From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #213 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 Monday, September 16 2002 Volume 04 : Number 213 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] The Rest of the Story... [lucy-list] more Evangeline Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show [lucy-list] Lucy "homecoming" in Faribault, MN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:09:39 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] The Rest of the Story... Hooray, Timothy! (Clapping.) Excellent reviewing, as I knew it would be. Sorry, but you don't get to "keep your day job"---when Lucy's in your vicinity, you're still on for reviews. See, setlists aren't so terribly important...the gist of it is what matters. Yeah, having one of the guitar pros playing with Lucy really adds something to the show and changes the way Lucy performs...I used to think I definitely liked her solo shows better, no matter what, but I realized that was because I'd heard some full-band shows where the sound really wasn't good---there was a Bottom Line show quite a while back where it was really hard to hear Lucy distinctly over the instruments. Later on I realized that if Lucy has accompaniment and the sound balance is right, it's just GREAT. The only thing that still might edge out the solo shows as what I prefer is that they give Lucy more latitude to play whatever she wants...but the range of possibilities with accompaniment has gotten wide enough (glad that I'm Looking Through You has worked its way into that list too!) so that this doesn't even matter so much. Funny about the Peanuts picture and getting Lucy to sign it that way...she's right, that WOULD make a great album cover! Glad she liked the amethyst...and I can't believe you really did bring the basalt! :-) Poor Lucy...here she is, trying to have a serious career, and these fans of hers keep playing up stuff about bugs and rocks...but hey, she started it (well, the bug thing at least!). And if she were trying to have THAT deadly serious a career, she wouldn't bring out her dad's songs. (Incidentally, I think she usually mentions that he's written about 20 songs...and I've heard, let's see, Song About Pi, That's Mathematics, On an Asteroid with You, and my favorite, the Alphabet Song, but that's only four...so I always kind of wonder about the other 16! I have his sheet music for the first three---Lucy is absolutely correct that he DOES send it if you ask him, and I asked a couple of years ago. And even when I moved from Queens to Brooklyn and in the moving process vowed to dispose of EVERYTHING I didn't use, given the cramped state of NYC apartments and all, and even though I've never DONE anything with Lucy's dad's sheet music and have long known the words to the songs anyway, I've never quite been able to bring myself to get rid of it...) Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:59:35 -0700 From: "Morten Strand" Subject: [lucy-list] more Evangeline Just to add to Sharon's comment about 'Evangeline'; The 'Evangeline' Lucy sang Thursday night was the Robbie Robertson song originally found on The Band's 'The Last Waltz', with guest vocal by Emmylou Harris. It later became the title song of one of Emmy's albums from the early 80's (I think). First couple of verses and the chorus goes something like this: She stands on the banks of the mighty Mississippi Alone in the pale moonlight Waiting for a man, a riverboat gambler Said that he's return tonight They used to waltz on the banks of the mighty Mississippi Loving the whole night through He was a riverboat gambler off to make a killin' And brining it back to you Chorus: Evangeline Evangeline Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen That pulled her man away Morten - --- Morten Strand - --- solbuecm@rconnect.com - --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:42:35 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Thank you thank you thank you!!! I'll see you there. I'm leaving aroun 2ish so i should be there by 5:30-6 at the latest - -Kristen >From: Brian Steffen >Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org >To: lucy-list@smoe.org >Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show >Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:42:02 -0500 (CDT) > >Kristen (and anyone else going to Ames): > >1. Take I-35 north of Des Moines to Ames (about 30 miles). > >2. Exit on Highway 30 West (Exit 111, I believe). > >3. Exit Highway 30 at Elwood Drive and head north. > >4. Take Elwood Drive to Lincoln Way, turn left (west). > >5. Go abou a half mile to the Memorial Union (where the Maintenance Shop >is located). It's on the north side of Lincoln Way. There's a parking >ramp attached to it, so it's hard to miss. > >6. The parking ramp is on the east side of the Union. Go in the east door >fo the Union, walk through the building to west side and to the lowest >level. The M-Shop is right next to the west door of the Union. > >7. Try to get there 45 minutes early if you can. The Shop seats only >about 200 and most shows such as this fill early. > >See you there, > >Brian > >On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Kristen Myshrall wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > Does anyone know the easiest way to get onto the Iowa State campus for >the > > Ames show on Tuesday? I looked on their website but the directions >aren't > > very good. I'm coming up from Kansas and I've got the directions figured >out > > all the way to Rt 30. Which exit should i take off of that? > > > > Thanks to anyone that can help > > Kristen > > who gets lost everytime she attempts to go to a new place..just ask >Libby :) > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:04:59 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy "homecoming" in Faribault, MN Well, my magical mystery Lucy tour ended today and she should be on her way to parts south and east of here in short order. But what an ideal day in the park! Wow! Lucy had a full hour slot in prime time and she sure made efficient and wise use of it. Seeing three shows in a row like I had, there was the possibility of a let-down, but Lucy was in cheerful, almost buoyant form and full of surprises. She truly lucked-out on the weather, true to her name.(on the front page of the local morning paper that day they had mentioned her gig in the following way: Headliners for the day are Lucky Kaplansky, a nationally-known folk/rock artist, who will play at 3:00 PM..) I showed this to Lucky at the meet-and-greet and she was not at all surprised. You would not believe how many times Ive seen that typo before!, she said. But in this case it was appropriate. A weekend that had started breezy, wet, and cool had become crystal clear and about 70 degrees at the time of her set. The weather was a real bonus for us because the family unit and I had arisen out of bed at 5:15 AM to rush out of the house and try to get to Faribault by 7:00 AM for a hot-air balloon rally liftoff. These rallies need rain-free, wind-free, high-ceiling weather or they do not launch. This morning was perfect! We got there in time to see all twenty five balloons fill, lift-off, and soar into the west together in the bright golden morning light. We followed them cross-country through the lakes region and parked the car to watch them land in a hay field about a half hour later. We shot a whole roll of film on themleaving no shots for the Lucy part of the day. But we had time to remedy that and buy more film. After lunch, we headed on down to Teepee Tonka park, (site of a former native American encampment and where I used to strike out regularly in Little League Baseball back in the sixties). There is a beautiful river along one side of the heavily wooded park and a pair of railroad tracks along the other, which added a bit of drama a couple of times during the show. Wife and child were there with me and, as wife and Lucy had not yet met, I decided to do the strategically right thing and arranged for Lucy to dedicate Ten Year Night to my wife because we had just celebrated ten years of wedded.bliss. Lucy found her face in the crowd for the dedication, which amplified the positive effect. They met for the first time and talked after the show without me present (and, boy, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation!) Musically, this show started similarly to the other shows, with SDM, WOBH, DMM, ILTY and BT but then took a wild turn with Secret Journey from her first album. I have never heard her do that one before and Im not sure who, if anyone, on this list has. Then the aforementioned dedication on TYN (which I now call in my notes Take 10), Scorpion and GAS followed, then another surprise: a rousing rendition of Whats So Funny Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding. She then settled down by playing a piano tune, JYT on an electric piano while standing up! She said she had never played piano standing up before and I believed her, it seemed to be a new experience being face-to-face with the crowd while playing. (I snapped a couple photos to share with yall, in due time). LOL was next followed by Judy Collins Someday Soon which has been showing up a lot lately, perhaps because Lucy is still riding high on those gigs she did with her teen idol last summer. She closed with another of Julie Miller songs, BWOS. Fourteen songs in a little under an hour. Pretty good pace, but not as much time for talking. Still she took the time to inquire about the local insect population and comment on the fine weather we were having, the failed movie that had written her into the script, the nature of true love, her track on the new CD Chicks Do Greg, and share some reflections on Cry Cry Cry. Great job, Lucy! To make this day a complete slam dunk for me, I ran into a bunch of old music-buddies from my very first Wednesday night music-making group (back in the 80s and early 90s). They got me caught up on whos doin what these days. Furthermore, at least eight members of my CURRENT, ALTERNATE Wednesday night music-making group made the one hour drive down from the Twin Cities to share the day with us. Two of these were regular participants in my CURRENT, highly percussive Wednesday night group that Ive hosted on alternating Wednesday for eight years. Only one of these visiting friends had ever been to Faribault before and they all said they enjoyed the festival enough to return to do it again next year. Thats what the festival organizers love to see (two of whom were my childhood friends Marnie and Roger). The crowd I estimated at between 500 and 1000 at the time when Lucy played, respectable for a town of 18,000. Most importantly, there were a LOT of interested folks buying CDs and having them signed at the meet-and greet afterward which is what festival PERFORMERS love to see. My visiting friends did a very good deed just as Lucy was starting her set. One asked me, How come no-one is sitting right up in front of the stage? I said, I dunno! so we all moved up there (about a dozen of us) and another fifty or so followed filling in the great gap in the lawn that had been there. I really think Lucy appreciated that.the crowd had likely seemed a little distant before. And I think the intimacy of the show was raised enormously because of that quick thinking and simple gesture. (All of these friends were folk-hip, cheering when Lucy mentioned Cry Cry Cry, wowing when she described the artists on the new Chicks Do Greg album, etc.) You may be wondering why I titled this post Homecoming in Faribault. Its because this park was where I saw my very first Lucy show many years ago. This was her first time back. There ya go! I now pass the torch onto the Iowans, the Brits, the Scots and the Irish. I need a good nights sleep! Etimothy (back in South Minneapolis) - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #213 ******************************* 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