From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #94 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, April 26 2003 Volume 05 : Number 094 In this issue: [lucy-list] This is not a review....sorry! [lucy-list] Wolfeboro NH tickets-August 1 [lucy-list] Lucy in Huntington 4/11-Part 1 [lucy-list] Lucy in Huntington 4/11-Part 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:24:52 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] This is not a review....sorry! I had no intentions of reviewing the Lucy/Susan show in the quaint, 130-year-old Mable Tainter Theatre in Menomonie, WI that I attended last night. The evening had "rush" written all over it and when I and my three travelling companions huffed-in after Lucy had already completed her opening "Cowboy Singer", I just decided to sit and relax and not rustle any papers trying to take notes as we were in a VERY conspicuous spot. The setlist appears to have been very similar to the reports from our very capable Brooklyn correspondend Ben A. She closed with "My Name Joe", an audience request and seemed genuinely flattered that at least half a dozen different songs were all shouted out at once when she asked the audience for requests, "You KNOW my work!" In short, Lucy went first. Although Lucy is probably the rising star right now, those of you who have seen Susan Werner will have to admit that she would be a tough act to follow! She's got the energy of a tornado! So going first was probably best. Both women had sold this theatre out in the past as soloists. Because this show was added late in their year and had less-than-optimal publicity, it did not sell out, which allowed us to move around a bit, leaving our seats up front for Lucy to spend the second (Susan) set in the balcony, where we had a great view of her marvelous keyboard work during the jazz portion of her set. The only NEW news about the evening was that I delivered the "Team Lucy" project (Joni Mitchell "American Masters" video)into her grateful hands. Thanks Gina (in CA) and Todd (in NY) for helping making that a reality. Here's an excerpt from the Team Report I sent them this morning: >>>After the Lucy-Susan doubleheader last night, I didn't want my three travelling companions to have to wait around too long for the transaction, so I just stuck my 7-and-305/365ths-year-old son at the front of the line, in the chair next to the signing table with the video while I rushed back to the place where we had scattered all our belongings earlier in the evening (books, crayons, toys, etc.). He had done an elaborate colored picture while listening to Lucy's set and had wrapped the video box in it. Then when the theater was empty except for me and an usherette, Susan Werner climbed down off the stage right next to me and I had my first conversation with her after 3-4 concerts. She usually seems so hyper-energized and larger-than-life that I don't feel like trying to talk, but being the first fan and alone and all, it went well. We walked over to the signing area and the video deal had already been done. My son had planted a big smooch on Lucy and then (I was told) blushed big time.... Too bad I missed that! I just gave a quick "hello" to Lucy and took her hand briefly. I said it was a "Team Effort" (as the mailing box attested) with Gina at the front end of the process doing the actual taping. She was indeed happy to receive our thoughtful gift, but a bit swarmed by fans so, after a quick "See you in July", I called it a night and hopped in the back seat of the Honda the 1:40 drive home.<<< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:02:30 -0400 From: Bill Stewart Subject: [lucy-list] Wolfeboro NH tickets-August 1 Lucy will be in Wolfeboro NH Aug 1. Wolfeboro has a summer music series,and one night is folk artists. It is now two nights. Friday night will include Lucy, Richard Shindell, Arlo Guthrie, Bill Morrisey. Sat night will include John Gorka and Natalie McMaster (and others). I know that there are "hour-drive" locals on the list. Tickets are on sale now. (I have mine! must. see. lucy.) www.greatwaters.org BIll ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:01:09 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Huntington 4/11-Part 1 Thanks for the "non-review," Timothy---it was awfully good for a non-review! Speaking of reviews, it has occurred to me that I have not yet reviewed Lucy and Richard in Huntington (on Long Island). And now that I happen to have the time and inclination to do so (and since, despite Timothy's contribution, the list is hardly overfull of more recent reviews!) I think I will. OK, yeah, so the Huntington show was on April 11th, two full WEEKS ago---but if there's a statute of limitations on these things, no one's told me about it, and I can't let such a magnificent show as the one in Huntington be lost to the annals of recorded Lucy history! Anyway, Elaine and Chris and I took the train out to Elaine's family's home close to Huntington, so we were able to turn the trip into a true adventure. You could tell that we were city people at heart, though, and didn't quite fit into the suburbs...you could tell that especially when we all piled into the car to drive to the theater and couldn't understand why the car didn't move when the gas pedal was pressed and the wheel was turned...until we (all three of us) figured out that the key hadn't been turned enough to actually START the car! Yup, the lesson was, make sure you HEAR the engine before you try to drive...we have learned this now. But come on, don't be too hard on us---that brainpower does go somewhere---how many of you regular drivers know the New York City subway system cold? Well, having conquered the car (OK, not me personally...I may never conquer cars, either starting them or anything that comes after that...but I was a happy passenger), we made our way to downtown Huntington, where we met Todd and Jen and Janet (who I don't think is on this list...yet!) and Janet's husband Chris for a delicious Japanese dinner in a restaurant that had once been a house and still seemed very much like a home...albeit a home with a printed dinner menu...albeit a home in which said menu warned cheerily in a rather prominent footnote that whenever you ate raw fish you were taking your life in your hands! Anyway, we ate. We ate fish, some of it raw. We lived. Huntington passed the test for Japanese food (which, incidentally, I could eat morning, noon, and night...sometimes I wish I lived in Japan just so I'd get more Japanese food...except then I'd never get to see Lucy). So now I have finally gotten us, with my usual excruciatingly slow narrative, TO the concert. IMAC, the venue, is actually the Inter-Media Arts Center, I think---although I always tend to forget the acronym think of it as some sort of hybrid sibling of the ancient purple iMac computer on which I am writing this. It's your standard auditorium, with stadium seating and decent amenities, including a bar beside which they thoughtfully provide a pitcher of water for the parched but poor. It also has LATE starting times for concerts---9 p.m. for this one, and no particular hurry about it even then. But now...the concert itself...to be continued... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:05:13 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Huntington 4/11-Part 2 OK, now we have come to the proverbial meat in the strange sandwich into which my reviews seem to have morphed lately: the concert! As in New Haven two days before, Lucy played first---they'd been switching off who went last, Richard said, but Lucy agreed to let him go last a second time in a row because he had a band with him. But again I'm going to switch things around and put Richard's set list first here: Beyond the Iron Gate Che Guevara T-Shirt (I saw this in a book recently so I think this might really be the right spelling of the name---I'm never totally sure!) Gray Green Arrowhead Reunion Hill Cold Missouri Waters (with Lucy...happy sigh...SO good!) Memory of You (with Lucy...I love her harmonies on this and was glad to hear them do it at least once in this group of shows I'd seen) The Next Best Western (with Lucy) The Last Fare of the Day (with Lucy harmonizing for the first time since he'd been playing this at their shows that I'd seen---it sounded GREAT!) A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress Transit Lucy's set: Written on the Back of His Hand The Tide Love Song/New York (the Bill Morrissey song) The Thread Ten Year Night (with Richard) Scorpion (with Richard) I Had Something (with Richard) End of the Day This Is Home Land of the Living Willie (on piano---I'd been waiting with bated breath for Lucy to go to the piano, and she really does SUCH a gorgeous version of this song) Guinevere (with Richard) Encores were The Kid and Farewell to St. Delores, and both sounded so incredible that it was clear the audience wasn't going to let Lucy and Richard go yet...they were persuaded to come back for a second encore, which was Love Hurts. Wow. Late as it was, if we could have persuaded them to come back for FIVE encores, I think most of the audience would have gladly stayed. I'd truly enjoyed Lucy and Richard's show in New Haven, but this show blew New Haven out of the water. Lucy was really ON the whole time---the sound was fantastic---it was a memorable night to say the least. (And I have remembered it for two weeks already---see?) OK, I'm realizing THIS review sandwich is going to be open-faced (if I haven't gone over the limit yet!), because I really don't have enough left to say for a whole other posting. We said our goodbyes to Todd and Jen and Janet and Chris, and then Elaine and Chris and I went to an all-night diner (starting the car fine this time---though we did set off the car alarm and take a while to figure out how to stop it!) and had bad desserts ("We don't HAVE hot fudge!" huffed the dour waitress when I requested a hot fudge sundae...I timidly requested its lowly cousin, chocolate syrup, and she acquiesced with only moderate irritation). And then we went back to Elaine's house and collapsed into sleep in short order...and while it was a good sleep, I did not write any songs to commemorate it (sorry, Elaine...it WAS a nice air mattress, but it just didn't have the particular magic of Gerry's couch). No more Lucy shows for me for another three weeks or so (Symphony Space---May 17th), and I have no more backlog of Lucy show experiences, so you are all mercifully freed of any of my further ramblings (well, at least the specifically CONCERT-related ones) until then... Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #94 ****************************** 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