// New badge contact, some other news...
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Subject: NN: Mike Chessman takes over badge distribution
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:29:06 GMT
   From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)

Wednesday, I sent my box of NanciNet Badges to Mike Chessman. He will
be taking over distrubution of the current badges.

If anyone had sent me an order and not received the badge(s), please
email me privately at jalvo@mbay.net and I will refund the money sent
in.

Thanks,

john alvord

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Subject: NN: NanciNet Badges clarification
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:25:07 GMT
   From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)

One person pointed out some unclear points.

For people that had ordered badges, they will have to re-order from
Mike. His initial plan was to set up for orders by Nov. 1.

If you had placed an order, please contact me. If there was check in
payment, I will probably tear it up. If you sent cash, I will return
it.

Thanks,
john

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Subject: Re: NN: NanciNet Badges clarification
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:22:24 -0400
   From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>

At 08:25 PM 10/20/00 GMT, John Alvord:
>One person pointed out some unclear points.
>For people that had ordered badges, they will have to re-order from
>Mike. His initial plan was to set up for orders by Nov. 1.

The buttons have arrived from John and I will make a posting just prior to
November 1st letting folks know how they can request Nancinet buttons.
(Please no requests until then!)  I will stick pretty close to the guidlines
given to me by John as that seemed to work to everyone's satisfaction in the
past.

I'm just finishing up mailing out the remaining tapes on my branch of Julie
Broyle's latest PIMTV project.  Once they are at the post office I can
devote my time to the buttons.
  
I want to express a large amount of thanks to John for his long time effort
in distributing the buttons.  I ordered mine years ago and have spotted at
least a few of them at the two Nanci concerts I have been able to attend.  I
think the buttons continue to be a great idea and I'm glad to be able to
help carry on the tradition.

Mike

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Subject: Re: NN: Austinites (non nanci)
   Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:11:19 -0500
   From: Rachel Strain (rjs@mail.utexas.edu>

Lurker rolecall...

I've lived in Austin for over five years now, which puts me, I 
suppose, in the somewhat unique perspective of being a newcomer to 
the town but having been here long enough to have analyzed the 
changes.  So, here are my $.02 worth of observations on the subject.

One's perspective on a "small college town" has to change somewhat 
when the college in question is the largest in the country. The 
University of Texas passed the dreaded 50,000 student mark this 
semester.  Even in a city that's grown to over 1 million, students 
make up a large percentage of the population, if not by actual 
numbers, then by the way they assert their "influence".  Having said 
that, the university has some clout in the city that it certainly 
abuses (or takes advantage of) at times.

In sheer numbers, Austin can no longer be called a small town.  Or 
even a medium town.  We're definitely a city nowadays.  In 1990, 
there were an estimated   500,000 people in Austin.  Since then, that 
number has jumped to well over a million.  Housing is indeed 
crunched.  They estimate it at 98-99% occupancy. Compared to anyplace 
in Texas or around the south, it's very expensive.  Certainly not 
expensive on the scale of Boston or New York, though.  My 2-2 
apartment costs my roommate and me $835, but we're deep in southeast 
Austin, if that gives you any kind of benchmark.

Traffic really is awful.. although I think I've become hardened to 
it. Much-needed construction to the roads messes up driving patterns 
even more.  There's a movement to get light rail running in Austin -- 
needed, in my opinion.

Umm..  all that said, I still love Austin. There's still a musical 
culture here you don't find many places. There's good music playing 
on any given night of the week.  The streets in some neighborhoods 
are still narrow and quiet.  The people are nice.  Except for the 
foreigners (i.e. not from Texas), and they don't count. ;)

Actually, my roommate is a foreigner...  from New York, to be 
precise.  It's been an interesting experience to view this city 
through her eyes.   She's softened a bit... the city has changed her 
much more than she's changed it.  It's heartening, I suppose. :)

In Texas spirit,
Rachel :)

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Subject: NN: Live at the Bluebird
   Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:38:59 -0400
   From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>

"Live at the Bluebird Cafe" on Turner South just keeps getting better and
better. Last night's show featured Kathy Mattea and Cheryl Wheeler. Kathy
opened the show with LATFAD. This show celebrates the songwriters, so they
put both the name of the song and the writer(s) on the screen. Next week
features some fella named Guy Clark. That's Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 8 PM and
repeated at 11 PM- for all you fans of Buffy the vampire Slayer.

>From the Georgia Pines,
Steve Robertson

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Subject: NN: Recommendations
   Date: Thu, 19 Oct 00 21:17:14 +0100
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

After a few hectic weeks on the road again with Kevin Montgomery and Doug 
Pettibone, life is beginning to return to normal. We had the great 
privilege of sharing a live national radio broadcast with Allison Moorer 
last week, then on Sunday night we had ace Nashville songwriter, Suzi 
Ragsdale open for us. What a class act she is. Formerly married to Verlon 
Thompson (sometime Guy Clark collaborator), she is now ploughing a solo 
furrow. If she comes your way be sure to go along, you will not be 
disappointed.

On the cd front, the following is highly recommended:

Sonny Landreth - "Levee Town". Great rockin' bayou music. What a slide 
player. Songs filled with swampy delta imagery. Lovely digipack with 
great lyric booklet, printed in a size that is easy to read, how often 
can you say that.

For UK based Kate Campbell fans, I have been speaking to my close friend 
Graeme Livingstone, and he is in the planning stages of bringing Kate to 
the UK next spring/summer.

John "more as I return to the land of the living" Graveling

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Subject: NN: Don't move to Austin--please!
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:09:46 -0400 (EDT)
   From: bobmcbob@ashley.matchmaker.com

"Bob McConnochie" said:  if I had the chance I'd be delighted
    to move to Austin. I'd rent a small apartment right in the middle
    of it all (on a quiet side-street if possible!). Drive to work - walk to 
    the pub!

Bob, you'd be paying $1,000 a month minimum for that efficiency apartment 
you're dreaming of, though you'd probably have to settle for a condo in the 
$650,000 range to get what you're really talking about.

Austin: Every other block is under construction, traffic is at a standstill, 
the lakes are dried up to a nice shallow muddy mess, Starbucks are popping up 
everywhere, it just keeps getting hotter and more crowded, but you can ride the 
bus for free on the many days when the air quality is so bad they want to bribe 
you to leave the car at home. Did I mention we're also the allergy capital of 
the world?

Another Bob, who keeps procrastinating on printing up that bumpersticker 
"Austin Native & Pissed."

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Subject: NN: Austin, Americana, old Nanci story
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
   From: "Pugsley, R.M." (rmp6@leicester.ac.uk>

Hello all,
 
The talk of Austin piqued (is that right?) my interest and so
I had a look at some webcams - unfortunately it was 3 o'clock
in the morning in Austin and so it was mostly, er, dark. Looks
like they got some nice street lighting though. I suppose I'll have 
to check in again in a few hours.
 
As for Americana (I refuse to put that little TM mark there, how
irritating does that look?), I checked out the website and as far
as I could make out their take on what it is is a somewhat more
mainstream one than I have. Looking at the chart there's a lot of
fine stuff, but over here in the UK what I've been calling Americana
is Lampchop, Calexico, Yo La Tengo and looking back a bit the
Violent Femmes (Did I see them on Sabrina The Teenage Witch
the other day or was I having some kind of a flashback?). I think
it shows how far away from its roots some country music has gone
when Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakam need
another chart (or do they make it onto the country charts as well?)
 
Lastly, and you know I hate to tittle-tattle but, did anyone in the UK
hear Johnny Walker the other night tell of who Nanci was supposed
to be on his show but stormed out (that was his words)? He was
talking to a Nanci fan and she was saying how great she was live when
she saw her and he said that she was doing a soundcheck for him
and he looked up and she was gone and despite chasing after her she
wouldn't come back. He said something like 'in her defence if the sounds 
not right it's not right'. But to be honest my significant other was trying
to cook herself some tea, The Boy was yelling about why it was he
had got it a fight at nursery and I didn't really hear the whole story.
 
OK, that's all. Sorry to have rambled on...
 
Robert (Pugsley)
np: The Clash: London Calling 
nu: The Flatlanders: More a Legend...(now that's what I call Americana!)

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Subject: NN: Re: Graveling's Recommendations
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:53:37 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>

--- John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> On the cd front, the following is highly
> recommended:
> 
> Sonny Landreth - "Levee Town". Great rockin' bayou
> music. 

I second this recommendation.  I knew of Landreth
first beause he plays on John Hiatt's SLOW TURNING. 
Then I caught him performing at the Acadien Festival
last spring.  As John says, a killer slide player.

Reid Mitchell

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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Graveling's Recommendations
   Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:02:28 EDT
   From: Petop@aol.com


(( I knew of Landreth
 first beause he plays on John Hiatt's SLOW TURNING.  >>

I also recommend checking out his "South of I-10" CD.

--------------------------
Pete Oppel
Managing Director
Fairchild/Oppel
A Division of Publicis Dialog

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Subject: NN: Landmine Benefit, Stamford, 12/2
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:02:23 EDT
   From: Rocalittl@aol.com

Hi everyone,

    Was wondering if anyone was looking to, or would be willing to, sell 
their tickets to the Landmine Benefit show in Stamford, Connecticut on Dec. 
2nd. I need a pair of tickets for the opening night of this brief tour, 
featuring Nanci, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, John 
Prine, and Steve Earle. Thanks for any help, and please e-mail me off-list.

                                    ~Lisa Cain

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Subject: NN: Nanci at the Birchmere
   Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:39:05 -0400
   From: James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu (James Troiano)

Hi Folks: I just read in the John Stewart website that Nanci Caroline
will appear with many other guests at the Birchmere on Friday, 12. I
believe  that the Birchmere is in Virginia. The concert is a tribute to
John Stewart.  Amongst others: Buffy Ford, Noel Paul Stookey, Christine
Lavin, Odetta, Nick Reynolds, and one of my favorites, beside Nanci,
Eliza Gilkyson. I am fairly sure that I can't go, but hopefully some
Nancinetters will. John Stewart is a great singer-songwriter and Nanci
has expressed a deep admiration for him. Thank you kindly, Jim

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Subject: NN: SOTSOL
   Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:54:49 +0200
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

Hi all,

Last night I was at a John Prine concert in Brussels and there he did SOTSOL
and I liked his version better as the ones I heard by Nanci live.

See some pics at: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hjanssen/jp/jp.htm

met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.

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Subject: Re: NN: SOTSOL
   Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:25:07 EDT
   From: ELZROSE@aol.com

Thank you for the pictures Hans. You have a very nice collection and I 
enjoyed your site setup. Wish I had been there for the show -- looked like a 
rocking good time.

Always listening for some good "noise."
Elizabeth Rose
San Antonio, Texas

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Subject: Re: NN: SOTSOL
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:20:36 +0200
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

> Thank you for the pictures Hans. You have a very nice collection and I
> enjoyed your site setup. Wish I had been there for the show -- looked like
> a rocking good time.

It was the best or at least one of the best concerts this year. Budy Miller
in March was excellent too and Nanci in the RAH.......................

Hans

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Subject: NN: Eric and Nanci
   Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:13:23 +0200
   From: aequalis@wanadoo.fr

hello from Paris,

Did anybody attend Nanci's show in London in late december 1998? If I
remember well Eric Taylor played with her/opened for her. Anybody attended
the show?

Also I've been looking for pictures of Nanci and Eric together, but could
not find any!

I'll soon be able to scan and post two articles about Eric and Nanci, as
well as Featherbed Records, published in british magazines Omaha Rainbow and
Manana in 1981/82.

I'll keep the list posted.

Merci beaucoup!

herve, Paris Pal

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Subject: Re: NN: Eric and Nanci
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 09:46:31 -0500
   From: Sarah Wrightson (sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>

> Also I've been looking for pictures of Nanci and Eric together, but could
> not find any!

Maybe they would prefer it that way?  I know I wouldn't want to wander
around the internet bumping into photos of myself with an ex anything!  
Maybe its just better to discuss the music and what's public domain and
leave the private to the those who shared it.

Sarah W.

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Subject: NN: hi all - newcomer to the group
   Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:54:51 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Martin Jack (gatesuk@yahoo.com>

Hi all

I'm a newbie here.  So I'd like to see "hi" to the
rest of you, and just announce my presence lol to the
waking world.  

My name is Martin Jack, im 27, and I live on the south
coast of England, where I spend my time writing
poetry, working part-time at a supermarket, and
listening to music from very diverse fields.  

I've only recently started to get into Nanci in any
big way, but I very much like her music, and her
charming look-ins on life.  
Anyway, I wrote this little poem about Nanci, which
was inspired by one of the stories Nanci told about
herself on the live version of "Love at the Five and
Dime" - the one about Woolworths, etc.  

Hope you like this (fingers crossed!)

I may post more poetry on the list from time to time,
if anyone requests it.

Winkin’ in Woolworths
(for Nanci Griffith)

Southern central popcorn cracked
Your dimestore enchantment,
Walnuts whipping a lone star fascination.
Vanilla cools in the icebox,
Austin bakes like a salamander,
Townfolks slithering on the grass sprinklers
Furnishing fountains in child’s play:
Lizard kings swarming in the spray.

You offered the needful boys a wink,
Saving up for dustbowl plastic –
Migrating home
To the welcoming Weavers
Wandering through a transistor blast.
Your muse returns to Woolworths,
Smelling the bubblegum floors,
Waltzing the whitewash to a pineapple shine.

Dig for Woody, dig for Dylan.
Baby blues lighten the load,
Sixty-nine cent acoustics
Are heard in a summer lucidity,
The gravel voice untangling limbs,
Shaking the background hum
To lands of revisited highways and mobiles
That harmonized your wings to fly.

Leaping in Londinium,
Wink at Woolworths in déjà vu,
Objet d’art catching your TV eyes:
The pure plastique
Luring a folkability tune.

And I’ll visualise the dreams in motion,
Spinning tornados in psychokinesis,
Picturing Anderson Fair in sunset pink.
I’ll frame you, Nanci,
The ding-a-ling of tuning forks,
And the elevator ping
Breaking through the neonesque smoke,
Moonbeams on Econoline feet
Rising to a dimestore height.


Take care, Martin.

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Subject: Re: NN: hi all - newcomer to the group
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:27:08 EDT
   From: Poetmuse@aol.com

Hi Martin- and welcome aboard! As the resident poet (and loon..no wait, 
that's Lippert's job.. (grin>) I welcome your poetic attentions to our Miss 
Nanci.  Bravo and fine job. The closest I've come to Nancioetry is a re-write 
of "Wouldn't that Be Fine" from Blue Roses.  You'll find we're a cozy bunch 
with opinions galore on everything.. not just Nanci! A few months from now I 
prophesy you'll be knee deep in Nanci land and loving every minute of it! 

take care!!

-Christina " poetry doesn't pay the bills, but it keeps me sane" Myers

"And with the courage that the lonely or the foolish keep-
I set the clock, turn out the light
and do not dream and do not sleep." June Jordan

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Subject: NN: Austin City Limits
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:06:28 EDT
   From: Tricia9999@aol.com

Just in case anyone is interested and hasn't been keeping track - ACL has 
begun its fall season. This week was/is Kelly Willis. Next week will be 
Shelby Lynne,following week is a tribute to T. Van Zandt. Check your local 
PBS listings.

Tricia

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Subject: NN: Re: Austin City Limits
   Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:53:51 -0500 (CDT)
   From: PhotoTwang@webtv.net (Richard Hill)

Tricia reminded us:
>This week was/is Kelly Willis. Next week will be 
>Shelby Lynne, following week is a tribute to T.
>Van Zandt. Check your local PBS listings.

"Check those local listings" is the key here. PBS stations all have
minds of their own. Where I live, we won't get the Kelly Willis show
'til Nov.5, and Shelby Lynne on Nov.12, etc.
I'd like to further point out that the other half-hour of the Shelby
Lynne edition of ACL will be TONI PRICE!

Pretty decent start to the new season, I'd say!

Richard

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