From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #174 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 Sunday, August 4 2002 Volume 04 : Number 174 In this issue: [lucy-list] another random Benay posting [lucy-list] my frff recap, greg brown Q, lucy's jeans [lucy-list] Re: greg brown Q, lucy's jeans [lucy-list] Lucy's appearance Re: [lucy-list] Lucy's appearance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 05:38:27 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] another random Benay posting Well, having just posted an unremarkable little review post to the Dar-list (once in a blue moon...), it seems I have not quite expended all my posting energies for the evening (um...morning now). And I've developed this sort of warm fuzzy feeling toward the Lucy-list such that if I'm gonna be in a posting mood in the first place, I don't want the Lucy-list to be left out. Yes, probably if I ever go into therapy, there will be some exploration of the fact that my sense of overall fairness can extend to entirely inapplicable situations...it took me a long time, for instance, to manage to skip tracks on a CD without at least a vague guilty feeling of owing it to the CD itself to listen to every song. So yes, I know the Lucy-list, as an entity, will not pine for me if I stray...but I feel a need to reassure it that although I've just posted elsewhere, I'm still here. (But Benay...um...apart from how ridiculous that sounds in itself, there is the tiny little fact that you didn't SEE Lucy tonight. You saw Dar. And since Dar didn't even sing anything from Cry Cry Cry or mention Cry Cry Cry in any way, it really had nothing to do with Lucy at all.) Yeah, but not having anything specifically related to Lucy to say never seems to have stopped me before! And hey, here's something---Dar wore jeans! I mean, of course she's allowed to wear jeans if she wants to, but in my experience---and I've seen Dar a number of times---Dar doesn't wear jeans onstage. LUCY wears jeans onstage (that is, whenever it's too hot for leather). Seeing Dar in jeans really threw me, and I thought, gosh, if Lucy shows up at her Huntington show next week in a long shiny dress, I'll TRULY know I've lost my mind!). Actually, I think Lucy DID wear a dress once onstage that I saw...maybe it was my first year at Falcon Ridge. It wasn't fancy like Dar's dresses tend to be, but I think it was perfectly nice...this must have been before the Leather Era. Mostly back then Lucy would do a black jacket with a white top, I think, and I seem to recall a pair of jeans with some interesting patches of color at the bottoms of the legs. The leather so often prevalent these days certainly makes her look...edgier. I have to hand it to her, though---I never imagined anyone...well, anyone basically NORMAL...could carry off as much leather as Lucy does as well as she does it. I wasn't sure I'd like it when I first saw it (don't remember how long ago that was), but it fits her somehow---not surprisingly, it fits the mood of the angry songs, but it actually manages to work for her during the quieter, calmer songs too. So it appears that the posting muses (posting muses? Yeah, some people's muses help them create actual art, and what do I get? E-mail posting muses that keep me up at night!) have decreed that I should, as it nears 5 a.m., be rattling on rather generally and unoriginally about Lucy's onstage wardrobe. Gosh, one wonders why nobody's beating down my door to hire me as a fashion writer. :-) But hey, what may sound kind of vague is actually, for me, quite specific---most of the time, sadly, if you ask me what anyone I've run into was wearing, the most I can say with certainty is, "Clothes." So the above, believe it or not, represents a weird sort of progress. OK, off to bed for the last couple of hours of what can be termed---loosely, at this point--- "the night." You can all breathe a sigh of relief that my next official concert will be Lucy herself (Thursday in Huntington), so quite soon you should get a little break from my how-can-we-relate-THIS-one-to-Lucy posts in favor of posts that might actually INVOLVE Lucy! Benay P.S. Sharon, I wasn't lying earlier...given the heat when I walked in here, it is ESPECIALLY true tonight that I have never loved an appliance the way I love my air conditioner...and you can quote me...just remember, it's not a mantra... :-) Hmmm...come to think of it, given what I said above about being fair to my CDs, I can only hope I am as good to the people in my life as I seem to be to the inanimate objects... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:57:15 -0400 From: Beth Simons Subject: [lucy-list] my frff recap, greg brown Q, lucy's jeans sorry this is off topic...but i can pull a benay and try to relate it somehow. (hehe--i LOVE your posts, benay! :)) does anyone know the name of the song that greg brown did at the friday night song swap...i believe it was his first song...about a "tiny little you"..."six inches tall"...blah blah blah? it's silly but i don't remember any more than that--i just remember really enjoying it!! so i can tie this in, i swear! hehe. lucy was at the song swap... is it odd for performers to repeat songs as much as lucy did this weekend? granted she only repeated 2 (TYN and LotL--YAY on both accounts!!!) but i noticed other artists making a conscious effort to not repeat stuff. and benay, while we're on the topic of lucy's wardrobe--what's UP with those jeans she wore at her mainstage set? she wore them at her freeport, maine, gig 2 weeks ago, too. ummm...i'll just say i'm not a fan of the whole lace appliqui thing. lol. oh well. i loved the leather jacket at freeport, though. :) and for those who like novels, my frff recap is up at www.randomchef.diary-x.com enjoy! :) - --beth <>o<>o<>o<>o<> Beth Simons beth@simons.mv.com Durham and Merrimack, NH (and St-Brieuc, France, at heart) "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." --Douglas Adams ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 16:57:53 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Re: greg brown Q, lucy's jeans Yeah, I liked that Greg Brown song, too, though I don't know what it was. It sort of snuck up on me as funny, meandering on until the one line about little me and little you getting together, and then something like "our children will be...TINY!" And that was just somehow really hysterical. I don't think Lucy was that much of an exception in repeating a couple of songs at FRFF. Greg Brown did his "I Have Loved You Like a Dog" song at least twice, in the song swap and in the humor workshop. I think I heard Erin McKeown's "Le Petit Mort" twice, too, though I was only watching once for it. Also, the songs Lucy repeated were at the very beginning (the song swap) and right near the end (her main set), and those are two of her strongest and best-known songs, and she might have been reaching somewhat different audiences at those times, given the day-trip people at FRFF. Anyway, part of me would have loved to hear other songs too, but if she had to repeat some, I agree that those were the best ones. Lace applique on Lucy's jeans? Really? I have no memory of that detail...sigh...fashion maven I am certainly not, as previously stated. And I think I probably paid even less attention to Lucy's specific clothes than usual at Falcon Ridge, busy as I was being envious of her ability to "fix" her hair by putting her head upside down and shaking it...this, while I had a hat cemented to my head for the ENTIRE three days because no one, NO one, can ever be allowed to see what happens to my hair while I am camping (even though it's SHORT hair, there is no brush in the known universe that can help). I have this occasionally recurring fantasy of a genie coming to grant me three wishes, and me saying I want 1) world peace, 2) an end to hunger and poverty, and 3) hair like Lucy's that I can "fix" by flipping my head upside down and shaking it... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:58:41 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy's appearance >>>Actually, I think Lucy DID wear a dress once onstage that I saw...maybe it was my first year at Falcon Ridge<<< Actually, I think a couple of the early times I saw her, she was wearing a sundress at an outdoor festival. This must be tops in comfort during the summer, but it did have an annoying tendency for string straps to flip down which (for a guitar player in the middle of a song) can be a distraction. As for the hair, I think Lucy has probably signed up with a very thoughtful hairdresser of late who LISTENED to her constant laments about all the travel she does and all the wierd weather she must endure and her never ending worries about having bad hair on-stage and they just designed a cut together that would be easy to maintain (the trick of flipping works best if the cut was designed for that, I'd guess). Is it my impagination, or did it look a little shorter lately? Speaking of festival "hat head", yeegadz! Just before driving down the hill and out of the festival (to the annual farewell dinner at Four Brothers) I caught a glimpse of myself in the reflection of the car window and I literally almost lost my lunch!!!! I guess I must have looked like that all festival except for the one time I washed and combed my hair! Oh, well, I guess that is all to be expected at a festival. I know it is a ways off still, but I am just itchin' for the Lucy Midwest tour to arrive. She'll be here Sept 12, 13, and 14th. The first show is in a small river town about a hundred miles southeast of here on a Thursday night. Best blow that one off. The second is FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH at a community center an hour north of here. I've got gresat seats and am bringing the childrens' librarian from our local library who is also named Lucy. She is about sixty and has fallen in love with Lucy's music. The third and final Upper Mississippi gig is here in Minneapolis, Saturday nighy at the Cedar....always a HUGE event--standing room only at a 400-500 seat venue with all of her hard core fans from Red House in attendance. She always brings a hot-shot back-up guitar player to accompany her (Ben B., John H., Nina G., etc.) and I figure this year will be Duke Levine. Any lurking listers may want to de-lurk and get together for that one. Then Lucy goes south (Iowa...) for the weekend after that. Visiting hubby in Europe figures in there somewhere too, I'd guess. I can't remember when she's over there even though they were both nice enough to explain it to me at FRFF. Terrific thunderstorm going on outside now. Best wrap it up. ETimothy in south Minneapolis - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 23:27:54 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy's appearance No, your hair looked fine at Falcon Ridge, Timothy...and a bit of disorder is par for the course when camping. It's only those of us who might scare the dogs and small children by the second day that have to wear a hat the whole time. (Actually, being able to scare dogs might have been beneficial this year, considering the fact that I spent two nights in a tent right next to that of a family with a large dog named Moo Shu...two nights that were very regularly punctuated by assorted growls and barks and cries of "Moo Shu---NO! Stop it, Moo Shu!" Yes, TWO full nights...I may never have a taste for Chinese food again. Should Moo Shu's owners be on this list, I'm sorry---I'm sure he's a lovely creature and a fine pet---but he does not like camping. Trust me on this.) True, it could be the cut, but I think Lucy's hair-flipping has been around for a lot longer than "of late"--- I remember it from quite a while back. It's a neat little onstage trick and always gets a laugh...although I'm never sure when she says "It's better, isn't it?" afterward, because I always think it looked perfectly good in the first place. She may worry, but if Lucy's ever actually HAD a really bad hair day, I haven't witnessed it. In any case, how very excellent that you are getting Lucy in Minneapolis next month, Timothy. We in New York will be experiencing a minor Lucy drought by that time, since she won't really be back in the vicinity until late October (and no, I hasten to explain, I'm not complaining, lest I incite the wrath of Dierk in Germany and all the others who don't see Lucy often if at all...I'm lucky to see her as much as I do and I know it). Anyway, I assume we can trust you to provide reviews for us when the time comes. :-) Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #174 ******************************* 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