From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #173 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 Saturday, August 3 2002 Volume 04 : Number 173 In this issue: [lucy-list] Cheryl Wheeler [lucy-list] another Lucy-at-Falcon-Ridge review [lucy-list] Correct link for fundraiser ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 06:46:38 -0700 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Cheryl Wheeler So on last-minute impulse, I went to see Cheryl Wheeler at Makor last night...yes, I KNOW this is not a Cheryl Wheeler list, just wait a minute, I know I can relate this at least tangentially. Anyway, I felt very brave in actually going because Cheryl Wheeler affects me more in opposite extremes than any other artist. Usually I can judge an artist as somebody I basically like (who might have a few songs I'm not as fond of) or somebody I basically don't care about very much (who might have a few songs I do particularly enjoy). Cheryl Wheeler, though, is BOTH---she has certain songs that make me adore her and certain songs that make me want to run screaming from the room. (In the latter category, particularly, is the potato song to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance. I'm not sure why I so dislike it---it's clever, and clever is usually my cup of tea---but that song just sets my teeth on edge. And sure enough, she did sing it...and I barely got through it.) BUT my consolation for having to listen to the potato song was that Cheryl Wheeler did sing, as I'd hoped she would, the Gandhi/Buddha song, or Musta Been, or whatever it's called. I don't know how many times I've played my tape of her singing that on Mountain Stage with Lucy on harmony a while back...I live in fear of the tape's wearing out. Of course, there was no Lucy last night to sing it with Cheryl...and I was afraid I wouldn't enjoy it as much. But as Cheryl started the chorus, I realized that I was singing Lucy's part under my breath because I could still hear it so clearly in my head, both for the song and the "counter-version." Anyway, I think it's a great song...unfortunately, I can't direct anyone who hasn't heard it on where to hear it, because it's NOT ON CD YET! It's almost criminal for Cheryl Wheeler not to have it recorded yet. It will be only slightly less criminal if she records it without Lucy on harmony. :-) And a note to the Bitchin' Babes---that is, Sharon, Donna, and Renee, who are with me the Four Bitchin' Babes as jokingly anointed by Lucy: as Cheryl Wheeler pointed out from the stage, Christine Lavin was there last night. Yes, one of the REAL Four Bitchin' Babes! I had a brief fantasy of letting her in on the fact that she wasn't QUITE the only Bitchin' Babe there after all, but 1) she was in the audience and not performing and I thought she deserved not to be bugged, especially by someone who (ashamed as I am of this after we've been using the nickname so long) has never actually HEARD the real Four Bitchin' Babes, and 2) she probably would have thought I was nuts anyway. But it was a fun little coincidence nonetheless! Off to work...TGIF...never felt that so thoroughly... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:44:27 -0400 From: bbubar@hearst.com Subject: [lucy-list] another Lucy-at-Falcon-Ridge review On the Web, pointed out to me courtesy of my parents, via the radio station they listen to: Greg Brown was joined in his set by the three-piece Falcon Ridge House Band, consisting of keyboardist Radoslav Lorkovic, bassist Mark Dunn and fiddler Lisa Gutkin, with special guests Jeff Lang on guitar and Lucy Kaplansky on backup vocals. Brown stretched out his handful of songs into long, rootsy folk grooves that featured improvisational vocal sections loosely based on Pentecostal preaching but given a worldly twist, such as "That's Enough," a swampy, modal blues that made innocent berry-picking seem downright sinful. He also ventured into jazz territory with a steamy version of George Gershwin's "Summertime," and duetted with Kaplansky on his "Small Dark Movie." Kaplansky preceded Brown with her own set of pop- and country-fueled songs. Playing acoustic guitar and backed by the terrific Duke Levine on electric guitar, Kaplansky offered favorites like "Ten Year Night," "Written on the Back of His Hand" and "Don't Mind Me" with her trademark, sultry alto and hint of a sneer. Kaplansky also debuted three new, searing ballads, two of which seemed to be about longing for a family, and the third consisting of dramatic, impressionistic scenes of life in downtown New York last September 11. All three new songs had the feel of the world as portrayed by Bob Dylan on his landmark "Time Out of Mind" recording, and left listeners longing to hear how they will work in the context of Kaplansky's next album ? after they wiped away their tears, that is. The full text, with mention of other performers too, is at http://www.rogovoy.com/263.shtml Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 20:38:22 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Correct link for fundraiser Sorry about the missing link for the fundraiser. I fixed the problem. You can see the items at www.angelfire.com/folk/lucykaplansky/RAINN.html Also a few people asked me about donations. If you'd like to make a tax-deductable donations you can go right through the RAINN website (www.rainn.org (we're party #14)or you can send the money my way and I'll pass it on with our group total. You can mail the money to 500 Graystone Dr Apt 7 Lawrence, KS 66049 Make checks out to RAINN! Thanks! Kristen _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #173 ******************************* 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