From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #209 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, October 25 2003 Volume 05 : Number 209 In this issue: [lucy-list] correction to book web site (NLC) [lucy-list] Live Recordings? [lucy-list] MC-squared and friends are coming to Charlotte [lucy-list] non-Lucy review, Part 1 [lucy-list] non-Lucy review Part 2 [lucy-list] postscript to non-Lucy review ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:34:10 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] correction to book web site (NLC) I mentioned the wrong site last night for finding books when you don't know the title or author...in case anybody wants to try it, I should give the right one: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/docs/ReadingRoom/BookSleuth/Unsolved/ Now back to your regularly scheduled Lucy content... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:56:49 +0100 From: "tim.crawford" Subject: [lucy-list] Live Recordings? Hi Folks, I'd like to increase my collection of Lucy live recordings. If anyone would be interested in a trade, please give me a shout off-list. Many thanks, Tim. Bangor, N. Ireland. Music trading page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.crawford/mainpage.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:33:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Gilmore Subject: [lucy-list] MC-squared and friends are coming to Charlotte ...and they were profiled in the E&T (Entertainment and Things to Do section) of the Charlotte Observer, for Friday, 10/24/03. You can read it on line at Charlotte.com. Click on "Archives", then click on the "7 day archives", then click on the icon for the E & T section, then click on the article titled "4 formidable females raise voices". You have to register to read the article but it's free. While Lucy K is not part of the tour, she is mentioned as being a friend of Dar, who along with Richard Shindell, recorded Cry-cubed together in 1998. They're coming here on Tuesday, 10/28/03. SVG __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:00:42 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] non-Lucy review, Part 1 It is an insanely late hour of the night, and I am just about to fall in bed, but must do a little reviewing first. No, not of Lucy, because Lucy was galavanting around Jim Thorpe, PA tonight, which was too far for me to go. [Sidenote: For those who are curious as to what the deal is with a place called Jim Thorpe---I wonder if Lucy asked the audience---I looked it up (visitjimthorpe.com) and there's a whole history, including this: Along Route 903, on the east side of town stands a large granite mausoleum that bears the name of one of the greatest athletes of the Twentieth Century. Jim Thorpe, native American Hero of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, was buried here in 1953 when the towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk merged and changed their names to honor his memory. Hmmm....there's a lot more to it, apparently, but frankly,"to honor his memory" or not, if _I_ lived in a town called Mauch Chunk or East Mauch Chunk, I too would have been pretty quick to vote to rename it for Jim Thorpe...or just about ANYBODY with a decent name!] Anyway, again, I was not in Jim Thorpe, PA tonight. I was in Montclair, NJ seeing Susan Werner, with We're About 9 opening. And I really should talk about that on the Susan Werner list, except, well, this feels more like home. And since Lucy will be WITH Susan Werner tomorrow at the Birchmere, it's tangentially related. And besides, I was asked to review it...strangely enough, by people who were THERE! Oh, the pressure... So...Elaine and I took the train out to Montclair to meet others including Chris, who had taken a bus earlier, and Donna and Donna (the OTHER Donna...not to be confused with the OTHER other Donna...or was there ever a third Donna? I'm losing track...), who had driven in from other parts of NJ. I was very confident that the train was the best way to go...right up until we got on the train just as it was about to leave, and they announced the stops, and "Montclair" was not included. Whereupon we provided the other train passengers with the lively entertainment of seeing two crazed women running through the cars frantically shrieking to each other about being on the wrong train. We managed to run entirely out of the train, then dart back in again (three cars up, mercifully far away from the people who had seen us run out) at the last possible moment when it dawned on us: WE CAN TRANSFER IN NEWARK! Ah, the perennial mysteries of New Jersey... Elaine and I finally got ourselves to Bay Street and managed the walk to the Outpost without further mishap. The concert, to our pleased surprise, was held in the smaller guild room where Lucy last played (though that's the show I missed...sniff...), and it was sold out. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:01:21 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] non-Lucy review Part 2 We're About 9 did a short set as an opener, only half an hour, but were quite a lot of fun. Then we got 15 minutes to mill about (during which there was much discussion of Sunday's Lucy/Richard show) before Susan made her entrance. Susan's set list included a number of standards---Time Between Trains, Shades of Gray, Big Car, Barbed Wire Boys, and St. Mary's of Regret among them. She spoke about the lovely architecture as she had driven through Newark, and then proceeded to sing a gorgeous version of Some Other Town. Sorry About Jesus got her such resounding applause after the first words---"Hello, Amy Miles"---that she had to stop twice and start over again in pleased surprise. The guitar set was followed by the piano set (including two "piano songs on guitar," ---No One Needs to Know and Let's Regret This in Advance). Notably missing were May I Suggest and Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter (which I didn't mind not hearing---with every artist, there seems to be ONE song I space out on, regardless of its quality, and that's the Susan Werner one for me, even though I know a lot of people adore it...I don't even dislike it, it's just that my mind wanders during it for no discernible reason). I also was sorry not to hear Three-Quarter Moon and the new song about not flying in small planes, as those are some of the ones I particularly enjoy. For a Susan show, this one seemed short on MUSICAL humor, though her banter and general energetic demeanor were plenty funny. The last encore was a Brian Wilson song with a refrain that said "I guess I wasn't made for these times." It was beautiful but deeply sobering...interesting choice for an encore, sort of like Lucy ending a show with Still Life (which would be fine with me personally, because I LOVE that song, but it doesn't exactly leave unfettered joy as the lingering emotion). Finally, sated with music and yummy chocolate cake from the Outpost folks, Elaine and Chris and I found our way to the bus shelter in front of the YMCA, near what sounded like a lively Montclair bar scene, where we waited for the 11:30 bus and proved ourselves to be folk fans by not actually IMBIBING alcoholic drinks, but instead intelligently DISCUSSING alcoholic drinks. (OK, so my part of the intelligent discussion mostly went: "Never had that. Never had that. Don't like that [spoken in dismissal of entire categories of drinks, such as 'beer']. Never had that." And the talk soon degenerated into the others' energetic plotting of how to someday introduce me to what I'd been missing...no easy task...maybe those people in Scotland thought they had a lot on their hands with Lucy who didn't like Scotch, but I could do an entire world TOUR of places with drinks I don't think I like!). At least we managed to entertain ourselves enough not to be TOO cold by the time the 11:30 bus, last one of the night, meandered along at about 11:50. And now I am happily, if very sleepily, home. Back to reviewing LUCY...for the last time this year...after Sunday night! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:02:40 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] postscript to non-Lucy review (When one writes a concert review in the wee hours of the morning, one tends to stick stuff like what follows right in the middle, and then one realizes it can only go in a postscript. And one tends to, as Susan Werner would say, "regret this in advance.") Susan repeatedly referred to the opening act, We're About 9, as We "ARE" 9...guess she's not one for numerical uncertainty! This made me speculate about what Susan Werner might do if she wrote a math song...say, about pi: Let's Round It Off Completely Pi's a well-known number--it's even got a song. The trouble is, that number can be endless digits long. Who can think about it? Who can comprehend? Only one thing's left to do---MAKE PI COME TO AN END! Let's round it off completely...let's give pi a break... Who needs to be that accurate? How much could be at stake? Let's round it off completely...how long does it have to be? 3.14's unwieldy...hey, let's just call it 3! (Benay FINALLY goes to bed, content that her non-Lucy review on the Lucy-list has at last been brought around to being comfortably, if quirkily, Lucy-related...) ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #209 ******************************* 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