From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #80 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, April 13 2004 Volume 06 : Number 080 In this issue: [lucy-list] The Barns at Wolf Trap [lucy-list] Lucy at Wolf Trap 4/10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:40:35 EDT From: NCdoc8@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] The Barns at Wolf Trap HI Everyone, I fully expected that someone would have posted a review of Lucy's concert in Vienna, Va this past saturday. I am usually the NC reviewer, but had the opportunity to drive the six hours to get my Lucy fix. The venue was wonderful. I am not sure if anyone has been there but its a great venue with an intimate setting. Set List: Ok...I must admit, I dont always no the names of songs esp when they are covers (I have learned that term from reading the Lucy List). She began with a song from Towns Van Zandt (but she never mentioned the name of the song). She did tell how she had opened for him earlier in her career and how star struck she was. He apparently kissed her hand and proposed... I Had Something Five in the Morning Written on the Back of his Hand Ten Year Night I Know What Kind of Love (from Cry Cry Cry) She then talked about Molly. And of course, its no longer easy from Lucy to announce that she is a new mom as everyone in the audience seems to know. She did talk about Molly's ever expanding vocabulary and she won over my date with her heartfelt expressions about Molly and being a mom. She mentioned that the song The Red Thread was actually dedicated to her own mom. Red Thread Scorpion The Tide Don't Mind Me Falling Lucy mentioned that Falling was track 0 on Flesh and Bone and that you have to go backwards from song 1 to get to 0. I fell for it as soon as I got to my car (it was a joke wasnt it ....?) This Is Home End of the Day You Have Come by Way of Sorrow (not the right name, I know.....Help Benay!) Land of the Living Gueniviere Encores: My Name Joe Flesh and Bone All in all, a great concert and a sold out performance! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:25:11 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Wolf Trap 4/10 Our steadfast North Carolina reviewer, NCdoc8, did a good job (even if he doesn't think he did!) describing the show at the Barns of Wolf Trap...and I should know, since Kristen and Libby and I were there, too! Enough has been going on since my return that I just haven't gotten to post, but it was a fantastic trip. Kristen and I drove down to Virginia Saturday morning...a relatively easy trip, made all the more exciting by the fact that one of our several stops on the journey was---we both shouted at the same time when we saw the sign---the Walt Whitman Service Area! While I don't recall any Whitman poem entitled Crossing Jersey Highways, someone was thinking of the renowned poet somewhere along the line when they built one of those food court/gas stations. It was an attractive, albeit crowded service area...I tried to think something Whitman-like in his honor, but mostly I was thinking I had to get out and stretch because my back hurt! We made it to Virginia by midafternoon and met up with the lovely and talented Libby Wiebel...then, its being a nice day, we packed a picnic and went early to Wolf Trap. Apparently at the Filene Center, which is the larger venue on the grounds of the big park that is Wolf Trap, it's a tradition to tailgate before the shows. Not really so at the Barns of Wolf Trap, but we found ourselves a nice piece of grass and got out the wine and cheese and proceeded to do some very glorious tailgating indeed. I'd only been to the Barns once before, to see Susan Werner some time ago...but it is a magnificent place to see a show, especially a Lucy show. It feels intimate even with a couple of hundred people there---no seat is a bad one, and there are small tables in between every couple of chairs so you can comfortably put down your drink (or, in some of our cases, your set list pad!) when you're ready to applaud. The opener was Martyn Joseph, from Wales, who won many new fans with his charming description of his ordeal getting into the country (he only succeeded when he was declared "an alien of extraordinary ability") and, more importantly, some very nice songs. He did about 45 minutes' worth of music, and then on came Lucy. NCdoc8 did a pretty good job with the setlist, but I'll put down mine too: No Place to Fall (that was the Townes van Zandt song) I Had Something Five in the Morning (especially nice since Libby, who covered the song beautifully on her own CD, could be there to see it!) (story of Townes van Zandt asking Lucy to marry him after she opened for him once) Written on the Back of His Hand Ten Year NIght I Know What Kind of Love This Is (description of Molly's having learned to say "wah" for "water") The Red Thread (excited mention of the upcoming NPR All Things Considererd interview, now set for tomorrow [Tuesday] unless it somehow gets pushed off!) Scorpion Brooklyn Train The Tide Don't Mind Me I've Just Seen a Face This Is Home End of the Day By Way of Sorrow Land of the Living Guinevere Encores: My Name Joe Still Life She didn't seem to have planned her set list too much in advance---it was all very loose, so we got a lovely mix of older and newer songs. Not as much talking as usual...but LOTS of singing. And the sound...the sound may have been as good elsewhere, but I've never heard it better! You could just sort of sink blissfully into Lucy's voice the whole way through. The show was a decent length, but I could happily have stayed there and listened for another few hours! It was all worth the trip...worth even the drive back yesterday, which made it clear that it is NOT a good thing to have to travel the New Jersey Turnpike on Easter (and to add insult to injury, there's not even a Walt Whitman service area when you're headed north!). AND it was raining...AND at one point Kristen's windshield wiper startled us by snapping right off the car! (Luckily, we weren't on the highway at the time, so she was able to retrieve it and get it back on!) Only one thing marred the perfection of my evening seeing Lucy at the Barns...and it was entirely my fault. I was delighted when Lucy started Still Life as the second encore, since it's one of my favorite songs of hers. But toward the end, in the midst of the last verse, she forgot a line and asked if anyone knew what came next (she'd just gotten through "his father's words..."). Perhaps having forgotten the whole "pride goeth before a fall" idea, I became completely certain I knew what came next, and though I'm hardly a shouter by nature, from my seat near the back of the room I burst out with, "...become hands that will guide him!" Which were very nice lyrics...and they WERE from that song...but absolutely NOT from that particular place in the song, as immediately became clear when Lucy continued with "...will echo all around him"! Yes, that was the correct line...and it echoed all around ME as I realized in sudden horror how wrong I'd been! I was sure that every last person in that audience, not to mention Lucy, had heard me deliver that glaring error, so confidently had I tossed it out! (I was later informed that it had been perhaps not quite so loud to others as it had seemed to me...I think by some miracle it didn't even reach Lucy's ears.) Anyway, maybe that will teach me a lesson: next time I try to help Lucy out, I'll bring a computerized lyrics database! :-) But all in all, a fantastic time was had by all, I think...and many thanks to Kristen and Libby for being such all-around great chauffeurs, hosts, and (above all) companions! Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #80 ****************************** 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