From: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org (octoroon-digest) To: octoroon-digest@smoe.org Subject: octoroon-digest V2 #60 Reply-To: octoroon@smoe.org Sender: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk octoroon-digest Saturday, September 11 1999 Volume 02 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [octoroon] Fwd: ADMIN: smoe.org downtime 8/11/99 0600-1800 EDT [Deb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:13:45 -0400 From: Deb Subject: [octoroon] Fwd: ADMIN: smoe.org downtime 8/11/99 0600-1800 EDT >Due to a minor fire a few weeks ago at the location where smoe.org is >located, the building will be without power from 06:00 until >18:00 EDT on Saturday 8/11 so that repairs can be made to the >power distribution system. > >This means smoe.org will be down during that time. You may still send messages to the list during that time, just wait patiently for them to arrive! - -- Deb \\ indigo@mindspring.com \\ http://www.mindspring.com/~indigo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:20:19 -0400 From: Deb Subject: [octoroon] Fwd: Forever Dusty! update... >From: REBRAD@aol.com >Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:38:01 EDT >To: ig-news@smoe.org > >FOREVER DUSTY! Homage to an Icon >A Tribute to Dusty Springfield >Featuring 16 Top Female Artists > >Out: October 24 (via ladyslipper.org and amazon.com, etc...pre-order via >Ladyslipper) > >1. The Laura Love Band channels Dusty to a D with their soul-filled ode to >Son of a Preacher Man (featuring Barbara Lamb's scorching fiddle filling in >perfectly for the Memphis Horns)! > >2. Indigo Girls travel back to simplicity and harmony (and you've never heard >Amy sing so high!) with a classic early '50s style recording (all to one mic) >of the anti-war traditional Broken Blossoms! > >3. The Butchies (featuring Kaia Wilson and Melissa York formerly of Team >Dresch) turn up the dBs on What's It Gonna Be—produced by indie rock legend >Chris Stamey! > >4. Jill Sobule's shimmering version of Just a Little Lovin' features tasty >live production from James Mastro with real horns, strings (arranged by Jane >Scarpantoni), and backing singers! > >5. Zrazy (Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson) are from Dublin and are usually >known for their sexy techno…here on How Can I Be Sure they strip down to the >sultry basics! > >6. Gail Ann Dorsey, David Bowie's bass player, cuts a powerful Losing You, on >which she plays almost everything (Tom Camp's on piano)! > >7. Marti Jones, christened the next Dusty by every music critic on her >mid-'80s major label debut, does her first Dusty cover—You Don't Have to Say >You Love Me—and does it right! Don Dixon produces Marti's version of Dusty's >biggest US hit! > >8. Michelle Malone duets with her mother Karyn Malone Folmar, a former lounge >singer who used to take baby Michelle with her to gigs, on the luscious The >Look of Love! > >9. Vicki Randle, percussionist/vocalist with Kevin Eubanks' Tonight Show with >Jay Leno Band, does a reggae version of Wishin' & Hopin' on which she played >everything! > >10. SONiA of disappear fear rocks out with a beautiful pop sound on the >Bacharach classic, I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself! > >11. Jennifer Kimball, joined by guitar great Duke Levine and some of Boston's >best artists, makes Chained to a Memory truly memorable! > >12. Cath Carroll, underground artist, journalist, Mapplethorpe model and >obsession of the band Unrest, creates a beautiful, dark look at There Is No >Easy Way Down (with Robbie Fulks' drummer)! > >13. Ana Egge, one of the rising lone stars of Texas (Austin) spent the last >year touring with Shawn Colvin and Iris Dement, writing songs and recording >records on her own Grace Records imprint—and she's still in her early 20s! >Ana's super sultry drawl will have you crawling on this Rich Brotherton >(Robert Earl Keen Band) produced Breakfast in Bed! > >14. Lord Douglas Phillips, the Austin supertrio (featuring Terri Lord and >Darcee Douglas, formerly with Sincola and Gretchen Phillips, formerly with >Two Nice Girls, Girls in the Nose, etc.), present their first commercial >recording, a musical verité version of the wise and knowing track Yesterday >When I Was Young! > >15. Sara Lee, legendary bass player for Gang of Four, B-52s, Indigo Girls, >and Ani DiFranco, presents the huge hit, I Only Want To Be With You. This is >Sara's first-ever commercially available recording where she is front and >center on lead vocals—and she's wonderful! > >16. MRS. FUN, notorious for their Milwaukee-based acid jazz, are joined by >famed vocalist Janet Planet for a sophisticated and stimulating rendition of >The Windmills of Your Mind! ------------------------------ End of octoroon-digest V2 #60 *****************************