From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V2 #181 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Saturday, August 8 1998 Volume 02 : Number 181 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [s-r] ["Laura" ] Re: [s-r] [Jordan Yeager ] [s-r] "Solo -- Women Singer-Songwriters - In Their Own Words" ["Roxanne D] [s-r] NSC: Toad has left the building [John DeFord ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 04:13:23 -0500 From: "Laura" Subject: [s-r] Hey, I just got back from seeing Mary Chapin-Carpenter, and I am proud to announce that she brought her dogs out on stage. I got to see our one and only "Cal." I was, of course, thinking of Shawn and little Callie. Laura in Indianapolis P.S. Any Carrie Newcomer fans out there? - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 04:39:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jordan Yeager Subject: Re: [s-r] where did you see her? I saw her at Nashville (Lilith Fair) and a dog came out on stage. - ---Laura wrote: > > Hey, > > I just got back from seeing Mary Chapin-Carpenter, and I am proud to > announce that she brought her dogs out on stage. I got to see our one and > only "Cal." I was, of course, thinking of Shawn and little Callie. > > Laura in Indianapolis > > P.S. Any Carrie Newcomer fans out there? > > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub > scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. > tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not > directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > == If parents would only realize how they bore their own children. - --George Bernard Shaw _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 09:16:49 -0400 From: "Roxanne D. Finch" Subject: [s-r] "Solo -- Women Singer-Songwriters - In Their Own Words" I'm forwarding this from the Canadian Music list that I'm on since it is about a book that includes our lovely Shawn! rox >From: Riphug@aol.com >Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:01:43 EDT >To: fte@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au >Cc: ecto@smoe.org, harbinger@smoe.org, canadian-music@smoe.org, > dog-dreams@cs.umd.edu >Subject: "Solo -- Women Singer-Songwriters - In Their Own Words" >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 120 >Sender: owner-canadian-music@smoe.org > >NOTE: As this has been cross-posted, please make sure to reply only to those >lists of which you are a member. Thanks. ;-) >*************************************************************************** *** >******************* >I received my copy of this 368-page softcover book in yesterday's mail and >although I haven't sat down to read it cover to cover yet, it looks pretty >good. It includes lots of black and white portraits of each artist. Here are >the artists who tell about their lives and how they got started in music. In >order of appearance: > >Sarah McLachlan/Shawn Colvin/Jonatha Brooke/Cassandra Wilson/ >Ani DiFranco/Mary Lou Lord/Mary Chapin Carpenter/Suzanne Vega/ >Holly Palmer/Joan Osborne/Lucy Kaplansky/Jewel/Rosanne Cash/ >Dionne Farris/Sheryl Crow/Lucinda Williams/Catie Curtis/ >Kate Campbell/Rosanne Raneri > >According to the authors, the books was written in response to the often-heard >complaint that there is now a glut of female artists. Here's a brief excerpt >from the introduction: > > "SOLO provides the space for each artist to exercise her singular way of >saying things. Why should we assume that the experiences of Suzanne Vega, who >grew up in East Harlem to the taunts of 'You're the whitest girl I've ever >seen,' and those of Kate Campbell who was raised as the daughter of a socially >progressive Baptist preacher in rural Mississippi, would somehow say the same >things?.....It's this rich variety that defines these women who have so >masterfuly responded to their worlds with indelible takes on what it means to >be human. > >These artists are far more serious about their work than they are generally >given credit for, however much their music is lauded, and more insightful >about subjects as far-flung as politics, aesthetics, and love, both in and >outside their songs, than we could know from short reviews crowded under >attention-grabbing headlines. Whether it's dionne Farris speaking about the >limitations she's faced......or Jewel reflecting on her unexpected >celebrity..., the depth, intelligence, and self-searching expressed here are >the sources, in such eclectic and provocative ways, for the music itself. >It's no surprise that the writers who give our own emotions and experiences >shape through their songs convey such substance and insight, as if implicitly >rejecting the skewed values of a pop world more likely to notice a steel >brassiere than a literate turn of phrase...." > >The authors are Emma Dodge Hanson and Marc Woodworth, who "live on a farm near >Saratoga Springs, New York. Emma is a photographer whose portraits of artists >and writers have appeared in The New York Times, Poets and Writers, USA Today, >The Oxford American, and elsewhere. Marc is associated editor of Salmagundi >and lectures in the Department of English at Skidmore College. His poems >appear in The Paris Review and other magazines. This is their first book." > >The book is available through www.amazon.com. > >Jill :D > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rdfinch@mindspring.com http://www.unc.edu/~roxfinch You get your Ph.D How happy you will be "Never is Enough" When you get a job at Wendy's --BNL And are honoured with Employee of the Month - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 00:24:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeFord Subject: [s-r] NSC: Toad has left the building I apologize in advance for the NSC-ness of this, I just have the feeling there may be some small-repairers who like Toad The Wet Sprocket, as I do. This is from Columbia Records Daily Dish... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LONG & WINDING TOAD It's a sad time for Toad lovers everywhere because the group has split up. Yes, it's true, that after more than a decade of making music together, Dean, Randy, Todd and Glen are going their separate ways. The following is the complete press release from the band's management company, Blake & Bradford: After twelve years, six albums (which together have sold four million copies), and over 800 performances, the Santa Barbara-based rock band known as Toad The Wet Sprocket has decided to break-up, citing emerging differences among the four members. "We came together as kids but have grown in different directions as adults," explains Glen Phillips, who was 15 years old when he started singing and playing guitar with Dean Dinning (bass, vocals), Randy Guss (drums) and Todd Nichols (guitar, vocals). The high school friends, who met in drama club before playing their first gig under the Monty Python-inspired name in September of 1986, "always said the band would last as long as it was fun. We wanted to be driven by passion instead of habit," recalls Phillips. "Being in a band can be hard sometimes," says Guss, who has known Phillips since grade school. "We've always always called our own shots—made the tough decisions—and this is the biggest one of all. But it's one that had to be made." "In recent months it became harder to keep everyone satisfied within the confines of the band," adds Phillips. "It felt like if we stayed together much longer, the tensions would hurt both the music and our friendships." Those friendships became a professional entity when the band released Bread And Circus on Columbia Records in 1989, beginning a long-standing relationship with not only the label but their manager, Chris Blake. This continuity led to the recording of two platinum albums (Fear in 1991 and Dulcinea in 1994) along with Pale (1990), In Light Syrup (1995) and Coil (1997). "We were together longer than we ever thought we'd be," reflects Nichols. "We never thought it would turn into a career but it did, and a good one at that. But after twelve years it was time for a change." Some of the many highlights in that career included performing for over half-a-million people at two N.O.W. rallies on the Washington Mall. Long a supporter of women's rights, Toad sang about the horrors of sexual abuse in their 1992 breakthrough track "Hold Her Down" and last year hosted their 5th annual benefit concert for the hometown rape crisis center. The fan-friendly band also made a habit of sending out special recordings and holiday cards to their mailing list of over 70,000 members, many of whom had followed Toad from their very first tour as the opening act for the B-52s in 1989. "I will really miss playing for our fans all across the country," notes Dinning. "So many of them became familiar faces." "Without ever being trendy, we managed to deeply touch a large number of people," remarks Phillips. "There's a great deal of satisfaction in that." Indeed, it appears it was the music and words, as opposed to the band's admittedly almost non-existent image, that kept the faithful coming back tour after tour. Plans had called for the quartet—whose most popular tunes include "All I Want," "Walk On The Ocean," "Fall Down" and "Good Intentions"—to begin work on a new album this summer but, after a couple of false starts, the decision to dissolve the band was reached almost unanimously. "Rather than continue on and take a chance of placing both our friendships and artistic visions in jeopardy, we decided to quit now while both are still intact," offers Guss. Phillips agrees. "By ending the band now we can look back on our career together with a sense of pride and pleasure." While no longer a band, the former members of Toad The Wet Sprocket are by no means giving up on making music. Look for projects from all four in the near future. Glen Phillips will perform at an ASCAP showcase on Thursday, August 13th at 10:30pm. Doors open at 8:00pm, Admission is $5.00 at the Largo nightclub at 432 N Fairfax in Los Angeles. - ------------------------------ http://www.houseoftoad.com - ------------------------------ == ............................. . . John DeFord . . "Sometimes the beauty of life . mailto:jdef@yahoo.com . Hits like lightning . . ..................... . . Washing everything clear" ... ............... ... --Shawn Colvin _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. 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