From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #21 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, January 29 2004 Volume 06 : Number 021 In this issue: [lucy-list] Doug's review [lucy-list] watching the rank Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank Re: [lucy-list] The Red Thread Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:07:34 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Doug's review (LOUD APPLAUSE) Hooray! Thank you for that review, Doug! I was hoping it would come, but didn't want to nag... Always good to get another reviewer on the list. (Not that nonreviewers aren't appreciated too!) Glad you had a good time and indeed found Lucy, live, worth seeing! (And hey, you got in a request already---not bad. Goodnight is a relative rarity these days, so I would bet it's probably not one she was sick of playing so much as one she hadn't thought of until you mentioned it.) Her not having a set list is typical for a small solo show, and that's actually the way I tend to prefer it---more latitude for requests, more chance of hearing songs she plays less often. As for people sitting down, I fear you'll have to get used to that when it comes to Lucy. I can think of one venue she's played in NJ that I think is standing room only (I haven't been there), but for the most part, anybody who's standing during a Lucy show is probably on their way to the restroom or to buy a CD at intermission! It's not that audiences sometimes don't get lively, but not in a physical way---if you've got the urge to dance or are even hoping for a fervent singalong, you probably aren't going to head to a solo Lucy show! It sounds like maybe this crowd might have been particularly quiet, though, because often there is SOME interaction in terms of shouted comments/requests. Thanks again for writing about it...nice job. Reading that ALMOST makes up for having to face trudging through the six to eight inches (I think) of newfallen snow to go to work this morning... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:36:59 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] watching the rank Hey, the Amazon ranking for The Red Thread is at 935---and OK, that may not sound very great, but given the thousands and thousands of CDs available there, it's really not BAD for a CD that's still two weeks from being released and that has really not had a deluge of publicity (frankly, I have missed the airplay around here so far and would not have heard about it independently yet if I'd HAD to hear about it independently). Then again, how much to trust Amazon? Especially considering the fact that Amazon currently seems to believe that, rather than being a music fan with some level of taste and refinement, I am simply obsessively fixated on the name "Lucy" and therefore, if I'm interested in Lucy Kaplansky, I will also be deeply interested in "Lucy in Paris: Gorgeous blond Lucy reports for us on the secrets of the lovers' city." Ummmm..... Benay clearly still procrastinating on going out in all that snow... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:58:08 -0600 From: "Rob Knautz" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank I don't really trust those numbers, I've seen some odd stuff at the top of the sales lists, especially the local ones. But didn't Every Single Day crack the top 10 at one point? I seem to remember Lucy being pretty proud of that because she had just found out the day of one of her Chicago shows a couple of years ago. I remember going home afterwards and seeing it myself. Rob - ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Benay Bubar Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:36:59 -0500 >Hey, the Amazon ranking for The Red Thread is at 935---and OK, that may >not sound very great, but given the thousands and thousands of CDs >available there, it's really not BAD for a CD that's still two weeks >from being released and that has really not had a deluge of publicity >(frankly, I have missed the airplay around here so far and would not >have heard about it independently yet if I'd HAD to hear about it >independently). > >Then again, how much to trust Amazon? Especially considering the fact >that Amazon currently seems to believe that, rather than being a music >fan with some level of taste and refinement, I am simply obsessively >fixated on the name "Lucy" and therefore, if I'm interested in Lucy >Kaplansky, I will also be deeply interested in "Lucy in Paris: >Gorgeous blond Lucy reports for us on the secrets of the lovers' city." >Ummmm..... > >Benay >clearly still procrastinating on going out in all that snow... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:12:56 -0500 From: "Mark E. Mallett" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] The Red Thread On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:00:41AM -0500, Doug Fuller wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Gilmore" > > > > My first taste of TRT: Heard WNCW play "Hole in my > > head" yesterday. Can't wait to get the CD! > > I happen to be playing it at the moment. I picked it up at the show on > Sunday...which segues nicely into the following concert review: > > Lucy at The Muse/Gray Goose (I'm a bit unclear on the name) in Londonderry, > NH. "The Muse at the Gray Goose" http://www.musegraygoose.com/ > So Lucy gets introduced and makes her way to the stage and the place is > absolutely silent. The first thing she says is, "My god, it's so quiet." I > really don't like seeing music in a place where you have to sit, even if > it's solo acoustic music and this is one reason why -- the crowd just sits > there. Yep it was pretty quiet. I dunno why, maybe the recent frigid weather, maybe the political nonsense around, maybe the fact that there was no opening act and almost no introduction, essentially a dimming of the lights, and "here's Lucy, listen up." I'm the opposite of you, though. I go to see the show, not to *be* the show, and I like it when I can take in the performance and not have to be distracted by audience shenanigans. To me a quiet audience is a good one, at least during songs. But then again I am an old geezer. > Anyway, she gets going and it seems evident she's phoning this one in. Yeah, not as much of the typical cheery and humorous stories, and she really did seem tired. However: no fault whatsover found with her skills, which seemed to have gotten better. All the talk about Molly, well, it was understandable, and even though it put a different sort of tone on the show, I enjoyed it all. Things were a little more subdued than they might have been, and she focused on the child she was away from for the first time ever. Nothing really wrong with that. Quite the contrary, really. You don't need to have a lot of hoopla to have a special show. > > She took a break halfway through the show and I grabbed her and requested > she play Goodnight (she was soliciting requests, after all). She played a > couple requests as the encore I had put in a request as well but she said she hadn't performed it in 15 years or so, and wouldn't be doing it now either :-) Oh well. mm PS I was surprised to open up the New Hampshire Business Review a couple of weeks ago and see her picture on page 3. If I had been smarter I would have brought along a copy.. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:33:09 -0500 From: richard rosenbloom Subject: Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank It actually hit #1 for a little while in the summer of 2002 after an interview on NPR. Lucy and Rick were at Summerfest in New Bedford, MA at the time (the first time I heard "This is Home" and realized they were thinking about adopting a baby) (and, btw, summerfest is THE best music bargain in the northeast if not the whole dang country) and kept tracking the progress from # 10 all the way to the top. Lucy was sure flying high that weekend. It was way cool. Just ordered my copy of TRT from redhouse. Hope it gets here soon! richard Rob Knautz wrote: >But didn't Every Single Day crack the top 10 at one point? I seem to remember Lucy being pretty proud of that because she had just found out the day of one of her Chicago shows a couple of years ago. > >Rob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:05:29 -0500 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] watching the rank maybe it will be helpful if someone posts the rank Once a week so we are not cluttered with daily reports of 935 until there is a huge jump into the top 10 there are issues like Soundscans, opening day totals billboard heatseeker reports that all effect how well a cd does..its based on paid promotion and exposure.. do you think they give JOhn Mayer those huge pix at tower or HMV... or placement on a listening station for free.... sharonG "I'm so glad that you finally made it here With the things you know now, that only time could tell Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are And oh, you're aging, oh and I am aging, Oh, aren't we aging well?" ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #21 ****************************** 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