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// This digest contains most messages from Tuesday, 2/16, through
// the morning of Friday, 2/19. 
// We talk about Vince Bell, Steve Earle, and Stacie Earle. 
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Subject: NN: Clear Lake, Ia
   From: Greg Johnson (gregor@computerpro.com>

I was at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on Saturday Feb. 6th and saw
Nanci looking terrific.  She looked healthy and sounded great when she came
out as "Surprise Guest" of The Crickets.  I have never seen her playing
"second fiddle" except occasionally on her own tours with other guests.  She
was very respectful and didn't upstage anybody as we would all expect.  In
fact, she would barely smile at anyone in the audience out of respect for The
Crickets.

The opportunity to see her there would never have happened for me if it hadn't
been for a wonderful, trusting woman who had never met me, yet bought me a
ticket several weeks before the show.  She is Susan Klemme of Ames, Iowa.  We
met before the show for pizza and went there together.  We had to wait until
after midnight when all the other acts were done and The Crickets came out. 
WE still had to wait for Nanci, but she was well worth it.  It was especially
good  to see her looking healthy and happy.

She swore blue jeans and a white blouse with a fine brown leather jacket.
The only guitar she used was her blue Taylor.

Thank you, Susan, for the ticket (of course, I paid her for it) and for the
good company.  We fell in just like old chums with Nanci in common.

Bye all,
Gregor


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Subject: NN: Nanci in Austin in May tickets
   From: toverton@tpoint.net

Hi Nanci Netters!
The full scoop on Nanci tickets is in!  They finally decided how they
were going to sell the tickets.  Tickets go on sale here Tuesday
2/23/99 at 9:00a.m.  The phone number to call is
888-4MAESTRO to buy the tickets.  Or the lady said people can
go to their website at www.AustinSymphony.org (with no ability to
specify which seats you get, though).

I tried to get them to let us hold a block of tickets for the Nanci
Netters (with Netters calling in to buy from that block individually)
so that we could all sit together down in front.  But to do that
I would've had to buy the whole block myself, and then resell
them to all the Netters.  So many people responded to my offer
to buy tickets that it would have been more than I could have
handled (at $30 a pop down in front the cost added up fast).

I will be going down to buy my tickets at 9:00a.m.on Tuesday.  I
would like to see if I can trade a ticket or tickets to the show to
any Netter for a cop of the tape of Nanci's "One Fair Summer's
Evening" concert in Houston.  Are there any takers for that?  If
so reply back to me by Monday 2/22/99 at 8:00am so I can
reserve the tickets down in front.

Maybe we should have a get together before the show.
            TomO



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Subject: NN: Recommendation
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

I've been away for 5 days, but not too far from the record stores of 
London. I took the opportunity to buy, Stacey Earle's "Simple Gearle". 
Anyone who loved early period Nanci, the folk years, and Iris DeMent, 
will fall in love with this record. Stacey is of course Steve's younger 
sister, and her words are marvellous, the arrangements sparse and the feel 
is just awesome.

I cannot recommend this cd highly enough, despite the fact that I've only 
had the opportunity to play it once. Do yourselves a favour go out and 
buy it immediately.

John "crying his heart out" Graveling.


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Subject: NN: Re: Recommendation
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@mail.dotcom.fr>

I can agree with John about Stacey, I've listened more than once. I bought
the CD in December during a concert from Stacey in Brussels and she is
really great. Actually I had a tape one month before that  already. The
concert from Stacey in the Thunderbird Cafi in Brussels was great.

See the photos at: http://freeusers.digibel.be/~musical/stacey1.htm

Not only photos but also an interview with Stacey and twp live songs from
VPRO-radio.


met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.



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Subject: NN: Thinking caps
   From: "Panchyshyn,Roman" (panchysr@oclc.org>

Fellow NNers,
Nice to see that Nanci's album received one of the Nashville music awards.
Now, if there are those out there who can put their 1970's thinking caps on,
I have a music lyric question. I vaguely remember a song from back in the
70's, I think, whose lyrics went something along this line:
"Funny how the circle is a wheel, and it can steal someone who is a friend"
Anyone out there have a clue as to what song this is? For some reason the
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band comes to mind, but I can't associate these lyrics
with any title.
Expiring minds want to know!

Roman



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Subject: Re: NN: Thinking caps
   From: PRobin5478@aol.com

Dear Roman:

The song you're try to think of ("Funny how the circle is a wheel / It can
steal / Someone who is a friend ... ") is by the Byrds, from the "reunion"
album with McGuinn, Crosby, Gene Clark, etc., and I think it was called "Full
Circle."  (They had to reunite for legal reasons, I believe, to reclaim the
Byrds name.  But the album was a bust.)

See you guys on-line.

Peter in SoCal


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Subject: Re: NN: Thinking caps
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

"Full Circle" by The Byrds, on their 1973 reunion album. It's the first 
track and was written by Gene Clark.

John "always trying to be of help" Graveling.


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Subject: NN: More recommendations
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

Having bought some 8 cds in the last week, it has taken me some time to 
get through them all. I have bought a wide variety of stuff, from the 
gentile folk of Stacey Earle, to the cutting edge singer songwriting of 
Vince Bell, to the rockin' Mary Cutrufello, to the excellent, Todd 
Thibaud and Jennifer Knapp releases.

To afficianados of Texan songwriting, Townes, Guy, Lyle, Robert Earl, add 
the name of Vince Bell, his new release, "Texas Plates", is well worth 
serious investigation. He has a slightly gruff voice, but the 
arrangements are beautiful and enhance the poetic lilt of the lyrics. 
It's an odd cd, in as much as my early impressions are that the last four 
tracks are staggering. Normally artists put the best, most immediate 
tracks on early in the running order, but Vince is different. Perhaps, on 
reflection, it's me who is different. "Have Not, Will Travel", "The 
Fair", "100 Miles From Mexico" and the stunning finale, "Last Dance At 
The Last Chance", are songs of the highest calibre. This is a work of art 
which will take time to seep into the system, but for those who like 
their music real, songs that tell a tale, and unveil their charms over a 
period of time, this cd is a must.

John "only trying to enhance everyone's listening" Graveling.


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Subject: Re: NN: More recommendations
   From: Petop@aol.com

John Graveling writes:

(( from the 
 gentile folk of Stacey Earle, >>

This phrase really made me laugh; I guess this means I should not play this
CD during my next Passover seder.


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Subject: NN: Texas Plates
   From: dan.gerson@McKesson.com

John "only trying to enhance everyone's listening" Graveling wrote:

>To afficianados of Texan songwriting, Townes, Guy, Lyle, Robert Earl,
>add the name of Vince Bell, his new release, "Texas Plates", is well
>worth serious investigation. He has a slightly gruff voice, but the
>arrangements are beautiful and enhance the poetic lilt of the lyrics.

     Hearty agreement here. As for the "gruff voice" - give me a voice with
     character any time. Apparently the sarcasm in my recent post about
     Michael Jackson and Alan Jackson (whose voices have about as much
     character as Ken Starr and Clinton) was missed (as my sarcasm often
     is. I'm really a nice guy). Bell's voice has the character that
     usually comes with experience, and that's something that can't be
     faked and adds immeasurably to the experience I have when I listen.
     Whether it's somebody like Jonell Mosser or Kate Wolf or Dave Alvin or
     Mr. Bell, it adds so much.

     Put me on the list as one who highly recommends Texas Plates.


     Dan G.


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Subject: Re: NN: More recommendations
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@mail.dotcom.fr>


Another recommendation:

Terri Hendrix - Wilory Farm.

Her self released second album. This a great CD with nothing but good songs.
I can get it at:

http://www.terrihendrix.com/ and http://villagerecords.com/


met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.

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Subject: NN: Nanci on vinyl & Gillian Welch / Dave Rawlings
   From: aross@hitachi-eu.com (Andrew-HMSE Ross)

Hi fellow Nancinutters,

For 12" album collectors a UK company is selling the following on new vinyl:-
Nanci - STORMS for 20 UK pounds + postage.
Joni Mitchell - Blue, Court & Spark, Ladies of the canyon
Mary Black - 8 albums lists listed @ 15 quid each
The Roches - Roches (first album from 1979?)
Not much else of the "folky variety" is listed.
The supplier is MOTH GROUP on   +44 (0)1234 741152  &  mothgroup@mcmail.com

I have to report that Nanci was recently knocked of her perch (stone the 
heretic) when I saw Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings in London 2 weeks ago.  If 
you think the albums sound depressing, you'll have to see them live as they 
are anything but. Dave's playing really has to be seen to be appreciated.
'T was my favourite gig to date.  Sorry Nanci...

Cheers
Andy  (now where did I put that banjo?)



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Subject: NN: Eric Anderson tickets
   From: Marilyn Silver (hmsilver@erols.com>

Folks:

Anybody on the list from the DC area interested in two tickets to the
Eric Anderson concert at the Barns at Wolf Trap on Thursday, March 11. 
They are 5th row center and cost $12 each.

Please email privately:  hmsilver@erols.com

Thanks.

Howard Silver


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Subject: NN: Mining Songs
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

Thought that [you folks] would like the review of STEVE EARLE & 
THE DEL McCOURY BAND, that appeared in today's Independent newspaper, 
here in England.

The late nineties have been something of a golden period for Steve Earle: 
this is his fourth album in as many years, and all have been decent 
efforts.
"The Mountain" is no exception, offering a stream of agreeable surprises 
at the way Earle's weather beaten, rock-inflected country, dovetails so 
neatly into the frisky playing of the McCoury brothers award winning 
bluegrass outfit. They are in perfect equilibrium on "Yours Forever 
Blue", a womaniser's
mea culpa, in which Earle's weary drawl leans comfortably against 
mandolin and fiddle, while there's a manic grace to the more up tempo 
numbers such as "Leroy's Dustbowl Blues" which dashes along regardless of 
it's sombre subject matter.
The album's centre-piece comprises a pair of mining songs, "Harlan Man" 
and "The Mountain". It is not an optimistic picture: where the Harlan Man 
hopes to be a miner as long as his luck and his lungs hold out, the old 
timer in "The Mountain" provides a more sober overview.
"There's a chill in the air only miners can feel/There's ghosts in the 
tunnels that the company sealed"

John "knows Shawn loves his tales of mining" Graveling.


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Subject: NN: Poetic Licence
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

There are many occassions when songwriters take poetic licence. 
When they play geographic games however, it does throw the more naive of 
us, some of the time.
On my first visit to Texas, back in '91, I walked up Congress Avenue, to 
the corner of Sixth and wondered where Woolworths had gone. Little did I 
know that it had disappeared years before I got the chance to see for 
myself. Another Woolworth store had vanished, that on the cover of "Last 
Of The True Believers", taken, supposedly outside the store on Church 
Street in Nashville. Gone again before I could set eyes on the place.
It would be interesting to hear from two of our writers who read our 
mail, namely Tricia Walker and Vince Bell, how much poetic licence they 
take, especially where geography and places are concerned, do those 
Highways always run where the songs tell us they do? I'd love to read 
what they have to say, especially as the first track on Vince's "Texas 
Plates" is called "Poetry,Texas".
Finally would anyone argue with me that Baton Rouge has replaced Memphis 
as the most mentioned place in latter day songwriting. It sounds idyllic, 
but having driven through it, it's a clean enough, but typical river-port 
town.

John "just trying to stimulate some thoughts out there" Graveling.


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Subject: NN: Simple Gearle
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

As I raved about this cd so much, I thought I'd tickle everyone's taste 
buds with this review, from The Independent newspaper.

STACEY EARLE "Simple Gearle"

It could hardly be said that Stacey Earle was riding on the back of big 
brother Steve's celebrity-if that were the case she surely would have 
done it before she got to be 37, rather than running away from home, 
getting married and having kids before she was out of her teens, which is 
what she wound up doing.
The cover of her self-released debut signals her intentions through its 
deliberate echo of Gillian Welch's "Revival", but while there's an 
engaging simplicity to her gentle country-rock arrangements, she lacks 
Welch's way with portents and archetypes-and she sounds more like Nanci 
Griffith anyway. Like brother Steve, Stacey has, lived a little, and it's 
that life she draws on in her songs. These are plainly wrought tales of 
small lives and small mercies-of weddings and separations, of dead-end 
jobs and weekend escapes, of being so lonely you're driven to seek refuge 
in a supermarket-told in a casual, conversational style which, at best, 
resembles, "Ode To Billie Joe". A promising first collection, though 
Stacey needs to develop a more distinctive, individual voice.

Hope that is enough to make people want to give it a listen, it's well 
worth the effort, and better than the review suggests.

John "but no mining songs, Shawn" Graveling.


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Subject: NN: Blue Moon (last time)
   From: Kenn Lippert (lippert@fyi.net>

Last time i mention it...

http://www.skypub.com/sights/moonplanets/mar99bluemoon.html

kenn "Eridanus" lippert
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| http://www.fyi.net/~lippert   Though my soul may set in darkness,     |
|                               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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