From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #174 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 Wednesday, August 27 2003 Volume 05 : Number 174 In this issue: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, "Rodgers & Hammerstein"? Re: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, "Rodgers & Hammerstein"? RE: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, Rodgers & Hammerstein? [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect unbroken circle... [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect circle... Re: [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect circle... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:13:50 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, "Rodgers & Hammerstein"? Whew! What can I say? Lucy at the Minnesotat State Fair grandstand last night. Are all Lucy shows like this or was it just on account of my birthday? Similar to what had been reported previously about the Judy Collins Wildflower tour, The three "support" acts each got four-song "mini-sets" in the first act and each joined Judy to close her full set after intermission. Judy opened the show with "Clouds" then gave the stage to Lucy, who won the crowd over with "Written on the Back of His Hand", "Don't Mind Me", "10-Year Night", and "Land of the Living" interspersed with stories about what it was like for a big city girl to be at her very first State Fair. She marvelled at all of the food choices available "on a stick" (you DON'T want me to go there!) and visited the livestock barns (she was impressed!). It was unique, to say the least, to see Lucy in such a setting. Picture this: A collossal (probably 80 feet by 50 feet) stage built of ten, fifty-foot tall pylons shrouded in black mesh fabric on three sides. three banks of 60 stage lights each (180 total) hung overhead along with fifty of those big, honking concert speakers (25 on the left and 25 on the right). The sun was setting beautifully behind and to the side of the stage during Lucy's set, but much of that beauty was lost (or, at least, MATCHED by) twin jumbo video monitors (about 25 feet by 20 feet each) on both left and right sides of the stage. Thank GAWD Lucy was having a good hair day because her head was as big as a car! Man, the whole spectacle was a Kodak moment if ever there was one! But, pity, I had not brought any photo apparatus along. Lucy was followed by Beth Nielson Chapman, who sang a few of her songs made popular by others (one of which, she intimated, will put her son through college). The Kingston Trio (plus bass player) performed admirably and with spirit. Then came the second set, which was mostly Judy and her piano accompanist. She did a tribute to Harry Chapin by leading a sing-a-long of "Cat's in the Cradle". She repeated that interesting quip going around lately that "If you remember the sixties, you weren't there!" which I tending to agree with more and more having lived-through the entire decade myself and remembering surprisingly little about it...Granted, I was young at the time, but I always suspected there was some personal brain-pharma-chemical reasons for that period of my life being such a blur....but maybe there is some merit to the statement that consciousneess itself was altered in some way at that time making recollection itself like asking the man who has been shipwrecked and treading water in rough seas for three days "How was the water?". Anyway, I digress. The venue last night was not soon to be forgotten, THAT'S for sure! At the end of her set, Judy began bringing her guests back out one by one. Beth was first beginning with the song that starts..."Take the Lilies and the Lace", Lucy followed with "I Was Standing By My Window", and The Folksm....er...the Kingston Trio rounded it out with "You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley". The whole troupe then did "Amazing Grace" as an ensemble and then Crash Boom! The fireworks. All in all, one of the strangest Lucy gigs I have ever been to (and I have been to a fair number of them!) eTimothy in south Minneapolis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:21:24 -0500 From: Rachel Strain Subject: Re: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, "Rodgers & Hammerstein"? I've seen Lucy twice now -- both times at the Cactus Cafe here in Austin. I can say definitively that there were neither fireworks nor jumbo-trons. Therefore, I'd conclude that yes, it was just on account of your birthday. :) Rachel, lurker extraordinaire Austin, Texas On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Timothy Bruce wrote: > Whew! What can I say? Lucy at the Minnesotat State Fair grandstand > last > night. Are all Lucy shows like this or was it just on account of my > birthday? > ... > ensemble and then Crash Boom! The fireworks. All in all, one of the > strangest Lucy gigs I have ever been to (and I have been to a fair > number of > them!) > > eTimothy in south Minneapolis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:39:45 -0400 From: "benruth@earthlink.net" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] What were you expecting, Rodgers & Hammerstein? >Beth was first beginning with the song that starts..."Take the Lilies >and the Lace", Lucy followed with "I Was Standing By My Window", and > The Folksm....er...the Kingston Trio rounded it out with "You've Got to >Walk That Lonesome Valley". Thanks for the great review, Timothy---yes, that does sound like an...um...UNUSUAL Lucy gig! But please tell me that I Was Standing By My Window was actually Will the Circle Be Unbroken...c'mon, it's bad enough that I have to miss a local-ish Lucy show next week (sob) through my unfortunate vacation planning (or, should I say, LUCY'S unfortunate last-minute scheduling?)...I'm not sure I can take it if she's singing songs she hasn't sung before TOO... :-) Benay - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:49:19 -0500 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect unbroken circle... Yes Benay, a closer look at my scribbles in the dark reveal that that Lucy song was, in fact, "May the Circle Be Unbroken". I often start by writing down the first line as an aid but I easily recognized and named that one, quickly noting it in my notes but then accidently writing over it in the dark, as I was running out of space on the envelope. It was a splendid rendering of the song, I might add. Lucy has a real knack for such traditional gospel blugrass stuff. New Lucy fans were made...such as the two people sitting next to me who had come for Judy only. Was it Lucy's songs or her head up on the Jumbo-Tron sceens as big as a car that did it? The fireworks were indeed spectacular, lasting a good 10-15 minutes. I used the distraction to get in line over at the meet-and-greet table. Lucy agreed to sign my "Deep Folk" book even though she acknowledged her lack of mention in it :>( She said she had a copy and had read it. I didn't probe further. When she opened up my copy, a page-sized computer printout made to resemble one of the pages of the book fluttered out. She grabbed it and read "Chapter One -- How Lucy Kaplansky Made My World a Better Place", smiled, and then penned a birthday greeting on the page across from it. Aw, shucks...A warm and fuzzy moment was had by performer and fan alike! T. (P.S. Not that my world was such a dreadful place before I encountered Lucy and her music. But before that time, New York was just my "flyover land" and home to a number of "highly intelligent, but somewhat difficult and challenging" friends and acquaintences during college. Now I have met and befriended a genuinely sweet bunch of people and made FOUR trips to Falcon Ridge in four years! Lucy and the "List" were the unofficial NYC Welcome Wagon that truly helped me fuhgettaboutit!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:57:33 -0400 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect circle... happy belated birthday..E timothy YOu make the lucy list a better place..and NEw York Loves you.. You've been here enough ..even the Lucy party of 2002 to be an offical member of the NEW YORK contigent of Lucy FANS RIght, donna ..benay...renee...chris...elaine..gerry. jeff and sandy... dave who lurks..todd and his wife on LONG island..larry..sharonG..rick ..and Lucy.. stand and be counted...Timothy.. If you can make it here..you can make it anywhere... sharon But I'll push myself up through the dirt And shake my petals free I'm resolved to being born And so resigned to bravery dar williams on spring street ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:54:58 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Yes it was a perfect circle... Why, Timothy----happy belated birthday from me too---and of COURSE you are, as Sharon says, a member of the New York Lucy fan contingent! It doesn't matter that you live elsewhere---I mean, the New York Times has staff writers all over the world, but the fact that they do not all live in New York doesn't mean they aren't part of the New York Times! So it is with the New York Lucy-list contingent...the faithful get honorary induction. And visitors are always welcome. For my part, I will carry my New-York-Lucy-fan responsibility with me even when I am away. When Lucy is singing in NJ next Friday and I am way off in Arizona, I will provide in-depth reporting of the Arizona reaction to the fact that there is no Lucy show occurring there. Of course, since I will be at my friend's semi-rural house without transportation and my friend may be working then, possibly the only one I will be able to ask is the 70-lb. Rottweiler ("She just can't WAIT to see you, Benay!"...yeah, OK, sure, I bet). I will share the exclusive story, provided---bark, growl!---I still have the arms to type with afterward... Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #174 ******************************* 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