From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #43 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, February 24 2003 Volume 05 : Number 043 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Dentists and Music School.. Re: [lucy-list] Dentists and Music School.. [lucy-list] latest new album musings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:00:32 EST From: NCdoc8@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Dentists and Music School.. For Benay and others who were wondering.... Lucy was hired to perform at a convention for Periodontists that was being held in Greensboro, NC. It was held on the UNC-G campus at the School of Music. It was first intended for just the dentists, but thankfully, the show was eventually opened up to the public. I don't have a set list, but it was a wonderful show! She did some of the usuals (Air Guitar story, Pi song (which seemed to be a big hit to a mostly "older" crowd of dentists and their spouses). She also sang "How Much Did it Cost You" as an encore and revealed that it is her mom's favorite song "because its zippy". After the show, Lucy was her incredibly charming and gracious self. She proudly reported to everyone that she has "perfect" teeth and gums and has never had even a single cavity. She posed for pictures and stayed to chat to everyone who was interested.....And ok...my own personal highlight....I got to carry a box full of CD's to her car for her....I had never considered myself a goupie of any kind before.....well I guess next time I will have to bake brownies before the show. Friday night (no mention on the list so far) Lucy played Charlotte at the Neighborhood theatre. Again I have no set list, but some highlights were a few new songs that she plans to put on next years new release. She also played the chorus from "Carolina on my Mind" a famous James Taylor song. Of course, she forgot most of the words and when she asked for help from the audience, someone called out that the words were "Can't you just taste the moonshine".....Lucy accepted this at first until the crowd laughter got to her and she let the perpetrator have it. She did play "My Name Joe" for me as a request. Sorry for the lack of more info....I was hoping I would not have to serve as the NC correspondent...but I will try to do a better job next time. Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:25:03 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Dentists and Music School.. Gosh, THANKS for that report, Lenny! So it was TRUE about the show for periodontists! I honestly hadn't believed it could be. Wow! And Lucy's NEVER had a cavity? As someone born with bad teeth who feared the dentist so much as a child that I literally used to distract my parents during toothpaste commercials on TV in vain hopes that they would not remember to schedule my next dental appointment (with a dentist who was truly straight out of Little Shop of Horrors---I swear he enjoyed causing pain, especially to frightened children), to hear of an adult who's never had a cavity seems like something out of folklore! I think I might have to start admiring Lucy first for her TEETH and then for her singing! I was fooled by "Can't you just taste the moonshine" too, by the way...it took me a good 20 seconds to figure out why those weren't the words and why it was funny! See, we wouldn't KNOW these things without reports! So thanks again for stepping in as our NC correspondent, Lenny---you did wonderfully! Well, with Lucy's having been down south this week, it has been a week of alternate entertainment for us New York Lucy-listers, which has turned into a little festival of Lucy band members: first Ben Butler in Dar's band for her CD release concert on Tuesday, and then Ben Wittman playing at the Bottom Line last night with Patty Larkin for HER new CD tour. Certain people (i.e., Sharon) have been teasing me rather mercilessly about not recognizing Lucy's band members out of context (i.e., when they're not onstage WITH Lucy). Well, I DO recognize them...eventually...but it's sort of like when you're in elementary school and you run into your teacher in, say, the grocery store, and you're not fully certain it can be the same person. I guess I sort of picture Lucy's band members as playing with Lucy, then sitting home twiddling their thumbs until Lucy needs them again. But the secret is out: They play with OTHER people! Luckily, they seem to have pretty good taste in other people to play with. And, by the way, when you can't see Lucy, seeing Dar and Patty Larkin is not a half-bad fate. Could say more, but duties call...will have to save it for later. Benay - ---------- >From: NCdoc8@aol.com >To: lucy-list@smoe.org >Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Dentists and Music School.. >Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 10:00 AM > > For Benay and others who were wondering.... > > Lucy was hired to perform at a convention for Periodontists that was being > held in Greensboro, NC. It was held on the UNC-G campus at the School of > Music. It was first intended for just the dentists, but thankfully, the show > was eventually opened up to the public. > > I don't have a set list, but it was a wonderful show! She did some of the > usuals (Air Guitar story, Pi song (which seemed to be a big hit to a mostly > "older" crowd of dentists and their spouses). She also sang "How Much Did > it Cost You" as an encore and revealed that it is her mom's favorite song > "because its zippy". > > After the show, Lucy was her incredibly charming and gracious self. She > proudly reported to everyone that she has "perfect" teeth and gums and has > never had even a single cavity. She posed for pictures and stayed to chat > to everyone who was interested.....And ok...my own personal highlight....I > got to carry a box full of CD's to her car for her....I had never considered > myself a goupie of any kind before.....well I guess next time I will have to > bake brownies before the show. > > Friday night (no mention on the list so far) Lucy played Charlotte at the > Neighborhood theatre. Again I have no set list, but some highlights were a > few new songs that she plans to put on next years new release. She also > played the chorus from "Carolina on my Mind" a famous James Taylor song. Of > course, she forgot most of the words and when she asked for help from the > audience, someone called out that the words were "Can't you just taste the > moonshine".....Lucy accepted this at first until the crowd laughter got to > her and she let the perpetrator have it. She did play "My Name Joe" for me > as a request. > > Sorry for the lack of more info....I was hoping I would not have to serve as > the NC correspondent...but I will try to do a better job next time. > > Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:54:55 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] latest new album musings So since the release of Dar's new album earlier this week (which is, by the way, wonderful...everyone who doesn't have it yet should go right out and buy The Beauty of the Rain), the Dar-list has been frequently immersed in discussion of it, and fascinated as I've been with that, it's gotten me pondering...again...what else?...Lucy's new album. Of course, not many of us seem to be pondering this too heavily yet, perhaps hindered by the small obstacles that: 1. Lucy's new album does not yet exist, and 2. Nobody knows, aside from some vague references from Lucy to the planning of it, just when it WILL exist. In an interview to which someone here kindly posted a link a few weeks back, I think I remember reading how Lucy said something about wanting to wait until the time was right to be sure the new album would be the best it could be, and how Red House was very supportive of her that way. Which caused for me, on one hand, MUCH metaphorical gnashing of teeth, because a part of me would like the new album YESTERDAY, thank you very much! Lucy has so much material that's just begging to be recorded; I could easily list 10 or 12 songs that I think should be on the new album. Then again, it's an interesting situation, because most of the songs I really think Lucy needs to record---in fact, ALL of them, aside from Land of the Living, I Had Something, and This Is Home (and Role Model, the angry prequel, but I think that one's off the radar and out of the running completely)---are cover songs, and the ratio of cover songs to Lucy songs on a Lucy album hasn't been that high since The Tide. And maybe Lucy has a trove of her own songs waiting in the wings, I don't know---but I think I'd heard a whole lot of the songs on Every Single Day at shows well in advance of the CD, so I don't necessarily think she would be keeping lots of stuff out of public hearing. But anyway, even if the new album was mostly cover songs, that would be no bad thing. I could even argue for Lucy's making the next album ALL cover songs and saving her own material for after that---Lucy's so amazing with covers that they become hers in a unique way, and she chooses them so well that such an album would be pure pleasure. I'd give a lot (A lot? Like HOW much, Benay?...Well, OK, Internal Voice That Sounds Kind of Like Sharon, if you must know, not my right arm or anything, but certainly the requisite $15 or so!!) to be able to fire up an official Lucy CD that included More Than This, Someday Soon, I'm Looking Through You, Hot Burrito #1, Cowboy Singer, and...well, the list goes on. I guess my feeling is that if the next album ISN'T going to be all covers, I'm willing to wait (not that I have a choice...but I mean, I will wait more contentedly than impatiently) at least until it's sure to have what all the other Lucy albums have: what I will rather obviously call, for lack of original thoughts this evening, a First Song. All Lucy's CDs are eminently listenable through and through, but the first song on each, though they are very different from one another---The Tide, Scorpion, Ten Year Night, Written on the Back of His Hand---has a particularly distinct power. These First Songs are not necessarily internally complex, but they are all written by Lucy and Rick and, with their strength and depth and fairly simple but immensely compelling choruses, they announce in no uncertain terms (in a way that's always rather thrilled me), You Are Now Listening to Lucy Kaplansky! They hook you right away. (Well, OK, maybe I'm biased because admittedly at this point, Lucy could sing the phone book and it would hook ME right away...but Ten Year Night, which Lucy sang the first time I ever saw her in concert, with Cry Cry Cry, and then The Tide and Scorpion, hooked me even when I was a Lucy neophyte.) The First Song theory puts me in a bind this time around, however. Of the new songs, Land of the Living is I think the strongest, and its chorus is certainly compelling, and it's gotten the most attention and acclaim, and when people shout out what needs to be on the new album, that's the song they usually mention first...so it would seem to be the leading contender for First Song. Yet somehow (though this is merely personal opinion), I would rather NOT see the new Lucy album be titled Land of the Living, with Land of the Living as First Song. It's just too specific, too much its own entity. It may be the best 9/11 song out there, and surely it's a Lucy song through and through, but it still says 9/11 more than it says Lucy Kaplansky. That's right and proper for that song...but it's just not, to me, a First Song of New Album song. Yet I can't really see I Had Something or This Is Home as First Song either...maybe second or third, but not First Song...and that isn't a quality judgement, just an observation on the TYPE of song that I think ought to be first given past (highly successful, in my mind) First Songs. So, what is holding up the new Lucy album right now---not officially but simply in my own personal little fantasy construction of it!---is mostly the fact that I have no good solution for First Song. Easy enough for ME to say Lucy and Rick should just crank out another Ten Year Night or Written on the Back of His Hand...I'm no songwriter (even if I wish I were), but I'm pretty sure these things don't just pop out of the heavens at convenient moments! In my mind, though, eager as I am...it's worth waiting for. Well, now that I have probably bored you all quite sufficiently for one day with all these ponderings over something that---yes, I know it---does not in any form even EXIST---I shall take my leave. Just figured we shouldn't let the small fact that there IS no new Lucy album let us fall too far behind the Dar-list on new-album chat, even if I am the only one doing much chatting about it at the moment! Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #43 ****************************** 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