// So this is it! My first digest! This one is a little long, 
// because y'all were talkative and I don't know what I'm doing,
// yet!  Anyway, in this digest we hand over the reins of the
// NanciNet, get more infomation about Nanci's book signing in
// Ann Arbor on Sunday, and look at the idea of other folks 
// covering Nanci's songs, with one very scary suggestion.

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 Subject: NN: NANCI IN ANN ARBOR?
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 
   From: Steve Makarsky (thekidd@flash.net>

Morning, NNetters:  OK, any of you lucky to see NG play on Saturday
(assuming she does) make sure we get the details...

BTW, all this rain we've had in Texas reminds me of a tourist asking a
San Antonion if we get a lot of rain around here:  "Well," replied the
Texan, "we get 30 inches of rain a year, and if you're lucky, you'll be
here the day we get it."

Good weekend to all...

Steve "I'm still trying to get the water out of my den and drinking a
Lone Star"
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Subject: NN: Nanci/Maura benefit
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 
   From: Halesbop@aol.com
   
I've confrimed through a reliable source that Nanci Griffith and Maura
O'Connell, along with Mary Chapin Carpenter, WILL be doing a benefit
concert for the Ark sometime in the near future. Don't know when or where. MCC
is playing in town soon with Catie Curtis so I'm sure they won't want to
announce anything until after that show. I believe the Ark board will be meeting
soon and would imagine details will be forthcoming. I have no idea if this
will be before or after Nanci goes overseas. I do not think it has anything to
do with the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the annual Ark fundraiser to be held
1/30/99.

  -Steve

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Subject: NN: Book Publisher
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 
   From: MMcLean7@aol.com
     To: Nanci@world.std.com

Here's another example of a squandered opportunity by Nanci's book
publisher: I am the managing editor of a major inflight magazine and have requested a review copy of her book in writing TWICE and by phone TWICE--first
request back in June. I had planned to do a short write up (probably with a
photo of her and/or the book) about it in a column we run each month that
spotlights people, places and things that we find worthy, including books and CDs. I cannot understand whey they didn't send a book (we sure receive a ton
each day unsolicited) or at least responded to my query.

Mickey McLean
Greensboro, NC

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Subject: NN: Here we go!
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: Bill Page (bpage@scctel.com>

Hey, NanciNuts,

As Mark noted in the last digest, we are completing the shift from his
regime to mine. For the time being the FAQ will remain in Mark's website
(mainly 'cause I don't have one!), but I'm handling bounces,
subscriptions, the digest, etc.

For now, I plan to continue to moderate the digest, to keep the noise
level to a minimum for the 1000 or so of you who are on that list. The
regular list will continue to be unmoderated, within the spam filters
that are set in the system. 

As some of you know, I'm a bit of a maillist junkie. I am subscribed to
over a dozen lists (most of them digests, thank heavens), but the
NanciNet was my first list, and remains one of my favorites. We have
long said that the NanciNet was the home of the nicest people on the
'Net, and that hasn't changed. 

So let's keep it going for another few years, and then someone else can
take over. 

Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?

Bill "what the heck am I doing?" Page

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Subject: NN: Re: Here we go!
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 
   From: "Hank Van Slyke" (Chevelle@pnx.com>

>Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
>you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?
>
>Bill "what the heck am I doing?" Page

Looks like you're doing a real good thing, Bill.  Thank yew!

As for the new voices, I'd like to hear Hal Ketchum and Todd Snider sing
a
few of Nanci's songs.

Hank "just another Friday morning off work here" Van Slyke

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Subject: NN: New FAQ location
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 
   From: ferg@world.std.com (Mark E Ferguson)

As Bill mentioned, the NN FAQ file will remain at my website.  However,
my website has a new home these days.so if you have links or bookmarks
you probably ought to update them.  The new location of the FAQ file is:

http://www.jump.net/~ferg/nanfaq.html

Thank yew, folks!  And happy birthday to NanciNet -- four years old
today.  Woohoo!

Ah, retirement is sweet ... time to hit the golf course.  ;-)

Mark Ferguson
Austin, Texas
http://www.jump.net/~ferg/

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Subject: NN: Borders signing is 1pm
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: Halesbop@aol.com

I talked to Borders again today. This time I was told that Nanci's book
signing Sunday will be from 1-2:30 in the afternoon, as has been advertised in
the local papers. Sorry for any confusion that may have arisen from my
previous posts.

  -Steve, going to see Greg Brown at the Ark tonight, Odetta tomorrow :)

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Subject: NN: book signings
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: "Thomas, Tasha" (TThomas@vilcom.com>
 
Does anyone know of a list that gives the cities/states/dates where
Nanci
might appear to promote her new book?


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Subject: NN: Gulf Coast Highway Page
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: Susan Peete (suepeete@cruzio.com>

I just noticed that the Gulf Coast Highway Page is back up. COOL...
Check it out! Thanks Rob.

Just in case, if you don't know where to go, it's here:
http://www.sover.net/~rschrull/ngriffith/gchpage.html

Cheers

Susan Peete
suepeete@cruzio.com

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Subject: NN: maura and nanci and troubled fields
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: "jenny.frog" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
 
 hey,
just read my digest and the maura thread. thought i'd just drop a line
to say, she just sang trouble in the fields with nanci on the scottish
show 'the transatlantic sessions' it was pretty damn good. maura took
the lead with nanci on guitar and harmony. 
lifeless e~mail? yes. tired me? yes.
the snow makes me drowsy while dreams roll and tumble my way.
luv jenny
p.s 
and it was literally snowing here the other day, you guys out there in
60 degrees don't know yer born!

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Subject: NN: u.k music? book?
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: "jenny.frog" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>

anybody out there know if there's any nanci song books about? and where
they are to be found in the u.k. also, anyone have any idea where i can
find her book over here?
still tired.
luv jenny

//If you check the FAQ (see below), you'll find an address and 
//phone number for ordering the song books. The OVToo book is 
//available through any of the major on-line sources. [BP]
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Subject: NN: Re: Here we go!
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:45:25 -0600
   From: susan bond (su.b@sk.sympatico.ca>


Bill "what the heck am I doing?" Page wrote:

>Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
>you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?

Hm. I think it would be really neat to hear Greg Brown do a Nanci
Griffith
song, and also, to hear Nanci do a Greg song.

susan

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Subject: Re: NN: Here we go!
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: o41@erols.com
 
Bill Page wrote:

> Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
> you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?

I love this.  A great question for an obsessive with so many personality 
disorders I have to use my toes to count on my fingers.

How about a duet of the two greatest living singers--Aretha Franklin and 
Ray Charles on "Gulf Coast Highway"?

Pop Staples and the Staple Singers singing "Time of Inconvience."

"Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool"--Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

 Ry Cooder and David Lindley--"This Heart"

"LAte Night Grande Hotel"--Irma Thomas

"Looking for the Time"--Lou Ann Barton

"Drive In Movies and  Dashboard Lights" OR "Banks of the 
Pontrachatrain"==Marcia Ball.

"Spin on a Red Brick Floor"--Fats Domino OR Buckwheat Zydeco

"Waltzing with the Angels" Dwight Yoakem

"Still got the Radio"--Carlene Carter

"Going Back to Georgia"--duet--Rickie Lee Jones, Leon Redbone

In fact, when is this album comiong out.

Reid Mitchell

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Subject: Re: NN: Here we go!
   Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
   From: Ed Maier (eddie@flash.net>

Bill Page wrote:
> Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
> you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?

Emmylou Harris

Ed

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Subject: NN: question No Nanci
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@mail.dotcom.fr>

Hi,

This afternoon I was in the CD-shop and another customer asked about
Ella
Jackson and the store keeper didn't know her and couldn't find anything
in
the computer, so he asked me if I hears of her but she is unknown to me
too.
So I said I look at home at the net...nothing.

Anybody heard of Ella Jackson?

Should be country or folk.

met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.

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Subject: Re: NN: Here we go!
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>
 
>> Talk among yourselves. I'll suggest a topic: Other than Nanci, who would
>> you most like to hear cover Nanci's songs?
>> 
>> Bill "what the heck am I doing?" Page

I want to hear some tapes of Nancinetters performing Nanci's songs.  I
think
it would make a fun tape tree (might be embarassing to a few folks
also!)
If anyone's brave enough to send me a cassette with one or more songs...
I'll see how many show up and maybe we can assemble a "best of
Nancinetters"
tape for the holiday season.  Contact me by e-mail if your interested!  

Mike "hoping not to get 50 versions of the same song" Chesman 

p.s.  The Other Voices liner notes reminds us that "songs need new
voices to
sing them in places they've never been sung in order to stay alive"
Emmylou
Harris 

Well, here's your chance...  

// Please remember to respond directly to Mike! [BP]
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Subject: NN: ABSOULTELY NO NANCI CONTENT: The song "Nobody's Child"
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: o41@erols.com

I have a recording of the Travellin' Wilburys performing "Nobody's 
Child" for the Romanian Angel Appeal."  I'm not familar with the song 
from other sources--I know that Hank Snow recorded a song of that name 
and I would guess that's the same; ELO (whom I know nothing about except 
I never did like them) also recorded a song of that name which should be 
the same song as Jeff Lynn is in both groups.  Can anybody tell me 
anything about this song?  It's not by Jimmie Rodgers but sounds as if 
it could be.

I know somebody out there will have the answer to this.

Reid

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Subject: Re: NN: u.k music? book?
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: "Matthew Bloomfield" (mailm@tthewb.u-net.com>

Jenny wrote:

> anybody out there know if there's any nanci song books about? and where
> they are to be found in the u.k. also, anyone have any idea where i can
> find her book over here?

I got the guitar/vocal music to Flyer from Chappell music, not sure
which branch though.

I was in Hammicks looking for the OVToo book and it doesn't seem to be
available over here yet.  It certainly isn't available via their
ordering system.  When they searched for Nanci Griffith it did bring
up the Flyer music book and the ISBN for this is 0-89724-462-1.  Any
of the big book stores Waterstones, WHSmiths, Dillons, Foyles etc
should be able to get you a copy from this number.

For Tab/Chords on the Web Search Yahoo for "Nanci Griffith Guitar
Chords".

Bright eyed and bushy tailed,

Matt

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Subject: NN: "Shelter"
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 
   From: HOTASJAP@aol.com

hi, been awhile since i wrote, but i was lookin in the folk music
section at
circuit city last weekend, and ran across a double cd, and just had to
buy it,
cuz it had one cut from nanci, and knowing how knowledgeable most of you
are,
you probably already know about it, but thought i would mention it.
there are
many good people on it, its supposedly the best of contemporary singers-
songwriters. its from back in 1994, called "shelter". has 28 songs, 14
each
cd. a few names i recognized are shawn colvin, mary chapin carpenter,
dar
williams, john gorka, sarah mclachlan, or course, nanci, kristen hall.
its
very, very, good. some kind-of folksy, a little countryish on some, and
anyway, i loved it. i just thought i would pass this info on, maybe you
all
already know, but if not, and if you can find it, get it. it was nearly
$20,
but with all this good music, i think its worth it. the song that nanci
does
on here is called spin on a red brick floor, and its good. all i have to
add
for now, hope all are doin well. hey, if you have this cd, tell me what
you
think of it. later...
debbie in phoenix

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Subject: NN: Dream covers of Nanci songs
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: BMiller224@aol.com

Our new list manager Bill asked what singers we would like to see cover
Nanci's songs.

Emmylou Harris has recorded a couple already, "It's a Hard Life" and
"Gulf
Coast Highway," the latter with Willie Nelson.  In both cases, I prefer
Emmy's
cover to Nanci's version.  I think Emmy's voice and style are wonderful
matches for Nanci's songs.  She and Nanci are friends, and it seems to
me that
she has been a great influence on Nanci, both in song styles and in
encouraging Nanci's appreciation for popular musical traditions.

Lucinda Williams sings lead on "Wings of a Dove" on "Other Voices, Too"
with
Nanci and Lee Satterfield singing harmony.  The song suggests there is a
strong compatibility between their styles.  I'd love to hear Lucinda
belting
out a song like "Ford Econoline" or "Listen to the Radio."

Kate Campbell would be a good candidate for a killer version of
"Drive-In
Movies and Dashboard Lights."

Arlo Guthrie, who sang beautifully with Nanci on "Tecumseh Valley,"
seems to
be a good candidate for a cover of "Love Wore a Halo (Back Before the
War)."

Since Buck Owens was doing Harlan Howard songs since about the time
Nanci was
born, "Never Mind" would be a great selection for him.

One of my favorite CDs from 1997 was "Lee Ann Womack," which I believe
was
this country singer's debut album.  I personally prefer her to Leann
Rimes,
who even Nanci praises as having such a wonderful voice.  I would really
enjoy
hearing Lee Ann Womack do some of the tunes from Nanci's "country"
period,
like "Sing One for Sister" and "Lone Star State of Mind."

I don't know whether Pat Boone is still in his heavy mtal phase.  But if
he
really wants to get radical and do something Catholic, "St. Teresa of
Avila"
might be a good choice.  Otherwise, an easy-listening-heavy-metal Boone
version of "Love at the Five and Dime" would be a kick.

If Nanci continues to pursue an interest in classical music, I look
forward to
hearing Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony perform one
of
her future symphonic pieces.  Hopefully on a program with selections
from Bach
and Aaron Copeland.

And if Elvis ever comes out of hiding, a duet by Nanci and the King on
"Wooden
Heart" would be just great.  I vote for an extended version, including
the
full German lyrics of "Muss i denn," which is the Swabian folk tune used
in
the song.

Bruce "I still think Nanci is country" Miller
San Bruno, CA

// Huh? I mean, huh? I was with you 'til you got to Pat Boone and
Michael
// Tilson Thomas... [BP]

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Subject: Re: NN: Here we go!
   Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998
   From: Ed Maier (eddie@flash.net>

Mike Chesman wrote:
> 
(snip>
> I want to hear some tapes of Nancinetters performing Nanci's songs.  I think
> it would make a fun tape tree (might be embarassing to a few folks also!)

Uhhh..  count me out. For me to perform one of Nanci's songs would
be sacrilege. I had a beautiful alto voice when I was much younger,
and was much sought after by church choirs and the like. Shortly
after I turned thirteen, my singing career ended abruptly. Now people
actually tell me to shut up during the national anthem. They once
accused me of throwing the piano off key. The nicest thing anyone
has ever said about my current voice is that, "Even though Ed's voice
range is limited to slightly less than one-half octave, he certainly
has a hard time controlling it."

Eddie
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