From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #44 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 Tuesday, February 25 2003 Volume 05 : Number 044 In this issue: [lucy-list] a new new album [lucy-list] postscript to last night [lucy-list] Re:a new new album Re: [lucy-list] Re:a new new album [lucy-list] RE: lucy-list-digest V5 #43 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:06:52 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] a new new album benay here is the real voice that you hear in your head.. i dont think that at this point there can be a new cd.. i am reserved to think that Land of the Living, THis is home, i had something make a cd.. Lucy has three new songs that have been around a while and maybe maybe maybe there are some others in the works.. Lucys cds are been weighted..her songs.. covers.. as time as progressed.. more her songs.. less covers.. well chosen covers.. Lucy has a enough established new covers and always can surprise us with a joni mitchell Willy or two..to make a full cd .. but that leaves out LAnd of the Living.. the strongest of hte three new ones.. and not related to the other two.. LOTL is a great song.. but different than IHS and TIH...those two need to be reserved for a different song cycle.. and somewhere maybe there is a cd out there for those two songs.. so its LAND and Covers... I vote a covers cd.. or wait til there is more material.. By the way i agree with benay.. again.. for a unique music experience.. Beauty of the Rain.is just what you need in winter... the one better will be Rosanne Cash.. thanks to benay.. i have had this on play... it is the best acoustic sounding cd.. i have heard all year and will be in my top.. YEAh for a 7 year ache of a wait.. Steve Earle duets, daddy duets.. and Teddy Thompson duets.. Rosanne will rip back in the scene with this one... okay.. benay.. next up... sharonG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:44:08 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] postscript to last night To be filed under "things one probably shouldn't admit in public so as to preserve some shred of one's dignity": After my whole thought process about the first songs of the CDs, I had this brief flash last night when I went to bed of Lucy and Rick just saying the hell with it, Ten Year Night worked awfully well, let's just update THAT one...and I thought of how Lucy usually discusses before singing Ten Year Night how long it's been NOW since she met Rick, and remembered what I think that number is up to...and first all I could think of was an updated chorus: "And I must admit I've still got this love for you... Before this seventeen-and-a-half-year night is through..." OK, OK, I guess it's not really that funny. And neither is the other part that would need updating: "We're seventeen-and-a-half years older, I guess we are, And it's all kind of blurry to me now but---did we meet in a bar?" But at midnight, lying in bed and trying to make all those syllables scan (sort of) was just cracking me up, and I was thinking, they must be DARNED glad that song came along when it did, because it would've been much harder to write later on! Benay (who is coming down with what promises to be one of those truly horrible colds...and who can therefore claim temporary insanity with regards to this sort of thing) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:30:20 -0500 From: Donna Myers Subject: [lucy-list] Re:a new new album I'll agree that Dar's new one is wonderful. Did I miss the release of Rosanne Cash's? I'm really looking forward to her new one! I picked up Cheryl Wheeler's, "Different Stripe"(Greatest Hits)....and yes Benay it has "Gandhi/Buddha"...but with Marc Cohn on harmony, not Lucy. I still think that Lucy should cut a live album. It would answer the problem of covers vs. Lucy/Rick songs. She would have to include "If You Could See" on piano and maybe even perform it with "I Still Miss Someone"....as she is known to do. I can picture Lucy singing it at the Grammys!!! Donna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:32:44 +0000 From: "John Blackley" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re:a new new album Rosanne Cash's " Rules for Travel" is due for release on 24th March...according to her website. All the best to everyone on the list. John. Donna Myers izon.net> cc: Sent by: Subject: [lucy-list] Re:a new new album owner-lucy-lis t@smoe.org 24/02/03 14:30 Please respond to lucy-list I'll agree that Dar's new one is wonderful. Did I miss the release of Rosanne Cash's? I'm really looking forward to her new one! I picked up Cheryl Wheeler's, "Different Stripe"(Greatest Hits)....and yes Benay it has "Gandhi/Buddha"...but with Marc Cohn on harmony, not Lucy. I still think that Lucy should cut a live album. It would answer the problem of covers vs. Lucy/Rick songs. She would have to include "If You Could See" on piano and maybe even perform it with "I Still Miss Someone"....as she is known to do. I can picture Lucy singing it at the Grammys!!! Donna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:20:00 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] RE: lucy-list-digest V5 #43 >>>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!<<<< Benay, while we certainly appreciate and enjoy your speculations (as you know, I enjoy speculating about Lucy albums too!) keep in mind the power of "the Producer(s)". Recall the early versions of "Back of His Hand" were very sparse arrangements with Lucy strumming on solo guitar and, while it moved along at a pretty good clip, it lacked punch. Then the producer (Benn Wittman?) got hold of it and made it into a powerful song. That could happen again to a song we already know. You may be right, however, that THAT particular song has not appeared to us yet on stage. But I would not doubt that there's something already out there with the potential to be expanded through production. Then again, there's also the case of the song "Every Single Day" itself -- which was completely off the radar in her live shows before the CD. This song was co-written by her guitar player, Duke Levine--he wrote the melody, Lucy wrote the lyrics. I'm sure the band (who have been a working unit now for at least two CDs) would be very happy to co-compose with Lucy from an eariler point in time (rather than just while rehearsing for the studio sessions). They probably dream up new Lucy songs at night while they are tossing and turning in bed after a gig. Wouldn't YOU? ETimothy in South Minneapolis ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #44 ****************************** 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