// It's been a fairly quiet day on the NanciNet.
// But here's a digest, anyway. Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Re: Shows
   From: George Golob (geogo@earthlink.net>

Just a show reminder for Southern Cal Nancinetters about some other 
voices this coming week.
Maria McKee at the Galaxy in Santa Ana on Dec. 2 and the Hollywood 
Athletic Club on Dec. 3....semi-solo, mostly acoustic performance.

Rosie Flores and Katy Moffatt at the Moondog Cafe in LA on Dec. 3 & 4
and Rosie solo at Tio Leo's in San Diego on the 5th.

Deborah Liv Johnson at Twiggs Tea and Coffee in San Diego at the 5th.
g


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Subject: NN: Dublin concert advice
   From: toverton@tpoint.net

Hi Nanci Netters !
Since Nanci won't be coming to play my home town of Austin,
Texas I am planning on going to Ireland to see her play.   I just
can't live with seeing her play again soon.  Every time that I have
seen her play in person has been some of the dearest moments
for me.  I am going to go over there next year.  What advice do
any of y'all have for me in going to Dublin to see her?

What are some places to stay that are near to where she plays in
Dublin?  Are there any Nanci Netters who live there that I can
meet up with when I come?
                                    Tom Overton
                                    Austin, Texas

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Subject: NN: Daily Mail (UK National Paper) Review
   From: "Matthew Bloomfield" (mailm@tthewb.u-net.com>

>From the review entitled Nanci Stages a tour-de-folk in the Daily Mail
Friday Nov 27 1998, Page 46.

Review by Adrian Thrills

LIVE: Nanci Griffith (Olympia Theatre, Dublin)

Typos are mine 

-Begin Quote

With the chart triumphs of country acts such as the Mavericks and
LeAnn Rimes, 1998 has been a good year for those working around the
rootsier edges of modern music.  The Nanci Griffith tour - which
visits Glascow's Armadillo tonight, London's Barbican on Sunday and
Monday, and Victoria Halls in Hanley on Tuesday - assembles a star
cast of country and folk heros and offers the years most vibrant
roots-orientated package.

Griffith's recent album, Other Voices, Too was an afffectionate
tribute to the artists who helped to forge the contempory folk
tradition.

This opening night of her brief British and Irish tour took the idea
onto the stage.  The Texan Singer's set featured folk-pop classics,
including Sandy Denny's melancholy Who Knows Where the Time Goes and
Pete Seeger's If I Had a Hammer plus traditional songs such as
Kumbaya.

Among the guests were folk veteran Carolyn Hester, folk-blues singer
Odetta, Irish vocalist Dolores Keane and accordian player Sharon
Shannon.

A huge star in Ireland, where she had a No. 1 hit with From a Distance
in the Eighties, Griffith entertained an appreciative crowd by
accompanying her clear, flighty soprano with dance steps and witty,
self-effacing asides.

The familiarity of much of the material helped give the show an
exuberant atmosphere.  But it also took Griffith's engaging
personality to make it work.

-End quote

Following this review was a couple of paragraphs on Lucinda
Williams, I have never heard Lucinda but I know there are followers on
this list.  If you would like me to post this review then
stick a message in my private box.  Enough interest and I'll post it
to the list, little interest and I'll send it to the Lucinda fans
direct.

-- 
Matt "Can't Wait 'til Sunday" Bloomfield

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Subject: NN: listen to the radio+stuff on the transatlantic sessions
     From: "jenny.frog" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>

> BTW I believe that one of Nanci's UK gigs is/was being recorded and that
> the Beeb will be broadcasting it on Dec. 16th on R2.  Can anyone confirm?

   yep, that's right, the *mighty cheese powered recording machines from
radio two* will be down there with mike harding waving his little nance
flag.
   other voices: the radio 2 series girls and guitars features jewel this
week thurs 3rd, maybe later on nanci will make an appearance.  lucinda
appears on jools holland on friday the 4th
   i'm glad to hear that the atmosphere was a bit better last night, but i
agree with whoever said they thought it was the price and the venue. i
was talking to someone who saw hootie and the blowfish in the armadillo
earlier this month, she said that this also lacked atmosphere and didn't
have much life to it either. hmmm.. maybe it's not a great landmark in
glasgow after all...
   well, one good thing about not going to the concert last night (i'm
trying to make myself feel better, ok?) was that i caught the
*transatlantic sessions*, nanci sang backing on a song by maura
o'connell called blue train. she also performed *spanish boots of
spanish leather* her voice sounded great, at the end she finished up and
said *yeah, boots!*
luv jenny, another long one, soz

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Subject: Re: NN: Top Ten
   From: GregS2@aol.com

In delurking mode to comment on John Edward Graveling's Top ten:

-Thrilled to hear about Lynn Miles new one!!! I've been anticipating it since
I saw her open for Richard Thompson a couple years ago. I understood it wasn't
to be released in the U.S. 'til spring of '99... or is this a Canadian
version? Her '96 release "Slightly Haunted is one of my all-time faves. She's
dynamite!!!
-Isn't Robert Earl Keen's "Picnic" his '98 release? I've finally been exposed
to him through Cry Cry Cry's version of "Shades of Grey" & am wondering what
would be the recommended 1st REK to get...

See y'all,

Greg St. Martin

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Subject: NN: Top Ten- revision
   From: Tom Gill (tgill@igc.org>

Well, if THIS message has those strange punctuation marks in it, I will
spit up my soup.

I have to revise my top 10- I totally spaced about the following album:

Various Artists/ Jackson Browne- CANTAME MIS CANCIONES.  Spain's top
musical artists re-interpret Jackson Browne's songs in their own
language and style.  Available only as an import from Spain.  Jackson
Browne now has a house in Barcelona and lives there at least part of the
year, and this album is a labor of love by his new compadres.

Stick this in as #9: Jimmy Buffett drops to #10, and Billy Bragg and
Wilco get barely squeezed out.  If Spanish imports are not allowed, then
disregard this.

-Tom Gill
 tgill@igc.org

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Subject: NN: Top Ten
   From: "Devin Bramblett" (bramblett@jcn1.com>

In no particular order:

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Sweet Honey In The Rock - twenty-five
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Randy Scruggs - Crown of Jewels
Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
Various Artists - Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf
Various Artists - Tammy Wynette ... Remembered

Honorable mention: Dolly Parton - Hungry Again

    Also, thanks to all of those who suggested listening to OV2 while
driving. When I left to go to my father's for Thanksgiving, OV2 wasn't even
going to be on my Top Ten, but while driving back today, I put it in and for
some strange reason, listening to it in the truck made all the difference in
the world! Now I love that CD! Weird, but it works!

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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