From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V8 #30 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 Sunday, July 16 2006 Volume 08 : Number 030 In this issue: [lucy-list] Re: Women versus men on the folk circuit Re: [lucy-list] Re: Women versus men on the folk circuit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:18:53 -0500 From: "Steve Gilmore" Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Women versus men on the folk circuit How about giving us the name of the first male singer-songwriter? Steve Gilmore Charlotte, NC USA Be yourself--it's the one thing that you can do better than anyone else can do. We are standing on the rooftops We are circling like sparrows We are tiny, we are trembling, Scared of everything But the heart is still a red wing - --"Redwing" written by Dan Messe, from Hem's CD "Eveningland" > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:21:07 -0500 > From: Timothy Bruce > Subject: [lucy-list] Women versus men on the folk circuit > > Women by far, yes, but not exclusively! > > I discovered a singer songwriter last winter in a bar down n Memphis. > The second time I saw him down there, he gave me a copy of his CD "Too > Much Love" so that I could try to get it airplay up here in > Minneapolis. Everyone I have shared his music with has liked it a great > deal. One said that many of his songs were kinda sad. (This shouldn't > bother us, should it....remember a band called Cry Cry Cry?) > > Another very talented, very entertaining MALE singer songwriter I saw > recently (at the Winnipeg Folk Festival) was Hawksley Workman > (Ontario). Sorta proving the point, I made at least twice as many > discoveries of female talent up there than male. The local Wailin' > Jennies of course, but also Mia Dyson from Australia, the veteran trio > Fruit also from Australia and Ruthi Foster (no stranger to readers of > this list, but a big discovery to most of the folks at Winnipeg this year). > > Richard Thompson solo acoustic rocked the festival mainstage. > Hmmm...Thats 4 to 3....I don't dispute the point. > > Timothy Bruce > in south Minneapolis > > > Subject: [lucy-list] Re: mid-year music report > > > > It's not sexist--it's fact! No question about it--the best music > > out there these days by far is by women! > > ------------------------------ > > End of lucy-list-digest V8 #28 > ****************************** > > 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 > - -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:13:36 EDT From: Jon94@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Women versus men on the folk circuit Certainly..... that would be Moses, Exodus 15:1 ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V8 #30 ****************************** 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