From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #49 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 Monday, March 1 2004 Volume 06 : Number 049 In this issue: [lucy-list] Gas Prices in the USA/Canada [lucy-list] radio play [lucy-list] Carolina on her Mind Re: [lucy-list] Carolina on her Mind [lucy-list] on Carolina, sound, and books... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:13:07 -0000 From: "Dave McKay" Subject: [lucy-list] Gas Prices in the USA/Canada > However the UK and European listers would still trade prices with > us. I know > since I used to live in Italy. (What's the price on the continent now?) Here in the UK, if my arithmetic is correct, we pay the equivalent of $5.30 for a US gallon. > And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on > our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. Heaven help that you would consider not relying on your cars ... or relying on smaller cars with better fuel consumption ... If you want to propagate a pyramid email, at least do the legwork and find 10 genuine recipients. Forwarding to a list is lazy, takes up bandwidth needlessly, and diminishes the message. Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:21:44 -0500 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] radio play WFUV has Lucys cd in rotation but i was driving around yesterday morning and heard OFF and Running on the Crash on the LEvee show on WFDU about 915am Lucy has perfect pitch so if you hear her tune her guitar or listen to her at the piano, she is right on with teh pitch it helps her find the harmony with other singer.. The only better than hearing lucy sing her own work is hearing her adapt and adjust to others while singing harmony sharon "See your life as a gift from the great unknown And your task is to receive it" mary chapin carpenter Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:03:05 EST From: NCdoc8@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Carolina on her Mind Hi Everyone, I just had the pleasure of seeing Lucy twice the past couple of nights. She played Friday night at the Arts Center in Carrboro, NC and Saturday night at the Great Aunt Stella Center in Charlotte. Thankfully both shows were held as parts of North Carolina received as much as 12" to 18" of snow. Lucy remarked that "you people get pretty excited about snow". I actually kept a set list on Friday only to realize I left it behind at the venue. She did play 21 songs including most from the Red Thread. She did tell a wonderful story about the leather jacket she was wearing. She remarked that she had never purchased anything so expensive but when the jacket went on sale she just had to buy it. Unfortunately, Annie Lennox had purchased the last size small an hour before Lucy, so Lucy was forced to settle for the petite. She was pleased to announce that it fit! She also did "Song About Pi" (and a recognizable tale about her soon to be 87 year old dad) and "More Than This" (with a brief mention of her meeting with Bryan Ferry). The show was one of the best shows I have seen! She played for well over two hours and the venue was cozy and wonderful. Saturday night, Lucy didnt miss a beat. This time I didnt even attempt a set list, but she must have played at least as many songs. She opened once again with a powerful rendition of "He Still Thinks I Care". Again she played most of the new album and talked so poignantly about this being the second time she has been away from Molly since the adoption. She expressed that in the "fifty phone calls to her husband" she learned that Molly had taken her first few steps! You could feel her disappointment to have missed that milestone. She ended the first set with the MOST INCREDIBLE rendition of James Taylors, "Carolina On My Mind". She had tried to sing the song in Carrboro but she wound up humming most of the lyrics as she laughingly admitted "I don't know the words". I requested the song again in Charlotte but came prepared with a copy of the lyrics and Lucy excitedly had me bring her the lyrics. Her rendition was so beautiful you could not imagine. After the show, I mentioned this to Lucy and she said she was going to learn the song. I told her that I was going to tell the Lucy List and she was very positive with the idea. So Benay, Kristen, everyone....please request "Carolina On My Mind" if you feel the urge. You WONT be disappointed. She played many songs including a lot of her older tunes in the second set. She commented upon coming back to the stage "I am now going to play a song that I know". Among the highlights were two songs from Cry Cry Cry, "Ten Year Night" and its sequal..."This Is Home". She also took my request (and one of my favorites) "For Once In Your Life". I am sorry that I am unable to provide set lists and more indepth reviews, but I felt I should at least provide some information not seeing any other more formal reviews. Best wishes to all and a special thanks to Kristen for her efforts in her fund raising venture. I know Lucy will be thrilled. Lenny Saltzman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:00:08 EST From: MNJack@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Carolina on her Mind Lenny, Nice review! 2 hours?? That was a long Lucy concert. Lucky you. Great job bringing the lyrics to 'Carolina (IN) my mind'. One of my favorite songs - I would sure love to hear Lucy's rendition. MJ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:44:40 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] on Carolina, sound, and books... Thanks for that review, Lenny! I was hoping we would get some reviewing this weekend, since I know Lucy has some ardent Carolina fans...and wow, Lucy's version of Carolina In My Mind sounds great. Perhaps she can be convinced to sing it next weekend in Massachusetts, if only on the theory that Massachusetts has the same number of syllables as Carolina...even though the lyrics couldn't change because "Massachusetts In My Mind" does not sound nearly so enticing! The only trouble with seeing Lucy in the Northeast, as I most often do, is that it is not such an exotic locale for her that she is generally inspired to do a song related to the area. Of course, significant songs of hers have HUGE ties to New York City, so I'm certainly not complaining...but it's neat that those of you in more far-flung areas get to hear a particularly unusual offering now and then, and it's always great when those songs make it into her more general repertoire, as Loch Lomond did. Maybe we can hope for that with Carolina In My Mind. I found Doug's explanation of sound and analysis of Lucy's voice interesting, too. There's so little I actually KNOW about music, for all that I enjoy it, and it's good to gain a little more understanding. As for sound, it does indeed very much depend on the venue. Most of the times I had trouble hearing Lucy's voice were when she was doing full band shows when Every Single Day came out---it seemed easy for them not to get the balance right with the band in some places, though when everything clicked, it was magical. I seldom have trouble when Lucy's doing a solo show...then again, I know most of the lyrics already, so I've probably lost the ability to step back and observe how clear the lyrics truly sound. (Actually, though I find Lucy sings quite clearly overall, it wasn't until I read the lyrics in the CD booklet that I realized the line was "I'm wishing I could give you what I wanted to...you know I want it, too..." and not "you know I wanted to..." And when Lucy first began performing Written on the Back of His Hand, I stumbled a bit in differentiating the "once" and the "won't" in "You once said it out loud/You won't say it again," simply because of the speed at which the words go by.) On a different topic...if anybody is intrigued by the concept of "the red thread" and/or wants some better understanding of that idea and the situation in China and the experience of adopting from China, there's a book I stumbled across while perusing the Half the Sky website---The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans. It's part history, part memoir (straight history sometimes scares me off, but I will read virtually anything that I see described as "part memoir"!), and I just finished it and found it fascinating. Of course, the experience reflected in the memoir part is that of only one couple, several years back, and I'm in no position to attest to the validity or lack thereof of any of it...and I'm sure it's probably also something nobody who doesn't actually HAVE the experience of adopting from China can fully understand...but I can say that it was a compelling read and I felt at least a little bit wiser when I finished the book than I'd been when I started it, and that's enough to make me recommend it to others who want to explore the subject. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #49 ****************************** 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