From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #79 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, April 8 2003 Volume 05 : Number 079 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago Re: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago Re: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 1) [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 2) [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 3) [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-Part 1 [lucy-list] UK 2003 - No Shows Planned ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 9:24:11 -0400 From: Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago Are there any other Lucy-listers going to see Our Girl in Chicago on 4/27? I'm travelling from Omaha to see both shows. Rick V vosmo ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:29:22 -0700 (PDT) From: rpniew Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago Since it's my own backyard, I'll be there. I reaaly hope it'll be better than her last Chicago performance. - --- vosmo@cox.net wrote: > Are there any other Lucy-listers going to see Our > Girl in Chicago on 4/27? I'm travelling from Omaha > to see both shows. > > Rick V > vosmo Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:45:50 -0500 From: Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago I'll be plopped in Row A for both shows, on the aisle for the early show and dead center for the second...the benefits of being an Old Town School member! - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:24 AM Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy In Chicago > Are there any other Lucy-listers going to see Our Girl in Chicago on 4/27? I'm travelling from Omaha to see both shows. > > Rick V > vosmo ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:20:52 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 1) Trouble with posting size limits here, folks...please bear with me if anything repeats. Hello again from New York, the city where nature's computer operator clearly forgot to hit "save" after starting up spring---the spring programming kind of worked for a while, but the system has now crashed and we have reverted back to the last saved version of New York City weather, which was apparently midwinter with near-blizzard conditions. Bring on the caroling and hot cocoa! And may I mention to you all that you have not truly had an adventure until you have trudged half a mile home from the subway in semi-blinding snow, dragging heavy luggage, wearing spring clothing (the warmest item being a leather jacket that had better be as truly waterproof as it claims to be)! Anyway, now that I have dried off just enough so as to no longer be in danger of dripping on the keyboard, I will make mention of my concert adventures since I joined you last. Thanks for your input on the Owings Mills show, Phil---it was a pleasure to meet you there, and I also enjoyed meeting Chris Patterson at the Susan Werner show on Friday---it's nice to put names with faces. And speaking of the Susan show, it was so good as to make me not mind too much having to miss a night of Lucy and Richard---the Barns of Wolf Trap was a fantastic venue, and she did two great songs I'd heard OF but had never heard live before, Got to See the Body and Let's Regret This in Advance. (I know this is not the Susan Werner list, but there's a crossover audience, and if you like Lucy, chances are you'd like Susan too). The next night, Saturday, we did not have a concert to attend, so we got our quota of good music through watching the Susan Werner DVD, All Mapped Out (highly recommended; I had been thinking of buying a DVD player just to be able to watch it, and now that I have seen it, I am still thinking of buying a DVD player just to watch it again!). On Sunday afternoon (yesterday), Libby and Joanne and I made our way to Harrisonburg, blasting Cry Cry Cry and pointing out all the cows alongside the road--- which, incidentally, appear to outnumber the people in rural Virginia. (Keep in mind that this was what we were doing on the way to Harrisonburg; it comes into play briefly later.) After the cowspotting portion of the trip, the route to Harrisonburg from the D.C. area---well, ONE of the routes to Harrisonburg from the D.C. area---goes through the Shenendoah area, which is absolutely gorgeous. It is also absolutely mountainous. During the first half hour of rising and dipping and swerving, my thoughts were along the lines of, "This is SO gorgeous." During the second half hour, my thoughts were along the lines of, "This might be really gorgeous if I didn't feel so nauseated." During the last hour, my thoughts were pretty much reduced to "WANT OUT OF CAR." However, we finally made it to Harrisonburg and had time to get our stomachs settled and bolt down a quick dinner before taking our front-row seats in the Court Square Theater, a smallish (maybe 200 seats?) auditorium located, as Lucy eventually told us, in a former car showroom. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:23:22 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 2) Richard played his set first this time, and he was as ON as I'd ever seen him, far cheerier and wittier than I'd expected. And few guitar troubles this time. He'd never been to Harrisonburg before, and he remarked on how it had only taken him three hours and 50 minutes to get there from the Philadelphia area. Lucy later admitted that it had taken her much longer given that she didn't like to drive more than five miles over the speed limit, and they had a little conversation about it and decided he'd passed her on the way. (Remember this too; it also comes into play briefly later.) Richard played: Reunion Hill Waiting for the Storm Lazy Gray Green (new song about putting children to sleep---really good) Che Guevera T-Shirt A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress (by request) The Next Best Western (with Lucy) Are You Happy Now? (with Lucy) Last Fare of the Day After the intermission came Lucy with: Cowboy Singer Written on the Back of His Hand Secret Journey The Thread (I like it more every time I hear it, though I still haven't got the words down) Ten Year Night (with Richard) I Had Something (with Richard) Scorpion (with Richard) One Good Reason (with Richard) Don't Mind Me This Is Home Land of the Living By Way of Sorrow (with Richard) When Lucy and Richard (they couldn't decide what to call it when they toured together---Cry Squared was suggested, as was Lucy and Ricky...but Lucy said they couldn't be Lucy and Ricky since her husband was Rick) came back for the encore, they gave us a delightful surprise: The Kid, with Richard doing harmony! It was different from the Lucy-and-Dar version on the Cry Cry Cry album, but absolutely wonderful. Then Richard barely started to play something---maybe Farewell to St. Delores---and stopped and said he had changed his mind. Lucy looked worried, but he assured her it was something she knew...and they launched into an incredible rendition of Sin City. The trip would have been worth it, carsickness and all, for just those two encores! It was close to 11 p.m. when our little group started the two-hour journey back---on flatter roads this time. We almost made it, too. I was just thinking about what good time we were making, and how it was more like Richard's driving time than Lucy's driving time. And naturally that was when, at about 12:30 a.m., we got pulled over. In my bleary state, given Lucy's and Richard's voices still fresh in my head, and the earlier listen to Cry Cry Cry (including Shades of Gray), and the vast quantities of cows in the area, I swear that my first momentary thought there on the side of the road---as the flashing lights spun behind us, as we kept our hands in our laps (having had the helpful thought that one doesn't reach suddenly for anything in these situations), as we waited for the officer to sidle up to our window----was that we were being nabbed for cattle rustling. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:25:24 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-4/6 (Part 3) But no...the issue actually turned out to be (surprise!) speeding. Of course, THEN, not being one who has done much treading on the dark side of the law, I started thinking, "Wow! My first time being stopped for speeding!" Never mind the fact that I wasn't actually DRIVING---and that the reason I wasn't actually driving, and a large part of the reason I don't drive at ALL, EVER, was the fact that I am uncomfortable navigating a vehicle at any speed greater than seven miles per hour (I am probably the only person to whom that movie about the guy driving a tractor halfway across the country qualified as an action film). Anyway, I was guiltily enthralled by the fact that we had a dashing young policeman (OK, so it was dark and I was in the backseat, so he might have been an old decrepit guy for all I knew, but I chose to believe he was a dashing young policeman) asking for license and registration---just the way I'd always heard these things were supposed to go! And after he lumbered back to his car to run a check on us, it was almost poetic when he returned and drawled, "I'm gonna cut you a break..." Yes, we were blessedly let go on our way with a warning. And I was halfway convinced that my thoughtful travel companions had orchestrated the whole thing just to make sure I wasn't bored... So that was that. But I will also share the exciting news that yesterday morning, before Harrisonburg, I had my first-ever guitar lesson, from the exalted Libby Wiebel, yesterday morning. As expected, I was a quick study ("You are the most brilliant guitar student ever!" said Libby...well, OK, no, she didn't say that...but since I had gotten up at 5:30 in the morning on Thursday to get to D.C. in time to hear her sing, I think she WOULD have said this to me had I seen fit to demand it), and I soon actually learned a chord: E minor. Naturally precocious as I am with these things, it took me only minutes to write my very first original guitar song. And while I am very worried that someone will record it before I do and steal the royalties that are coming to me, upon which I am basing my retirement plan as of today, I have decided that I trust you all enough to share my song with you. So here goes. It's in E minor. It's ALL in E minor, fervently (one might say feverishly) strummed. And it goes: "She played only one cho-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-rd, Which all others igno-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-red, And she never got bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-red... HEY!" This song, in my view, has everything. Fascination value (the third-person characterization draws you in). Pathos (the subject of the song only plays one chord...how sad). Intrigue (WHY does she only play one chord?). Hope (maybe she'll learn another chord someday!). Excitement (the "HEY!" is unexpected and therefore a highly original and thrilling twist). In fact, I might have presented Lucy with a CD of this song, except that I was afraid she'd be so awed by my talents as to forget all about Libby's magnificent cover of Five in the Morning...and out of respect for Libby I thought I'd hold back and not steal her thunder. Well, back to real (if snow-covered) life. Hey (or, to quote my song, "HEY!"), anybody go to the Easton or Media shows and want to put a few words in??? Benay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:09:16 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Harrisonburg, VA-Part 1 In my zeal, think I may have overshot the posting size limit again, so this is now in two parts...I apologize if any of it ends up arriving twice. (To some of you, I should probably apologize even if it only arrives ONCE...) Benay - ----------------- Hello again from New York, the city where nature's computer operator clearly forgot to hit "save" after starting up spring---the spring programming kind of worked for a while, but the system has now crashed and we have reverted back to the last saved version of New York City weather, which was apparently midwinter with near-blizzard conditions. Bring on the caroling and hot cocoa! And may I mention to you all that you have not truly had an adventure until you have trudged half a mile home from the subway in semi-blinding snow, dragging heavy luggage, wearing spring clothing (the warmest item being a leather jacket that had better be as truly waterproof as it claims to be)! Anyway, now that I have dried off just enough so as to no longer be in danger of dripping on the keyboard, I will make mention of my concert adventures since I joined you last. Thanks for your input on the Owings Mills show, Phil---it was a pleasure to meet you there, and I also enjoyed meeting Chris Patterson at the Susan Werner show on Friday---it's nice to put names with faces. And speaking of the Susan show, it was so good as to make me not mind too much having to miss a night of Lucy and Richard---the Barns of Wolf Trap was a fantastic venue, and she did two great songs I'd heard OF but had never heard live before, Got to See the Body and Let's Regret This in Advance. (I know this is not the Susan Werner list, but there's a crossover audience, and if you like Lucy, chances are you'd like Susan too). The next night, Saturday, we did not have a concert to attend, so we got our quota of good music through watching the Susan Werner DVD, All Mapped Out (highly recommended; I had been thinking of buying a DVD player just to be able to watch it, and now that I have seen it, I am still thinking of buying a DVD player just to watch it again!). On Sunday afternoon (yesterday), Libby and Joanne and I made our way to Harrisonburg, blasting Cry Cry Cry and pointing out all the cows alongside the road--- which, incidentally, appear to outnumber the people in rural Virginia. (Keep in mind that this was what we were doing on the way to Harrisonburg; it comes into play briefly later.) After the cowspotting portion of the trip, the route to Harrisonburg from the D.C. area---well, ONE of the routes to Harrisonburg from the D.C. area---goes through the Shenendoah area, which is absolutely gorgeous. It is also absolutely mountainous. During the first half hour of rising and dipping and swerving, my thoughts were along the lines of, "This is SO gorgeous." During the second half hour, my thoughts were along the lines of, "This might be really gorgeous if I didn't feel so nauseated." During the last hour, my thoughts were pretty much reduced to "WANT OUT OF CAR." However, we finally made it to Harrisonburg and had time to get our stomachs settled and bolt down a quick dinner before taking our front-row seats in the Court Square Theater, a smallish (maybe 200 seats?) auditorium located, as Lucy eventually told us, in a former car showroom. Richard played his set first this time, and he was as ON as I'd ever seen him, far cheerier and wittier than I'd expected. And few guitar troubles this time. He'd never been to Harrisonburg before, and he remarked on how it had only taken him three hours and 50 minutes to get there from the Philadelphia area. Lucy later admitted that it had taken her much longer given that she didn't like to drive more than five miles over the speed limit, and they had a little conversation about it and decided he'd passed her on the way. (Remember this too; it also comes into play briefly later.) Richard played: Reunion Hill Waiting for the Storm Lazy Gray Green (new song about putting children to sleep---really good) Che Guevera T-Shirt A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress (by request) The Next Best Western (with Lucy) Are You Happy Now? (with Lucy) Last Fare of the Day After the intermission came Lucy with: Cowboy Singer Written on the Back of His Hand Secret Journey The Thread (I like it more every time I hear it, though I still haven't got the words down) Ten Year Night (with Richard) I Had Something (with Richard) Scorpion (with Richard) One Good Reason (with Richard) Don't Mind Me This Is Home Land of the Living By Way of Sorrow (with Richard) When Lucy and Richard (they couldn't decide what to call it when they toured together---Cry Squared was suggested, as was Lucy and Ricky...but Lucy said they couldn't be Lucy and Ricky since her husband was Rick) came back for the encore, they gave us a delightful surprise: The Kid, with Richard doing harmony! It was different from the Lucy-and-Dar version on the Cry Cry Cry album, but absolutely wonderful. Then Richard barely started to play something---maybe Farewell to St. Delores---and stopped and said he had changed his mind. Lucy looked worried, but he assured her it was something she knew...and they launched into an incredible rendition of Sin City. The trip would have been worth it, carsickness and all, for just those two encores! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:43:06 +0100 From: "donald.anderson" Subject: [lucy-list] UK 2003 - No Shows Planned Bad news I'm afraid for the UK listers , as I understand that Lucy is not scheduled to make her annual UK appearances in 2003 which is a real shame so I guess we'll have to wait until 2004. Any chance our Chicago reps could ask her , for me , after the show if her no UK shows in 2003 is correct ? Donald Aberdeenshire , Scotland ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #79 ****************************** 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