NanciNet Digest 11-04-99
// Great concert reports, and more!
// Enjoy...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Austin/Nanci/Don
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 01:47:07 -0600
From: "Paul Greer" (pgreer@taexgw.tamu.edu>
hi all,
just drove back to college station from austin and the nanci/don mclean
show at the paramount. i didn't really know what to expect; however, although
the nanci content was limited i was pleasantly surprised. nanci sang "i love
you" with don and then another song i don't remember. then nanci sang "wing
and a wheel" complete with the BMO, James Hooker and Pat McInerney as don
mclean took a break. then the surprise, garth brooks came out and sang solo
"the chair" by don mclean. garth is a very talented singer. then nanci, don
and garth sang "american pie" together. nanci looked like she was having a
great time and really enjoying herself, bouncing around on the stage dancing
and having a great time. she was in great form, and i have to admit don
mclean's voice impressed me too. he closed with "starry starry night". a very
enjoyable show.
take care all,
paul greer
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Subject: NN: Nanci with Don McLean and Garth Brooks at PBS concert
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 00:01:44 -0800
From: Quincy Welch (10016189@iamerica.net>
Hey, Nanci-Netters!
I'm Cat, don't post much unless I've got something really good. I
just returned from an Austin City Limits 25th Anniversary concert
at Austin's Paramount Theatre on South Congress.
Don McLean opened the show and was absolutely magic. Of course he
saved American Pie for last, as well as Vincent. He was hysterically
funny throughout.
He then brought out Nanci, with her classic pageboy. She was wearing
a pair of black slacks, flat heeled black shoes, and over the slacks
was a gauzy, glittery tunic that was almost mid-calf. She wore a
velvet cardigan sweater over all that. She sang a slow Buddy Holly
song with Don and then joined him in an encore of American Pie with
Garth.
Nanci was literally dancing and bouncing all over the stage, making
great stage pictures with Don and Garth. She was absolutely having
a blast and was in great voice. She was graceful, classy and impish
at the same time, playing off the guys as well as the audience.
Unfortunately, the only song she got to do alone was Wing and the
Wheel with the string section of the Austin Symphony and her Blue
Moon Orchestra. Garth only got one song in, Don's "I Never Thought
You Would" and then Don came out and finished the show out with
Dreidel and some new stuff he had written.
Kept looking for NanciNetters--even wore my Nanci shirt under a very
dressy pantsuit and didn't find any. Actually the show was very
difficult to get tickets for--I lucked out by winning the last pair
in a phone contest on KGSR, and because I knew Nanci was born in
Seguin, Texas, we got to go to the show!
"Tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown"
Cat Welch, Austin, Texas
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Subject: NN: Nanci, Don McLean & Garth Brooks in Austin
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 07:57:55 -0400
From: Rob Remig (rob.remig@psinet.com>
On the evening of November 2, I had the pleasure of attending "An Evening with
Don McLean, with guest, Nanci Griffith" at the Paramount Theater in Austin,
Texas. Apparently added later to the bill was Garth Brooks, as his name was
not part of the original advertising or printed on the ticket! This show was
definitely about Don McLean. He mentioned that Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison
were part of his early musical development, and he opened with a tune by Buddy
Holly. Miss Nanci later joined Don for two of his songs, and he then left the
stage while Nanci and the Blue Moon Orchestra performed "Wing and the Wheel."
Playing guitar was Brian Wood, who Nanci introduced as having been part of the
original BMO. After intermission it was on to more Don McLean, who was then
joined by Garth Brooks for a couple songs. Then Nanci and Garth sang several
songs with Don, with the finale being the three of them (and the audience)
singing "American Pie." Don said he appreciated the good attendance and warm
reception, as he realized he is not exactly part of the "in" group right now.
Well, I didn't want to tell him that there was at least one person in the
audience who was really there just to see Nanci and hear her perform! About
Nanci: I have seen her three times before, but she looked different last
night. It might have been her hair being parted in the middle and flipped
under at the top of the shoulders. But it was really her smile. I have never
before noticed that her smile goes almost from ear to ear! Almost Mary Tyler
Moore-like. She was spunky, energetic, flirtatious, playful, and very
relaxed. She reminded me somewhat of a school girl at recess, just having
fun! This show was taped by the people
who produce "Austin City Limits" but will not be broadcast as ACL. They said
it will come out in March 2000 on the PBS TV stations. Be watching for it; I
think it will be worth getting the VCR ready.
Rob in San Antonio
Reminding you that it is a hard life wherever you go, but there's a Light
beyond these woods!
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci, Don McLean & Garth Brooks in Austin
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 08:52:42 -0500
From: Sarah Wrightson (sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>
Rob Remig wrote:
> Playing guitar was Brian Wood, who Nanci introduced as having been
> part of the original BMO.
Brian, aka Mickie Merkens husband. Way to go Brian!!! Actually, just
got an email from Mickie about the show, and she will let us know when
it airs, too. She also said it was a night to remember. Brian often
plays in Austin on Monday nights at Artz Rib House with Sarah Elizabeth
Campbell for anyone there...we got to go last week and had a great
time. Rosalie Sorrels was there and did a song or two - I'd never had
the chance to see her live before. And Sarah has a new CD out by the
way which I recommend and you get more Brian on that!!!
Anyway, hope everyone is well, and I'm looking forward to catching up
with all of you and the Nanci news,
Sarah
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Live Music's Cool: an internet broadcast &
Vince Bell Web Site: http://www.vincebell.com
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Subject: NN: Country Music
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:06:45 EST
From: QUELIN@aol.com
Todd writes:
(( Why has country music gotten so bad these days? >>
Opinion time again. Duck and cover folks!
I've asked myself this same question recently and I think this has happened
before. Country seems to go through these cycles.
Remember the early 70's when Olivia Newton-John was considered country?
Eeeek!
Remember in the late 70's (I think) when Urban Cowboy came out and all of a
sudden, everything was top-forty-pop-style country. Lyrics were flimsy (to
be kind) and anyone who knew Mickey Gilley could be a top ten recording
artist. Then there was a little voice that rang out with a real country
feel...then another...then a couple more. I think I remember Ricky Skaggs
(not exactly an overnight sensation, but perceived as such) being one of the
first to bring back the solid stuff. Randy Travis came out around that time
and the market corrected itself, so to speak.
It happens from time to time. Someone starts a fad or a movie causes
something to gain attention and the so-called experts in Nashville just
create one synthetic artist after another. There's not a lot of substance
these days. Can you imagine if the true basis of country were the likes of
Shanasal Twang?
I'm looking forward to the day it all comes back around again. Even Dolly's
doing bluegrass again. Hopefully, someone will break out and take it back.
At this year's awards, Vince Gill even encouraged the artists and fans to
hang on to the roots of the music...then he released a duet with
Barbra....um...bad example.
There is hope and a light beyond these woods. :)
I know, I know...shhhhh, Que. I can't help it. This is important stuff.
Glad to be with you all,
Quelin
// Remember that Olivia Newton-John and John Denver were both CMA performers
// of the year in the early 70s!! [BP]
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Subject: Re: NN: loretta
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:51:38 -0500
From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>
todd williams wrote:
> This music really begs the question.
> Why has country music gotten so bad these days?
I just happened to run across a book at the local library yesterday that
attempts to answer that question. It's called "In the Country of
Country" by Nicholas Dawidoff. Here are a few excerpts:
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"[In 1995] The country charts were dominated by a series of handsome,
video-friendly young swains dressed in boots, snug jeans, and the
inevitable Stetsons that won them their nickname, "the hat acts." The
music was similarly homogenized. Blending down-home lyrics with
fusillades of rock'n roll guitar, "Real" or "Hot" Country, as it became
known, attracted great clumps of suddenly intrigued crossover customers
who hadn't been exposed to country before and were charmed by all the
quaint lines about boots, hound dogs, and achy-breaky hearts. From Tracy
Byrd to Tracy Lawrence, the voices that sold were clear, smoothly
drawling tenors and baritones. Nice enough nearly all of them, but
mostly quite similar and decidedly lacking in character. Ear candy, they
call it in Nashville. A Madison Avenue advertising man put it to
me:'It's slick stuff and it sells. That's the American Way'."
"The biggest reason for Real Country's success is that it's what gets
played on country radio- to the exclusion of everything else. Most large
country radio stations rely on a standardized play list that is
distributed all over the United States. Even if disc jockeys at country
stations wished to stray from the sheet and play records by other
singers, they couldn't, something Iris DeMent's husband Elmer discovered
after a man at a country radio station rejected DeMent's latest single.
"I'll tell you why we won't play this," the radio man said. "It's too
country. We only play Real Country."
"The situation led to discussions of what country music is. People came
to various conclusions, but along the way most of them ended up
explaining why, to them, Real Country isn't really country. They don't
dismiss it because it's commercial; from Jimmie Rodgers day on, country
has always been commercial music. Their concern is more that Real
Country doesn't meet Hank William's prescription: it doesn't sound
sincere. The spirit of Jimmie Rodgers is suddenly missing from
mainstream country. Or, as George Jones put it, "They've taken the heart
and soul out of country music.' Almost without exception, the country
musicians I spoke with told me that country music 'has to be played with
feeling.' Yet if you ask any of them what this means, the answer is
always a variation on the response Fats Waller gave to a woman who
wondered about the meaning of jazz: 'If you don't know by now, I can't
tell you,' he said."
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The author goes on to interview most of the living legends of country
and bluegrass music. I highly recommend this book.
Hidin' Out in the Georgia Pines-
Wishin' It Would Rain,
Steve Robertson
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Subject: NN: Blue Valley Songbird
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 01:03:37 -0500
From: Shawn Kimbro (kimbro@planetc.com>
Hey,
I guess it's no secret that I'm a big Dolly Parton fan. She's on Leno
now, wearing a tight-fitting, low-cut, blue dress and talking about how
her daddy once cussed a preacher who pulled out a rattlesnake while she
and her sisters were performing in a East Tennessee church. It'll be a
few minutes before she sings, so I thought I'd say, once more, that THE
GRASS IS BLUE is a great album. One of her very best, in this bluegrass
fan's opinion. If projections hold, based on initial sales, this will
be the best selling Sugar Hill release ever.
There's a rumor going around these parts that she's about to retire to
Sevier County, Tennessee, and open a recording studio which will feature
local talent.
Gotta run, it's nearly time for her song.
(pause>
Ah, she did "Train Train," one of the best cuts on the disc. She had a
pretty decent band too, I saw Sam Bush on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on
fiddle, Jerry Douglas on resonator guitar, and another pretty songbird
singing harmony vocals.... none other than Alison Krauss, who else.
There's plenty of good info about the album, her new movie now showing
on BRAVO, and all the latest news at http://www.dolly.net
.---. ___________
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| ////ROCK////[]\ -Shawn
| ////CITY////|__|\
| ^|^^^^^^^^^^| | "Years go by and everything changes
| | | | But nothing does" -Kate Campbell
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http://www.geocities.com/~trailzzone/soul.html
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Subject: NN: re:Denice Franke
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 06:51:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Riegner (rg48@yahoo.com>
Dear Netters..
First a confession: I haven't been faithfully reading
all the nanci nets recently, so if this has been covered, forgive me.
Has anyone heard Denice Franke's new CD "You Don't
Know Me?" If so is it as good as I suspect it is?
I've ordered it thru CDNOW but it has been on backorder
forever. Does anyone know a better(and quicker) place to get it?
I'm working on my 'Top 100 Songs' for the century but
I'm afraid it may end up as top 200.
Bob Riegner
rg48@yahoo.com
// Don't forget Bill Lavery and his folks at villagerecords.com.
// And you can also order music through the CandleList...
// http://www.cruzio.com/~billpeet/MusicByCandlelight/index.htm
// BP
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Subject: NN: re:Denice Franke
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 08:34:47 -0800
From: Susan Peete (suepeete@cruzio.com>
Bob Riegner wrote:
>Has anyone heard Denice Franke's new CD "You Don't
>Know Me?" If so is it as good as I suspect it is?
Yes it is, I highly recommend it. It's actually a 1997 CD but one I have
been listening to a lot in '99.
You can see and hear Denice Franke and Eric Taylor performance as part of
the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage series on the web. The concert was
broadcast live on October 25, 1999 via RealAudio/RealVideo, and is archived at:
http://kennedy-center.org/millennium/highlights_101999.html
Kate Campbell's performance as part of the same Millenium Stage series will
be on Sunday, November 7th, at 6:00 p.m.
The URL for the Millenium Stage broadcasts is:
http://kennedy-center.org/millennium/broadcast.html
Cheers
Sue
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Subject: Re: NN: re:Denice Franke
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 05:07:19 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: "Joanne T. Crotts" (jtarpley@uog9.uog.edu>
I saw Denice in a house concert with Eric Taylor about a year ago. She
has an excellent evocative voice and intriguing lyrics. I don't remember
a lot of specifrics about her set but I remember I enjoyed it. You
probably can't go wrong.
jtc
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Subject: NN: Jean Ritchie
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:47:50 -0400
From: Don Good (good@cncacc.cn.edu>
I was fortunate to be able to attend a Jean Ritchie concert last evening
(Tuesday 11/2) here at Carson-Newman College (in TN). Then this morning,
about 10 of us were able to participate with Ms. Ritchie in a workshop.
One of our students asked her who she liked to listen to. The first person
she mentioned was Nanci Griffith!
Also, she later called EL Harris the country singer with the most integrity.
Wish some of ya'll coulda joined me.
Don G.
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Subject: NN: My 100 Songs
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 18:14:25 -0500
From: "Kristina Plath" (flyer23@angelfire.com>
Hi All
Took me a month, but here's my list:
1.It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go-Nanci Griffith
2.On Grafton Street-Nanci Griffith
3.The Wing and The Wheel-Nanci Griffith
4.Time of Inconvenience-Nanci Griffith
5.Ford Econoline-Nanci Griffith
6.Nobody's Angel-Nanci Griffith
7.There's a Light Beyond These Woods-Nanci Griffith
8.Listen to the Radio-Nanci Griffith
9.If I Had a Hammer-Pete Seeger
10.We Shall Overcome-Pete Seeger
11.Where Have all the Flowers Gone?-Pete Seeger
12.Wimoweh-traditional
13.The Water is Wide-traditional
14.Green Green Rocky Road-traditional
15.Wasn't that a Mighty Storm-traditional
16.Tecumseh Valley-Townes Van Zandt
17.To Live is To Fly-Townes Van Zandt
18.Pancho and Lefty-Townes Van Zandt
19.Times They Are A-Changin'-Bob Dylan
20.Blwoin' in the Wind-Bob Dylan
21.Oxford Town-Dylan
22.God on Our Side-Dylan
23.Like a Rolling Stone-Dylan
24.Talkin' WWIII Blues-Dylan
25.Dress of Laces-John Grimuado
26.This Train-Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)
27.Language or the Kiss-Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
28.Mr. Jones and Me-Adam Duritz
29.Long December-Adam Duritz
30.Round Here-Adam Duritz
31.Forever Young-Dylan
32.Rosa's Coronas-Kate Campbell
33.Bud's Sea-Mint Boat-Kate Campbell
34.He Thinks He'll Keep Her-Mary-Chapin Carpenter
35.Stones in the Road-MCC
36.John Doe #24-MCC
37.Only a Dream-MCC
38.This Shirt-MCC
39.Halley Came to Jackson-MCC
40.No Time to Cry-Iris DeMent
41.Infamous Angel-Iris DeMent
42.Our Town-Iris DeMent
43.There But For Fortune-Phil Ochs
44.Orphan Girl-Gillian Welch
45.You Were Meant for Me-Jewel
46.Sensitive New Age Guy-Christine Lavin (YEAH!)
47.Sourdough-Bill Staines
48.75 Septembers-Cheryl Wheeler
49.Car Wheels on a Gravel Road-Lucinda Williams
50.If I Wrote You-Dar Williams
51.When I Was a Boy-Dar Williams
52. February-Dar Williams
53.Ten Year Night-Lucy Kaplansky
54.For Once in Your Life-Lucy Kaplansky
55.Branching Out-John Gorka
56.Deadwood, SD-Eric Taylor
57.Four Great White Fathers-Eric Taylor
58.This Land is Your Land-Woody Guthrie
59.Alice's Restuarant-Arlo Guthrie
60.Hello in There-John Prine
61.You Say the Battle is Over-David Mallett
62.Fire-David Mallett
63.Phil Brown-David Mallett
64.The Cobbler's Daughter-Kate Rusby
65.Imagine-John Lennon
66.Ironic-Alanis Morrisette
67.If God Had a Face-Joan Osborne
68.Goin' Back to Harlan-Kate McGarrigle
69. Talk to Me of Mendocino-Kate McGarrigle
70.Me & Bobby McGee-Kris Kristofferson
71.I Walk the Line-Johnny Cash
72. Man in Black-Johnny Cash
73.Ballad of Ira Hayes-Johnny Cash
74.Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain-Fred Rose
75.Coal Miner's Daughter-Loretta Lynn
76.The Pill-Loretta Lynn
77.Independence Day-Gretchen Peters
78.Wide Open Spaces-Susan Gibson
79.Prison Trilogy-Joan Baez
80.Blue Moon of Kentucky-Bill Monroe
81.Mama's Hungry Eyes-Merle Haggard
82.Step Inside This House-Guy Clark
83.Eyes of a Painter-Kate Wolf
84.Big Yellow Taxi-Joni Mitchell
85.Layla-Eric Clapton
86.Sunny Came Home-Shawn Colvin
87.Thank God I'm a Country Boy-John Denver
88.Leaving on a Jet Plane-John Denver
89.Rock Around the Clock-Bill Haley
90.Maybellene-Chuck Barry
91.No Expectations-Jagger/Richards
92.American Pie-Don McLean
93.Coat of Many Colors-Dolly Parton
94.PMS Blues-Dolly Parton
95.Dock of the Bay-Otis Redding
96.Teach Your Children Well-Neil Young
97.Lord, I've Made You a Place in My Heart-Greg Brown
98.Abraham, Martin & John-???
99.Peggy Sue-Buddy Holly
100.In the Quiet Morning-Mimi Joplin
Wing and wheels,
Kristina"yeah, I listen to my parents' records"Plath
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Subject: NN: Guy Clark Next Week (No NG)
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:24:02 EST
From: Catelaw@aol.com
Hey all,
A heads up for those in the immediate area -- Guy Clark & Jesse Winchester
will be performing at the Variety Playhouse down on Euclid in Atlanta a week
from this Saturday, November 13th. The Variety is one of those really
eclectic (or really ratty, depending on your point of view) intimate venues
in Little Five Points, which is worth the trip just for the people-watching
potential. Tix are $15.
Steve to the south -- up your alley?
Cate, "it's just another morning," in Atlanta
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Subject: NN: old friend
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:17:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenn Lippert (lippert@fyi.net>
Friends,
Just wanted to relate that as I sit here at work with a dead car home in
the garage, kids at school growing up too fast, and the world just seeming
to pass on by, I am blessed by the voice and songs of a thoughtful,
insightful, poetic young woman. There is indeed a light beyond these
woods.
Don't forget the "old stuff".
kenn "smiling at your old west Texas sun." lippert
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| lippertNO@SPAMfyi.net I would know him when we meet... |
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| it will rise in perfect light; |
| "See Kate Campbell" I have loved the stars too fondly |
| to be fearful of the night." |
| -Sarah Williams |
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Subject: NN: NG on DVD?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:56:58 -0600
From: "Dane Tyson" (runngdog@mcs.com>
My apologies if I am rehashing and old topic - I haven't been keeping up as
well as I should on the NN digest.
I noticed today that Reel.com is listing as available for preorder (with an
11/16 release date) a DVD called "Nanci Griffith: Last of the True
Believers." This is also shown as being an "audio-only" DVD - something
I've never heard of and which doesn't seem to make any sense (isn't an
"audio-only DVD" essentially just a CD?) Anyway, can anyone here fill me in
on the details?
Dane Tyson
runngdog@mcs.com
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Subject: Re: NN: NG on DVD?
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:17:16 -0600
From: Jim Woodward (jjandc@blkbox.COM>
DVD is essentially a high density CD. A DVD disk can hold maybe five
times what a CD can hold. DVD players can read/play both DVD disks and
CDs; CD players cannot read/play DVDs.
That's a layman's opinion, I'm sure one of the techies will correct
it...
Jim 'I sometimes think I actually understand this stuff' Woodward
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Subject: ACL w/ Crickets
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:26:59 -0600
From: "Hank Van Slyke" (chevelle@pnx.com>
Hello, Nancinetters, and what fine fall weather we're having in Texas!
Most of you have already seen Nanci and the Crickets on Austin City
Limits, but I saw a tape of it for the first time last night. Hoo boy!
>From the opening song to the closing of the credits, it was wonderful.
My significant other liked it pretty well, though she didn't get
teary-eyed during "Gulf Coast Highway" like I did. The last time I saw
Nanci visually was Oct. '97 at the Austin Music Hall, and it was about
halfway back so I couldn't see the band members that well. The ACL video
did a fine job of showing the band. They always do, on every show, it
seems. She gets PBS on her cable, lucky gal. After the ACL tape went
off, there was a tribute to Muddy Waters on PBS, so we watched that.
She really likes the blues! (a keeper, for sure ;-)
I have DishNet, and for some strange reason they don't air ACL at any
time on the East channels. I have emailed them several times, they say
it's PBS's problem. I email PBS, they say it's DishNet's problem.
Sheesh. Anybody else having this runaround? I get the same runaround
when I try to transfer my old 401k's to my mutual fund, but that's
another topic. Was that what "Runaroud Sue" was really about back in
the 60s? ;-)
Y'all have a great weekend!
Hank "not retired, just between jobs" Van Slyke
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