From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #211 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, September 14 2002 Volume 04 : Number 211 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] song help RE: [lucy-list] song help Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on NPR Re: [lucy-list] Small Dark Movie [lucy-list] Lucy on the radio this morning Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on the radio this morning Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on NPR [lucy-list] best produced record 2002 [lucy-list] Lucy in LaCrosse Thursday night [lucy-list] Lucy in LaCrosse...authors vs. singers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:36:39 -0400 From: Steve Robertson Subject: Re: [lucy-list] song help on 9/12/02 9:26 PM, Bill McDonough at bill.mcdonough@rcn.com wrote: > Heard a song about 9-11 that was really good but am not sure who did it. It > was a man singing about how he and the rest were racing down the stairs > while the firefighters were running up. Anybody know that one? Thanks. Jack Williams wrote a song that's just the opposite. It's in the voice of firefighter Ray Speranza and mentions the people going both ways on the stairs a few times. You can hear a live recording of that song here: http://www.ragamuffin.fsbusiness.co.uk/sept11th.htm As long as I'm plugging Southern singer/songwriters, I think fans of Lucy would also like Atlanta favorite Libby Eason. She just put together an MP3.com page with a few full length examples of her songs. Only three very good songs there at the moment, but she says there will be more there shortly: http://www.mp3.com/LibbyEason - -- From the Georgia Pines, Steve Robertson ==================================== _________Fiddlin' Around____________ The Journal of American Roots Music on the web at http://www.starchart.com/ ==================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:29:59 -0400 From: "Bill McDonough" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] song help Thanks to everyone who responded with the info on that song. Knew somebody on the list could provide the answer. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: simona loberant Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on NPR You need to download realplayer to access most of the NPR streams. They are mostly .ram files and only real player can read these. You can get real player for free by going to www.real.com and I think tehre's also a link from www.npr.org that will allow you to download the real player. if all goes correctly then when you click on the link real player will pop up automatically and buffer and then stream the section you're trying to listen to. ~simona Gina wrote:First of all, I have had a hard time opening up the file with Lucy on NPR. Can you guys tell me what "player" you used to hear it? At this time, I think I only have Window's Media Player installed and it's not functioning correctly. Second, I have not been reading all of the posts lately, so forgive me if I am being redundant... There was a story on one of the morning shows about a fire fighting crew that was running up the stairs. They found a woman just at the time that they decided that it was a lost cause and were heading down. They brought her with, but she was very slow. They kept pace with her as if she was one of their own team. As it turns out, she stopped on the 4th floor and they stopped with her. It turns out that being in exactly the place that they were, because of her, is the only reason they escaped death that day. Simona L. Loberant Since November 2000, there have been more than 11,000 unprovoked terror attacks against Israel. www.isupportisrael.net "Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power." **Leonardo da Vinci Yahoo! News - Today's headlines ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:03:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matt Pankratz" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Small Dark Movie > Benay > who doesn't play guitar or have one but who has this nagging feeling > that it's only a matter of time :-) Go get one right now. I started to play guitar in college. My father played for us when we were growing up and one weekend I dug out one of his old guitars. I currently own three guitars and the one I play the most is the one I started with. My dad bought it 35 years ago in a pawn shop in Wichita KS. It's a Harmony classical model and probably isn't worth 50$. But after the wife and the dog, it's probably the next thing I'd save from a burning building. The great thing about playing guitar in the sanctuary of your own home is that you don't have to be good or know a lot of cords and complex picking patterns. Bono said, "All I've got is a read guitar/Three Chords/And the Truth". Add some tabs for some Lucy songs and the rest is up to you. And Benay, when and if you start playing you can always fish for tips and trick for playing from Lucy. :) PS. There's a great David Wilcox song "Guitar Shopping" on his "What You Whispered" album. Check it out. We're going to see him in concert next Saturday in Omaha! - -- Matt Pankratz http://www.mattyp.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:08:51 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on the radio this morning Lucy has arrived in my town with much fanfare! At a Wednesday evening bonfire and sing-along, one of the friends I'm bringing along to Lucy's show mentioned that Lucy was going to have a working Lunch Thursday with the Red House Crew and one of the things they were going to discuss with her was whether she would have any objections to the Minnesota Greens (of which my friend was some kind of organizer) setting up and passing out literature at Lucy's Cedar Show Saturday night...and maybe would she make some kind of plug for the Green candidate for Governor from the stage. I said, "uh...I saw Dar Williams do that once but...uh...I just don't see Lucy getting that political. But it'll probably be OK with the literature." Today driving in to work, I was playing the tail end of "The Tide", the only Lucy cassette in my car at the time. When it finished and the dead air come on, I switched to Minnesota Public Radio where I quickly found they were interviewing Lucy live on the air and playing her songs! I missed the beginning of it but what I heard was great! They twice plugged all three of her Minnesota shows (Fri, Sat, and Sun) with detailed contact information. Way to go, Lucy! MPR covers our entire state! They also discussed how they arrived at the fianl arrangement for "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night". Lucy said that they tried several versions of it as a bluegrass number but none of them sounded unique in any way and lacked spark. Then Larry Campbell had some Neville Brothers song with a big slide guitar part in it pop into his head and they fused the two. The interviewer said "so then it's sort of like 'the Neville Brothers meet the the Louvin Brothers' then?", which got a got a good laugh. About the Firefighters on the 4th floor. I saw an interview with two of those guys on TV Wednesday and I couldn't believe what I heard. When they got the call to evacuate they were on the 29th floor and at the 4th floor a huge rushing wind enveloped them in the stairwell. When it settled down, they looked up and there was blue sky above them. Talk about a miraculous escape! I don't imagine Lucy's interview is up on the MPR website yet, but I suspect it will show up sometime in the near future. http://music.mpr.org/programs/morningshow/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:43:55 -0400 From: bbubar@hearst.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on the radio this morning And it's Timothy...out of the gate with the first Minnesota Lucy review (albeit a radio-interview review...but good nonetheless!). Hooray, Timothy! Just a little "positive reinforcement," as Lucy likes to say... Benay getting really excited by the whole guitar fantasy now...though the reality would probably require NOT being actually phobic about breaking strings, as was the case when I played the violin for 10 years...I STOPPED playing violin pretty much because the E string (thinnest one) broke one day and I tried to put on a new one and it snapped pretty much right in my face as I was just trying to tune it and it freaked me out...yup, my top Stupid Phobias at this point are probably 1)waterbugs, 2)driving, and 3)broken strings...which means I am always very impressed when Lucy breaks a string and just GOES ON with things...but I suppose guitar strings are a hardier in general than violin strings and don't tend to snap while being gently tuned, or to snap in one's face when they do go...all of which is exceedingly boring even by my general pretty low-level standards of Lucy-list patter, which is why I, like everyone else, will be looking forward to MORE REVIEWS FROM TIMOTHY! :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:13:28 -0700 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on NPR Thank you Simona :o) I have a new hard drive and didn't want to get too many players going on it. But, I will download RealPlayer. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "simona loberant" To: Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on NPR > You need to download realplayer to access most of the NPR streams. They are mostly .ram files and only real player can read these. You can get real player for free by going to www.real.com and I think tehre's also a link from www.npr.org that will allow you to download the real player. > if all goes correctly then when you click on the link real player will pop up automatically and buffer and then stream the section you're trying to listen to. > ~simona > Gina wrote:First of all, I have had a hard time opening up the file with Lucy on NPR. > Can you guys tell me what "player" you used to hear it? At this time, I > think I only have Window's Media Player installed and it's not functioning > correctly. > > Second, I have not been reading all of the posts lately, so forgive me if I > am being redundant... There was a story on one of the morning shows about a > fire fighting crew that was running up the stairs. They found a woman just > at the time that they decided that it was a lost cause and were heading > down. They brought her with, but she was very slow. They kept pace with > her as if she was one of their own team. As it turns out, she stopped on > the 4th floor and they stopped with her. It turns out that being in exactly > the place that they were, because of her, is the only reason they escaped > death that day. > > > Simona L. Loberant > > Since November 2000, there have been more than 11,000 unprovoked terror attacks against Israel. www.isupportisrael.net > > "Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power." > **Leonardo da Vinci > Yahoo! News - Today's headlines ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:42:32 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] best produced record 2002 i just started listening to eliis paul's new record..BY the way..there are backing vocals by jennifer kimball and the Queen of harmony...Lucy Kaplansky the production of this cd..places it on my top 10 list..The producer a guy we all know.. a guitar play.. with a fan club of his own... mr Duke Levine..congrats to Duke for painting the textures when they are needed, for allowing for sparseness when that is needed, for adding drums, and for adding Lucy and Jennifer and his own suburb guitar playing.. duke did the job in grand style... Maybe THE next LK cd should be produced by Duke Levine.. id love to see what he comes up with... sharon There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:11:48 -0700 From: "Morten Strand" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in LaCrosse Thursday night Hello everyone, Time to emerge from lurkdom for a brief report from Lucy's show "at a small rivertown in Wisconsin", as Timothy so aptly called it a couple of weeks ago. I'm getting the digest version of the list, so if somebody has already posted, bear with me. It takes a little over an hour to drive to LaCrosse from where I live here in northeast Iowa (one of Greg Brown's favorite trout fishing spots BTW). This time I made it in a LOT less time, due to a late start and my mix-up about the start of the concert. Fortunately for me, no highway patrolmen in sight and as an added bonus - we were the first ones there! Anyway, the Pump House used to be- you guessed it - a pumping station for the city waterworks built about 100 years ago. In the late 70's it was converted into an art gallery / concert venue, with an auditorium that seats roughly 130. Most of the doors and all the wonderful wood trim was evidently scavenged from other county buildings. Hence the door to the auditorium reads: WITNESS ROOM!!! And what the crowd witnessed (sorry I had to say it) was simply a great Lucy concert with many surprises. Dressed in embroidered bell-bottom jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt she started exactly on time, even if a few in the crowd hadn't quite found their seats yet. First set: Small Dark Movie One Good Reason I Had Something Ten Year Night (complete with the funny waterbug story) Don't Mind Me ???? (Can't for the life of me remember this one. Tried to write them down 3 - 4 at a time, but had to abandon that idea) I'm Looking Through You (fab Beatles cover!) Just You Tonight (only time she used the huge grand piano) Evangeline (The Band song, in honor of the Pump House being located right on the banks of the Mississippi. She couldn't quite remember all the lyrics, and nobody in the audience could help her out either. Seemed like this one was totally off the cuff.) Loch Lomond (prefaced by several stories about her faux pas while on tour in UK) Second set: Mary And The Soldier Scorpion (what a great song and guitar work!) Guilty As Sin Secret Journey (first time I'd ever her play it live) This Is Home Land Of The Living (many in the audience and Lucy herself were moved to tears) Alphabet Song Written On The Back Of His Hand End Of The Day By Way Of Sorrow Encores; both by request and with a warning that they were both "depressing". My choice, 'Mary Magdalene', didn't make it, though that would probably qualify as depressing too: Song For Molly Broken Things (I kept thinking about Benay's "Broken Toes", and was having really hard time keeping a straight face!:-)) After announcing that she would sign anythingafter the show, I settled for her sig on an event poster I tokk off the front door. We were home again by midnight, but I had to get up at 6 this morning, so apologies for the long delay. I heard Lucy on Minnesota Public Radio this morning (taped early yesterday afternoon, she told us). Nice interview, but album cuts only this time. Take care, Morten - ---Morten Strand - --- solbuecm@rconnect.com - --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 01:23:37 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in LaCrosse...authors vs. singers Wow, a surprise review! Thanks for "emerging from lurkdom" with the excellent description of the LaCrosse show, Morten! That made me really happy. (I mean, I assume it made other people happy too...I am indeed aware that the Lucy-list does not revolve specifically around making ME happy. Although, should anyone desire to start a list devoted solely to making me happy, be it known that I would not stand in that person's way.) Anyway, sounds like it was a great show. I can't think what Evangeline is as a song, though maybe I'd recognize it if I heard it...Mary and the Soldier is a relative live-show rarity, and I think I've only heard it live once, at the Bottom Line. I had no idea Lucy was going to be doing vocals on Ellis Paul's new CD! Sigh...I wasn't necessarily wanting that one urgently, but now I'm going to have to have it. And this just after I allowed myself to spring for the video of The Artist's Profile featuring Lucy, from ages and ages ago, that I never saw (at least I THINK I managed to order it...they didn't send me any nice helpful little email confirmation, but I'm hoping it will just arrive). As if my credit card hasn't had enough exercise lately...and I just bought a book last night, something I NEVER do. But it was a book by one of my absolute favorite authors who hadn't come out with a new book in seven years and who I hadn't realized WAS writing another book until I saw it in the store. Buying the book made me think about how I am, believe it or not, probably as devoted to my favorite authors as I am to my favorite singers...but devotion to favorite authors is much more difficult than devotion to favorite singers, especially when your favorite authors are weird. I sort of envy people who can say their favorite author is John Grisham or Charles Dickens---someone either popularly recognizable or who has become the subject of much scholarly literature. My favorite authors, besides Anne Fadiman (whom I've plugged here already---she's the easiest one to plug in public, and even she is pretty quirky), are Torey Hayden and Melanie Thernstrom (all together now: "Huh? WHO?"). Suffice it to say that one writes almost cloyingly inspiring memoirs about working in special education and the other one has written a couple of very, VERY dark and depressing memoir-ish books, and they are probably not the people anyone would necessarily peg as ANYBODY'S favorite authors, let alone mine, but I can't help what enthralls and absorbs me. I could go into lengthy explanations, but overall I just happen to love the way these people write. I have to love it by myself, though, because none of my friends like these authors and I haven't found any email lists devoted to them. And they don't go on tour often, if at all, which is probably good because the only time I saw one of them do a reading, it was fairly disastrous...Melanie Thernstrom read at a Barnes & Noble here in NY a couple of years ago, and I went, and just as I'd managed to adjust to the fact that she looked and sounded much different than the person I'd expected, I was in front of her for the signing, and I said something vaguely worshipful to her, and right behind me was a group of people who were all clearly personal friends of hers, and she was fairly kind but as I walked away I heard them---her included, I think---making uproarious fun of my reverent comments. Sorta killed the mood, even though I still love her writing. I must say, maybe it's because singers have to deal directly with their adoring public more often, but even the singers I don't really speak to generally leave me feeling better than that favorite-author encounter did. I mean, for all I know, perhaps Lucy rolls her eyes and sighs after every time she encounters dead-silent-or-randomly-babbling me in a post-concert signing line---as I quite possibly would, if I were she---but if so, she manages not to do so until after I've left the vicinity, and that is a nice thing. OK, off my soapbox and back to your regularly scheduled programming...Timothy now has one night of Lucy down and one to go! Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #211 ******************************* 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