to the short dress). Lucy also came out later for a bunch more songs (including "Ford Econoline"). John, Lucy, and Rosalie Sorrels came out for "If I Had A Hammer" (the pre-encore finale). The whole festival was wonderful. susan in alameda ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #149 ******************************* 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