// It's been a quiet weekend here in Nanciland -- guess everyone's

// out Christmas shopping. So this is a fairly short two-day digest.

// Did you happen to catch Scott Hamilton skating to music by

// Barenaked Ladies? Oh, and I'm thinking of changing the name of 

// the list to "Car Wheels -- the Lucinda List." Whaddya think? ;)

// Enjoy...[BP]





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Subject: NN: Nanci, Lucy, Kimmie, Terri

   From: "DeYoung, Andy G." (agdeyoun@utmb.edu>



There are times when I wonder if the NanciNet has become more about other

singers than about Nanci, and then I think, duuhh.  Isn't that the point?

While I love reading about Nanci's concerts and reviews, my real reward

comes in discovering songwriters Nanci covers and recommendations fellow

Netters (esp. during the Top 10 period). I've put OVToo on the backburner to

rediscover Blue Roses From the Moons, and found that it gets better with

time and perspective.  (Still can't figure out the lyrics to the first two

lines of the Guy Clark cover, no matter how many times I play it???) Help. 



Over the last two months, and thanks to the Cry, Cry, Cry release, I have

been introduced to the wonderful world of Lucy Kaplansky. What a gorgeous,

rich voice. Her cover of Julie Miller's "By Way Of Sorrow" is fantastic.



Let me also remind you that Texas singer-songwriters like Kimmie Rhodes and

Terri Hendrix have CD's coming out in the spring and both should be

fantastic!  I saw Kimmie at the Mucky Duck in Houston (3rd time) and

Terri/Lloyd Maines in San Marcos. Kimmie's new material is beautiful and

(imho) a departure from "West Texas Heaven", yet equally strong, while Terri

and Lloyd just rock in what I understand will be a live CD.  Terri btw is

being nominated for a Grammy in the Contemporary Folk category. If you have

a chance to see her, DO NOT miss it. Kimmie, Terri, Lloyd and Joe Gracey are

sincerely nice, how-ya-doin' folks.



Glad to hear Nanci will be touring again with the BMO, and maybe they'll

find their way back to Houston and/or Texas.  If not, I'll just spin "One

Fair Summer Evening" again and pretend she's not mad at Texa(n)s anymore.



Andy 





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Subject: NN: Love at the Five and Dime

   From: James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu (James Troiano)



Hi folks: Someone asked about a striking version of Nanci's Love at the

Five and Dime. It is done by Hart Rouge, a Canadian group from the

album Beupres Home. (I hope I have title right- it is at home and I am

not.) It is a marvelous collection of tunes released in 1997 released

by Red House records and I was just listening to it last night.  I did

not make a list of songs, but Nanci's OV 2 stands far above everyone

else in my mind ,as she always does. Other contenders Susan Werner

Between Trains, Eliza Gilkyson, Redemption Road and several recent

releases by the great John Stewart. I liked Tom Russell's new one as

well as the Kate Wolf, Pete Seeger tributes. But I always come back to

that great poet from Franklin Tennessee. SIncerely, Jim Troiano







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Subject: NN: Well Now

   From: Marty Welch (martyw@poky.srv.net>



Howdy, Strangers!



Well, now that the official top 10 list entries are being compiled I'll

send in my short and unofficial version since I don't believe I bought that

many CDs this year and the ones I was given weren't all released in 1998.

Sometimes ya just have to share anyway.



1. "Cry, Cry, Cry"

Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell

Lots of music that touches my life experiences or those I care for.



2. "Other Voices, Too"

Nancy Griffen or somethin' like that.

Have y'all heard of this one?



3. "do a two sable"

Danielle Howle and the Tantrums. Danielle and the boys from Columbia, South

Carolina get down with their bad selves. Hear 'em live if ya can.



4. "Smoke Signals"

Soundtrack from the Miramax Motion picture. A nice blend of music from

diverse   voices - Ulali, Dar Williams ("Road Buddy"), Jim Boyd and the

Eaglebear Singers. Shot on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation including

Plummer, Idaho. You still here, Paulina? Have you had a book signing with

Sherman Alexie?



5. "treasures left behind"

Various arists including Ms. Nanci remembering Kate Wolf.

I'm sure y'all have talked about this one.



6. "Distant Memories and Dreams"

Michael Gulezian.

Solo and ensemble music for acoustic guitar. The sales gave him enough gas

money to make it to the next town.



Well, that's all for today.



Keep coming back. It works.



Cheers,

Marty Welch









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Subject: NN: Peete's name game

   From: Shawn Kimbro (kimbro@planetc.com>



Hey, 



I've really enjoyed working on Mossy William's criptic top ten list, but

I've yet to decipher a couple of entries.  I got the Kate's and the

Lynn's, someone asked about Tom Savvy who I think might be Tanya Savory,

but I don't know who Neil D. is?  Okay Bill, it's been fun, now let's

turn to the back page for the answers!



Warm Regards, 

-Shawn







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Subject: Re: NN: Peete's name game

   From: John Hodges (jqhodges@uclink4.berkeley.edu>



>I've really enjoyed working on Mossy William's criptic top ten list, but

>I've yet to decipher a couple of entries.  I got the Kate's and the

>Lynn's, someone asked about Tom Savvy who I think might be Tanya Savory,

>but I don't know who Neil D. is?



(my hand raised in the front row. call on me! call on me!>  I say Neil D.

is the Nields!



Am i right? Do I get an A?



:)



John





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Subject: NN: Nanci at the Barbican

   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@mail.dotcom.fr>



Hi Y'all,



I just added some photos to the "Nanci at the Barbican" from the Sunday

concert taken by Frank Bonte.



I tried to add the text of the article in the "Independent on Sunday" from

the day of the concert, but I was not able to get good results with scanning

and OCR.



	see: http://fly.to/nanci



met vriendelijke groeten,



Hans Janssen.





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Subject: NN: Lucinda In Lawrence, KS.

   From: Kevin and Diane Gray (houndogs@micoks.net>



After sending postings out over the past several months (since

getting on the NanciNet last Spring), those of us in the Kansas City

region were finally treated to the music we hear so little of in this

area.  The day of the show, Dec. 11, we were treated to a full page 

color photo of Lucinda on the front of the Friday, Kansas City Star 

Preview (entertainment) tab.  

  That night, after the show, I didn't get back to town (an hour

from Lawrence) until 1:30.  I tried to write this then but I sounded like 

...well, it sounded as if I were a teenager again after seeing the Who

for the first time in '68 or Springsteen before the E-Street Band in

1970.

  I've still got that picture taken of Bruce with Roy Bittan on key-

boards wearing a broad brimmed slouch hat he was forever crowned

by.  They were playing a juice club in Richmond, Virginia for

teenyboppers.

The next Monday in school, the hallway chatter was about nothing else

but Bruce.  I feel the same way once again, but now it's 28 years

later.  

  I wanna go to work tomorrow and say, "Have you heard Lucinda

Williams."  Unfortuantely, I'll get, "Who?"

  At least I can write to people who can share in my enthusiasm. 

  So now I've calmed down, and I have the Star's review.  I did email my son

that night in Santa Fe, NM. He's a college kid who liked Lucinda after his first

listen  last summer to "Happy Woman Blues."  He liked it better than "Car

Wheels."  I told him about the "Kick Ass" show and told him to look out for

Lucinda if he ever has a chance to see her.  I told him I wanna take him to see

her if we can ever work it out.    



Now, the Kansas City Star report:



Headline - Williams rocks, sways through raw, earnest concert

By Timothy Finn



Lawrence - For someone who is (unfairly) renown for her fussiness in the studio,

Lucinda Williams puts on a live show that is demonstrably raw, strong, and

earnest.

   For more than 90 minutes Friday night, she and her six-piece band rocked,

barreled and swayed nonstop through about 20 songs, visiting the many genres

Williams calls her own:  country, folk, rock and old-times blues.

   Dressed in blue jeans, boots and a leather jacket as black as her thick mop

of hair, Williams opened with "Pineola," a lacerating tune about the late poet

Frank Stanford, before settling into several songs from her latest record "Car

Wheels on a Gravel Road."  She sung the title track plus "Metal Firecracker,"

"Greenville," "Drunken Angel," and " Right in Time."

   On "Still I Long For Your Kiss," Williams showed the considerable range of

her underappreciated voice.  She can be lullaby-soft one moment and erupt into a

blusey Satchmo growl the next.  The only technical complaint:  At time Jim

Lauderdale's harmonies were hard to catch; otherwise, the sound was ideal.

  "Joy," a full-metal blues rave-up, ended her official set, after which she and

the band returned to the stage for one of the longest encores on record: eight

songs and about 30 minutes.

   Except for "Jackson," her sad, bony inversion of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I

Get to Phoenix," most of the encores were from her two previous records: a

lovely, piney version of "Sweet Old World"; a perfunctory rendition of

"Passionate Kisses"; "Something About What Happens When We Talk"; and the

shuffly country/zydeco 

tune, "Crescent City," which suffered minimally from its lack of a lead fiddle

at the end.  She ended with a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Come To Me Baby," a

version that was a little too long on the electric guitar jams but felt like the

perfect bookend to "Pineola."



   "Joy" was the one song on her new CD that I get tired of.  Live, it has

become one of my all time favorite songs.  It's truely a rave-up.  

   Lawrence and Liberty Hall are the perfect mix for the music NanciNetters

enjoy.  We just get so little of it.  Maybe since Arlo came two long years ago

and Lucinda just stopped in, well maybe there's the possibility for a certain

folk singer... Naw.  I doubt it.  The people there at Liberty Hall feel the

hall's too small for Nanci. Maybe so, but there are plenty of sites in the

region for her.  

   Anybody know how to get hold of Steve Earle?  He'd fit Liberty Hall quite

well, too.

   By the way, I'm still writing my autobiographical stories.  Nanci's gonna be

in the acknowledgments, if it ever publishes.  Sure enough, I'll give Lucinda

credit.  Now that I'm in a childhood phase, "Car Wheels" makes for perfect

writing music.



Lucinda, you're cool!



Kevin (we like this kind of music in Kansas)





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Subject: NN: 10 best

   From: odddduck@deltanet.com (Bill Lukesh)



Folks,

  I don't think I got ten new pop albums this year.  Its been a great year

for classical and crossover.  Marrianne Faithful has given one of the best

performances of Weill's haunting masterpiece '7 deadly sins'. Though its

behind the two classic performances by  Lenya and Teresa Stratas,  it is in

very clear understandable English and  that in itself makes it a first

choice for those who who are interested in expanding musical horizons. 

The list (in no particulier order)



1. Lucinda Williams"Car Wheels on a gravel Road'(Pop)

2. Phranc "Milkman"(Pop)

3. Rufus Wainwright "Rufus Wainwright'(P)

4. Peter Maxwell Davies' "Mavis in Las Vegas"(Classical)

5. Kent Nagano conducting Mahler's "Das Klagende Lied"(world premiere

recording of original  three movement score)(Classical)

6. Marrianne Faithful's rendition of Weill's 7 deadly Sins' (Crossover)

7. Emmylou Harris 'Spyboy'(Pop) 

8. Sandy Denny's 'Gold Dust'(Pop)

9. Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky 'the Mono Years'(Classical)

10. Philip Pickett with Richard Thompson "The bones of all men'(crossover)





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Subject: NN: Trip Back to NanciNet

   From: Michael Haggerty (michaeljh9@earthlink.net>



Hi, NanciNetters,



I'm one of the many lurkers out there and I just thought I'd quickly

reintroduce myself, since I just moved across country from Los Angeles to

New York City (yup, I don't believe in small steps!). I now live within

walking distance of the Bottom Line, where I'm sure to be hearing many

NanciNet-recommended artists. Since a lot of these artists don't get much

media airplay, I depend on the NanciNet to introduce me to some of these

new singer/songwriters folks. Thanks to all for the recommendations in the

top ten lists. (I'm now listening to one of those recommendations --

Gillian Welch's haunting Hell Among the Yearlings.)



So, is there any Nanci-friendly radio station in New York?



Back to lurking in corners,



Michael



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  Michael Haggerty

  New York, NY

  michaeljh9@earthlink.net





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