NanciNet Digest 12-23-99
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Subject: NN: top ten
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:07:39 +0100
From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>
Hi all,
For another list I put my top ten on the net with some soundsamples, you
can listen here:
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hjanssen/topten/1999.htm
met vriendelijke groeten,
Hans Janssen.
see: http://tradefolk.da.ru/
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Subject: Re: NN: Profile of Ashley MacIsaac
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:49:21 EST
From: ECOM1@aol.com
I, too, read the profile of Ashley MacIssac on the New Yorker and was
repulsed by his behavior but also a bit curious. I'm not familiar with his
music but he certainly seems as though he is a completely classless act --
something Nanci certainly isn't. He may be a genius musician, but what a
price to pay for creativity.
Michele G.
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Subject: NN: Re: Re: Profile of Ashley MacIsaac
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:00:49 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
>After all, fiddlers *do* have a
>reputation to live down to you know
Ok, so i am emerging from the frogpond after bein down so long to say,
"WHY?????" why is is that whenever angry fiddlers are mentioned people just
nod kowingly and tip the corners of their mouths slightly as if to
say....."ahhhhhh, a fiddler". Or maybe they jsut know i'm listening in and
that i am the most bad tempred fiddler in the pond....and it'll get me mad.
Hmmm....
Ok, the real reason i posted was....to say how great lucy kaplansky's show
was last sunday. excellent. the best. ever. amazing. wonderfully
spendiferous. Thanks to eveyrone who tlaked about her on the list coupla
years ago and made me go listen. i've been hooked ever since.
jenny*
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Re: Profile of Ashley MacIsaac
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:50:46 -0500 (EST)
From: VickiStein@aol.com
In a message dated 12/22/99 9:55:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jenny.frog@virgin.net writes:
(( "WHY?????" why is is that whenever angry fiddlers are mentioned people just
nod kowingly and tip the corners of their mouths slightly as if to
say....."ahhhhhh, a fiddler". Or maybe they jsut know i'm listening in and
that i am the most bad tempred fiddler in the pond.. >>
I am following this thread with interest, and I totally respect what you all
are saying about the inappropriate behavior of Ashley MacIsaac. However, I
come from the angle that we, collectively or separately, have no power over
A.M.'s change in behavior. Even if a group were to boycott the artist,
unless the artist really gave a hoot and wanted to change, it would be
meaningless. My point is simply that Ashley MacIsaac is Ashley MacIsaac, on
many occasions rude, lewd, irreverant. I don't have to like it, but I can
"let it go" and not pay attention.
I apologize if I sound too preachy or even too 12-Step"ish" here ~ it's just
that...why waste the energy?
And Jenny, you tempermental fiddlers! (Just teasing you!) Why, I have a
friend, here, in the midwest, who is arguably one of the best fiddle players
in a two or three state region, and he can be as cantankerous, angry, and
lively, and I hate to say, more rowdy and lewd (and stupid, too) than any cad
I've ever known, but darned if he is not as interesting, intelligent, and as
insightful as Moses, at least sometimes. And kind as the Mississippi wide,
when he wants to be, or needs to be. Though, I don't think that "the"
emotion is given as a gift just to gifted fiddle players...anyone with a
serious artistic bent, I think, may be prone to emotional outbursts, negative
or positive ~ the desire to create something "perfect/transcendant" coupled
with the reality of human imperfection creates an exotic environment.
Sometimes great, sometimes...awful. Always interesting.
Anyway, the point of this post is not about stereotyping fiddle players,
good, bad, or ugly. It's just that if we hear something that doesn't suit us,
better for us to aim toward the mark of letting it go....(However, I am as
guilty as the next about steaming up like a boiler when that rare and tender
thorn gets under my craw...). Interesting, it is, that we all have triggers
others can pull.
Peace, and flame me if you wish....(but heck, don't, you won't get a
Christmas pudding for your efforts, just a little green and red dancing
internet elf under the mistletoe begging for a kiss, and settling for
peace)...
Peace,
Vicki
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Subject: NN: Re: Top Ten
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:18:59 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
>Mogwai - Come On Die Young
>I think postrock might just be heading down a dead end but in the meantime,
>Scotlands finest slow burning quiet-then-loud-then-quiet-again band...
Oh my god, Mogwai??? Y'know what....i did work experience through my school
with the scottish music information centre and while i was there one of my
tasks was to decide what mogwai track to put on this sampler they were
producing....sorry, yup, ok, back to the on-topic stuff...
jenny*
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Subject: NN: Re: NanciNet #99C07
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:20:00 EST
From: PHHCIO@aol.com
Try Steve McDonald's "Stone of Destiny" and "Sons of Somerled" You won't be
sorry!
Dave
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Subject: Re: NN: The NPR poll
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:26:53 EST
From: VickiStein@aol.com
kimbro@planetc.com writes:
(( Nope,
I gotta believe there was some editing in that process somewhere. >>
I just went over that list for the fifth time since Monday, and I feel you
are right. It is too contrived. The American Musicals, alone, listed, are
enough to create suspicion.....
The beauty of NPR is that it is NPR....
Peace and Happy Holidays, for those of you who celebrate...
V
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Subject: NN: moon river
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:43:20 -0500
From: "Robert Arl." (rtaafa@isoc.net>
Bob and all,
So more Moon River fans! It is, of course, my favorite song. And
Breakfast at Tiffany's is my favorite movie (was recently given the DVD...
Audrey strumming and singing still makes me cry, and the final scene in the
rain is gorgeous). I consider Johnny Mercer one of the 20th centuries best
lyricist. "Laura" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "Fools Rush In" "One For my
Baby" '"That Old Black Magic", etc., are also great songs. Composers who
worked with Johnny say he always brought out the best in them.
I have a long history with Moon River:
1) My wife and I danced to the song at our wedding a little over 18 years
ago. So I also consider it my favorite love song.... and Annette and I
are two drifters...
2) My children know the song well since I sing it to them whenever they
need to be comforted (also sing "Sweet Baby James"... go figure!)
3) At the last Kentucky Folk Festival, I asked Pete & Maura Kennedy to
play the song as a surprise for my wife. Pete did a wonderful guitar
version, but Maura wouldn't sing it saying she had tried to once in Kansas
but it made her cry.
Although the more famous recordings of this song were done by men, I think
it is better suited for a woman's voice. Mary Black's version is ok, but
the recording is a little distorted. I would love to hear nanci sing this
song in a tempo similar to "San Diego Serenade."
I'm going to wake Annette now.. Sing Moon River to her.. And see what
happens *S*
Robert
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Subject: NN: Hell Among The Yearlings (was: Profile of Ashley MacIsaac)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:33:12 -0500
From: Shawn Kimbro (kimbro@planetc.com>
Jenny asks:
> "WHY?????" why is is that whenever angry fiddlers are
> mentioned people just nod kowingly and tip the corners
> of their mouths slightly as if to say....."ahhhhhh, a
> fiddler".
Dearest Jenny --
So you are a yearling fiddler? My guess is that you're a pretty good
one too. Well, here's the answer to your question that every Southern
Baptist preacher knows. It all starts with the chin rest. Never, ever
buy one and attach it to your fiddle. Take my word for it, just don't.
Oh, you say you already have? Poor dear. Then you may already know a
little of what happens to fiddlers to make them such social outcasts.
It's the addictive sensation created when the instrument contacts the
chin. It might be okay if you stick with "Ashokan Farewell" or "Sail
Away Ladies." But once you start sawing on "Old Joe Clark" or "Devil in
the Kitchen," you're hooked. You see, on those hell-for-leather
breakdowns, a well-rosined bow zipping across tightly stretched strings
causes the curly maple to vibrate at a frequency previously unrecorded
in physics. The lightening-fast rattle-and-hum moves through the chin
rest to the mastoid bone which conducts it up around the skull thus
insulating the brain with supersonic seismic waves of disastrous
magnitude. Brain cells start dying like fruit-flies and the fiddler
takes on a far-away, wistful expression. In most cases speech is
slurred, the corners of the mouth turn up, and little drops of drool
drip perpetually down the chin. Fiddlers try to play all the time so
they don't work much. Even when they aren't playing the stuporous look
remains and they begin to spend every waking hour attempting to recreate
the vibratory euphoria with all manner of vice. Once the progression
begins, it's just a matter of degrees until they're written up as the
devil incarnate in some stuffy New York magazine.
Warm Regards,
-Shawn
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Subject: NN: Moon River and more
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:05:45 EST
From: HenryJG@aol.com
Re Bob's post and Moon River.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is my all-time favorite movie, and yes I would love to
near Nanci do "Moon River" (which I agree is one of the best songs of the
century). Bob's post reminded me of another song that I've been thinking how
I'd love to hear Nanci sing (pardon the early morning syntax)--"Tonight,
Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins. It sounds just like something Nanci could
have written, and I'd love to see what she would do with it.
John Gutierrez
Biloxi, Miss.
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Subject: NN: top 10 list
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:17:14 -0500
From: moores@washpost.com
Culled from some three dozen contenders, my list features a number of
independent artists. Most were bought directly from the performers. (Watch
for their shows, or seek them out on the 'Net.)
Dan Pelletier -- Mr. Sunshine. (Eye-opening songs, usually with a demented
twist. Also features a great John Sebastian harmonica riff.)
Cheryl Wheeler -- Sylvia Hotel. (Rounder Records promoted the anti-gun "If
It Were Up to Me," but nearly every song on this album is effecting in some
way.)
Vonda Shepard -- By 7:30. ("Ally McBeal" singer returns to her folk-rock
roots.)
Eric Schwartz-- How It's Gonna Be. (Demented looks at life in New York ---
is that redundant?)
Ben Murray/Siobhan Quinn -- Two Rivers. (Powerful voices shine on
lesser-known tunes from the likes of Cheryl Wheeler and Erica Wheeler.)
Mary Gauthier -- Drag Queens in Limosines. (Steve Earle fans take note.)
James Keelaghan -- Road. (A master at taking obscure historical events and
making them personal and relevant.)
Barton and Sweeney -- On the Timeline. (Kerrville Folk Fest faves; "Safer
Haven" alone is worth the price.)
Amy Fradon -- Passion Angels. (Wow: this New England voice teacher
obviously has taught herself well.)
The Grandsons -- Pan American Shindig. (Formerly the Grandsons of the
Pioneers; a clever blend of New Orleans R&B, swing, and country two-steps.)
Honorable mentions: Alison Krauss, Forget About It; Cliff Eberhardt,
Borders; Bill Parsons, Special Delivery.
Eagerly anticipated in early 2000: Small Potatoes, Dance of the
Wallflowers; Hot Soup!, Soup Happens.
Scott Moore
http://www.erols.com/mooresp
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