NanciNet Digest 1-06-00
// Happy 12th Night. Or Epiphany. Or whatever...
// Enjoy...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Braggin' bout my tape exchange!
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:39:08 EST
From: ChocChippy@aol.com
Got into the office after the holidays today to find a padded mailer
containing my TWO CD-SET of wonderful music from the lovely & talented Sue
Peete.
The cover features the Guitar with Rose and blue moon NanciNet logo, and the
title "Holiday Tape Exchange 1999". Inside, each CD is inscribed with "Some
Favorites From Susan To Kathleen".
Artists included are: Patty Larkin, Susan Werner, Dee Carstensen, Gillian
Welch, Eddie From Ohio, (LOTS of him), James McMurtry, Pure Prairie League
(Amie! Yes!) and Procol Harum.
What can I say but WOW! I am the luckiest grrl on the Nancinet.
Kathleen W.
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Subject: NN: Re:Braggin' bout my tape exchange!
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:21:13 -0800
From: Susan Peete (suepeete@cruzio.com>
At 12:39 AM 1/4/00 EST, you wrote:
>Got into the office after the holidays today to find a padded mailer
>containing my TWO CD-SET of wonderful music from the lovely & talented Sue
>Peete.
I'll accept the "lovely" but the "talented", well...that remains to be seen.
>The cover features the Guitar with Rose and blue moon NanciNet logo, and the
>title "Holiday Tape Exchange 1999". Inside, each CD is inscribed with "Some
>Favorites From Susan To Kathleen".
The talented artist for the NanciNet logo is Michael Cogliandro. I'm good at
picking out songs though :-)
>Artists included are: Patty Larkin, Susan Werner, Dee Carstensen, Gillian
>Welch, Eddie From Ohio, (LOTS of him), James McMurtry, Pure Prairie League
>(Amie! Yes!) and Procol Harum.
Well...I had to end the show with A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
Thanks Kathleen for the kind words.
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Cheers
Sue
Subject: NN: Re: Braggin' bout my tape exchange!
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:21:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
SOunds like an excellent tape!!!
>Artists included are: (snippety> James McMurtry
Does anybody know anything more about him other than the fact that he's
larry's son and nanci knows him??? The reason is that lucy k was talking
about wanting to work with him...
Oh, and that chieftains cd with nanci reading??? I think i'll get my dad
that for his birthday, seein as how he LOVES her voice and all....He took me
to see flyer for my 11th and swore he would never go again after she opened
her mouth....hhehehe
jenny*
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Subject: NN: RE: E-Town appearance
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 22:02:26 -0800
From: "Susan Krauss" (susankrauss@earthlink.net>
The ETown with Nanci and Matthew Ryan was taped in August of , was it 1997?.
A bunch of Nancinuts were in the audience since we'd all gone to Colorado to
see Nanci at the Folks Festival.
By the way, I can't seem to find the Friends Out of the Madness Page. I
thought it'd moved to the Peete's site but I'm getting an error message.
susan
mailto:susankrauss@earthlink.net
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Subject: NN: Shameless self promo:
Help Kathleen Become a Real New York Playwright!
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:55:13 EST
From: ChocChippy@aol.com
Here's the deal:
I'm having a play produced in the Turnip Theater 15-Minute Play Festival this
February. It's my little ditty entitled "I'm Gonna Runaway" on Thursday,
February 17, at The Studio, 145 W. 46th St. at 8 pm. It's about rock and roll.
And it's not just a festival...it's a CONTEST. In the good old American way,
the audience chooses a winner each night, with the winner advancing to a
four-night run, and possible cash prizes!
Therefore, I'm asking my friends, colleagues, cohorts and fellow Jettheads to
1) make a reservation to attend; 2) actually show up; and 3) vote for my play.
Here's the info:
The Studio Theatre, 145 W. 46th St.
Reservations: (212) 768-4016
Reservations can also be made on the web at Ticketweb(/A>.
Tickets are $12, TDF accepted.
Thank you in advance!
Kathleen
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Subject: NN: RE: Pete Seeger
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:10:04 -0500
From: "Panchyshyn,Roman" (panchysr@oclc.org>
My favorite memories of Pete Seeger go back to my late teens. They were the
ones associated with the Clearwater sloop restoration project, which
happened sometime in the early 70's, during those wonderful Nixon years. To
the establishment folks, Pete was still pretty much of a pariah, blacklisted
as part of the Weavers and condemned as anti-American for writing songs
against Vietnam like Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Uncle Ho. Seeger's
project was to restore a 19th century sailing ship, and sail it down the
Hudson River in New York state, stopping at various points along the shore
to give concerts, for free I believe, and raise awareness of the pollution
problems in the river. At the time, the Hudson was so bad it probably would
have caught fire if you threw a match in it, like the Cuyahoga did in
Cleveland.
PBS (which in my opinion was a much better "independent" public network in
those days than now), broadcasted several of these stops and shows, they
were a delight to watch. I'd like to see PBS resurrect some of these tapes,
because they were excellent. Among the participants I can remember were
Brother Fred Kirkpatrick, who sang black spirituals and folk songs, and
(here's the Nanci connection), a very young Don McLean. The sight of these
"hippies and communists", during the Nixon years, stopping in towns in
upstate New York and telling folks to stop fighting the war and to clean up
the river, made you feel proud to be an American. Does anyone here know if
those PBS shows still exist?
Roman from soggy and wet Ohio
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Subject: NN: Robt. Earl Keen
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:50:48 -0600
From: Michael Wilt (mwilt@smp.org>
Griffsters--
I thought I'd pop in for a moment and offer new year's greetings to you all
and especially to all the Y2K debuggers in the audience; I must admit I was
glad that the world did not go kerflooey at the stroke of midnight (though
there are certain pockets of existence where kerflooey would have been an
improvement), and especially that the heat and electricity did not disappear
up here in shivery Minnesota. I hope these are signs of good things to come,
especially because '99 was troublesome at best despite some marvelous
highlights.
But back to the topic: I just wanted to let you know that there's a fine
article called "The Singer" by Stephen Hendricks in the current (Winter
2000) issue of DoubleTake Magazine; it profiles Robert Earl Keen--where he's
been in his career and where he is now. Lots of good things are said about
Robert Earl's writerly abilities, and there are significant mentions of
colleagues Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, and Steve Earle. How's this for an
assessment of Nashville: "Nashville has become a synecdoche in the same way
that Orlando and Levittown and Redmond are synecdoches, emblems of a
reasonable urge gone unreasonably, Americanly awry." And then there's this
observation:
"For a brief moment in the 1980s, Robert believed Nashville might take a
different direction: 'It was a real weird time in country music. The
urban-cowboy thing had fallen off and they were in the midst of Lee
Greenwood, but they needed some edge stuff and they went and signed Lyle and
Nanci and all those people and some other people who were rough-edged. I
always thought I was right here at the right time and just couldn't get to
them. The thing is, those guys who got signed knew what they were doing. I
didn't.'"
Anyway, DoubleTake is available at your "better" newsstands ($10 US). They
also have a website (www.doubletakemagazine.org) but this issue is not
excerpted there as of this morning.
See ya,
Michael "I have too many magazine subscriptions" Wilt
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Subject: NN: Nanci's Grammy nomination
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:31:09 EST
From: HenryJG@aol.com
I was surprised to see this in the Grammy nominations announced today. I
haven't even heard about this. Can someone fill me in or give a review?
Category 68 - Best Spoken Word Album
(Narrated/dramatized books include authors' names in
parentheses for identification.) Albums only.
Nominees
1.The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
LeVar Burton
[Time Warner Audiobooks]
2.The Chieftains - The Authorized Biography (John
Glatt)
Nanci Griffith
[The Publishing Mills]
3.The Diaries Of Adam & Eve: Translated By Mark
Twain
Betty Buckley & Mandy Patinkin With Walter Cronkite
[Fair Oaks Audio]
4.Merle Haggard's My House Of Memories - For The
Record (Merle Haggard With Tom Carter)
Merle Haggard
[Harper Audio]
5.'Tis (Frank McCourt)
Frank McCourt
[Simon and Schuster Audio]
Cheers,
john G.
Biloxi
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci's Grammy nomination
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 22:27:29 -0500
From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>
At 12:31 PM 01/04/2000 EST, John wrote:
>I was surprised to see this in the Grammy nominations announced today. I
>haven't even heard about this. Can someone fill me in or give a review?
>Category 68 - Best Spoken Word Album
This is a four CD set with Nanci reading excerpts from an authorized
biography. She does add some personal comments when she discusses projects
like "An Irish Evening. She basically performed "Red Is The Rose" cold
without a chance to rehearse with the Chieftains. Amazing!
The set is a wonderful item and will give you great insight into the
Chieftains and their success.
Mike
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Subject: NN: Nanci/Chieftains
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:32:32 -0600
From: Michael Wilt (mwilt@smp.org>
Griffsters--
Two posts in one day, oy!
I'm just paging through the Dec. 6, 1999 issue of Publishers Weekly, and
among the audio book reviews I find:
The Chieftains
by John Glatt. Read by Nanci Griffith.
Publishing Mills. Four CDs, 4 hrs., $35, ISBN 1-57511-043-1
It appears to be an audiobook with music (based on a 1997 book), a biography
of the Chieftains, with interviews with lots of folks who've worked with the
Chieftains (that means everyone but me, though I did bump into them at the
Mpls airport one morning a couple years ago). From the PW review: "Reading
is folky songstress Griffith, who herself has sung with the group and whose
earthy and appreciative take lends fresh air to the production."
Just thought you'd be interested. Think I'll stop by my local independent
bookstore tonight!
Michael Wilt
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Subject: NN: Just to let you know
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 00 22:31:48 +0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
The cd I had at joint number one in my year end list, "Another Long Story" is
now available through the artist's own website:
http:\\www.kevinmontgomery.com
There are also sound bites available if you follow the links to his mp3 site.
If you live in the UK, I am distributing the product, and it is cheaper than
ordering direct from the website. Cost here in the UK is £10, which includes
post and packing.
Hope everyone had a good New Year, and I'm looking forward to another year of
good dialogue and meeting more of you, in person, as 2000 progresses.
Take care, one and all.
John Graveling
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Subject: NN: Top 10 for 1999
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 23:16:33 +0000
From: Paul Reeve (paul@preeve.clara.co.uk>
...well it would be if I'd bought 10 CD's in 99 that were released in
99!
In no particular order
Dust bowl symphony Nanci (thanks Paul!, still listening)
Sleepless Kate Rusby
Party Doll Mary Chapin Carpenter
Western Wall Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt
Rosaryville Kate Campbell (bought solely on
recommendations from NN - excellent)
Fly Dixiechicks
Forget about it Alison Krauss
and Eliza Carthy's latest which I can't remember the title of );
Some of these are only on the wish list at present but I do still have
some Christmas money to spend and hope to get to Virgin in London soon
as they've got Western Wall and at least one other I want on offer at
22ukp for 2. Mind you its sometimes cheaper to order from CDnow!
A reminder to folks in the UK that Bob Harris is doing a Nanci special
soon
All the best for the new year/century/millennium (delete as applicable)
Paul
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Subject: NN: Top Ten of 1999
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:02:01 EST
From: Annavedo@aol.com
Hey Netters,
Christmas was a disappointment for me music-wise, so it seems I could just as
well have turned in my top ten list beforehand. Here it is; no particular
order:
1. Phil Collins; soundtrack from "Tarzan"
2. Santana; "Supernatural"
3. Nanci; "DBS"
4. Harris, Ronstadt & Parton; "Trio II"
5. Sarah Brightman; "Eden"
6. Alison Krauss; "Forget About It" (this is definitely my year's favorite!)
7. Chieftains; "Tears of Stone"
8. Dolly Parton; "The Grass Is Blue"
9. Celine Dion; "All The Way - A Decade of Song"
10. John Hiatt; "Greatest Hits - The A & M Years, 87-94"
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Subject: NN: Top Ten of 1999
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:15:53 -0500 (EST)
From: nkn (jessiev@azstarnet.com>
Better late than never, one hopes, my top ten list. With some entries I've
not seen noted elsewhere. Perhaps something new for some of you to consider?
In no particular order, cuz somehow saying X is better than Y just doesn't
work for me when dealing with such different genres:
Bitter Sweet Blue - Gaye Adegbalola
Gaye is best known for her work with 'Saffire - the Uppity Blues Women.
And she's quite wonderful! Some rather traditional sounding blues here, but
by and large these are original compositions that to me are more popular
music than blues. The last five cuts, each in its own way, are socks
knockers.
Swan Song - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
The last recording by the quintessential Q'walli Sufi, a live recording
of a concert in Pakistan. Now I'll admit that Nusrat is an acquired taste,
but once one grows accustomed to the rather unique sound, 'hooked' doesn't
begin to describe it. This music is absolutely mesmerizing, and this double
album has just a touch of Western influence, making his work more accessible
to more people. It is indeed transforming!
Tucson Sessions - Emmylou and Linda
No need to say much about this one, I reckon. It's shown up on more than
one list and much better reviewers than I profess to be have praised it.
Good stuff, albeit with an edge of a dark tone that seems to have surprised
some. But oh, how they do sound together. Yum!
Tears of Stone - Chieftains
This too has shown up on several folks favorite lists. A really sweetly
done marriage of some of the best contemporary women artists from all over
the world with traditional Irish music, Tears of Stone has some wonderful
moments. Bonnie Raitt's (who knew she could sing in Gallic??) version of 'A
Stor Mo Chroi' is simply stunning, as is Joni Mitchell's (where's she been
hiding that chest voice???) 'Magdelene Laundries'. Natalie Merchant, The
Rankins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Loreena McKennitt are among the women
who make this such a special album, and one that's played again and again in
this household.
Cafe Atlantico - Cesaria Evora
The native of Cabo Verde, she of the beeeeg voice and maybe the best back
up band I've heard all year, this time attacks Cuban and Brazilian
traditionals rather than her previous collections of the Portuguese
influenced song form called morna. And it's wonderful! We were lucky enuff
to see her at the beginning of her North American tour, and she's an amazing
performer. Amazon.com reviewers call her 'the greatest living singer today'
- not nearly the exaggeration one might think. If you like the sound of a
voice like slow dripping honey doing music that simply does not allow for
non-tapping toes, and you don't already know Cesaria, *do* check her out.
Dust Bowl Symphony - Nanci Griffith
Well, what can one say? I think the arrangements are brilliant, offering
yet another perspective to some great tunes. And the two new songs are just
fine! Surely any Nanci fan has to have this one.
Maori Songs - Kiri te Kanewa
I too am reading _Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy_, Robert Jourdain's
discussion of 'How Music Captures Our Imaginations' (thanks for the
recommendation, whoever that was), trying to gain some insight into why one
particular voice might move one. For me, one of those voices is of the
soprano Kiri te Kanewa. What it is about her particular instrument that
makes the wee hairs stand at attention, metaphorically speaking, I don't
quite know. I only know it does. This album is of traditional Maori songs,
the music with which te Kanewa grew up, here recorded with a Maori chorus
and a rather wonderful group with guitar and percussion called 'The Abbey
Road Ensemble'. The music is much more accessible than I would have
imagined, some of it almost familiar, all of it lovely and quite sweet.
This, and the next album, became our New Year/Decade/Millennium music, and
it felt singularly right.
The Prayer Cycle - A Choral Symphony in Nine Movements by Jonathon Elias
with Alannis Morissette, Salif Keita, John Williams, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Linda Ronstadt, Ofra Haza, The English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, James
Taylor, the American Boychoir, Mah Damba, Perry Farrell, Liz Constantine and
Richard Bona
It's sounds weird, and ya know what? It is! And it's magical and
transforming and exquisitely beautiful and a simply amazing piece of work.
Linda Ronstadt, singing in Spanish, in a duet with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
singing in Urdu. Alanis Morissette in Hungarian with Salif Keita in Mali
and the English Chamber Chorus in Swahili. Languages all mixed up. One
cultural icon doing his thing while overlapping another making quite
different sounds. Jonathan Elias, in his introduction, says:
"I found it interesting in my journey that whatever culture we are from, the
power of the primitive human voice will always move us deeply. Regardless
of the language a prayer is sung in, it's the honesty of the pain and hope
the singer feels that comes through."
And that sums up the experience of this album. It is, in the final
listening, as much of a prayer as I've heard, ever. I am amazed that this
work has not gotten the recognition it deserves.
And assuming it's OK to do collections:
R.E.S.P.E.C.T - A Century of Women in Music
Rhino has put together the quintessential five disk collection of the
greatest of the greats. Starting with a nineteen ten recording of Ada Jones
doing 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon', and ending five CD's and some six
hours later with Liz Phair's 'Polyester Bride', with virtually *everyone* in
between, this is a work of love and of inestimable importance, by my
standards. The music is interspersed with sound clips of famous women, from
suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt to Anita Hill and Madeleine Albright. It's
a wonderful collection, lacking only in it's failure to include Nanci
Griffith. It's available all over, and expensive, but
www.flamingoworld.com has some super coupons
which make for some super
savings on most of the big internet music companies, making it more
affordable. And oh my, is it worth it!
InsideOut - the IMA Sessions - Ferron
Pure, unadulterated fun! Ferron goes back to the sixties and claims some
old faves as her very own. With some of the best musicians in the San
Francisco area, super production and great tunes with which to sing along,
this is great fun. 'Save the Last Dance' is my favorite, and this may be
the best rendition I've *ever* heard of 'Walk Away Renee'.
There are surely more recordings out this year that have made my 'play this
lots' list, but I think I've gone on long enuff. And hey, maybe I've turned
somebody on to new sounds? You all sure have done so for me! Lucy
Kaplansky, for example. Having heard her now in _Cry, Cry, Cry_, my next
run amuk-ed-ness with the plastic will definitely include _Ten Year Night_.
Sure am glad I found this list!
nan, ever so grateful for music
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Subject: NN: nanci corrections
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:09:41 +0200
From: Graham Shipley (gshipley@perioikos.u-net.com>
Dear Co-Netters
I expect y'all know this already but maybe someone could enlighten me. I've
just re-registered for the list (as opposed to digest) and on looking
through the welcome message I tried the webpages listed there, only to find
some had disappeared:
http://www.poky.srv.net/~martyw/fom.html is given as having moved to:
http://www.cruzio.com/~billpeet/Foitm/fom.html but it takes you to:
http://www4.cruzio.com/cruzio/404.html where it says the page doesn't exist
Also, the welcome message doesn't contain a mention of the Dust Bowl
Symphony CD.
Not having had time to read many digests in the past year, can someone tell
me if Dust Bowl Symphony is Nanci's latest album? Have I seen some
references to an album of remixes or something of the sort?
Glad to see the NN is as acdive as ever!
Graham `Roll on Nottingham' Shipley
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Subject: Re: NN: nanci corrections
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 23:13:16 -0600
From: Bill Page (bpage@itol.com>
I am in the process of revising the Welcome message.
You may be more enlightened by visiting the NN FAQ file:
http://www.jump.net/~ferg/nanfaq.html
BP
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Subject: Re: NN: nanci corrections
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:57:05 -0500
From: "Dave Bronsveld" (dbrons@ptd.net>
> I am in the process of revising the Welcome message.
Kind-of like Nancinet "Revisited". That's cool. I wonder if maybe enough
time has elapsed that Nanci's body of work should be looked at in a new
context. I've always hesitated to say it, but one thing that has seemed out
of touch is the ratings of albums. I know that people tend to favor the
work of an artist around the time that they started listening, and maybe
that's part of the disagreement I have, but "Flyer" is Nanci's 10 best??
And what about "Little Love Affairs"? I notice that Mark has fiddled with
his ratings a few times and prevented LLA the indignity of a double-digit
rating, but 8th place for the disc that contains "Gulf Coast Highway", "So
Long Ago", "Outbound Plane", etc is way too low (IMO).
Well, I really don't expect the Nancinet to rate her work as I would, so I'm
not really calling for a change. I just thought I'd mention it. I think
the "anti-electric" bias, or whatever it is, is even more glaring when you
look at all the work Nanci has put out over the years.
I really like all of Nanci's albums, but LLA, and Flyer (along with "One
Fair Summers Evening") to me, are Nanci at the top of her game.
Dave
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Subject: Re: NN: nanci corrections
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 07:22:16 -0700
From: Paul Larsen (paul@davisnet.net>
At 06:57 AM 1/6/2000 -0500, Dave Bronsveld wrote:
---snip---
>>I've always hesitated to say it, but one thing that has seemed out of
touch is the ratings of albums.
---snip---
I would be willing to put together a list of albums ranked by individuals,
if there is interest in that. I would simply do it by taking the rankings
from subscribers, putting them in a database that I would create, and the
album with the lowest score would be considered by the current community to
be the top Nanci album. (For example, the more votes for number 1 that an
album gets, the better the chance that it will be at the top of the list
because of the low number of its ranking.) With Bill's permission, we
could then post that list to the FAQ as the top Nanci albums, with perhaps
some subscriber comments about each album. If there is interest in that,
please respond with your lists and reviews privately, and we will see where
this project goes from there.
Thank you
Paul "finally - some snow in Salt Lake" Larsen
// See my comments below...[BP]
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Subject: Re: NN: nanci corrections
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:55:30 +0200
From: Graham Shipley (gshipley@perioikos.u-net.com>
Re Paul's suggestion: I, for one, would be very interested to see what the
current consensus is.
Graham Shipley (Leicester, UK)
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci Top Albums
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 15:44:13 -0700
From: Paul Larsen (paul@davisnet.net>
I wrote:
(((I would be willing to put together a list of albums ranked by
individuals, if there is interest in that.>>>
---snip---
At 09:39 PM 1/6/2000 +0100, Georg wrote:
(((Hi Paul
I don't know if you want all or just 10, but here they are as of tonight. I
assume compilations are left out. No albums really deserves to be rated
lower than number 10.>>>
---snip---
My personal thoughts are that we should include all of Nanci's albums that
are listed in the FAQ. The response to doing this survey has been very
favorable, so please go ahead and rank all of Nanci's albums which are hers
- not compilations or albums on which she has just a few cuts - and send
them to me. This is the list of albums that are up for ranking in
alphabetical order - not necessarily by my personal preference.
1. Blue Roses from the Moons
2. Dust Bowl Symphony
3. Flyer
4. Late Night Grande Hotel
5. Little Love Affairs
6. Lone Star State of Mind
7. Once in a Very Blue Moon
8. One Fair Summer Evening
9. Other Voices | Other Rooms
10. Other Voices, Too
11. Poet in My Window
12. Storms
13. The Last of the True Believers
14. There's a Light Beyond These Woods
If you would like to include comments on any of the albums as well, I would
appreciate it. That would give us some nice snippets to include with the
reviews found on the FAQ page.
Keep those calls and letters coming!
Paul "should I use another dash?" Larsen
// We might want to wait...there's a new website on the horizon that
// has just such a poll built into the site...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Best of the century
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 19:06:57 -0600
From: Bill Page (bpage@itol.com>
We recently went through the "let's pick the best music of the century"
exercise (even though the century won't end until next December...). As noted,
NPR has now posted the finished list on their web site
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html.
This past Monday, NPR's "All Things Considered"(ATC) began a year-long series
in which they will look at many of the songs/albums/musicals that are part of
this "100 Best" list. They kicked it of with comments by some of the listeners
and some of the panel who selected these songs. Among those interviewed was
Kathy Mattea, who pointed to Dylan ("Blowin' in the Wind") and Patsy Cline
("Crazy"). Someone else they talked to spoke of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is
Your Land." (And yes, I had all three songs on my list...my list was 40% in
agreement with the final list.)
You can catch this every Monday evening for the next 51 weeks -- next week they
focus on Elvis. If you don't happen to live in a place that gets NPR (like,
outside the country), you can download te segment from the ATC archives:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/ then follow the links to the archives.
Bill "addicted to ATC" Page
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Subject: NN: Friends Out In The Madness Web Link
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:57:57 -0800
From: Bill Peete (billpeet@cruzio.com>
Howdy All,
A few have noticed that the "Friends Out In The Madness" link is defunct.
The information is still intact, we are just in the process of moving it to
a new home. Should be back within a few days.
Thank yew kindly,
Bill" Still Pondering about what to include on my Top Ten... it was a great
year wasn't it?" Peete
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Subject: NN: My dear ol' Grammy
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:36:28 -0500
From: Shawn Kimbro (kimbro@planetc.com>
Here are some more Grammy nominations I found interesting. It's always a
love/hate thing with me but I look forward to them every year. The
entire list can be downloaded from: http://www.grammy.com/nominee/
Highlights
Carlos Santana - 10 nominations
Asleep At The Wheel - 5 nominations
Emmylou Harris - 4 nominations
Dixie Chicks - 4 nominations
Contemporary Folk Album nominees are:
Beausoleil
Ani Difranco & Utah Phillips
John Prine
Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Tom Waits (also nominated for best rock vocal performance)
Traditional Folk Album nominees:
Ramblin Jack Elliot
Bill Morrissey
June Carter Cash
David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger
Best Bluegrass Album:
Steve Earle w/ Del McCoury Band
Mandolin Extravaganza Band
Béla Fleck
Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley
Ricky Skaggs
Odetta was nominated in at least one category. So was Doyle Lawson,
Bruce Hornsby, Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, Ani Difranco, Melissa Ethridge,
Sarah McLachlan, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, George Jones, Lyle Lovett,
Dwight Yoakum, BR-549, Trio II (Dolly, Emmylou, Linda), Marty Stuart,
Earl Scruggs, and of course Nanci Griffith and a whole bunch of other
people I don't know so well.
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|===| ////SEE/////\ Warm Regards
| ////ROCK////[]\ -Shawn
| ////CITY////|__|\
| ^|^^^^^^^^^^| | "Years go by and everything changes
| | | | But nothing does" -Kate Campbell
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Subject: NN: 99' Top Ten
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:03:16 -0600
From: "James Erschen" (erschen@flash.net>
1) Wilco - Summerteeth
2) Old 97's - Fight Songs
3) Counting Crows - This Desert Life
4) The Push Stars - Life of the Party
5) Magnolia Soundtrack
6) Bruce Robison - Long Way Home from Anywhere
7) Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons Tribute
8) Kelly Willis - What I Deserve
9) Jeramy Toback - Another True Fiction
10) Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
Here are two cd's I picked up this year (released in 98) that hardly
left my cd player.
Real - The Tom T. Hall Project
Neil Finn - Try Whisteling This
Best wishes for the new year and may you all find music that makes you
happy.
Jamie
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Subject: NN: Ashley Mac
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:55:12 EST
From: Tricia9999@aol.com
>From another list:
> Has anyone heard of Canada's young genius fiddler Ashley MacIsaac's latest
> stunt this past week? Rather than fiddle, he stood on stage and hurled
> obscenities at the crowd. He said he felt a great need to be able to
> express himself honestly.
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Subject: NN: Re: Ashley Mac
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:29:50 -0500
From: "MVM" (mvmartel@home.com>
Hey, I heard this too just now on CBC. Apparently this happened during a New
Year's show at which he was guesting. The CBC is considering dropping him
from an upcoming TV show, and his record label is considering releasing him.
??? Guess he wasn't Y2K compliant! Here's from the CBC website, fyi:
http://www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/musop/musop_01052000_ashleylabel.phtml
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From: Ed Maier (evmaier@dhc.net>
Subject: Address change (no NN content)
Just for the record,
Old address: eddie@flash.net (unsubscribed already)
New address: evmaier@dhc.net (subscribed already)
Thanks,
Eddie
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Subject: NN: My Top 6 and the best year ever
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:55:53 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
OK, here goes....in no order...
DUSTBOWL* THAT WOMAN THAT'S HOGGING THE SPACE ON MY CD PILE
-she better get this over my neck of the woods sometime soon or i'll
explode...
TEN YEAR NIGHT*DR LUCY K
-this album is jsut the best thing this year...it's even verging on winning
over dustbowl in my mind...I'm so glad that lucy's starting to get more
recognition, she really deserves it, GO LUCY!!
A CRASH COURSE IN ROSES* CATIE CURTIS
-I bought this because somebody told me too, and it was really great
advice...i'd never heard catie before, but she really iiisss good
THIS DESERT LIFE * COUNTING CROWS
-you HAVE to love adam duritz. It's a law.
COME ON NOW SOCIAL * INDIGO GIRLS
-I've heard one track on the radio...maybe santa will bring me the full
album
BROKEN THINGS*JULIE MILLER
-Ditto, i have recordings from the radio , and a recording of lucy k doing
the title track and maaaannnnn....
That's all right now. I was going to write a list of the top albums i have
bought this year...But it would be wayyy to long. This year has been so
great for me in music. I went from returning to nancidom with a crash when
OVTOo came out, seeing her in concert for only the second time ever. It was
also my second *concert* ever...I went from that to...Where i am now. Which
is smack bang in the middle of a really folky place.
I guess it all started with receiving a compilation tape from a buddy on
christmas eve last year...First time i heard dar williams sing 'iowa', first
time i heard eric taylor, ellis paul, bill morrissey, carolyn hester...I was
bitten, i had to go out and start buying these cds...I got very poor very
quickly.
And then i had to start going to these gigs...Within the space of a year
i've gone from two concerts in my life ever to a couple of lucy kaplansly
shows, seeing steve earle (one of my biggest heroes ever), seeing r.e.m,
john prine...and a million other people when i got to go to the cambirdge
folk festival this year and meet up with the same NN bud that sent me that
tape (hi em ; )...
So why am i telling *you* all this, why would you care?? Because i owe you
all a big thankyou for infecting be with this bug...and keeping it in a warm
damp place to grow and multiply. I've made so many great friend out here in
nanciland and i love you all guys....; ) I'm in a huge hippy place. It's
all about the love.
But anyway, if i were to write that list of great albums it would have to
include:
Dustbowl - nanci
Ten Year Night - Dr K
The Tide - Dr K
A crash course in roses - Catie Curtis
End of the summer - Dar
The Honesty Room - Dar
Temporary Road - John Gorka
There's a light beyond these woods - Nanci
Gold in Califronia - Kate Wolf
CRy cry cry - Dar, Lucy, Richard
Blue - joni mitchell
I,200 CUrfews - Igs
jenny*
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Subject: NN: TOP 10 OF 1999
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:15:09 -0500 (EST)
From: MISTERCD@webtv.net (SID PORTER)
10. Janis Ian - Live At The Bottom Line
9. Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
8. Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
7. Steve Earle & McCoury Band - The
Mountain
6. Cheryl Wheeler - Sylvia Hotel
5. Vonda Shepard - Heart & Soul; New
Songs From Ally McBeal
4. Julie Miller - Broken Things
3. Buddy Mondlock - Poetic Justice
2. Nanci Griffith - Dust Bowl Symphony
1. Kate Campbell - Rosaryville
"Jack Kerouac taught me that dreams are only real. Nanci Griffith is
proof that Jack was right."
Eric Taylor
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