From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #59 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, March 15 2003 Volume 05 : Number 059 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Producers [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V5 #58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:20:20 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Producers Thanks, Libby and Sharon, for your producer comments. I love learning stuff from lists! It does make such a difference how the songs are put together for the CDs...it's one of those things one doesn't necessarily tend to think about too much as a listener, hearing only the final recorded outcome. I don't know how Lucy in particular figures out how things will be---how much is her and how much has to do with the producer---but your comments made me think about how, much as I love the live version of Written on the Back of His Hand, I ADORE the CD version. I think some of that has to do with this particular rhythmic clacking (not the technical term, I'm sure, but the best way I can think to describe it) that starts up right around my beloved 2nd stanza ("Water is holy..." etc.). It's a driven song anyway, but once that rhythm starts up, it gets kicked up a notch and totally draws me in...it's just magical to me every time I hear it. (Even thinking about it, I had to take another listen; as many times as I've listened before, it still affects me.) Yet it took me ages to even specifically NOTICE that sound and how it impacted the song. And I'm sure, had I simply heard the live version of the song and thought about how it might be recorded, I never would've said, "Hey, let's put in this clacking thing!" But somebody did, and it works. Guess this all springs, too, from my being in a phase of trying to notice the littler things in music...ever since I went to the symphony with my aunt last weekend and, being me, spent most of my time watching this woman hanging out in the back corner of the orchestra who was just sitting there, still and silent, through 95 percent of it. I was having these fantasies of how she must be a journalist spending time with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra in order to eventually write an in-depth book of the sociological sort that I love to read...except she wasn't even taking NOTES. I thought she must be bored...everybody else in a flurry of orchestral action. But there she sat for probably an hour and three quarters. And then suddenly, with the show nearly over, up she stood...PING! PING! She was, of course, the triangle player. She had waited so patiently for her big moment, and I was psyched for her. It's got to be rough being the triangle player. ("Wow, you play in the symphony? What do you play?"..."The triangle"..."Oh, uh---that's nice. Musta studied that one for YEARS, huh?") And how many people even NOTICE the triangle parts? Anyway, I clapped especially hard for the triangle player. Which has nothing much to do with anything, I guess, except that it's funny how some mornings I wake up and head off to work and feel kinda like a triangle player myself... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:22:37 -0500 (EST) From: Elwestrand Subject: [lucy-list] Re: lucy-list-digest V5 #58 > Some of my musician friends and I play this game... if I win the > lotto, if I could have anyone in the world produce my album, who > would it be?! Buddy Miller is usually at the top of my list, but > my latest answer is Nora Lender. I really don't know anything > about her other than she's in Californian and she produced Cosy > Sheridan's album "Grand Design"... and I think it's such a > brilliantly produced album... > > > G'night - > Libby Can you speak a bit too why you think that? Anything a layperson would understand? Like for instance which Lucy has the best production? Just Curious, Lisa ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #59 ****************************** 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