From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #153 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, July 28 2003 Volume 05 : Number 153 In this issue: [lucy-list] confession and (some) Falcon Ridge reporting [lucy-list] Lucy at Maxwell's July-24 [lucy-list] post-nap addendum Re: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum [lucy-list] Beatles songs Re: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum Re: [lucy-list] confession and (some) Falcon Ridge reporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:46:23 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] confession and (some) Falcon Ridge reporting Well, I'm first out of the gate for Falcon Ridge reports...but the only reason I am at my computer now is, I have to confess, I am home in Brooklyn already--yes, I AM MISSING LUCY ON THE MAIN STAGE AT FALCON RIDGE! That's right, Lucy will be singing soon...probably with Richard before that...and I will not see it. (Sob.) Fifty demerits for me on the loyal fan ledger. But it honestly wasn't a matter of my not WANTING to be there...I did want to, very much. It simply turned out that I could either have a ride home this morning, before Lucy, or else after the entire festival ended...nothing in between...and the latter would have put me home at an extremely late hour, with a long day of work looming in the morning and that nervous sick feeling that comes when one knows that the energy one has and the limited sleep one is going to get is not nearly what one NEEDS to get through what is ahead...a situation that can easily morph into actually GETTING sick. And so I decided, albeit reluctantly, that seeing Lucy on the Falcon Ridge main stage today, while highly desirable, was simply not worth making myself sick for. Instead, while Lucy is singing, I will hopefully be asleep (after Falcon Ridge, "nap" and "hot shower" become some of the sweetest words in the English language). So...apologies to all those I did not get to say a decent goodbye to before I left (it was a regular Lucy-list convention at one point!). But hey, this is the kind of thing that the Lucy-list is good for...those of you who were there, PLEASE fill me in!. Did she sing with Richard or John or both? Did either or both of them sing in her set? What was the set list like (no need for exact order, but at least in general)? I was at least fortunate enough to see Lucy in three workshops on Friday and Saturday. Friday was the Study War No More workshop, and along with the other participants (Richard Shindell, the Nields, etc.), Lucy---wearing a sleeveless lavender top and blue jeans---got to sing two songs. She did Promised Land first, and then Land of the Living on her next turn. On Friday, Lucy was back, in a black short-sleeved dress with white flowers (yes, Lucy in a dress---doesn't happen often these days, and probably never except at festivals, but she looked nice) for the Contemporary and/or Traditional Workshop, for which she sang The Angels Rejoiced and then later For Once in Your Life. Far and away the best workshop, though, was the Beatles workshop yesterday afternoon. The stage was filled with everyone from the Nields to Eddie from Ohio to Tracy Grammer to the Kennedys...and everyone got two songs. We heard---and sang along with---everything from Eight Days a Week to Come Together to Let It Be to Dear Prudence to Lovely Rita Metermaid. Lucy's second song was I've Just Seen a Face (a rare treat in live performance, but somewhat predictable since it is on Flesh & Bone)...but her first one was something entirely new for her (at least, as far as I knew). It was also not a Beatles song I knew...lines something like "tell me what you see...what you see is me." Nobody I asked could tell me the exact title, and I haven't gotten a chance to research it, so I can't post the name accurately here. But it sounded lovely, and I hoped it would make it into her rotation for live shows the way I'm Looking Through You did last year (though frankly, I hope she keeps singing that one too!). Funniest personal Falcon Ridge Lucy-related experience: last night, I stumbled back to my campsite after an amazing Arlo Guthrie performance (sorry I didn't get to come hear you sing, Libby---I wanted to, but was exhausted and worried about finding my way around in the dark) and was ready to go to bed except that my tentmates decided to hold a loosely structured singalong around a candle "campfire" and I felt compelled to join them for a little while. Though they like Lucy well enough, none of them are particularly huge fans, but they cornered me right away for song suggestions: "Hey, we can sing a Lucy song, Benay! What should it be?" I couldn't think...blearily, I protested that I wasn't sure there were very many singing-around-the-campfire Lucy songs...all I could think of at that moment were ones like The Tide and Written on the Back of His Hand, not exactly merry singalong fare. As I hemmed and hawed, one of my tentmates decided to help me out: "I know, let's sing that song Lucy does about the apartment!" The apartment??! I wracked my brain, going through my mental Rolodex of Lucy songs, but I could not think of a single one about an apartment......I was mystified and must have looked it. "You know," said the woman who had made the suggestion, with faint exasperation, "the one about being ten flights up above a store...the one about meeting her husband!" Recognition dawned...flights, years...store, floor. And so we sang it...a version that would likely have made Lucy cringe had she not been mercifully too far away to hear it, but which was nonetheless lovely in its own way: Ten Year Night. Apparently known to some as The Apartment Song. Time for that nap, as (sigh) Lucy is almost onstage for her set at Falcon Ridge...I await the reports! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:23:04 -0400 From: "Bill Garak" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Maxwell's July-24 Wednesday night Lucy Kaplansky played Maxwell?s in Hoboken which may have the best sound of any local small venue. As she has been in recent shows opened with Dave Carter?s COWBOY SINGER and I have to say each time I hear her do this cover I just get chills I?m really excited to hear she will be including in her next CD. She was in a great mood tonight interacting with the audience and having lots of fun together it also was her last show before heading up to Falcon Ridge. She did a wide range of material that mixed many of her own songs along with covers. TEN YEAR NIGHT - WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF HIS HAND - DON?T MIND ME and both of the Julie Miller penned BROKEN THINGS and BY WAY OF SORROW. At one point Lucy was talking about recording tracks for her upcoming CD laughing at how her band all guys were telling dirty guy jokes during the recording but they did tell one that was not dirty that she liked a lot and she proceeded to tell well you know how in cartoons like when the coyote falls off the cliff and you hear that long sort of shrieking whistle before the BOOM that?s kind of how this joke went I really recommend that Lucy sticks with singing and leave the joke telling to the stand up?s. Taking request from the audience she did Richard Shindell?s MARY MAGDALEN toward the end of the show it was a great version. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:02:48 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum Thanks for letting us know about the Maxwell's show, Bill...I would've made that one if I could have, but it was too late on the night before Falcon Ridge. Hmmm...I myself liked the joke Lucy told when I heard it in Bridgeport...not that I think she should switch from singing to standup either, but sometimes with Lucy the imperfections are part of the fun. Oh, well. I realized that in my exhausted state earlier, I didn't mention specifically, as I meant to, some of my favorite moments the workshops. There were many of those---the workshop stage is always far and away my favorite place at Falcon Ridge---but here were some of the Lucy-related ones: - --In the Study War No More workshop: Tracy Grammer played violin to accompany Land of the Living (which Lucy related to the topic because it was a "we're all in this together" song) and it added another dimension to the song which was absolutely beautiful. Tracy actually accompanied just about everyone, unprompted, on violin or other instruments. Though, as she admitted later in the songwriting workshop, Tracy has never personally written a song, the woman is musical through and through---she has achieved a status that borders on mythical due to her continuing after the death of Dave Carter (and I would think it must be hard to live up to sometimes), but she is an amazing talent in her own right. - --In the Contemporary & Traditional workshop: Vance Gilbert, who was emceeing, introduced Lucy as having lost weight on the Atkins diet---at which point Lucy took the opportunity to show off her bicep. Then, when Lucy announced For Once in Your Life, she said "I wrote this for my mom, and she just turned 80" and immediately started getting choked up. It didn't help that some of the other musicians added gorgeous instrumentation to the intro to the song---Lucy said she didn't think she was going to be able to sing! In her hesitation, Vance Gilbert popped up and loudly started to improvise a song: "My mom just turned 80!...She's getting old!...My mom just turned 80!...she's a really cool chick!" This cracked Lucy up along with everybody else---and didn't help because now she was laughing AND crying---but she managed to tell Vance to shut up and sit down and then finally sang the song! - --In the Beatles workshop: I still want to know what Lucy's first Beatles song WAS...anybody?...but it was as much fun to watch Lucy when she was not the lead singer as when she was---all the performers sang along with almost everything. Lucy popped around sharing microphones with various people for the choruses, dancing along with everybody else. At one point Michael Clem of Eddie from Ohio grabbed Lucy in a ballroom-dancing hold and started dancing her back and forth. Every time I looked at Lucy, she was grinning (and indeed, it was hard not to grin during that workshop). It was easy to want it to go on forever. Not unlike Falcon Ridge in general...despite the heat and the humidity and the long climbs up the hill and the rigors of camping, after four years at Falcon Ridge, I still find that the worst part of the festival is that it ends! Still awaiting the main stage reports...but I know I have to give people time to get home and get settled! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:28:42 -0400 From: Bill Stewart Subject: Re: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum Benay Bubar wrote: > > --In the Beatles workshop: I still want to know what Lucy's first Beatles > song WAS...anybody?... I have been listening to a stack (large stack) of live concerts and happened upon the fabled Scotland scotch concert. Someone there requested she play George Harrison, which she then explained that the first song she learned on the guitar at age 11 was Here Comes the Sun, which she played. And while I am writing, for those people in ME and NH, Lucy is playing this Friday night in Wolfeboro NH, along with Richard Shindell, Bill Morrissey, and Arlo Gusthie. AND also Saturday afternoon in a couple workshops with Richard Shindell, Bill Morrissey, John Gorka (plays his set Sat evening) Although I cringe at the thought that Lucy is only on stage for a SHORT time because the concert Friday is 730PM-1100PM, I am eager for the workshops. Tickets are supposedly still available, at www.greatwaters.org. Tickets are as a package, or choose the time (Fri evening, Sat afternoon, or Sat evening) If Lucy is reading this, and needs a slave/gopher/porter for Wolfeboro, Email me, I volunteer, I am a native to the area, and live nearby. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:01:46 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Beatles songs > I have been listening to a stack (large stack) of live concerts > and happened upon the fabled Scotland scotch concert. Someone > there requested she play George Harrison, which she then explained that > the first song she learned on the guitar at age 11 was Here Comes the > Sun, which she played. Well, I actually meant I wanted to know about the first Beatles song she sang at Falcon Ridge yesterday...but certainly her version of Here Comes the Sun is good too (Gerry and I corralled her into doing a couple of verses in Bridgeport at the end of June in honor of its being the first non-rainy weekend in ages). The Wolfeboro performances sound good...though sadly off the beaten track of easy public transportation. Anybody want to chauffeur me? (Just kidding...I have to spend some time at HOME.) Missing Falcon Ridge, but still reveling at the return to the conveniences of civilization, Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:03:17 -0700 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum Wow, even Lucy cries at "For Once in Your Life" after all this time! Recently at a concert she mentioned that she makes it a point to call her parents every day now that they are a certain age. She told the audience, "My mom said to say hi." I thought that was pretty cute. I have been to a few concerts where her parents were there and have heard Irving do his thing, which is quite entertaining. The first time I heard "For Once in Your Life" her mother was in the audience. Darryl Purpose's mother is almost always at his concerts where I live. John Gorka has a beautiful song for his mother - another song to get you all farklempt. It's called "Part of Your Own." David Roth's mother is frequently in attendance too. He even pulls out a picture of her in "her day" when she was a performer. I'm sure the aging and preparing for the inevitable loss is an issue shared by many of us. Gina - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benay Bubar" To: Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:02 PM Subject: [lucy-list] post-nap addendum > Thanks for letting us know about the Maxwell's show, Bill...I would've made > that one if I could have, but it was too late on the night before Falcon > Ridge. Hmmm...I myself liked the joke Lucy told when I heard it in > Bridgeport...not that I think she should switch from singing to standup > either, but sometimes with Lucy the imperfections are part of the fun. Oh, > well. > > I realized that in my exhausted state earlier, I didn't mention > specifically, as I meant to, some of my favorite moments the workshops. > There were many of those---the workshop stage is always far and away my > favorite place at Falcon Ridge---but here were some of the Lucy-related > ones: > > --In the Study War No More workshop: Tracy Grammer played violin to > accompany Land of the Living (which Lucy related to the topic because it was > a "we're all in this together" song) and it added another dimension to the > song which was absolutely beautiful. Tracy actually accompanied just about > everyone, unprompted, on violin or other instruments. Though, as she > admitted later in the songwriting workshop, Tracy has never personally > written a song, the woman is musical through and through---she has achieved > a status that borders on mythical due to her continuing after the death of > Dave Carter (and I would think it must be hard to live up to sometimes), but > she is an amazing talent in her own right. > > --In the Contemporary & Traditional workshop: Vance Gilbert, who was > emceeing, introduced Lucy as having lost weight on the Atkins diet---at > which point Lucy took the opportunity to show off her bicep. Then, when Lucy > announced For Once in Your Life, she said "I wrote this for my mom, and she > just turned 80" and immediately started getting choked up. It didn't help > that some of the other musicians added gorgeous instrumentation to the intro > to the song---Lucy said she didn't think she was going to be able to sing! > In her hesitation, Vance Gilbert popped up and loudly started to improvise a > song: "My mom just turned 80!...She's getting old!...My mom just turned > 80!...she's a really cool chick!" This cracked Lucy up along with everybody > else---and didn't help because now she was laughing AND crying---but she > managed to tell Vance to shut up and sit down and then finally sang the > song! > > --In the Beatles workshop: I still want to know what Lucy's first Beatles > song WAS...anybody?...but it was as much fun to watch Lucy when she was not > the lead singer as when she was---all the performers sang along with almost > everything. Lucy popped around sharing microphones with various people for > the choruses, dancing along with everybody else. At one point Michael Clem > of Eddie from Ohio grabbed Lucy in a ballroom-dancing hold and started > dancing her back and forth. Every time I looked at Lucy, she was grinning > (and indeed, it was hard not to grin during that workshop). It was easy to > want it to go on forever. Not unlike Falcon Ridge in general...despite the > heat and the humidity and the long climbs up the hill and the rigors of > camping, after four years at Falcon Ridge, I still find that the worst part > of the festival is that it ends! > > Still awaiting the main stage reports...but I know I have to give people > time to get home and get settled! > > Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:55:39 -0400 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] confession and (some) Falcon Ridge reporting Benay the usual suspects Me Donna E timothy... Larry from alabama and Peter from cali..libby was around.. Kristin was there somewhere..and i never met todd and his wife.. we were all looking for you for lucys set..I missed her singing with Richard.. though i am told she did.. she was next up... Duke Levine joined her on the stage John joined her for harmony on TEN year night.. IT was a perfect lucy moment IN her words Richard joined her for This is home on Guitar and harmony and she ended her set wtih richard and tracy grammer on violin for By way of sorrow... Lucy has earned her place at FRFF in a few short years.. ill post more about the set list.. but it didnt duplicate songs placed else where lucy then sang with john .. he started off his set with teh ones Lucy usually sings on but he switched up.. and sang other songs with lucy than usual.. he even remembered the words to HIS own songs.. he also sang new songs.. A new JG cd is pending for sept.. more on FRFF tomorrow.. thanks timothy for all you did... sharon Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill. All he believes are his eyes And his eyes, they just tell him lies. But there's a woman on my block, Sitting there in a cold chill. She say who gonna take away his license to kill? BOB DYLAN ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #153 ******************************* 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