//  Howdy-ho, everyone!  Here we've got a couple reminders to watch
//  for the Nitty Gritty special -- it's quite good, so don't miss it.
//  Also a bit about Ralph McTell, and a couple more album suggestions.
//  - MF

From: Norm Watson (normw@ecentral.com)                            
Subject: Nitty Gritty Christmas in Colorado                          

Hi everyone,

Channel 12 is playing 'Nitty Gritty Christmas' on Christmas eve at 8:30.

Norm Watson
Colorado

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From: ingaqotr@mailserver.fiber-net.com (Amy C. McKibbin)         
Subject: Re: Nitty Gritty Christmas in Colorado                      

>Channel 12 is playing 'Nitty Gritty Christmas' on Christmas eve at 8:30.

Tampa Bay area has it on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 11:00 p.m. on PBS.

Amy M.
 
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From: DRiley4510 (DRiley4510@aol.com)                             
Subject: The Moons                                                   

Hi,
Regarding the BRFTM's title, I seem to remember Nanci in a concert saying that
the nickname for the BMO was the Moons, so this is partly how the latest CD
got it's title. I guess that's on the same lines as Kelly's interpretation in
digest C21.
Have happy holidays everyone!
Dave.
 
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From: "H. Janssen" (hjanssen@mail.dotcom.fr)                      
Subject: Fw: Ralph McTell - a biography                              

Hi NN'ers,

I got this e-mail on another list.


met vriendelijke groeten,
Hans Janssen.

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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.
Visit: htttp://members.xoom.com/aquella/
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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Isle of Wight Rock/Vaguely Sunny (iowrock@iowrock.demon.co.uk)
Datum: maandag 22 december 1997 21:05
Onderwerp: Ralph McTell - a biography


>Friends
>
>English songwriter and performer Ralph McTell is probably best known
>latterly in America by Nanci Griffith's version of his classic song From
>Clare to
>Here. Griffiths assumed that McTell was an Irishman and Irishman Christy
>Moore pays the artist the ultimate tribute in Streets of London, the
official
>biography of Ralph McTell by Chris Hockenhull:
>
>"Ralph is recognised as having that same kindred spirit. I can guarantee
that
>somewhere in Ireland, on any day of the week, someone will be playing From
>Clare To Here. They may not all be able to tell you who wrote it, but that,
to
>them, is a true Irish song."
>
>For me Ralph McTell stands with the late Sandy Denny as one of the greatest
>voices of English music. Just listen to him sing The Hiring Fair live and
>tell me
>I'm wrong.
>
>Chris Hockenhull's extensive book details every chapter of McTell's career
>from war torn south London, through ramshackle folk clubs, busking in Paris
>streets to selling out the Albert Hall and beyond. What comes across from
this
>portrait is an unassuming artist who has probably never sought the
>recognition his talent deserves.
>
>The book draws on interviews with the songwriter, friends and musicians and
>looks at his art through his extensive repertoire of  songs. McTell is best
>known for his song Streets of London but Chris Hockenhull rightly adjusts
the
>balance in this  book. The author draws attention to McTell's neglected
>masterpiece,  a tribute album to Dylan Thomas, called  The Boy With The
>Note released in 1992.
>
>Sustaining the brilliance. You bet.
>
>The book can ordered  direct from Ralph McTell at:
>http://www.folkcorp.co.uk
>You can also email Ralph McTell:
>ralph@folkcorp.co.uk
>
>Merry Christmas from a little Island hanging off the south coast of England
>. . .
>
>Mike Plumbley
>
>"In a slip shod tap room dance he's stumbling
>moves on steadily to the door
>Oxford Street is a river tonight
>and he must cross it once more
>Down to old Soho, down to old Soho . . ."
>- Ralph McTell from The Boy With A Note
>
>

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From: Tom Gill (tgill@igc.apc.org)                                
Subject: Best of '97                                                 

Well, I've been away from my email for the last couple of weeks, so I
didn't get a chance to partiocipate in the annual "year end top ten"
festivities in an "official" way.

Looking back at my list compared to the NanciNet results, there are
actually a lot of similarities: ten or so of my dozen favorites were
mentioned by other NanciNetters.  However, I'd like to mention two
EXCELLENT albums that seem to have been overlooked.

1. The Dead Reckoners- "A Night of Reckoning" (Dead Reckoning
Records).  A "live in the studio" recording by Kevin Welch, Kieran
Kane, Harry Stinson, and their splendid cohorts, this is hands down one
of the most fun records of the '90s in my book.  Each of the performers
is an excellent singer/songwriter/musician in their own right, and when
they get together, the result is even greater than the sum of the individ
ual parts: raucous, joyous, folky-bluesy-alterna-country.

2. Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson- "Industry" (Rykodisk).  I had
always been waiting for the Thompson Twins to reunite.... oops, sorry,
wrong genre.  Richard Thompson (who needs no introduction) and Danny
Thompson (of Pentangle fame) join together for a brilliant, though
dark and dour, thematic look at "industry and the end of industry...
and the transition from industrial to post-industrial" (to quote from
Richard in the liner notes) Britain.  Biting jazz-tinged folk with
societal commentary.

-Tom Gill
 high up on the caprock (Lubbock, Texas)
 tgill@igc.org
 
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