From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #164 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 Thursday, August 14 2003 Volume 05 : Number 164 In this issue: RE: [lucy-list] Fish tales Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... [lucy-list] etc etc etc.... RE: [lucy-list] etc etc etc.... [lucy-list] All right, I'll write! Re: [lucy-list] All right, I'll write! [lucy-list] Re: All right, I'll write! [lucy-list] write on !!! [lucy-list] where scott sits [lucy-list] Missed opportunity? Re: [lucy-list] Missed opportunity? [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Re: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Re: [lucy-list] how to quit the list RE: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Re: [lucy-list] Me too. [lucy-list] No disrespect intended! Scott Alarik responds... Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... [lucy-list] Fish Tales...new artists announced! [lucy-list] happy endings [lucy-list] Another response from Scott Re: [lucy-list] Another response from Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:32:09 -0400 From: "Ellen Byrne" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] Fish tales Kristen, I hope this goes right back to you..I don't know this all works but OMG you are so funny..great fish news coverage....!!!! Ellen - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Virus Database: 304 - Release Date: 8/4/2003 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:45:09 -0400 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... i actually suggest that someone write Scott Alarik at the Globe and express your concerns that Lucy was not included in the manner that you think she should have and post his reply.. from what Kristen is reporting.. Again I dont have the book, it appears that there are areas for Lucy to be mentioned the articles Kristen cited Dont have years.. Lucy dropped out from the Flesh and Bones to Crycrycry... dar was well established after two JOAN tours by then.. someone else do the math.. its not about dar and lucy but Kristen you sure are presenting it to be about that.. its about Lucy not getting her due... so i say..point it out to the author and see what he has to say.. Lucy had the tide in 94 and flesh and bones in 1996 and TEn year night in 1999.. its the music business.. lots happen in 3 years.. there were three years between Dar records and she toured constantly..Lucy was OFF the Radar.. its not her fault ..its a choice she made.. its not dar's fault.. there were other priorities in their life.. 10 years age difference makes a hella difference in any business.. lucy is coming out the gate again in her late 30s..there is a different audience for her.. Look at where shawn is and what she has done in the same time.. thats a more fair conparision... 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:44:04 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... To correct myself...I did find Cheryl Wheeler in the book, so my list of others who aren't there wasn't quite accurate...but there are STILL others aside from Lucy who aren't there. The Red House Records chapter was written in August 1997---pre-Cry Cry Cry, a year after Flesh & Bone, two years before Ten Year Night. While Lucy was certainly WITH Red House at that time, her name wouldn't necessarily have jumped out at somebody who was WRITING about Red House generally...and Bob Feldman wasn't interviewed so exhaustively within the chapter as to be able to say: "Here are the Red House artists to watch" and plug Lucy (or anybody else) that specifically. Were the same kind of story done TODAY on Red House, I'd be up in arms if Lucy didn't get due mention, but as it is, I'm not too upset about it. Yeah, she could've gotten a mention as one of the guest vocalists on the latest Wayfaring Strangers CD, but she's only on a couple of songs and even Lucy herself has never particularly promoted that as far as I know. If it's a slight, it's not a major one in my mind. Lucy's "dropping out" for a while is surely a factor, as a LOT of the pieces in the book were written in the mid-90s...I'm not sure what I think about the releveance of the age difference between her and Dar...Lucy does have a different audience, but to me that's more a function of her music than her age. I don't know, I have a hard time directly comparing Lucy and Dar anyway...I happen to like them both a lot, but they are very different, and I don't particularly feel the need to compare them in this instance. Scott Alarik doesn't seem to have direct contact info through the Boston Globe, so it might or might not be more expedient to reach him through Black Wolf Press, the book publishers. I'm not going to be writing him because I don't have time to do it well and I'm not that bothered about the issue, but if anyone else does, I'd be interested in hearing his perspective. By the way, that IS hysterical about the fish, Kristen! Thanks for sharing that... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:58:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Libby Wiebel Subject: [lucy-list] etc etc etc.... Re Deep Community... Lack o' Lucy = Sad indeed, but unless someone jumps Scott Alarick (I know I'm spelling that wrong, but book is not at hand), and gets in his brain, we'll not know. But... as one who feels compelled to read things like that cover to cover... I'm really enjoying some of his historical commentary... lots I'm learning. Who knew.... this blondie German-Catholic girl from the midwest was really fascinated by the chapter on KLEZMER MUSIC! :) He's a good writer, all the same... whatever he chooses his content to be.... and it's been fun talking to members of the DC music community who actually know him.... played with him.... etc etc.... Libby... who is nearly finished w/ "Deep Community" and will soon be reading her end-of-summer faves, "Cat's Eye" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".... and hoping that the fact that Betty Smith and Margaret Atwood don't mention Lucy either isn't cause for debate.... ===== - ----------- libbywiebel@yahoo.com http://www.libbywiebel.com "Right now, baby, why don't you just concentrate on being you!" - Heroes (Libby) Album available soon, but pre-order your copy of "The Wait-a-While Estates" today! http://www.libbywiebel.com ~ http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/libby_wiebel.shtml __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:26:01 -0400 From: "benruth@earthlink.net" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] etc etc etc.... >and hoping that the fact that Betty Smith >and Margaret Atwood don't mention Lucy either isn't cause for >debate.... They DON'T? Well, that's it...the nerve...'ll have to boycott THEM! :-) (Good book choices, Libby!) Benay whose favorite summer book will be the first one she gets to really read once all her extra summer work is done...the true fortnight from hell for 2003 approacheth... Original Message: - ----------------- From: Libby Wiebel libbywiebel@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:58:53 -0700 (PDT) To: lucy-list@smoe.org Subject: [lucy-list] etc etc etc.... Re Deep Community... Lack o' Lucy = Sad indeed, but unless someone jumps Scott Alarick (I know I'm spelling that wrong, but book is not at hand), and gets in his brain, we'll not know. But... as one who feels compelled to read things like that cover to cover... I'm really enjoying some of his historical commentary... lots I'm learning. Who knew.... this blondie German-Catholic girl from the midwest was really fascinated by the chapter on KLEZMER MUSIC! :) He's a good writer, all the same... whatever he chooses his content to be.... and it's been fun talking to members of the DC music community who actually know him.... played with him.... etc etc.... Libby... who is nearly finished w/ "Deep Community" and will soon be reading her end-of-summer faves, "Cat's Eye" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".... and hoping that the fact that Betty Smith and Margaret Atwood don't mention Lucy either isn't cause for debate.... ===== - ----------- libbywiebel@yahoo.com http://www.libbywiebel.com "Right now, baby, why don't you just concentrate on being you!" - Heroes (Libby) Album available soon, but pre-order your copy of "The Wait-a-While Estates" today! http://www.libbywiebel.com ~ http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/libby_wiebel.shtml __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:33:48 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] All right, I'll write! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you ALL for those wonderful comments and insights. Because I seem to have started all this, I will take it upon myself to contact the author and see what he has to say about it. It's probably something so simple as Lucy's rejecting his sexual advances or refusing some tit-for-tat arrangement for getting a mention in his newspaper. Or my original theory that author Alarik has something against red lipstick on folk singers. :>P Seriously, though, my goal in all this was to determine whether presenting this book to Lucy to sign would be a major 'faux pas' (i.e. an embarrassing, awkward social blunder). I'll be seeing her perform on my birthday later this month, (though it'll be a crowded meta-gig where she might just retreat to the tour bus rather than do a meet-and-greet). I'll bring the book regardless--perhaps I'll read it during the "Folksmen" set! Why ask Lucy to sign a book that she really isn't in? Because, as I mentioned in my opening salvo, Lucy WAS my doorway to the "deep community" of the "modern folk underground" because of her tireless outreach in flyover land--someone who lives in Manhatten (and LOVES it there) who, regardless, trudges thousands upon thousands of miles alone to meet average people in average places, some of which are not even on the map! I mean, just last year, she played a benefit show for a womens' shelter in a small wisconsin town of less than a thousand people. This, the same person who won the "Folk Grammy" for each of her last two CD's. She doesn't just skim the cream from all of places she's toured in the past....she keeps going back to those places and, every time she returns to them, the people there feel even more blessed and special than they did before. So, to me, she embodies the spirit of the book. Now, to figger out how to reach this guy. Yeah, probably through the publisher. Wish me luck (but don't hold yer breath....this could take a while). eTImothy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:58:38 -0400 From: bbubar@hearst.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] All right, I'll write! I can't imagine she'd be anything but happy to sign your book, Timothy...especially if you told her something like what you just wrote about why you want her to! It brought tears to my eyes (though perhaps that's just the ocular irritation from hours of copyediting...). Anyway, come to think of it, that's the best possible way to get her "in" the book at this point...maybe the next time I see her I'll have her sign mine too! Thanks for volunteering to write to Scott Alarik...of course I'll be interested in what he says if you get a reply... Benay ========================================================= This e-mail message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Hearst Information Services HelpDesk (helpdesk@hearst.com) immediately by e-mail and delete the original message. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:02:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Wheeler, Tina" Subject: [lucy-list] Re: All right, I'll write! Hi Timothy, Unfortunately it's a little late now, but too bad you weren't looking to talk to him a few weeks ago. You would have found him sitting with Dar's parents on (or near) the Dar Camp tarp at the workshop stage Saturday during the Songwriting Process workshop, and again over at Main stage later. And, of course, he was part of the Singer/Songwriter/Author workshop on Thursday just after Susan Moss's House Concert one. I've always found him to be a pretty good guy to talk to, who really identifies with folk fans. And he was a wonderful contributor and host to an impromptu Dave Carter tribute with Jennifer Kimball, Ry Cavanaugh, Darryl Purpose and Bob Franke in Newton, MA a week or so after Dave died (just after Falcon Ridge.) It was put on in place of the D&T concert that had been scheduled there that day. I'm sure he'll listen to you. Tina P.S. I didn't find him listed in the email contacts for Globe staff writers, I think because he's probably freelance. But their email convention seems to be first initial last name or last name @globe.com, so you could randomly try alarik@globe.com, salarik@globe.com or s_alarik@globe.com. What the heck, it's worth a try. =============== "Timothy Bruce" Date: Wed Aug 13 11:33:48 2003 Now, to figger out how to reach this guy. Yeah, probably through the publisher. Wish me luck (but don't hold year breath....this could take a while). eTImothy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:12:52 -0400 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] write on !!! so timothy.... who is the two time grammy winner.. in the folk catagory who doesnt cream her audience but is genuine over and over... 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:24:55 -0400 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] where scott sits Scott and mr and mrs williams joined me on MY tarp- i have been able to host Mr and Mrs williams for the past few years they had scott in tow and my friend Elaine and I gave our chairs to him..It didnt get a free book either Being a massachusetts girl didnt impress him either..he told me he was at WFUV to promote his book.. we had our geographical wires crossed i was in beverly on monday to see Mary Chapin who didnt have Duke with her... was Duker in Bolyston..There was Lucy 30 minutes from my parents at a 600pm show and i was off at family day at Foxwoods. sometimes you have to choose your family over a show unless you are benay... she goes to the show and leaves her family at her apt.. 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:23:53 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Missed opportunity? Yes, now it all comes clear to me! Mr. Alarik was the guy on the left of Dar's parents. Seems Batgirl and I were sitting next to you and Elaine when you gave away your seats. Batgirl confessed to being a bit uncomfortable (too shy, perhaps?) to sit next to Mr. Williams so we swapped chairs, putting me next to "Dad". (Seems the thing Mr. Williams and I have most in common is our unabashed use of clip-on sunglasses.) You're right, had I known then what I know now, I could have saved a heckuva lot of typing and spared millions of innocent, hardworking electrons! eTimothy (OK Sharon, I realize that my comment about awards could have been misconstrued. The "Folk Grammies" I was alluding to were actually the "Indies", the independent record label equivalent to the major labels' "proper" Grammies. Sorry to have confused anyone that wasn't around the list in 2000 and 2002 when these awards were given to Lucy for her 1999 and 2001 works respectively.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:37:32 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Missed opportunity? Speaking of the AFIM awards...the other day I was in our new used cd store and there was a promotional copy of the 2001 AFIM award winners....of course it couldn't have been the 2000 or 2002...Nooooooo...it had to be the year in between when Lucy won.... Anyways....i'm now REALLY turning the internet off and returning to my thesis (which by the way I FINALLY have a defense date for!!! Yay....as of next Thursday I will be DONE!!!!) - -K > >(OK Sharon, I realize that my comment about awards could have been >misconstrued. The "Folk Grammies" I was alluding to were actually the >"Indies", the independent record label equivalent to the major labels' >"proper" Grammies. Sorry to have confused anyone that wasn't around the >list in 2000 and 2002 when these awards were given to Lucy for her 1999 and >2001 works respectively.) _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT) From: PantherRom Subject: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Although I'm a fan of the Kaplansky's, I'm trying to find out how to quit the list. (There's just too much email I'm getting from it.) If anyone knows how I can quit, can you go ahead and tell me, please? ===== Wheels are made for rollin' A mule's a made to pack I never saw a sight that didn't look better looking back. I was born under a wanderin' star.... A wanderin', wanderin', star. http://hometown.aol.com/pantherrom/gray.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:19:15 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Just send a message to Majordomo@smoe.org which the line uns*bscribe lucy-list (take the star out and put a U there first...and ad your own email address) you can always join the digest...much less mail that way :) Ok ok ok ok...i SWEAR i am getting offline!!! >From: PantherRom >Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org >To: lucy-list@smoe.org >Subject: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... >Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT) > >Although I'm a fan of the Kaplansky's, I'm trying to >find out how to quit the list. (There's just too much >email I'm getting from it.) If anyone knows how I can >quit, can you go ahead and tell me, please? > >===== >Wheels are made for rollin' >A mule's a made to pack >I never saw a sight that didn't look better looking back. >I was born under a wanderin' star.... >A wanderin', wanderin', star. > >http://hometown.aol.com/pantherrom/gray.html > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:36:50 -0400 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [lucy-list] how to quit the list At 13 Aug 2003 14:09:59 -0700 (pdt), PantherRom wrote: > > Although I'm a fan of the Kaplansky's, I'm trying to find out how to quit the list. (There's just too much email I'm getting from it.) If anyone knows how > ... Suggest you switch to digest mode; then the lucy-list will send you at most one email per day. Instructions are at http://www.smoe.org/lists/lucy-list.info but briefly, send two emails to Majordomo@smoe.org. Put the first of the following lines in the body of the first email and the second in the second, replacing the '*' in each with 'u': uns*bscribe lucy-list tillaweed@yahoo.com s*bscribe lucy-list-digest tillaweed@yahoo.com If you withdraw altogether, you can continue to read the list at http://grassyhill.org/stax/lucy-list/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:50:29 -0400 From: "Ellen Byrne" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] Sorry about this... Me too. I like Lucy but this is crowding my e-mail and I don't care enough to keep recieving all this...how do I exit this list? Ellen - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Virus Database: 304 - Release Date: 8/4/2003 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:03:43 -0400 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Me too. Another solution Ellen, PantherRom, and others can consider is to create a lucy-list folder in your email program with a filter rule that directs all email for which the "To:" field contains "lucy-list" into the lucy-list folder. Then lucy-list email won't be mixed up with your other email and you can read it as your interest and time suit you. At 13 Aug 2003 17:50:29 -0400 (edt), Ellen Byrne wrote: > > Me too. I like Lucy but this is crowding my e-mail and I don't care enough to keep recieving all this...how do I exit this list? Ellen > ... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:03:49 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] No disrespect intended! Scott Alarik responds... Thanks for you kind words. First let me say I am a big fan of Lucy Kaplansky's. As you guessed from my introduction, her not being included was simply a result of the serendipity of writing for a daily paper. I have written glowingly about Lucy in the past, but the stories in which she was included simply didn't hold up as chapters in a book. Not because of her - she's a wonderful interview - but because they were promoting specific, time-dated events or recordings. A lot of stories I've written for the Globe, such as one I did with Lucy, Dar, and Richard, about Cry Cry Cry, seemed dated a few years after publication, or didn't contribute enough to what I was trying to achieve, with was to create a portrait of the modern folk music landscape, and offer insight into how this musical community functions. For what it's worth, Lucy has her own copy of the book, and says she is a fan of it. In fact, she recently did a radio show with me on WNYC about 'Deep Community.' With that wonderful mock-scowl of hers, she told me beforehand that I had kept her up half the night, since she kept saying to herself, "I'll just read ONE more, then go to sleep." Are you aware that we're homies? I grew up in Minneapolis. I'm coming your way in mid-November on a book tour. No Twin Cities dates as yet, though I'm working on a Ginkgo's appearance. But I will be at the Bothy Club in Mankato on November 15. If you happen to drop by anywhere I am appearing, be sure to say hi. Thanks again, Scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:45:24 EDT From: Bn2Synthsz@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] no resolution here... I volunteer to get in touch with Scott Alarik. I'll ask him about Lucy. I'm sure he'll tell me that he likes Lucy but just couldn't fit her into the book. This is a compilation of articles from a "deep" archive. I do know he loves Dar because I had a long conversation with him about her latest CD this spring when he "appeared" at my church as a gesture of thanks to our commitment to the folk community (me and thee coffeehouse). Kathy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:23:04 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Fish Tales...new artists announced! Yay new fishies!!!! I am pleased to announce that joining my fishy folk festival are.... Tetras: Cliff, Vance, and Cheryl (who when i let into the tank Lucy immediately went over and rounded them up--i thought of it as a little orientation session. Richard on the other hand panicked and began to round up all the food he could find...he doesn't seem to realize that I WILL feed them extra..i think he thought of the new guys as competition for his dinner :)) Danios (who were formally known as Bippity, Boppity, Boo and company): Susan, Catie, Jennifer, Arlo, and Greg (who enjoys chasing the 3 girls around a little too much!) Then there are my new algae eaters who are so sweet and peaceful that they are now known as Nerissa and Katryna Is this a really bad sign that I need serious help??? It's probably a good thing I have therepy Fri huh?? :) Returning back to my fish and website...oh i mean my thesis...really a mean my thesis - -K _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:40:54 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] happy endings Wow...a great response from Scott Alarik (Timothy, you must have contacted him by ESP or something...that was AMAZINGLY quick...and I'm awfully impressed with him for saying what he did so fast and so well) and lots of new folk fish for Kristen...all the major loose ends wrapped up in one day, and everybody happy (well, except for those who think there's too much Lucy-list email---who are no doubt gnashing their teeth right now at THIS if they're reading it---but some of us enjoy seeing the list active and for those who don't and who may be still with us, I second the recommendation of trying the digest version, which CAN make things better). Overall, a very good day for the Lucy-list, I would say. :-) Off to bed thinking peaceful Lucy-list thoughts and trying to be happy as a...fish... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:17:11 EDT From: Bn2Synthsz@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Another response from Scott Hi there, I got a response from Scott too. This one is a little longer--- From Scott: Kathy, No, I haven't heard from the Lucy listserve, but strangely enough, I did hear from a fan today who bought the book and wanted to know why Lucy wasn't in there. If you'd like to post this on the Lucy listserve, you have my blessing: First off, let me say I'm a big Lucy Kaplansky fan. As I said in the author's introduction to "Deep Community," this book should in no way be taken as a "best-of" compilation. For my money, no book like that about the modern folk world would be complete without Lucy in it. While I've written many glowing things about her in the past, it just didn't end up in the kinds of newspaper stories that stood the test of time, and would have held up well in this book. Not her fault at all - she's a wonderful interview - it just happened that the stories were very time-specific or pegged to a specific event. For the book, I was looking for stories that helped create a portrait of the folk world as it exists today. All the stories were selected with that in mind more than which stars were profiled. I just didn't happen to have a story like that with Lucy in it. For example, a story I wrote about Cry Cry Cry, which featured her, Dar and Richard, just seemed very dated. It was more about what was happening on that specific concert tour, how they were getting along, etc. Again, no fault of Lucy's or mine - sometimes the best newspaper stories are ones that are good for that day only. But you don't want to include them years later in a book. For what it's worth, Lucy has the book and says she enjoys it. And she and I recently did a live interview show talking about the book on WNYC radio in New York City. Her fans should know that I have heard more inquiries about her absence from the book than I have about any other artist. And hey, Dylan's not in there, either!! Perhaps I'll have to call the sequel "Deep Kaplansky." She's lucky to have fans like that - and she deserves every one of them. Scott Alarik ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:52:01 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Another response from Scott You know, if we ALL wrote to Scott Alarik individually demanding to know why Lucy wasn't in the book...we could probably drive the poor man insane! ("Oh, no---gotta send out ANOTHER 25 copies of the 'Why Lucy's Not in There' explanation!") But thanks for sharing that response, too, Kathy---fascinating to know he's gotten so much feedback on the subject! "Deep Kaplansky: The Sequel"...I love it...or perhaps, since he pointed out she's got Dylan for company in being left out of the first book, it could be "A Nod to Lucy"? Benay really, really going to bed now ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #164 ******************************* 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