From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #44 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, February 24 2004 Volume 06 : Number 044 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV [lucy-list] more on Lucy on WFUV today ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:13:13 -0500 From: Wa2suh@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV Lucy is supposed to be on WFUV(wfuv.org)today in the 2 PM hour (EST) live from J & R Music World in lower Manhattan. Unfortunately I have a meeting this afternoon and can't listen. Larry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:30:39 EST From: MNJack@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV LIVE???? Had I known a day earlier I might have gone... :( But thanks for the headsup! radio on!!!! MJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:51:56 -0500 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV At 23 Feb 2004 12:13:13 -0500 (est), Larry wrote: > > Lucy is supposed to be on WFUV(wfuv.org)today in the 2 PM hour (EST) live from J & R Music World in lower Manhattan. > ... That was great! Thanks, Larry, for the reminder. I'm working at home this afternoon so was able to listen to WFUV over the Internet. It was especially moving for me (here in Virginia) to hear Lucy sing Land of the Living at J and R Music World. J and R is an independently-owned music and electronics store (Actually they've grown into a set of storefronts.) that's been on Park Row in lower Manhattan more than thirty years. They're close enough to the World Trade Center site that some windows were broken when the towers fell and they were closed for months. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:15:04 -0500 From: "benruth@earthlink.net" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on WFUV Phil wrote: >I'm working at home this afternoon so was able to listen to WFUV >over the Internet. It was especially moving for me (here in Virginia) >to hear Lucy sing Land of the Living at J and R Music World. And I'm not sure I can quite adequately express how it was to actually BE there at J & R listening to Lucy sing that song... No more now because I'm paying the price in workload for overdoing my lunch hour...but more later... Benay - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:28:45 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] more on Lucy on WFUV today Well, I'm home from work at long last and am finally able to share a bit about Lucy's live performance at J & R Music World today. Although it was a decent subway ride from where I work and I wasn't sure how live "live" would really be, I managed to get out at an opportune time and hop on a downtown train....a Brooklyn train, as a matter of fact, though I wasn't going that far! I found J & R Music World, with which I was unfamiliar, and was worried that I'd hear Lucy already singing as I walked in...the subway had been slow, and I was sure I'd be late. But as I arrived I heard Darren DeVivo's voice announcing that Lucy would be on in a few minutes. The next question was where that voice was coming from...I saw no physical sign of Darren or Lucy when I walked into the store, and I thought maybe they were in a back room somewhere non-public, such that I'd have to stand in the store and listen to Lucy via the radio...which I was prepared to do if it came to that. But I spotted a staircase, and when I made my way upstairs and turned the corner, I could see an actual little stage! On that stage was Darren DeVivo, sitting and doing his WFUV stuff...and to his right, right there out in the open in a chair tuning her guitar, was Lucy! She was dressed in her usual concert attire---white shirt (with an animal of some kind on it), the newest really nice leather jacket, and black jeans. Anyway, after a few minutes, Lucy stood up by the mike and the show began. Many of you heard the performance on the radio or online, I'm sure, so it doesn't need a lot of summary here (and I'm too tired to give that much). But Lucy played I Had Something and This Is Home, then talked with Darren about adopting Molly and about the new album, then played Land of the Living, talked some more (she had to stand sideways for all the talking, since Darren was sitting behind her and yet the audience was in front of her, but she did very well in making the conversation feel inclusive of both Darren and us), played Love Song/New York, and, after a request from Darren for just one more, played Line in the Sand. Darren played The Red Thread from the album to close out the set. I was surprised by how small the crowd was---it could hardly even be called a crowd, since there were maybe 20 of us standing there amidst the racks of CDs in front of the performance area. I think this was less a reflection of any lack of interest in Lucy than it was a reflection of the reality of playing live in downtown Manhattan at 2:30 on a Monday afternoon. For people who work during the day, it wasn't great timing...as it was, I had to go way over my lunch hour (as well as skip the part of lunch that involves actually EATING lunch!) to get there and back and see the performance, and only because my boss was feeling benevolent did I get away with it. Anyway, although I'm not sure Lucy even had anything much to autograph at the post-performance "autograph session" ("FORM A LINE OVER THERE!" the store personnel commanded---I had to leave virtually right after that, but there clearly weren't enough of us to really make a line necessary!), at least there were enough of us to give Lucy some decent applause between songs. Lucy seemed relaxed and comfortable, although I was conscious that _I_ was hardly breathing...I wasn't even ON the radio and I was way more nervous about the whole live radio thing than Lucy seemed! As I mentioned earlier, hearing Lucy sing Land of the Living there...being there at all...was indeed a powerful experience, at least for me. I had literally not BEEN that close to the World Trade Center site, outside of a moving car or train, since before 9/11 (specifically, the John Gorka World Trade Center show on August 29th of that year in which Lucy sang too). I didn't particularly fear it, but I'd had no reason to be there, and I hadn't felt any desire to go for the sake of going. There was something that felt right about the fact that when I did finally find myself there again, it was to see Lucy...I'm not sure I would say that being there felt GOOD (that is, in any larger sense beyond just getting to enjoy a Lucy performance, which is always good), but it did feel right. After Lucy's performance, I had to make a pretty quick escape to get back to work, but I was so unfamiliar with the area after all this time that I found myself slightly lost...I couldn't find the train I thought I was going to take, and I kept walking, confused, until I was some distance from J & R and was finally just looking for a subway, any subway, to get me back uptown. When I at last saw a subway entrance, I went right down the stairs...and stopped short, because there was something familiar about the layout of the station interior. It turned out I'd gone in a direction I hadn't intended and was extremely near the very place which I'd taken the train home from that last World Trade Center performance on that long-ago summer night...but until I descended the stairs, I hadn't even realized where I was. It was very, very strange. Anyhow, I hope that lots of you who couldn't be there to see Lucy's performance live were able to hear it...a real treat in the middle of the day. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #44 ****************************** 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