// Gordon tells us about the "originals" tape project, we learn a 
// little more about some other musicians, and we have a few more lists.
// As always, the lists are at the end of the digest, so that those who
// don't car for them can stop reading as soon as you get there.
// Several of you have asked for updates on Maggie's condition. We're
// told that she's progressing well, may even be driving again in a 
// couple of weeks (look out!!). If you would like to be involved in
// helping raise money to ease Maggie's financial recovery from this
// prolonged illness, check out the information at:
//     http://www.candlelist.org/
// or send an email requesting info to: CLChair@aol.com.
// Enjoy... [BP

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Subject: NN: originals
   From: GORDON1717@aol.com

Hi everybody,
Well I am back from Missouri and ready to take on the Nancinet originals
performance package.  So let's get going!
If you have a song (or songs) that you have personally written that you would
like to be included in this package here are the options.

#1. most highly preferred method. - If you have access to an ADAT  machine
(and apparently many here do) then please mix your song(s) down onto two
tracks and send them to the address below.  This will really make it easy for
me to slip your tune onto the master tape.

#2. Secondarily preferred method - Mix your song down onto a dat tape and
submit it to address below.  Almost as easy for me as the first option.

#3. Mix down to a very high quality cassette and note somewhere what kind of
noise reduction (if any) you are using.  Not so easy but for you I will make
the effort!

All original songs are welcome, if you are proud of it then that's good enough
for us!  Any instrumentation you want, solo guitar to full orchestra is fine,
we are not picky! (we are DEVO).

The only stipulation is that it be a song that you think Nanci might do or
perhaps a song inspired by her.
So here is the address.....

Gordon Roberts
c/o Total Obscurity Sound Studios
19912 Wyman Way,
Germantown, MD 20874

If we get enough submissions I was thinking of trying to get it pressed up in
cd form and selling them to raise a little money for cancer research. If you
are thinking of getting in on the fun send me some email right now so I have
some idea of what kind of hole I am digging myself into....... talk to you all
soon..... G

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From: Jenny Jones (strangelittlestar@yahoo.com>
Subject: Spanish

guys,
i want to ask a favour of y'all, i'm looking for the lyrics to
'FROM A DISTANCE' (or any other ng song) in Spanish, anybody know
where i can get them??
thankyew
luv jenny


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Subject: Re: NN: Kate & Anna McGarrigle/Sandy Denny CD's
   From: James Caldwell (xgh72@dial.pipex.com>

Halesbop@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I heard Kate & Anna w/ Loudon, etc.on Fresh Air yesterday and today I bought
> the "McGarrigle Hour" cd (so much for my restraint until after Christmas(g>).
> I see now that this disc has made a couple of NN Top Ten lists. As much as I
> like it, I've got to believe I'd like some of their other recordings, without
> the extra guests, even more. Does anyone have any recommendations as to which
> to buy next?
> Also, Hans has Sandy Denny's Final Concert in his Top Ten. How does this
> stack up against the rest of her large body of work? What about her boxed set,
> which has samples of her solo, with Fairport, etc.? Where does one begin with
> her?

hey Steve- The Best of Sandy Denny (Island,IMCD 217) is worth a listen for a
good mix of Sandy Denny's work, taken from a number of recordings over the
years. Some of it was when she was solo and some from the earlier years with
Fairport and Fotheringay. The compilation was released in 1987 (16 tracks).
Track 16 is "Who knows where the time goes"!!

Hope you like it.

regards
james

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Subject: NN: NN convention
   From: "Darlene Dralus, The Guidance Center" (darlene@guidance.theporch.com>

Oooh, I'm de-lurking for once . . .

>2. Located in the rolling hills of central Tennessee, Montgomery Bell State
>Park is about thirty miles west of Franklin and Nashville in Dickson
>County. I'm not familiar with this park, but according to the web site, the
>Park's Inn and restaurant should be newly renovated by next spring. There
>are 115 guestrooms in the Inn, 8 two-bedroom cabins, and 120 campsites. In
>addition to camping, the park has a golf course, a lake for water sports,
>plus lots of hiking trails. Since this is a Tennessee State Park, I don't
>know about advance reservations for a group of our size.
>

I've been to Montgomery Bell, one of Tennessee's resort parks, but I
haven't stayed at the inn.  I have been to the inn at Henry Horton state
park (south and a little east of Franklin) and it's rather nice, or at
least a step up from Motel 6, so I imagine the one at Montgomery Bell is
comparable.  This is not bunks in a rustic cabin with an outhouse out back,
not that there is anything wrong with that.  If memory serves, there's also
a cool home-run apple orchard on way out there with a store that's open in
the fall.  I don't know if it's still there since it's been years since
I've been out there.

And someone asked about Emmylou Harris' "Light in the Stable" (I think
that's the title).  It's very traditional, just lovely.  It's one of my
favorites, although not quite so favorite as Bruce Cockburn's "Christmas".
For being being not very much of a Christian (and only barely Catholic), I
have a great love of Christmas music.  I'd love to hear NG do a Christmas
album.  The song she had on the Chieftain's "Bells of Dublin" was just
enough to whet the appetite, not enough to satisfy.

Darlene "I really *am* driving to Franklin today" Dralus

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Darlene Dralus(darlene@guidance.theporch.com>The Guidance Center
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Subject: NN: NN Convention
   From: "Devin Bramblett" (bramblett@jcn1.com>

    Well, if the stress of trying to pick just ten albums for the year
doesn't fry my brain, then I plan on going to Franklin whenever the date is
decided ... if one ever is. This weekend I went so far as to get out the
atlas and plan my route from St. Louis to Franklin ... now I just need to
plan my budget.

Devin


" Don't accept that what is happening is
just a case of others' suffering
or you'll find that you're joining in the turning away."
~Pink Floyd~
bramblett@jcn1.com


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Subject: NN: Re: NN holiday music
   From: Halesbop@aol.com

In a message dated 11/16/98 8:52:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, darlene wrote:

> someone asked about Emmylou Harris' "Light in the Stable" (I think
> that's the title).  It's very traditional, just lovely.  It's one of my
> favorites, although not quite so favorite as Bruce Cockburn's "Christmas"
        
I have to plug one of my favorite seasonal cds. The Burns Sisters,
"Tradition" (1996), is really beautiful.

Steve

// Okay -- my favorite of recent years is Kathy Mattea's "Good News." [BP]


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Subject: NN: Top Ten etc.
   From: "Shawn Kimbro" (skimbro@bhset.org>

Hi Y'all,

Just for the record, while Valerie Smith's "Patchwork Heart"
received limited distribution last year, it's official major
release date on Rebel records was Sept. 15, 1998.  That's
close enough to qualify for my '98 list.

I'm enjoying the lists that have been posted, I especially
like reading everyone's brief commentary on their favorites.
I just can't decide yet with '98 releases pending by Shawn
Colvin, Vic Chestnutt,  Emmylou/Dolly/Linda (!), and others.
I've ordered, and I'm greatly anticipating the Appalachian
murder ballad collection by Lookout Mountain's Kristin
Hersh. (Apparently only available on the internet??) From
what I'm hearing, it could well make my top five!

Warm Regards,
-Shawn

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Subject: NN: Nanci on other Chieftains CDs
   From: nmrs@freeway.net

Look for "The Chieftains, A Irish Evening live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
with  Roger Daltrey and Nanci Griffith".  Nanci sings three songs -"Little Love
Affairs", "Ford Econoline" and the very, very beautiful "Red is the Rose" (that
one can move you to tears it is Nanci at her best)

Comments on her book:  I view it as a companion to her CD and a personal
history.   I have found it fascinating in so many ways in that it helps me
understand where Nanci is coming from and how she chose what she did for that
CD.

As for lists, sigh.  I really get stuck on music that I like and probably don't
hear what many others have heard but I am getting great ideas from here...

But from what I have heard:

1.    Other Voices, Too
2.    Lucinda Williams, Gravel Road
3.    Emmylou Harris, Spyboy
4.    Cry, Cry, Cry
5.    The Tribute to Kate Wolff

A lot of what we like to listen to is not from 1998.  I, too, am a big fan of
Mary Black  and several of the other Celtic singers.  I love the pure sound of
their voices- listen to Mary Black's "Song for Ireland".

But I guess Nanci is my favorite; her voice combined with how she sings her
songs and the songs of others just reels me in every time I hear her.  I even
love to hear her when she is singing harmony with someone else like Ian Tyson on
"Canadian Whiskey".

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Subject: N: Top Ten Prize News
   From: "Robert Pugsley" (RMP6@leicester.ac.uk>

Dear All,

Those top tens are flying in, but remember you've got until December 10 to send
them, so there's no rush (I know, some of you just couldn't wait!).

One slight problem has occurred, some stuff released in 1997 in one part of the
world didn't get released until 1998 in other parts.  This doesn't seem to be
such a problem as it used to be, many albums are now on world-wide release
within a few days.  I think I'll just have to trust you on this, if you say the
album came out in your part of the world in 1998, then so be it...but if anyone
says that where they live "Flyer" has only just come out...there'll be trouble.

Last year I gave a prize (kind of an incentive bonus really) out to a list
picked at random from the pile. Whoever wins got to choose an album from the
final list...last year it was James Taylor's Hourglass that went winging across
the water.  I'll do the same this year, so now you've got even more reason to
get those lists in...

Best wishes,

Robert (Pugsley)

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Subject: NN: Top Ten
   From: Norm Watson (normw@ecentral.com>

Hi Everyone,            

This is what I have for this year.  I have a lot to listen to after
reading the lists so far. 
 
1. Shine On, Gove Scrivenor   
                produced by Pat McInerney
                Special Appearances by: Nanci, LeAnn Etheridge, John Prine
                                        Guthrie Trapp, Lari White
                Piano: James Hooker
                Bass: Ron DeLaVega
                Drums: Pat McInerney
                and many others...
2. Cry,Cry,Cry
3. Treasures Left Behind: remembering Kate Wolf
4. Other Voices Too 
5. After Yesterday, by John Gorka, Vocals: Lucy Kaplansky
6. Where Have All the Flowers Gone, The Songs of Pete Seeger

Norm Watson
Colorado

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Subject: NN: Top Ten
   From: DickFile@aol.com

NanciNuts,

Here's a list (in no particular order, hence no enumeration):

Disclaimer--Weighted toward bluegrass side of "folk/country" music spectrum.

My Top-10 1998 releases
*"Step Into This House" (Lyle Lovett)
*"Cry, Cry, Cry" (Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, and Richard Shindell)
*"Treasures Left Behind:  remembering Kate Wolf" (various artists)
*"Howlin' at the Moon" (Sam Bush)
*"Living A Dream" (Mark Newton)
*"Mac, Doc, and Del" (Wiseman, Watson, McCoury) 
*"Left of Cool" (Bela Fleck)
*"Fiddle Patch" (Bobby Hicks)
*"Bluegrass Rules" (Ricky Skaggs)
*"Crown of Jewels" (Randy Skruggs)

Save your Christmas money to buy
*"Sylvia Hotel" (Cheryl Wheeler)....  tentative January release.

Old (But Gold!)...  can't go wrong with these (IMHO) even though they aren't
recent releases:
*"Woman's Heart 2" (various artists)
*"Strength In Numbers--The Telluride Sessions" 
     (Fleck, Douglas, Bush, O'Connor, Meyer)
*"Live Art" (Bela Fleck and friends)

Disclaimer 2--I haven't heard "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"
or "The McGarrigle Hour" yet....  but I have been compelled to do so, thanks
to my Griffriends....  they're on order!

Disclaimer 3--Apology for not being able to include "Other Voices, too".....
guess I'm stuck on "Flyer."

Dick "there went the budget" File


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Subject: NN: 1998 Top Ten
   From: Mike Evans (mevans@westnet.com>

 1. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
 2. Amy Rigby: Middlescence
 3. Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg
 4. Kate Jacobs: Hydrangea
 5. Stacey Earle: Simple Gearle
 6. Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue
 7. Brenda Kahn: Hunger
 8. Freakwater: Springtime
 9. Neko Case and her Boyfriends: The Virginian
10. Katy Moffatt: Angel Town

I thought this was one of the best years ever for great albums, if not the
best. I hated to leave off so many other albums that would normally be in
my top ten. (Cry Cry Cry, the Kate Wolf & Bob Wills tributes, Wishing
Chair, Victoria Williams, Ani DiFranco, etc.)


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Subject: NN: My top ten
   From: JRodriguez@arrowheadgrp.com

Ok here goes (be prepared, I have very varied taste!!!):
1) Nanci - OVOR2
2) Lyle Lovett - Step Inside this House
3) Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
4) Jewel - Spirit (it hasn't officially been released yet, but I've
heard several tracks off of it and it's awesome!)
5) Freddy Jones - Lucid (this one actually came out late, late last
year, but it's such a good disc that I had to include it!)
6) Shawn Mullins - Souls Core (have heard several tracks off of it and
it's really really good for a brand new artist)
7) Sarah McLaughlin - Surfacing
8) Mavericks - Trampoline
9) Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
10) Suzy Bogguss - Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt

Other really fun and different bands (that don't have new
discs out this year but have really great stuff) include: Leftover Salmon
(Bridges to Bert), Big Head Todd & the Monsters (Beautiful World),
Widespread Panic (Light Fuse Get Away) and Sister Hazel.

Thanks for your time!

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