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Subject: NN: Nanci UK dates in May?
   Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:53:18 -0500
   From: "Steve Goldberger" (steve@aldgategroup.com>

Hey all. .

I am planning to visit England and Scotland (for first time ever) from 
May 4th -17th, 2000 and was wondering if anyone may know if/where Nanci 
might be appearing.  Or possibly anyone else worth hearing for that
matter.

Ann Tyas on the list, was kind enough to advise us of the show in 
Sheffield on the 3rd, but alas we don't arrive until the 4th. 

As Nanci hasn't been to our Toronto area in ages (perhaps ever?), maybe
we'll get lucky and run into her over there.

Please feel free to email me directly.  Thanks and seasons greetings to
all the fine NanciNetters out there.

Steve Goldberger, Toronto
visit my home pages: http://www.aldgategroup.com/steve
email:  steve@aldgategroup.com

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Subject: NN: Top Ten Lists
   Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:54:40 EST
   From: VickiStein@aol.com

Hello to All ~

Regarding Top Ten Lists, let's officially extend the deadline to Sunday, 
January 9, 2000.   I haven't witnessed any "no's" on this issue, so I am 
trusting that the 9th will be cool with most everyone.  As Shawn and Steve 
indicated, though, if you're ready to post your list, please do so (and 
please remember to copy me at VickiStein@aol.com).  

If you have any questions regarding this topic, please feel free to e-mail me.

Thanks, and make it a great one ~

Vicki 

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Subject: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:14:32 -0600
   From: Shelly Brisbin (sbrisbin@prismnet.com>

Hi Folks,

One of my office mates came dancing into work today. She seemed to be 
in a peaceful, dreamy state. When we asked her what was up, she said, 
"Wow. I've been listening to the latest Nanci Griffith album over and 
over since last night. It's just wonderful."  Nice to see someone new 
enjoying the music.

These are in the order I thunk of them. I refuse to count ehm down 
because it would make my head hurt.

Cheryl Wheeler, _Sylvia Hotel_
Richard Thompson, _Mock Tudor_
Damnations TX, _Half Mad Moon_
The Meat Purveyors, _More Songs About Buildings and Cows_
Ginger MacKenzie,  _Kismet_
Sissy Siero, _Nectar_
Julie Miller _Broken Things_
Kevin Welch, _Beneath My Wheels_
Tom Russell, _The Man From God Knows Where_
Terri Hendrix, _Live_

Best Albums Released By My Friends
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell and the Banned, _Live_
Elisa Welch, _The Wheel_

Best Albums I Considered For This List, Only To Find That They Were 
Released In Prior Years
Beth Neilsen Chapman, _Sand and Water_
Stacey Earle, _Simple Gearle_

-shelly

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Subject: Re: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 07:27:36 -0600
   From: Sarah Wrightson (sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>

Shelly Brisbin wrote:
> 
> Best Albums Released By My Friends
> Sarah Elizabeth Campbell and the Banned, _Live_

I like this as well Shelly.  I also just got a copy of the Blaze Foley
"Live at The Austin Outhouse" which I recommend too www.blazefoley.com

and Sarah sings some beautiful harmony on it.

Nanci connection???  Ah, Brian Wood plays on Sarah's CD and Brian is
married to Mickie Merkens...there ya go!

Sarah

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Subject: Re: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:45:50 +0100
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

> Shelly Brisbin wrote:
> >
> > Best Albums Released By My Friends
> > Sarah Elizabeth Campbell and the Banned, _Live_
>
> I like this as well Shelly.  I also just got a copy of the Blaze Foley
> "Live at The Austin Outhouse" which I recommend too www.blazefoley.com
>
> and Sarah sings some beautiful harmony on it.
>
> Nanci connection???  Ah, Brian Wood plays on Sarah's CD and Brian is
> married to Mickie Merkens...there ya go!

And Brain plays on and is co-producer of PIMW. I didn't notice that myself
but Mickie Merkens mailed me after my holiday that her husband had, at the
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell signing at the Strawberry festival, seen someone
Dutch called Hans with a NN T-shirt. My CD Live is signed by SEC and the
Banned.

Hans Janssen

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Subject: NN: Looming holidays
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:13:39 -0600
   From: Sarah Wrightson (sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>

A little of this and too much of that and oh, just stuff, so I need to
leave "ya'll" for a while again.  Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, here
is to a wonderful new year to everyone.

Sarah & Vince

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Subject: Re: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:28:49 EST
   From: Petop@aol.com

sbrisbin@prismnet.com writes:

(( Best Albums I Considered For This List, Only To Find That They Were 
 Released In Prior Years
 Beth Neilsen Chapman, _Sand and Water_
 Stacey Earle, _Simple Gearle_
  >>

I had a street date of Feb. 9, 1999 for "Simple Gearle."

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Subject: Re: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:34:18 +0100
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

> I had a street date of Feb. 9, 1999 for "Simple Gearle."

Simple Gearle was released by Gearle records late 1998, I got a tape from it
in November and bought it at concert from Stacey  in Brussels December 18th.
By that time it was only available at certain shops listed at
www.staceyearle.com . But it was in the computer already and could be
ordered. It was in the shops in February this year. So Stacey will be in my
top ten for the second year.

Hans "still enjoyng the three times I saw Stacey" Janssen

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Subject: Re: NN: My Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 99 16:10:18 +0000
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

"Simple Gearle" certainly came out here in the UK in late January/early 
February this year, so as far as I'm concerned it qualifies for inclusion 
in British top tens. The same as Lynn Miles, "Night In A Strange Town", 
qualifies in the USA due to it's January release, yet some of us had it 
in last years lists as it got a European release in October '98. 
Confusing isn't it????

John "still trying to reduce 153 to a top 10" Graveling

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Subject: NN: Nanci in Shieffield!
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:54:16 -0000
   From: "Pugsley, R.M." (rmp6@leicester.ac.uk>

Dear all,

Front row tickets!!!

For the first time ever (and I think this will be the eighth
time I've seen her live) we've got front row tickets! Fantastic...

Incidentally I phoned Sheffield Arena and they told me it would be
cheaper to phone the town hall, (0114 278 9789), so I did. What
nice people they are in Sheffield!

best wishes to you all,
Robert (Pugsley) 

p.s. thanks to all the Deadheads (and others) who emailed me with
their recommendations...almost everyone recommended something
different which most say something about the band...

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Subject: NN: Re: Nanci in Shieffield!
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:45:22 -0500 (EST)
   From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>

Hello,

>For the first time ever (and I think this will be the eighth
>time I've seen her live) we've got front row tickets! Fantastic...

Is that you living out my dream mr pugsley???

>What nice people they are in Sheffield!

Not like us in glasgow. i phoned up the ticket centre today. they had no
info on shows. yet. they told me to contact the armadillo and the concert
hall to see if they were any the wiser. the girl in the armadillo bluntly
told me 'no they didn't' and then put hte phone down. oh well, i live in
hope.
jenny*

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Subject: NN: RE: Austin City Limits book
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:28:25 -0500
   From: "Panchyshyn,Roman" (panchysr@oclc.org>

If you folks can read through the brackets, here's the full info for that
book. Hardcover lists at $24.50 US on Amazon.

[ISBN] 0823083039 
 [LC Call Number] ML3524 .D38 2000 
[Dewey Decimal Call Number] 791.45/72 21 
[Author] Davis, John T. (John Terry,), 1955- 
[Title] Austin city limits : 25 years of American music / John T. Davis ;
photography by Scott Newton ; timeline by Dan Forte ; foreword by Lyle
Lovett. 
[Publication] New York : Billboard Books, 2000. 
[Physical Description] 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. 
[General Note] Includes index. 
[Subject Added Entry Uniform Title] Austin city limits (Television program) 
[Subject Term] Country music History and criticism. 
[Other Author] Newton, Scott. 

Roman from Ohio

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Subject: NN: Top Ten List
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 01:45:49 -0800
   From: Tom Gill (tgill@igc.org>

Here's my Top Ten for the year 1999, in alphabetical order.  As others
have said, this year was just a wonderful year for new music!  Out of a
plethora of good releases, here are ten "gems."

Terry Allen - Salivation
This is about the most - literally- irreverent thing I've heard in a
long time.  And it's a real hoot.

Asleep at the Wheel- Ride with Bob
The most fun album of the year, a positively infectious tribute to the
late great Bob Wills, teaming Asleep at the Wheel up with a different
leading artist/group on every song, from the Dixie Chicks to Lyle Lovett
to Don Walser to Willie Nelson.  Try not to tap your toes to this.  Just
a joy!

Jimmy Buffett- Beach House on the Moon
Jimmy returns to a more countryish sound, and it really works- this is
by far his best album in at least a dozen years, much to my pleasant
surprise.  And who could have thought that he could take a Bruce
Cockburn song ("Pacing the Cage") and knead it, punch it, roll in it,
and grab onto it so well that it became totally, definitively his own?

Cesaria Evora- Cafe Atlantico
The national treasure of the Cape Verde Islands, her voice is smoky,
exotic, and hypnotic, and this is among her best.  A great "getaway."

Alan Parsons- The Time Machine
Parsons and his band (having shed the "Project"  umbrella) embark on
another 'theme' album of progressive rock, this one loosely based on the
H.G. Wells book: special guest vocalists include Tony Hadley, and Maire
Brennan of Clannad, who takes the band into their first foray into
Celtic influenced music.

Chris Perez Band- Resurrection.
Wow.  Wow.   Wow.   What an album.  Chris Perez was the husband of (and
was the lead guitarist for) the late, great Tejano goddess Selena.  It's
clear here that his real musical influences lay closer to Stevie Ray
Vaughan than the boleros and discopop of his  widow.   This is just an
incredible album, half-English, half-Spanish, and musically its sound is
somewhat reminiscent of another Texas group which broke bigtime last
year, the band Fastball.  The album is a spot-on theme of dealing with
the loss and legacy of his wife.  Remember Beth Nielsen Chapman's album
"Sand and Water?"  It's very much a twin in spirit, but from a gritty,
macho perspective.   And it contains absolute killer versions- in both
English and Spanish!- of Maria McKee's classic "Shelter."

The Rankins- Uprooted
Comeback Album of the Year.  I had just about given up on this Nova
Scotia family act after their last album, a gooey sappy overproduced
mess from countrypolitan Nashville.  They return here with a tremendous,
rootsy folk/Celtic/alt-country sound, and the vocal and instrumental
interplay of the different Rankin family members is just exquisite.

Linda Ronstadt/ Emmylou Harris- Western Wall : The Tucson Sessions
A great album of wonderful songs, a few of which are by Emmylou, the
rest by their favorite songwriters (Leonard Cohen, Jackson Browne, Bruce
Springsteen, etc.).  These are generally not "happy" songs- they are
generally rather dark and/or brooding tunes, but they are incredibly
well delivered.

Santana- Supernatural
If this doesn't win the Grammy for Album of the Year, I'll be shocked. 
And if it does- it should! - for once the Grammy folks will give it to a
truly deserving recording.  Carlos and his crew show that they are as
relevant as ever, and the all-star special guests which write and
perform on most of the songs all meld together seamlessly on the album. 
It's no accident that Rob Thomas's song "Smooth" has been at the top of
the pop charts for two months and holding: Rob sounds like he was born
to sing with Santana.

Townes Van Zandt- A Far Cry From Dead
When I first heard of the concept of this album (Townes's lost tapes
being cleaned up, enhanced, and full backing music added), I thought,
"Oh no- shameless exploitation!"  Boy was I wrong- it's a loving
tribute, incredibly well produced, and therefore just haunting.

First runner up:  Kevin Welch- Beneath My Wheels
Other runners up: 
Inti-Illimani- Amar de Nuevo (Chilean nueva cancion band sings lush love
songs of Latin America)
Chieftains- Tears of Stone
Beeb Birtles-  Driven by Dreams (Australian singer-songwriter best known
for his stint in the 70's pop group Little River Band, now based in
Nashville he finally releases his first solo album)

Single of the Year:  
Marychapin Carpenter- "Almost Home/ Dancing in the Dark"  (Get the
single, not the album.  Almost Home is the only standout new song on
Party Doll, and the Springsteen cover- she turns the song around, slows
it down and makes it a bluesy song of longing!- is not available on the
CD.)

Biggest Disappointments:
Kim Richey- Glimmer
What happened to the gritty, rootsy Kim Richey?  She's nowhere to be
found in this too-sweet, overproduced album in which I find her edginess
totally mixed out and coated with honey.

Marychapin Carpenter- Party Doll and Other Favorites
Nanci Griffith- Dust Bowl Symphony
I'm lumping these together because they suffer from the same malady:
they're largely alternate versions of songs we've heard before on other
albums, and these versions SOUND TOO MUCH THE SAME.  I kept thinking,
"been there, heard that- doesn't sound enough different from the
original version to be worthwile."  I was particularly disappointed by
Nanci, because doing a "classical" album gave me so much anticipation:
but I expected and wanted full symphonic rearrangements, not just
classical fill-ins and augmentations to the original song in the
original style.  Each album has one great new song ("Almost Home," "Tell
Me How.")

Various Artists- Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons
Too many of the songs on this one just leave me bewildered and
confused.  Unlike the above pair of albums, this one certainly does have
rather complete rearrangements and absolutely different
reinterpretations of the original songs: but they don't work, and/or are
badly done.

Cover Versions of the Year:
(1) Marychapin Carpenter, "Dancing in the Dark" (Bruce Springsteen)
(2) Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris with Neil Young, "For A Dancer"
(Jackson Browne)
(3) Jimmy Buffett, "Pacing the Cage" (Bruce Cockburn)
(4) Chris Perez Band, "Shelter" and "Refugio" (Maria McKee)

I'd say my top two albums of the year were the Rankins and the Chris
Perez Band.

-Tom Gill
 tgill@igc.org
 Lubbock, Texas

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Subject: NN: Re:Ford Econoline
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:36:00 -0500 (EST)
   From: John Courtney" (jc_riselaw@hotmail.com>

As a fairly recent subscriber to this list, I really feel compelled to write 
to commend the imaginative bloodthirstiness of some of you.

It has never crossed my mind that "she had a husband on her bumper" might 
mean anything other than that he was behind her (in another car).

I used to like that song.........

Another plea for information on UK dates - as far as I can see only 
Sheffield is mentioned anywhere on the web.

John Courtney

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Subject: Re: NN: Re:Ford Econoline
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:00:07 -0500
   From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>

At 07:36 PM 12/8/99 -0500, John Courtney wrote:
>It has never crossed my mind that "she had a husband on her bumper" might 
>mean anything other than that he was behind her (in another car).
>I used to like that song.........
 
    When we used to produce laser light shows at the planetarium were I work
I always thought "Ford Econoline" would be a fun song to illustrate with
laser graphics.  I'm one of those weird folk that imagined a guy strapped to
the bumper like a trophy deer.  Unfortunately the programs were produced
with a local rock station and they always wanted heavy metal and such.  The
laser system was pretty old and not exactly state-of-the-art but the folks
around here were thrilled by the shows. We did them for about seven years
but the upkeep on the equipment got too costly.    
    I did get to sneak one Nanci song into a special laser show.  Every year
a group of amateur astronomers spend a weekend at the facility (an event
called StarFest) and we decided it would be fun to produce a private laser
show for the group in case it was too cloudy to use our telescopes.  Well,
all the songs had to have an astronomy theme... obviously there was some
Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" and John Hiatts "Blue Telescope"...   the
Nanci song we used was "Once in A Very Blue Moon" all done in blue laser
light with the 6,000 stars of the planetarium sky twirling around as a
backdrop.... the crowd responded with cheers at the effect.  Even though the
sky was clear the following year, we were asked to encore the show for the
group again.
    I always wanted to do an all Nanci light show and wish we still had the
laser system.  Then I'd invite all Nancinetters to East Tennessee to spend
the weekend at our facility for a real NanciFest.

Mike 

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Subject: NN: Pittsburgh Concert Tickets
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:04:10 -0600
   From: Bill Page (bpage@itol.com>

Hey folks, I'm passing on the following as a favor...if you're interested,
contact Sara directly.

While you're at it, don't forget that Amy C.C. McKibbin (aka Inga, Queen of the
Reindeer) also has a ticket available for the same show. You can contact
her at ingaqotr@ctc.net.

BP

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Subject: Pittsburgh Concert Tickets
   Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 15:47:38 EST
   From: "Sara Balzarini" (sbalzar@hotmail.com>
     To: bpage@itol.com

Mr. Page,

      I have two tickets to Nanci's concert at the Carnegie Music Hall in 
Pittsburgh with Dar Williams-- Dec. 15th-- which I must sell.  They are 
excellent seats-- Orchestra Ctr., 10th row from stage.  I am selling them at 
cost-- $75.00 each.  They include the post-concert reception.
     I am not a member of your forum, but it was suggested that you might 
post a notice regarding these tickets.  If anyone is interested, they can 
email me at sbazar@hotmail.com, or my husband at ejbjr@nauticom.net. I will 
respond promptly.
     Thank you for considering this request.

Sara

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Subject: NN: Top Ten
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:03:35 -0800
   From: "David W. Gibson" (David_W_Gibson@email.msn.com>

Dave's top ten list

1.  Lucy Kaplansky, Ten Year Night.   My absolute favorite of the year.  A
simply wonderful cd! Everyone I know will be getting one for Christmas
(oops).
2.   Nanci Griffith, Dust Bowl Symphony.
3.  Kate Campbell, Rosaryville.
4.  Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt,  Western Wall.
5.  The Chieftains, Tears of Stone.
6.  Vonda Shepard, By 7:30.
7.  Mary Chapin Carpenter, Party Doll.
8.  Townes Van Zandt, A Far Cry From Dead.
9.  Various, Return of the Grievous Angel  (Gram Parsons tribute).
10. Alison Kraus, Forget About It.

A happy and safe holiday season to everyone on the NN.

Dave Gibson

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