From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #87 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 Friday, April 23 2004 Volume 06 : Number 087 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy interview [lucy-list] Lucy interview [lucy-list] Reviews [lucy-list] Lucy at Joe's Pub 4/22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:03:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Gravano Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy interview The April issue of the inside connection features a short interview with Lucy. She states that she has Molly listening to the Beatles. I'd like to thank whoever posted the Adrienne Young, Plow to the End of the Row web site. The CD is excellent. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:04:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Gravano Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy interview The April issue of the inside connection features a short interview with Lucy. She states that she has Molly listening to the Beatles. I'd like to thank whoever posted the Adrienne Young, Plow to the End of the Row web site. The CD is excellent. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:16:40 -0400 From: "Donna Myers" Subject: [lucy-list] Reviews Congratulations Theresa! If you have a good sitter I would suggest seeing Lucy. The show at Joe's Pub last night was great. What a wonderful venue with good food and superb sound. Benay did a great job with her review as always. I thought I was the only one who cried uncontrollably during "The Red Thread"!! Can't wait to see Lucy there again. Unfortunately, it won't be tonight or tomorrow. Donna ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:21:34 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Joe's Pub 4/22 Although it was only my second time seeing Lucy there (in as many nights), I already felt at home when I walked into Joe's Pub this evening. I managed to make it from a hectic day at work with only about fifteen minutes to spare before showtime, so not unexpectedly I found myself standing in back, by the bar. Luckily, there was a spot still open there, right in front of a big bowl of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, which I proceeded to sneak by the handful when the bartender's back was turned (they WERE free snacks, but there was no need to emphasize the point that I was, by necessity, making them serve as dinner, washed down with the very expensive ginger ale I dutifully ordered, heavy drinker that I am not!). It was a bit tiring to stand for the whole show, but the view was excellent, and I really wouldn't have minded my positioning at all had it not been for Chatty Person #1 and Chatty Person #2, directly to my right---so designated only to differentiate them from Chatty Person #3, who arrived a few songs into Lucy's set and proceeded to join in the gabfest. They weren't exactly talking loudly---not to the extent that it would have bothered Lucy, especially since we were all in the back---but they just didn't stop. I was mystified that people would pay $25 each to talk with their friends throughout a one-hour show---couldn't they all have just gone somewhere else for drinks? Anyway, I tried to lean away from them and concentrate on Lucy, who was captivating as usual. Her set (again, with Duke Levine---"Kaplansky and Levine: It's a law firm") tonight: No Place to Fall Written on the Back of His Hand End of the Day I Had Something Ten Year Night (mention of Molly) The Red Thread (with talk of hearing from her gym teacher and memories of high school gym class again!) Love Song/New York (remark that she was sweating so much she felt like Tom Jones---it was indeed sauna-like in the room, and I could only imagine how hot it must be for Lucy, even in her sleeveless outfit, under the lights!) Brooklyn Train (there was, interestingly, NO piano onstage tonight...so she did this one by herself, on guitar...I think only the second time I'd heard it that way, and it was stunning) (Here, Lucy mentioned that she'd seen a famous person today in the neighborhood---Philip Seymour Hoffman. She related how she hardly ever talks to famous people when she sees them, but she HAD talked to Philip Seymour Hoffman, saying to him, "I'm a really big fan---you were great in _Long Day's Journey Into Night_"! Apparently he replied with a noncommittal "Oh...thanks." Lucy told the story charmingly, not seeming to realize how funny it was to some of us to think that SHE still gets starstruck, considering the starstruck state she herself is capable of inspiring in many of her fans...) Line in the Sand I'm Looking Through You (fantastic solo by Duke!) (story of Molly meowing like a cat except not quite) This Is Home Land of the Living By Way of Sorrow Encore: Speaking with the Angel The chatty group on my right departed immediately after Lucy was done, and the woman on my left was still finishing her drink, so she turned and introduced herself as a mom from New Jersey who had heard Lucy's music a lot but never seen her before. We had a pleasant little conversation (interrupted by a guy who had arrived late and wondered what songs he'd missed---I think he was a bit shocked when I flipped open my setlist pad and told him EXACTLY which ones!) but at the same time I was looking around for fellow Lucy-lister Paul, who happened to make it across the ocean from Oxford, England for tonight's and tomorrow's shows---we had agreed by email to meet up tonight. So I felt compelled to explain to this woman I'd just met why my eyes kept darting around the room...and of course what did I do but blurt out, perhaps a bit too enthusiastically, "I'm looking for a guy from England!" She looked confused, and I could see her mind working trying to formulate a nice way to tell me that perhaps, since we were in the middle of downtown Manhattan, I would have better luck if I set my sights on finding a local guy first. I hastened to try to explain, but dug myself deeper: "No, I mean...I know he's HERE...I just haven't MET him yet!" My new acquaintance now looked positively alarmed, clearly wondering whether I was anticipating some freakish blind date or was merely psychotic. Luckily, Paul showed up right about then---and the poor mom from New Jersey beat a hasty retreat. Anyway, Paul turned out to be most charming company---I am extremely fortunate to have gotten to meet three wonderful international Lucy-listers in the space of two months! (Is _everyone_ in the U.K. incredibly nice?) We walked up to Union Square together as I was on my way to my train and Paul was on his way to his hotel...naturally, just my luck, I almost immediately began marching in the wrong direction and Paul had to politely ask if we didn't have to go THIS way instead...and indeed, he was absolutely right. So much for my attempts to be the cool, consummate New Yorker! In any case, what I am right now is a very sleepy New Yorker...so, off to bed. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #87 ****************************** 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