NanciNet Digest 12-07-99
// It's Pearl Harbor Day...
// Tickets, shows, silly questions :)
// Enjoy...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Single ticket for Nanci/Dar on Dec. 15th
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 07:03:47 -0500 (EST)
From: ingaqotr@CTC.Net (Amy C. McKibbin)
Hi folks,
I'm not going to be able to make it to the Pittsburgh concert with Nanci
Griffith and Dar Williams on December 15th. I have a nice, new, shiny
fourth row ticket in circle 2 at Carnegie Hall there, which I would like to
sell to the first response I get for what I paid ($27.50) minus the cost of
priority mail shipping (so that I can get the ticket to you in time).
Please e-mail me if you are interested. Thanks!
Amy McKibbin
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Subject: NN: Best of a Very Good Year, 1999.
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:44:21 -0500
From: "David Steere" (dsteere@sil.si.edu>
Bill Page and Vicki Stein--those meanies--insist lists must be limited to only
ten. I'll obey the letter, if not the spirit. An impossibly fertile and
abundant year for wonderful, creative, inspired musical releases. See for
yourself:
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FIRST 10 (in alpha order):
Kate Campbell
ROSARYVILLE (Compass)
Nanci Griffith
DUST BOWL SYMPHONY (Electra)
Angela Kaset
INSIDEOUT (www.songs.com)
Julie Miller
BROKEN THINGS (Hightone)
Julie Murphy
BLACK MOUNTAINS REVISTED (Beautiful Jo)
Oh Susanna
JOHNSTOWN (Stella)
John Prine
IN SPITE OF OURSELVES (Oh Boy)
Kim Richey
GLIMMER (Mercury)
Kate Rusby
SLEEPLESS (Compass/Pure Records)
Tom Russell
MAN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE (Hightone)
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2ND 10 (actually 11, in alpha order):
Sally Barris
RELUCTANT DAUGHTER (Wrensong)
Peggy Bertsch
HIDING IN THE STONE (Side Porch)
Chieftains
TEARS OF STONE
THE FARM COUPLE (Dust Bowl)
Lucy Kaplansky
TEN YEAR NIGHT (Red House)
Irene Kelley
SIMPLE PATH (Irk)
Alison Krauss
FORGET ABOUT IT (Rounder)
Natalie Merchant
LIVE IN CONCERT (Electra)
Niamh Parsons
BLACKBIRDS & THRUSHES (Green Linnet)
Toni Price
LOW DOWN AND UP (Antone's)
Chris Webster
DRIVE (Compass)
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Honorable Mentions to: Poozies (INFINITE BLUE),
Eddi Reader (ANGELS & ELECTRICITY),
Harris/Ronstadt (WESTERN WALL: THE TUCSON SESSIONS)
Best Non-CD Musical Experience: Nanci Griffith: OTHER VOICES, TOO Video.
Big Disappointments of 1999: Terri Allard (LOOSE CHANGE AND SPARE PARTS), Les
Sampou (LES SAMPOU), BEST OF SISSELL, Kristin Hersh (MURDER, MISERY AND THEN
GOODNIGHT), Erica Wheeler (THREE WISHES), BLEECKER STREET: GREENWICH VILLAGE IN
THE 60'S, Trish Murphy (RUBIES ON THE LAWN), Marty Stewart (THE PILGRIM).
//hmmm...seems like more than 10 to me :) [BP]
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Subject: NN: Kate Campbell in Houston, TX
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 09:53:46 -0600
From: Justin Marquez (jmarquez@flash.net>
Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 8:30 p.m. at The Mucky Duck in Houston, TX.
Website URL for the venue:
http://mcgonigels.com/
Kate will be sharing the bill on Songwriters Night with Richard Shindell.
Gonna be a great evening!
If any of you are coming to Houston for this, let me know and I'll try to
help you find your way 'round town. Advance tickets are highly
recommended, as the Mucky Duck is not a big place.
How 'bout a warmup for Katefest 2K? C'mon down!
Justin
Justin Marquez
Houston, TX
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Subject: NN: Nanci In Sheffield
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:41:47 +0000
From: Ann Tyas (ann@awnpb.demon.co.uk>
Hi folks,
I have just confirmed the date of Nanci's appearance in (never mind the
uk) South Yorkshire!!
The City Hall,
Barker's Pool,
SHEFFIELD
Wed 3rd may 2000-7:30 with the BMO
Booking no.-0114 2565657- this is Sheffield Arena but they will act as
booking agents
--
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci In Sheffield
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:41:44 EST
From: VickiStein@aol.com
Hi Folks ~
Now this is very interesting to me, Nanci in Sheffield...as my friend (me
travellin' companion), Bob, and I were just discussing last Friday the
possibility of booking a trip to the United Kingdom in 2000...
now, it's lookin' as if it should be in the Spring (like right around May
3rd??!!), so that we can see Nanci!
Tell me, would it be difficult for us to get tickets to such an event? Do
tickets to Nanci's overseas concerts sell out right away?
Please forgive my naivete, I have never travelled beyond the shores of North
America. In fact, a trip of this magnitude would be quite a departure for me,
as I'm partial to the mountains (love the Continental Divide!) and rivers of
the U.S.
Still, I have always, always dreamed of visiting the U.K. I am of English and
Scottish descent, and the rich history beckons me....
Well, we will see...I need to do some research on this topic (and I should
really get back to work...). However, if Nanci is performing, it'd make the
trip even more worthwhile....
Have a great one!
Vicki (I can't drive on the left side of the road) Stein
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Subject: NN: UK Radio
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 99 20:16:53 +0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Bob Harris has just announced, through his web site, here in the U.K.,
that he has a live session from Nanci Griffith that he is broadcasting on
his country show on Thursday 27th January 2000. He does not give details
of the source of the show, so we'll have to wait and see. Nevertheless
that is something to look forward to in the New Year.
John "keeping y'all informed" Graveling
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Subject: NN: Re: UK Radio
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:56:04 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
Man, john, ya beat me to it...
My dad just announced that he'd heard somethng baout nanci being aired in
the millenium on radio two (he also added that he'd turned his radio off as
soon as those words were sopken), but didn't know the deatils...i assume
this is the same thing?? Also, any more about the mcc concert being aired
anytime soon?
jenny*
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Subject: NN: Ford Econoline
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 18:18:23 -0800
From: Bill Peete (billpeet@cruzio.com>
Dear Nanci-Nuts,
Does the line, "She had a husband on her bumper", figuratively refer to a
husband that is chasing her in another vehicle, as in tailgating? Or does it
refer to a husband stuck on the front bumper like a bug on a windshield?
Inquiring minds need to know.
-bill
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Subject: Re: NN: Ford Econoline
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 23:58:50 EST
From: "Tracy Applebaum" (poohbear512@hotmail.com>
>Does the line, "She had a husband on her bumper", figuratively refer to a
>husband that is chasing her in another vehicle, as in tailgating? Or does
>it refer to a husband stuck on the front bumper like a bug on a windshield?
Well, I giess you could read it either way. I always saw it as a rear
bumper kind of thing, kind of a double-meaning, both on her bumper, like,
following her from Salt Lake City to San Diego, trying to stop her and get
her to stay with him. Also metaphorically, on her bumper, like, never
giving her any freedom to live a life of her own when they were together,
kind of the same thing as building a golden cage around her.
Just a life-inexperienced college kid's opinion here,
Tracy
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Subject: Re: NN: Ford Econoline
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:37:17 -0600
From: "Tina Shackleford" (tshack@sprynet.com>
Wow -- I always saw it as "on her bumper" like an animal after hunting,
driving along displaying the prize. Not that she'd literally done this, of
course, but that she had fought and won, and was driving away victoriously.
[I'm not a hunter, really. But the image works for me.]
Tina
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Subject: Re: NN: Ford Econoline
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:16:38 CST
From: "Christina O'Neill" (oneillchristina@hotmail.com>
Bill,
I assume it's figurative, but I've always pictured the husband hanging onto
the rear bumper, sometimes dragging the ground, sometimes flying behind the
van as the driver, pretending to be oblivious sings and quiets the "five
restless children."
Christy in STL
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Subject: Re: NN: Ford Econoline
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:21:57 -0600
From: "Mark" (catfan@radiks.net>
I took it to mean he was following her, as Miss NG would point a
thumb behind her as she said it.
Mark
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Subject: NN: Husband on her bumper
Date: 6 Dec 99 23:06:55 EST
From: David Ross (DavidJross@netscape.net>
Hey Bill,
I think she was using it as a metaphor like he was a bagged deer after a
successful hunt! :)
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Subject: Re: NN: Husband on her bumper
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:59:21 EST
From: VickiStein@aol.com
I read "she had a husband on her bumper" figuratively, but I'm sure you could
view it literally, too. The "bumper" implies, to me, something that's behind
her but yet still attached to her, something in her past that she can't quite
shake, doesn't want to let go of...like maybe the fact that she loves her
husband in spite of his rambling, gambling, lying, and cheating...but her "salt
of the earth" common sense prompts her to go, in the best interest of her kids
and herself, and escape the "golden cage," relieving her of the Sturm und Drang
that epitomizes life with the "rounder."
And then, even at the end of the song, the line "She drives a Coupe DeVille,
but her heart still rides in that Ford Econoline," conveys to me that although
she's moved on, the attachment to the past is still strong, in spite of the
victory/freedom achieved.
And I must confess, my perception of this song reflects my own life
experiences. I loved a rounder-type once, and even though it is absolutely
over and has been for several years, I still occasionally find him attached at
the bumper when I glance in the rear view mirror. And I sigh, and just keep
moving forward, cuz I know to go back would be disastrous...
Pax ~ Vicki
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Subject: Re: NN: Husband on her bumper
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:08:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Troy Roepke (taroepke@ucdavis.edu>
YO!
I enjoy the scene of man literally on her bumper, her front bumper. As if
she had to run him over to escape and his necktie is caught in the grill
and she just keeps on drivin'. Love it.
Helen
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Subject: Re: NN: Ford Econoline And an OT Question
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:37:00 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
I always thought that she was tying him to the bumper with a big fat hemp
rope ( still alive and wriggling like a worm to get free) so that she could
ram the car realllly hard into the one in front and hurt him bbbbbaaaadddd.
Or she'd jsut continue to hit the san diego freeway, and because she was
doing sixty miles an hour she'd be scaring the s*** out of him, whilst
laughing insanely with her hands on the wheel and her foot on the floor. I
think i took the literal image somehow.
ANymore on uk tour dates??
I have a question and i thought this would be the best place to ask it. It
is off -topic though, so feel free to reply to me. I was listening to
'treasures left behind' for abotu the millionth time last night and was
wondering about Eric Bogle. Is he or is he not Scottish? I thought i
detected a bit of the brogue in there...I was going to ask my parents but
thenm i decided that they'd jsut look at me blankly as usual. Thanks.
jenny*
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Subject: NN: Top ten
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:24:48 -0500
From: James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu (James Troiano)
Hi folks: Her is my top almost ten for 1999:
1) Nanci Griffith: Dustbowl Symphony: the more I listen to it, the more
I love it. As always, Our hero's music far surpasses anyone else's.
2. Eliza Gilkyson: Misfits. I just got hold of this little gem and this
great singer-songwriter is little less etehreal and more hard-edge than
usual. Some marvelous songs and a great voice.
3. John Stewart and Darwin's Army. A great collection of originals and
oldies as John works with a band for the first time since the KIngston
Trio. His wife , Buffy Ford Stewart, like Nanci, is another voice of
the angels." Buffy adds a great deal the songs. She has been
gravely ill and all John Stewart fans have been pulling for her.
4 Folk Scene Collection Vol. 2. Best cuts from a LA radio show which
includes Nanci, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Eliza Gilkyson, amongst
others.
5. John Stewart: Live at McCabes: John is always great live and his
songs with the great Buffy are inspiring indeed.
6. Sounds of Wood and Steel: vol. 2 I just love hearing Nanci's "A
Year Down in New Orleans" as a vocal or instrumental.
The song actually inspired my wife and me to plan a trip to New
Orleans in the spring. Some very pleasant sounds for background music.
7. Lucy Kaplansky: Ten Year Night . Some great songwriting and vocals
by a former Nanci collaborator.
8. Melanie : Unchained Melanie. I bought this at a recent concert-am
not sure of actual release date. She has written some marvelous songs
and adds some new ones to old favorites.
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Subject: NN: Re: We Shall Overcome...someday...
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:20:40 EST
From: RoanInish@aol.com
Jenny writes:
(( i'm sorry to cloud the optimisem (look, i can't even spell it) but....
>I just heard on the news that in Northern Ireland the Protestants and the
>Catholics are negotiating to find >common ground-- a system of government,
>and peace at last.
>I can't help but think about Seamus-- if he really exists, and know that if
>this works, it won't be a hard life in >Belfast anymore.
>I don't know about everyone else and as this is way OT, then i don't have to
>know...but...I honestly do not think it will work. How can it with soooo
>much hatred between the people how can any government possibly make
>decisions that will suit everybody and not lead to riots, violence nad more
>hatred. I can't imagine a belfast wihtouth the hatred. Sure, it would be
>nice. but .... >>
While I can understand the pessimism, and though I don't normally consider
myself much of an optimist, I do think that this CAN work, if for no other
reason the vast majority of the people in Northern Ireland are sick of the
violence, death, and destruction. As much distrust as there may still be
peace, however uneasy, may be the only alternative. There will always be
problems with militants on both sides who want no compromise, but maybe, just
maybe, the majority can make this thing work.
It may be difficult to envision a fully peaceful Northern Ireland, but 15
year ago who would have thought that we'd see Nelson Mandela not only free
but President of an apartheid free South Africa, the Berlin Wall demolished,
and the Isrealis and Palestinians talking to one another? It won't be easy,
but miracles do happen.
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Subject: NN: A Christmas present from Auntie
Date: 7 Dec 99 20:21:37 +0000
From: "Matthew Bloomfield" (mailm@tthewb.u-net.com>
With apologies to non-uk readers:
>From the latest Radio Times
1200 Christmas Day
BBC Radio 2
Wogan Goes West
A compilation of songs old and new from country singers Faith Hill,
Nanci Griffiths (sic), Chely Wright and Beth Nellsen (sic) Chapman.
Hopefully the show will be put together by people a little more
competent than their proof readers :-)
Matt - checking for mistakes
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Subject: NN: Austin City Limits book
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:09:42 EST
From: Tricia9999@aol.com
Hi all:
I just saw a new book published by ACL, 2000 - "Austin City Limits, 25 Years
of Music". (not sure of accuracy of subtitle). Anyway, it has nice pictures
of all the various performers over the years, including, of course, Nanci.
Has a picture from her debut in her yellow dress and red shoes. $35 (hc) if
anyone is interested. Might make a good holiday gift for your friends and
family.
Tricia Breen
Berkeley, CA
// it is a lovely book...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Ukdates
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:26:23 -0500
From: Ian R (100451.1006@compuserve.com>
Hi Folks
Just to let you know I got front row seats for Nanci's show in Nottingham
on 16 May 2000. It has not yet been advertised so we got choice of seats.
Maybe some of you other guys can try too.
Just as an aside we also got front row centre for Beth Nielsen Chapman in
Sheffield next month! Isn't the internet great!
Ian R
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Subject: NN: Re:tour dates
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:02:58 -0500
From: "Charlie Patricolo" (charliep@dnet.net>
Generally I am a lurker - but all of this discussion regarding Nanci's
concert dates in Europe has me wondering - has anyone seen any concert
schedule for the states? The tour page on the official web page hasn't
been updated in a long while and I don't know where else to look. Any
suggestions? I was lucky enough to see Nanci in Athens in October and
would love to start looking forward to another treat.
Thanks, charlie charliep@dnet.net
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Subject: NN: three questions (well four really, but one's not NN related)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:17:14 -0000
From: "Pugsley, R.M." (rmp6@leicester.ac.uk>
Dear all,
Sorry. I've been away and seem to have got lost in a mire
of emails, so just to get things straight...
1) Has Nanci actually confimed any UK gigs?
2) Are we NOT doing a NN Top Ten this year and, 2a), if not, why not?
3) If I was going to buy one Grateful Dead album what would it be?
(as this is not NN related perhaps Deadheads [is that a term of endearment
or abuse?] can email me privately with that one?)
OK, that's all, back to work...
Rob (Pugsley)
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Subject: NN: Re: three questions (well four really, but one's not NN related)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:25:57 +0100
From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>
> 2) Are we NOT doing a NN Top Ten this year and, 2a), if not, why not?
Hello Robert,
Some said on the list about the top tens that he or she had heard from Bill
that the one that did the counting the last years had left the the list and
not seeing any messges from you I assumed that it was you. But you had
always such a nice list with rules and so on.
I checked this afternoon the site of the LSO and the RAH and couldn't find
anything about concerts.
met vriendelijke groeten,
Hans Janssen.
http://tradefolk.da.ru/
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Subject: Re: NN: three questions (well four really, but one's not NN related)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:15:15 -0500
From: Shawn Kimbro (kimbro@planetc.com>
Pugsley, R.M. wrote:
> 2) Are we NOT doing a NN Top Ten this year and, 2a), if not,
> why not?
Hey Robert--
We *are* in the process of putting together and posting top ten lists
now. The gracious Ms. Vicki Stein has agreed to tabulate the results
this year. She posted some contest information and guidelines on
December 2. Some of us have already posted lists. There's been some
recent discussion about extending the deadline a little so I think
that's why lists are slow coming in. Even though I usually wait until
closer to the end of December to post, I've found in the past 4 or 5
years of doing this that it takes me a month or more to decide if I
really like an album. Also, as someone mentioned, I like to use the
list's suggestions in my Christmas shopping. But I'm sure everyone will
be cool with whatever Vicki decides. I'm also hoping that many people
participate, and our list manager doesn't go crazy in the process!
Warm Regards,
-Shawn
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Subject: NN: Smiles
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:21:22 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
anne informed us (don't you hate when people write that) :
>Hi UK fans,
>Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a posting (snip>for Nanci's
>appearance in May 2000 at the City Hall.
OH MY GOD!!!!! Does that mean that there's hope for dates in glasgow after
all????????? Anne, did it say if she'd be appearing with and orchestra?? and
if so...was it a local one or the LSO???
>I had a big smile on my face
Man, what's a smile again? I forget. But I do believe i might find out if i
came crashing across one of those posters in the back streets of old west
glasgow though.....
woooo-hooooo!!!!!
jenny*
p.s
Seeing the name anne reminds me that i owe *anne* from colorado a tape...i
lost your adress anne, my mailbox broke, could you get in touch so i can
send your tape??? i haven't forgotten about that....
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