From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #212 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 Tuesday, October 28 2003 Volume 05 : Number 212 In this issue: [lucy-list] Baby Molly songs from 92nd Street Y [lucy-list] Re: Baby Molly songs from 92nd Street Y [lucy-list] NYC show Looonnnnngggg!! [lucy-list] Pi and LK in concert [lucy-list] Lucy at the Y 10/26-more comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:30:18 EST From: LippmanS@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Baby Molly songs from 92nd Street Y Hi folks! I'm as new to this e-mail list as Baby Molly will be to Lucy and Rick's life. I've been a fan of hers since Cry, Cry, Cry. Last night, she performed with her buddies Richard Shindell and guitarist John Herrington at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Richard opened, Lucy joined for a few songs, intermission came and went, and then they reversed it. Lucy told us that she will be flying to China to adopt a baby girl who'll she'll name Molly after her grandmother (see "Molly's Song"). I think Lucy could use some guidance on installing car seats, though. Lucy was sporting a new leather jacket that she was very proud of. I think that my favorite Lucy show was her outdoor gig at the World Trade Center in August 2001 because it left me with very positive memories of those buildings. Anyhow, I look forward to corresponding with you folks! Regards, Stephen Lippman e-mail: LippmanS@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:29:57 -0500 From: Donna Myers Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Baby Molly songs from 92nd Street Y Welcome to the list Stephen! It was a great show last night with Lucy and Richard. Another emotional and moving night. I'll let Benay post the setlist. It was nice to see and meet so many people from the list!! Don't get me started on the issue of installing car seats! It's not an easy task. Best wishes to Lucy, Rick and baby Molly!!! Donna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:19:08 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] NYC show Looonnnnngggg!! Wow....that's all i can say...it was the PERFECT show last night. Both Lucy and Richard were in great moods, singing at the top of their game, and it was all just amazing. It was well worth the 4 hour drive from hell to get there and the 3 1/2 hour drive from an even deeper hell to get home for the show :) I am SO not a city girl and besides the stupid drivers who are afraid to drive in rain and therefore feel they should go 40 in the left lane, I missed the Manhattan exit and somehow ended up lost in Queens, I finally managed to find my way back and stupidly decided to drive to the Village because I didn't trust my subway navigation skills and I realy wanted to see it...i found myself at points saying to myself something i can't believe i said "I wish i was back in Kansas!" ...but then I found FDR the god of roads which took me all the way down without having to deal with pedestrians and people who cut me off and honk and all those other wonderful NYC driving traits :) SO i found it and then managed to find my way back to the theatre...hmmm slight problem though...i didn't bring enough money for parking and I can't parallel park..uh oh!!! So i drove around in circles for an hour til a spot right in front of a fire-hydrant no parking area came up so I was able to just pull right into the spot...thank god!!! I got to the building ran into Lucy...then Rick...then Richard...and then waited for Benay and everyone to show up. SLight stress and aggrivation by the seating policy (by having one line outside and then switching it to 4 lines inside) but still we were able to get perfect seats :) Richard was the best I think I have ever seen him...he was sweet and funny, telling stories before every song. I don't have the exact setlist so this isn't in order and i may miss something but it was something like Fenario (last night it was much better than FRFF, i loved this song this time!) Che Guevara T-Shirt So Says the Whippoorwill (this is still my favorite new Richard song) There Goes Mavis (very different than any of Richards other stuff, the lyrics will have to grow on me but I LOVE the guitar part...it was interesting and i'd like to see where it goes) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Yum!) Next Best Western (with Lucy) The Last Fare of the Day ( with Lucy...wow...i loved this song last night, especially with Lucy's vocals) Gray-Green Cancion Sencilla ( OH MY GOD...i CANNOT wait to have this on cd...i only got a few lines that were close enough to French for me to figure out but I don't care...Richard singing in spanish works for me anyday!! Incredibly sexy) Transit Short intermission then Lucy was up...I know others have the setlist so I'll just mention the ones I remember...not in order, Benay has that :) Cowboy Singer Written on the Back of His Hand - --jacket story and big news about becoming a Mom...where she just about burst into tears - --Red Thread story Red Thread ( I love this song more and more everytime I hear it..and i'm so happy she has changed little since the first time she performed it) - --how she's taking some time off from music to spend with Molly and hwo this was a perfect way to go out with all her friends around her in her hometown I Had Something (with Richard....oh yeah...that sounded awesome!) - --Story about how one of the best things was seeing Rick become a dad and how they tried to install the car seat earlier in the day and apparently you need a PhD to do it Ten Year Night (with Richard) Promised Land (oh wow...this was my first time hearing this and it was AMAZING...i really loved it)Brooklyn Trains (i liked it but it'll have to grow on me) - --lots of baby songs now and this was the first..dedicated to the couple who was there and was traveling with Lucy and Rick on Wed to get their baby girl in China too...how this was the sequel to TYN This is Home Ring of Fire (with Richard) By Way of Sorrow (with Richard) Encores with Richard: The Angels Rejoiced Love Hurts (wow..that was great) Awesome show in all...a few of us stuck around to talk...Lucy and Rick are obviously beyond excited and at one point Lucy said...oh my god, a week from tomorrow I'll be holding her.... Very cute, Rick showing Richard the bib they were given for Molly and Richard saying "see this spot Rick, this will be where she spits up on, and this one is for the strained peas" :) More goodbyes and hugs from Lucy and Rick then Benay and I headed out...it was a long slow drive, downpoured most of the way...LIbby kept me company on the cell phone and I eventually got home around 2:30. More than worth it :) - -K _________________________________________________________________ Fretting that your Hotmail account may expire because you forgot to sign in enough? Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:52:19 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Gilmore Subject: [lucy-list] Pi and LK in concert Pretty clever! I'll have to include that in my archives. Thanks for the review of her show - she performs here in February. SVG "Boy, I need a drink----alcoholic, of course---after the tough lectures involving quantum mechanics." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:48:20 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Y 10/26-more comments Well, Kristen did a great job summarizing last night's show, and I haven't got much to add. I think the only songs she didn't mention that are on my set list were End of the Day and Turn the Lights Back On (about which Lucy said something like, "I have to do ONE angry song---but I think this one is about liberation." So even the angry song got an optimistic spin---it was that kind of night. Yes, there was the jacket story---how Annie Lennox and Debra Messing had bought the last two "smalls" of the jacket Lucy was wearing, but luckily, the petite fit her. And later on, Richard said, "I didn't tell you this, Lucy, but _I_ bought the larger size of that jacket!"---which cracked everybody up. Lucy and Richard have such wonderful onstage chemistry---it's so nice that they still manage to play together relatively often despite Richard's living in Argentina now. They teased each other about tuning, too. Brooklyn Train grew on me lots more with this, my second hearing...I really loved it last night, and today I found myself humming the chorus under my breath as I was on the Brooklyn train I take every day...it is a particularly relevant song to those of us who live in Brooklyn, but it is lovely in its vision of human connection regardless of where one lives. It's quite lyrically dense for a Lucy song...I long for the coming CD with its liner notes, because there's no way to memorize much in just a couple of listens. She talks about how she and Rick wrote it after a subway trip to Brooklyn on September 13, 2001. (I wonder if this album will have any bits of commentary on the songs from Lucy in the liner notes. She's never done that before as far as I know, so maybe not...but many of the new songs could benefit from a few written words on how they came about, especially for those listeners who haven't gotten to hear them all at live shows.) Lucy said she'd just gotten the first finished copy of the new CD herself...and that it's officially called The Red Thread. Last time I saw her perform, the title was a decision between This Is Home and The Red Thread, and I have to admit that I'm delighted that The Red Thread seems to have won. Yes, it's going to take more explanation than This Is Home would...I had no idea there WAS such a concept until I heard it in Lucy's song of that title. But I love hearing Lucy explain it onstage...the Chinese idea that we are connected by invisible red threads to everyone we will ever know, and while those threads can stretch and tangle, they can never break. Once you get that in your head, it's such a great way to see the world...when you feel especially close to someone, you can almost see that thread stretching straight and true...and when you're in conflict with someone you care about, it is comforting to think that it's only that the thread has gotten a bit snarled, that the bond is still there and will untangle itself, given time and perhaps also some careful work. Maybe it's only that I love metaphors, but I think it's worth the effort to get people to understand The Red Thread as a CD title. It's so rich...it just seems right. Enough for the moment... Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #212 ******************************* 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