// So many posts in two days, too many for one digest! 

// So this one, dated for Dec 8, is the regular stuff...all those

// last minute "top 10" lists are in the digest dated Dec 9.

// Enjoy...[BP]



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Subject: NN: Update on UPO2

   From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>



Hello ladies and gentleman,

    I thought about addressing this to all you "dudes and chicks" out there,

but after following recent threads on the unmoderated list I figured I'd

better go with a safer greeting.

    Wow!  The unmoderated list is hitting 30 and 40 posts a day.  I wondered

if I might squeeze in a message regarding the infamous "basement tapes"

project I cornered myself into about a month back.

    Well, the tapes are in, and although I was hoping for a few more,

there's some interesting stuff here that's going to make some fun listening!

Below I've listed the folks that sent stuff... in no particular order.  If

you sent something and I don't list your name below, please get in touch,

your tape is lost in postal limbo.



	Robert Juliano

	Reid Mitchell

	Steve Goldberger

	Hank Van Slyke

	Shawn Kimbro

	Steven Gellman

	Dave Vinsant

	Doris Justis

	David and Kelly Lidz 



    Some "interesting" events happened as the tapes started rolling in.

First off, the influx of packages got my wife steaming, suspecting that I

was spending more than my usual extravagance on Nanci collectibles and that

wouldn't do...  especially so close to Christmas.  Later, she wondered why I

was receiving a strange sealed package from a "Sleep Disorders Center"

(Thanks Shawn!).

    Auditioning some of the tapes forces me to say that some of you need to

KEEP THAT DAY JOB... although I will add that ALL the tapes are fun to

listen to.  I have enjoyed listening to them all... and over and over.  They

certainly fulfilled my original request to hear Nancinetters providing their

own heartfelt renditions of Nanci tunes.  Several tapes are downright

wonderful!  One submission is actually available commercially on CD but I

was given permission to but it on this tape.  Most are recorded on average

equipment in the best sounding rooms they could find... which a few

confessed was the acoustics in their tiled bathrooms.  A couple nice

multitracked demo quality items also showed up.  

    Several folks submitted more than one tune and I there will be room to

include some of these.  "Gulf Coast Highway" and "It's A Hard Life" were the

two most popular submissions.   Below is a list of the songs that were

submitted.  Not all of them may make the final tape since a few folks sent

many songs.  I'm not going to reveal who did what at this time.



	It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go

	More Than A Whisper

	Do Re Mi

	Morning Song For Sally

	Fly By Night

	Ford Econoline

	If Wishes Were Changes

	I Wish It Would Rain

	Love's Found A Shoulder

	Last Of The True Believers

	Workin' Girl

	This Heart

	Gulf Coast Highway

	Goin' Gone

	Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness

	The Wing And The Wheel



   There's no way I'm going to be able to get this out by Christmas as I had

hoped.  I'm planning to make copies for the folks that submitted material by

early January.  I just traded our ADAT 8 track at work for a digital

workstation and 4 track minidisc system but the components haven't arrived

yet.  By waiting a bit I should be able to give all the branches a better

quality cassette.  I'm hoping that a few of those folks will act as branches

for a tape tree.  I'll let you know when everyone can request a copy.

   By the way, no one ever responded to my request to hear a copy of the

first UPO tape so I have no idea how this new product stacks up!    



Mike 



p.s.  I'm really behind on updating my Nanci web site with some new items.

Hope to get them over the next week or so... keep checking for them!



// Okay, Amy, Kelly -- you two could make him take back the "day job"

// comment -- how come your names aren't on the list?

// And I'd bet a "huh?" that Kimbro did "Morning Song for Sally"   [BP]



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Subject: NN: Richard Dobson/Houston 12/11 (No NG)

   From: Bell/Wrightson (onemansmusic@mindspring.com>



There was some talk of Richard's book on the list, so I'll pass this

along.  Well, and at the legendary Anderson Fair in Houston.  Richard is

a wonderful performer and storyteller so I recommend this to anyone in

the neighborhood.



Sarah



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BOOK SIGNING EVENT



For Richard Dobsons

        The Gulf Coast Boys

                DECEMBER 11TH, 1998

at

Anderson Fair

2007 Grant

Houston, Texas

713-528-8576



Texas born and Houston raised singer-songwriter Richard Dobson will

present his book The Gulf Coast Boys at a grand event at Anderson Fair

on Friday, December 11th, 1998.



The Gulf Coast Boys is a book of stories relating to the gonzo

lifestyle of performing music and of surviving in the music business in

the 70s and 80s; of years of playing tours with Texas notables Townes

Van Zandt, Mickey White, and Rex (Wrecks) Bell.  Richard is a veteran

country and folk performer of many years at Anderson Fair.



The doors will open at 7:30 PM on Friday, December 11th.  At 8:30 PM,

Richard will perform a special show of songs written in the The Gulf

Coast Boys era and will also tell us some of the stories from the

book.  Books will be available for sale and Richard will autograph your

personal copy after the show (at the standard edition price).  Later in

the evening Richard and guest artists will do some more tunes.



Open house.   No cover charge.   Refreshments will be provided early in

the evening.   Anderson Fairs cash bar will be open.



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Subject: NN: Lyrics

   From: BCConj@aol.com



Hello ~



Can anyone point me in the direction of a web page with Nanci lyrics on it?

I can't seem to find any (Colin Walton's pages are down), and I'd really like

the lyrics for the albums "Last of the True Believers" and "Storms"



Cheers

Brian





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Subject: NN: RE: Lyrics

   From: JRodriguez@arrowheadgrp.com



Here's a site I have bookmarked...hope it helps!



http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/dylan/705/index/art12316.html



Jo



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Subject: NN: I'm baaack...

   From: Ed Maier (eddie@flash.net>



I want to thank everyone for their wishes, prayers, candles, thoughts,

and hopes over the last eight days. The aneurysm is repaired (actually,

replaced with a sleeve). In another few weeks, I'll be back up to about

75 mph again. 



Life is so very sweet,



Ed

n.p. Emmylou Harris' Icy Blue Heart (no pun intended)

n.u. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz





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Subject: NN: Top Ten In Memories

   From: "Shawn Kimbro" (skimbro@bhset.org>



10.  Finding a great bowl of soup beans, onions, and

cornbread at a restaurant in the shadow of Cold Mountain

where I got a picture with DR. RALPH STANLEY after he

performed songs from "CLINCH MOUNTAIN COUNTRY."



9. Clapping along, badly out of time with a group of Down's

Syndrome kids as THE FREIGHT HOPPERS whipped out

hell-for-leather breakdowns from "WAITING FOR THE GRAVY

TRAIN" at a church turned theater near the University of

Tennessee campus.



8.  Watching the band members of BLUE HIGHWAY dodge guitar

necks and fiddle bows as they exchanged breaks while tightly

gathered around one microphone to songs from "MIDNIGHT

STORM" at a free concert in downtown Knoxville.



7.  Playing guitar along with Steve Earle's incredible "Me

and the Eagle" after only one listen to "THE HORSE WHISPERER

SOUNDTRACK."



6.  Hearing the tight vocal harmony of DOYLE LAWSON'S

quartet QUICKSILVER as they performed cuts from "GOSPEL

RADIO GEMS" with only the accompaniment of one guitar at a

little record store near my office.



5.  Finding a surprise envelope in my mailbox containing a

NANCI GRIFFITH cd with a cover I'd never seen before and

celebrating when I discovered "THE LOST NANCI ALBUM" to be

one of my favorites of the year.



4.  (Tie) Playing songs from VALERIE SMITH's earthy

"PATCHWORK HEART" while sitting near a fireplace in a

quilt-laden 18th century log cabin nestled alongside a

periwinkle-lined lake shore.



4. (Tie)  KATE CAMPBELL introducing me to her mother at the

CD release party for her masterful stories in "VISIONS OF

PLENTY."



3.  Cruising back from Asheville to Black Mountain, North

Carolina, with the Montero full of NanciNet and Moonpie list

friends as together we listened for the first time to the

organic strains of "JOURNEY HOME" from JONES & LEVA.



2.  My nine year old son Jacob caught a watersnake in the

creek beside the stage at Merlefest while GILLIAN WELCH &

DAVID RAWLINGS played songs from the hauntingly beautiful

"HELL AMONG THE YEARLINGS."  (The rest of the crowd was not

so amused.)



1.  Slow-dancing in sock feet on a hardwood floor to

"Jackson" from LUCINDA WILLIAMS' exquisite "CAR WHEELS ON A

GRAVEL ROAD."



Warm Regards,

-Shawn



 __________________Nanci Is My Aeroplane____________________

|                     __       ____         Shawn Kimbro    |

| "And they danced    | \____o__/_/___|    Morristown, TN   |

|  all night to the   \(>-----_/_/____]>         ~          |

|  fiddle and the banjo"       `o     |  kimbro@planetc.com |

|__________ http://www.geocities.com/~trailzzone ___________|





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Subject: NN: Re: Top Ten In Memories

   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>



Robert Pugsley should give his prize for the top ten list to Shawn 

Kimbro. His top ten in memories was not only an original thought, but a 

wonderful read. You could almost envision being there with him. Thanks 

Shawn for sharing those great moments with us, being a teacher I 

particularly liked no.9.



John "if only my memory were that good!!" Graveling.





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Subject: NN: Re: Top Ten In Memories

   From: "Robert Pugsley" (RMP6@leicester.ac.uk>



(((Robert Pugsley should give his prize for the top ten list to Shawn 

Kimbro. His top ten in memories was not only an original thought, but a 

wonderful read.>>>



Dear all,



It was a wonderful read, and if I was doing a list it would include opening

a package from Tennessee which contained a Moonpie, a bottle of Shiner Bock

and a bottle of Blue Moon Belgium White. The ever generous Mr Kimbro had

sent them over in response to various postings about "What is a Moonpie?"

(for Europeans in the audience they're like 'Wagon Wheels' incidentally) and

"Just what does Nanci drink when she's at home?" and in a single gesture my

attitude to the US of A was changed for ever ;-)



We Brits are a suspicious bunch when it comes to Johnny Foreigner (it's no

good denying it, we are, look at how we cling to the 1966 world cup victory!)

and the NanciNet has genuinely opened up my eyes to the possibilites of the

world beyond these shores, and the internet, which may sound a little sad but

it's true.  



If we can all get along, and we are a pretty mixed bunch let's face it, then

there's 

always hope for the future...



"At least if they're bombing the beach they're not bombing anything else"



(Phew...a serious post from) Robert (Pugsley)





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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Top Ten In Memories

   From: Catelaw@aol.com



RMP6@leicester.ac.uk writes:



(( We Brits are a suspicious bunch when it comes to Johnny Foreigner (it's no

 good denying it, we are, look at how we cling to the 1966 world cup victory!)

 and the NanciNet has genuinely opened up my eyes to the possibilites of the

 world beyond these shores, and the internet, which may sound a little sad but

 it's true.  >>



There's a light beyond your woods, Robert Pugsley...do you think that you have

gone there and seen what makes it shine?



Seriously, it would only be sad if you weren't open to it...and while I love

reading all the posts on NN, I'm always especially interested in those from

across the pond, because of the cultural breadth (and really nice people, of

course) they represent.  Before I came across NN, I never gave any real

serious consideration to the idea that there's anything outside the U.S. (with

the possible exception of Katmandu) worth however many terrifying hours in a

plane it would take me to get there.  I know better now.



"Hey, man--I've got a BEVERAGE here!"



Cate, "blessed with dreaming" in Atlanta





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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Top Ten In Memories

   From: "Shawn Kimbro" (skimbro@bhset.org>



Robert Pugsley writes:



>It was a wonderful read, and if I was doing a list it would include opening

>a package from Tennessee which contained a Moonpie, a bottle of Shiner Bock

>and a bottle of Blue Moon Belgium White. The ever generous Mr Kimbro had

>sent them over in response to various postings about "What is a Moonpie?"



Thanks Robert,



Folks, what Robert didn't mention is that he returned that

favor by sending to Tennessee some samples of the whiskey in

Scotland. Like nearly everyone I've come in contact with

through this list, he's a heck of a nice person. I'd love to

hear from others here about your favorite music related

memory from the past year.  That's what it's all about isn't

it?



Warm Regards,

-Shawn



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Subject: NN: Thanks

   From: "Robert Pugsley" (RMP6@leicester.ac.uk>



Just to say a public thanks to the various webmasters (now that is

a gender specific term - and pretty 'dungeons and dragons sounding

as well - anyone got an alternative?) for offering to host the complete

NNTop Albums of 1998.



Thanks then to Susan, Kenn, Diane, Hans and Virginia.



Susan offered first, so if it's OK with her I'll send her the final

big list...



And you will all be able to check it out at the (very appropriate)

Friends Out In The Madness site at...



http://www.cruzio.com/~billpeet/Foitm/fom.html



...sometime soon!



Robert (Pugsley)



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Subject: NN: Austin City Limits

   From: snownobile@earthlink.net



Hi Ya'll:



    Fire up your VCR's.  Austin City Limits is showing a rerun of Nanci

and the Crickets on December 19th.  Don't know how I missed it the first

time, but not this time.   http://www.pbs.org/



    Happy Holidays.



// check your local listings, folks...many PBS stations carry ACL 

// at other times, if at all...[BP]

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