//  Some tidbits about future concert dates and upcoming recordings.
//  - MF

From: Fab Bulis (FabBulis@aol.com)                                
Subject: Re: Concert Date in Reno Nevada                             

Hello everyone...
Nanci is booked into Reno as well.  June 24.  with Ramblin'Jack Elliot too.
The theater is a good one with good sound and sight lines.  If anyone is
coming from out of town and needs more info, just email me privately.
BTW, he Reno Hotel Casinos offer all kinds of package deals and junkets so you
might check a travel agent or new paper...
Back to my little Lurker hole.
Richard
 
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From: "Mark" (catfan@sr.radiks.net)                               
Subject: Nanci shows                                                 

Next month Nanci will be on Evening at Pops with Bela Fleck and the
Flecktones.  In Iowa the show will be broadcast at 9pm on Friday the
26th.

Mark

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From: alpharay@onr.com                                            
Subject: New Nanci music on Oxford American                          

Hello Nancinetters!

[Regarding Beth Herron's message:
"Oxford American is releasing a special issue about
southern music - a 50 year history, and to be included on this album is
a new Nanci song called "Dress of Laces." The song actually is written
by Eric Taylor, and Lyle Lovett appears with Nanci on the recording.]

"Dress of Laces" was written by John Grimaudo & Saylor White.  Nanci
recorded this song for her new OV, Too album and sings it there with Eric
Taylor and Lyle Lovett.

alpharay
 
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From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com)                        
Subject: New CD from WFMA                                            

Good news for Nanci fans!  The 1996 11th annual World Folk Music Association
Benefit Concert which was previously only available on cassette tape has
just been reissued on CD.  The tape features Nanci on two live recordings
available nowhere else.... Boots of Spanish Leather performed with Carolyn
Hester and Across the Great Divide.  Along with the between song chatter
it's a little over 11 minutes of essential Nanci.  You'll also find live
cuts by nine other artists including a wonderful Catie Curtis performnce of
Dad's Yard.  I was told by the folks at WFMA about a year ago that they
might put this out as a CD... my patience has been rewarded!

Below is the link to web information about ordering....
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Chuck_Morse/tapesale.htm


Mike Chesman

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From: kenn lippert (lippert@fyi.net)                              
Subject: Your opinion matters!                                       

Attention all,

For all of you Kate Campbell fans out there, you now have a way to occupy a
few idle moments.  Take a stroll, sail, or surf in your browser (Netscape 2
or better) and head to Bruce Armstrong's wonderful Kate Campbell pages:

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ac490/kate.html

there you will see a link to a "survey" (oh joy, oh rapture).  You will
have the opportunity to cast your ballot and choose your five (in no
particular order) favorite Kate songs (from any of her three albums).  All
those who fill out the survey before June 30 will be entered in a random
drawing for some neat "Official Kate Stuff" (TBD).  Be sure to supply a
valid email address, that is how the winner will be contacted.

There are also a few questions which will help Kate to better understand
her audience, please answer as many as you can.

Thanks to Bruce for getting me involved and Kate Campbell for wanting to know.

kenn "SURVEY is my middle name" lippert
 
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From: Jenn Fletcher (jfletch@cco.caltech.edu)                     
Subject: Nanci in the News                                           

Just thought y'all might want to know...

 Ms Nanci appears twice in the May 29 Summer Music Preview edition of
Entertainment Weekly. She is listed as part of the Newport Folk Festival
Tour, as follows:

"If you took Lilith's singer-songwriter sensibility but ditched its No Boyz
Aloud policy, the lineup might look like this: Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith,
Alison Krauss, John Hiatt, Joan Baez, Wilco, Suzanne Vega, Loudon
Wainwright III, Lucinda Williams and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. That's the
tantalizing lineup for the first touring Newport Folk Festival..."

She's also mentioned in a list of artists with new albums out this summer:
July 21 for OVORII.

Can't wait!!

  --Jenn in LA

Now playing: OFSE, in celebration of the Irish Peace Accord
 
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From: BCConj (BCConj@aol.com)                                     
Subject: Re: favorite album

Hi All!

To Debbie in Phoenix ~

I don't know if it's my Celtic roots (I'm Scottish), or if it's just because
it was the first Nanci album I got, but for my money, her very best (excluding
"Flyer" which is in a class of its own, and holds a special place in my heart
as my "coming out" album)
is "Little Love Affairs".  From the sheer variety of songs to the versatility
of voice she displays on this album....everything is perfect.

But hey, lets be honest ~ you could go and pick virtually any Nanci album you
haven't already got and not be disappointed!  Whatever you choose, hope you
enjoy it!

Brian Carr
Leicester, UK

 
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From: Charlie Macdonald (charlie.macdonald@virgin.net)            
Subject: Glasgow and Las Vegas                                       

Hi:

Still haven't been able to confirm the Glasgow dates (Nov 26/27) with
any ticket agent.

My holiday's (vacation) this year include New York, Las Vegas,
Scottsdale AZ and Sedona AZ. We are in LV from June 30th to July 4th and
Marylin, my dear wife, checked the net for artists appearing in Vegas
June/July - Nanci is listed as appearing at the Hard Rock Hotel on the
25th of June (do I have bad timing or what?).

Could I ask Rob S (sorry Rob) if he has any more details about the
Glasgow concert

Charlie M

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From: Fab Bulis (FabBulis@aol.com)                                
Subject: Another Nanci Show: 9/20 in LA                              

Just read on another list (Richard Thompson) that Nanci is booked for the
Newport Folk festival (road version)  in Los Angeles on Sept. 20 at the Greek
Theater.  The list of performers was similar to Jeff Qualls post about the
same tour in Raliegh, NC.
Hmmmm maybe a road trip in the fall....
Richard
 
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From: jalvo@cloud9.net (John G. Alvord)                           
Subject: On Grafton Street, etc                                      

I've been reviewing old folk_music digests, and ran into this NG
reference. Thought you all might enjoy...  John Alvord

>
>Topic No. 16
>
>Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 06:07:11 -0500 (EST)
>From: F Kol (songstor@mail.telalink.net)
>Subject: Re: "On Grafton Street"
>
>Hey Alan Hope your well.
>
>I was going to stay out of the covers thread but felt compelled to jump
>in when I saw the comments on my song  " On Grafton Street " which I
>wrote with Nanci Griffith. When Nanci and I wrote the song there was no
>premeditated plan to " give" the song to Frances Black. As I best recall
>it  Nanci had been spending more and more time in Ireland and wanted to
>write something about being in Dublin at Christmas time. I'm just
>thrilled as a songwriter to get to hear performers like Nanci and
>Frances singing songs I've been fortunate enough to collaborate on.
> Here is a personal experience with " covers "
>
>When Nanci first recorded " Goin Gone" which I co-wrote with Pat Alger
>and Bill Dale  I was very active on the folk circuit. The song was being
>covered by Mary Black, Alison Krauss and many lesser known performers at
>almost every festival I attended. As soon as Kathy Mattea's excellent
>version of " Goin Gone" topped the country charts I no longer heard it
>performed . I asked some one who I knew had been performing the song
>ever since they had first heard Nanci version why it was no longer part
>of their set and was informed
>that the song had become " too commercial" . Do songs have to remain
>semi obscure to be coverable?
>       It's funny that I haven't seen any commentary on " bad " covers like
>the use of Steve Goodman's classic song " City of New Orleans " in the
>current Ex-Lax commercial. I welcome covers of my songs but I believe I
>would have to draw the line if one of my songs was going to be forever
>linked with that kind of product.
> What about performers  who in their spoken introduction to songs which
>are covers mislead the audience into believing that the song
>is one of their own compositions. How many of us have been suprised to
>learn that a song we strongly indentified with a performer wasn't
>actually written by them.
>I have always believed that one of the best ways to improve ones song
>writing is to learn songs I wish I had written so that I can  study the
>skills used to create those songs in hopes that maybe something might
>rub off on my own creations.
>
>I'm still looking for a copy of the polka version of " Let's Talk Dirty
>in Hawaiian" if any readers know who the artist was please let me know.
>
>Best,
>
>Fred Koller

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