// A little bit of Nanci content today, as we talk a little about Lyle
// Lovett's new [dare I say great?] CD, and about a couple of other
// Nanci-related singers. And Ferg gets the last word...
// Someone asked about past Top Ten lists...use the archives (see 
// below) for November and December of every year except 97...and
// some spill over until January of the next year.
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Big Hair Texas Blues
   From: kenn lippert (lippert@fyi.net>

Recently I have been listening to "Step Inside This House", the Lyle Lovett
tribute to Texas songwriters cd.  It is a low key, bluesy kind of
collection for the most part, but that is just what I need right now
anyway.

There are a few songs here that really strike me.  One that caught my
attention is "Memphis Midnight/ Memphis Morning" by Eric Taylor.  If I may,
I'd like to reproduce the lyric here:

The sun went down like a curtain
Memphis looks bigger at night
All the tatooed boys in uniform
Steep in and out of the light.

She bought me good whiskey in memphis
She bought supper and paid for the room
And as best I can remember
She paid dearly for loving me too

She said hey don't I know you
Now ain't you the one
The one with them guitar boys
and all them sad songs
About men in the rain
Did you ever miss a plane
In Memphis

We laughed at the strangers we were in the bed
Two cigarettes lit up the room
Like two backseat lovers can't wait to get started
Knowing everything's over too soon

Now Memphis ain't bad in the morngin
Good coffee well it's just hard to find
But let me suggest that you never leave Memphis
WIth anything on your mind


Although of course I am not privy to Eric Taylor's pysche, nor even many of
his songs, not enough to know how much he writes from experience and how
much is fiction; I do know this one thing: he was married to Nanci
Griffith.  Her image is all over this song for me, I almost feel like a
voyuer watching them through the window with the dirty torn curtain and the
spring-loaded blind with the string-wrapped hoop on the pull down.  It
makes me sad for them both.

kenn "Leonids suck" lippert
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| kenn lippert                  "Reach me down my Tycho Brahe,          |
| lippert@fyi.net (home)        I would know him when we meet...        |
| lippertkb@atc.alcoa.com       Though my soul may set in darkness,     |
| http://www.fyi.net/~lippert   it will rise in perfect light;          |
|                               I have loved the stars too fondly       |
|                               to be fearful of the night."            |
| "See Kate Campbell"                                   -Sarah Williams |
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Subject: NN: Found in the record bin
   From: Joe Blau (jblau@mbay.net>

This Nancinet message about Woolworth's:
   >no more digging through a record bin and finding a record
   >for 69 cents that you've always wanted all your life.
arrived in my mailbox just after a message from Music Boulevard which boasted
about their new online music service:   
   >It means no more digging through record bins.
On the Moonpie list, we call such coincidences "Crop Circle Moments".

I must admit that I buy an increasing number of albums from online sites like
Amazon and Music Blvd, for the convenience and the low prices, but I still enjoy
digging through record bins. Oops, I meant CD bins! Actually,
record bins were more fun to dig through, with the nice big album covers, which
didn't go "clack clack clack" as you sifted through them.

Just the other day I had a great find digging through a CD bin: a wonderful
collection of old Gordon Lightfoot songs (his first four albums on a 2 CD set).
It cost just a little bit more than 69 cents, but it was worth every penny. This
music is bringing back lots of wonderful memories: we listened to Lightfoot a
lot growing up (he was a favorite of my parents).  I know many people on this
list prefer female singers, but I think Gordon had one of the most beautiful
voices ever (I say "had": the year have really taken a toll on his voice, IMO).
And his songs have a timeless, almost classical quality to them.  

Another Christmas idea for old folkies on your list: Gordon Lightfoot, the
United Artists Collection.  But it's not available at either Amazon or Music
Blvd, so go and search those record bins!  (I will be too: I'm looking for a
copy for my parents, who finally got a CD player this year.)

 - Joe

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Subject: NN: My Top Ten
   From: "Robert Pugsley" (RMP6@leicester.ac.uk>

Dear all,

I hope most people aren't bored with this already. I'm enjoying
reading and collating the lists, but I've only had about twenty five
so far. Don't forget to send them in by December 10 to make the final
cut.  Thanks. 

Here's mine, in no particular order.

The Beta Band - 3 Eps
Tortoise - TNT
Pullman - Turnstyles and Junkpiles
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Nanci Griffiths - OV2 
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Various Artists - Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Songs of Pete Seeger
PanAmerican - PanAmerican

If anyone wants to find out more about this albums I recommend looking through
the All Music Guide on the web.  It's an excellent resource (although I doubt
the
Beta Band are up on it yet - if you want to know about them you better ask me!).

The 'address' is

http://www.allmusic.com/

Enjoy yoursleves out there,

Robert (Pugsley)



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Subject: NN: David Rodriquez (No NG)
   From: Bell/Wrightson (onemansmusic@mindspring.com>

Slipping this one in while everyone is talking about their favorites for
the year.  David Rodriquez (srom that same group of Houston musicians
who gave us Nanci) has a new site.  His CDs aren't easy to come by, but
try!

http://www.cybercomm.nl/~rodr/

If you haven't heard David do his own songs, maybe you know his "Ballad
of a Snow Leopard" on Lyle's new one.

No financial interest here, I promise!  I just think he's one of the
finest writers we've got.

Sarah W.

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Subject: NN: Where's Nanci?
   From: "nancy abrams" (nanhum@hotmail.com>

Hey y'all, I'm getting lots of postings and nary a word about our gal. 
What's the point? Does anyone know what Nanci is up to these days? If 
so, could they share? Is this talk of a Nancinet convention in Franklin 
serious? If so, when might this be? Gotta save my nickels and dimes. 
Somehow I missed whatever comment was made about the Promise 
Keepers--good thing--I might've dropped the list immediately. Religion 
is private and best saved for an appropriate forum. While we experience 
our spiritual moments, sometimes via Nanci's grace, I would certainly 
appreciate keeping it at its spiritual perspective. 
Oh, and while I have your attention, CWOGR--what is the big deal? I 
don't get it. Oh well . . .  
Nancy
"When I give food to the poor
they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food,
they call me a communist." 
Dom Helder Camara


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Subject: NN: This is not your father's NN
   From: ferg@world.std.com (Mark E Ferguson)

Shawn wrote:

>This is *not* Mark Ferguson's NanciNet any more.  

Thank God!  I'm *still* getting flamed for the way I ran this joint.
I wouldn't wish this job on my worst enemy, no sirree.  Bill must be
nuts for taking this gig ... either that, or he's just now realizing
what a mistake he made.  ;-)

I was going to post a Top Ten list, but I can't think of ten albums
that I really liked this year.  The Lucinda is excellent, of course,
and Richard Buckner's is still haunting me, but other than that it's
been a relatively dull year for CDs so far.  Even OVToo has only four 
or five tracks I can get into (and that book is a sure cure for 
insomnia).  I'd like to see some more lists so I can discover more 
good stuff before the year's over.

Somebody mentioned wanting to see lists from prior years.  In case 
you're interested, you can view my Top Tens from '93 to '97 here:

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

All comments welcome.  Oops, gotta go ... happy hour awaits.  ;-)


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


P.S.  If I were a famous performer with rabid fans, and I heard that
a bunch of these fans were planning to gather near my house, I'd go
hire myself a few burly bodyguards!  :-)
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