// Sorry for the delay...been out of town...
// Enjoy...[BP] 

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Subject: NN: Shawn Kimbro and Mountain Soul
   Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:37:58 -0800 (PST)
   From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>

If there's still anybody out there who hasn't gotten
Shawn's cd, let me recommend it too.

The cd is very fine.  (Though Shawn, I can't help but
notice the singers are drifting in the first song and
drifting in the last, despite severals claims that
they're working in coal mines.)  I think as a writer
Shawn does a magnificient job recreating and EXTENDING
the mountain ballad tradition in a way that means more
to me personally that the pyrotechnics of many
bluegrass bands.  Which is not to say there aren't
moments of insturmental virtuosity but the songs
aren't just frameworks for hot soloes.  It's an oddly
joyous and melancholy album, suited for both
contemplation and dancing

Reid Mitchell

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Subject: NN: scattered, smothered & covered
   Date: 31 Oct 2000 18:57:50 +0000
   From: "Matt Bloomfield" (mail@mattbloomfield.co.uk>

Hi All.

Thought you might like to know that track 9 on Hootie & The Blowfish's
new album, "scattered, smothered & covered" is Gravity Of The
Situation which you may have heard on some of the Nanci concert
bootlegs.

The song on the album was recorded with Nanci and The Blue Moon
Orchestra and the liner notes say: "While we were recording
Fairweather Johnson, Nanci Griffith called and asked if we would like
to record a Vic Chesnutt song with her for the Sweet Relief II album.
Without hesitation we asked her to join us at the Site in San Rafael,
CA.  With some of The Blue Moon Orchestra there as well, we laid down
what we hoped to be a fine version of a great song".

The song makes a nice surprise on a great album and is more of
a duet than Nanci just providing backing vocals/harmonies.

Matt
-- 
http://www.mattbloomfield.co.uk

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Subject: NN: Rosalie Sorrels
   Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:24:52 -0500
   From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>


There are probably a lot of folks on this list (like me) who have heard a
lot about Rosalie Sorrels, but have never heard or seen her. Her upcoming
concert at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage is going to be webcast live
on Thursday, Nov. 9, and will be available in the archive after that date.
Ought to be interesting.

http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/

>From the Georgia Pines,
Steve Robertson

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Subject: NN: Replies
   Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:37:36 -0800 (PST)
   From: Martin Jack (gatesuk@yahoo.com>

Hi all

The first cd I bought of Nanci's was the
"Introduction to...".  Since then, I've bought seven
of her other albums in the last month or so.  So to my
mind, that introduction gave me a nice little snippet
of an artist that I was quickly hooked on, and wanted
to know more about.

On the subject of Halloween,  I stay clear of any
horror sequels.  I mean, I can't remember any good
ones at all - thinking of all those Elm Street
sequels, etc.
I would recommend watching The Exorcist or any classic
John Carpenter film for future Halloweens - very scary
and very stylish done.  None of this tacky teen
slasher stuff.

I turned 28 on Sunday btw.  My sister bought me this
Nanci live album "One Fair Summer Evening", which is
excellent as usual.  I really love this song "I Would
Bring You Ireland".  Which album is that on? 

I've got another Nanci cd coming in on order to HMB
next week - we can only get Flyer on import in the UK
now since its been deleted.  I really hate when the
powers that be start deleting archive material - it
played havoc with me trying to collect old Squeeze and
The Stranglers albums.  Has anyone else experienced
this annoyance to record collecting?

take care, Martin.

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Subject: Re: NN: Replies
   Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:42:35 -0500
   From: Tony Cox (tonycox@pacific.net.au>

Martin Jack wrote:

> next week - we can only get Flyer on import in the UK
> now since its been deleted.

Flyer deleted???
Surely there's something in the Geneva Convention about depriving humanity
of the very best music!

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Subject: Re: NN: Replies
   Date: hu, 2 Nov 00 06:33:33 -0000
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

Martin,

"I Would Bring You Ireland" does not appear on any other Nanci record. It 
was only in her live repetoire for a very short space of time, say 1987 
through 1989, and I've never heard her play it live since. I have seen 
her perform live on 20, or so, occasions.

Glad you are enjoying the voyage of discovery with Nanci's music.

John Graveling

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Subject: NN: Dixie Chicks
   Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:57:21 EST
   From: GORDON1717@aol.com

Hi everyone,
I hadn't heard much mention of these guys lately but I remember there was 
much admiration expressed on this list when "Fly" came out. Well, I took the 
prettiest girl in Gerald, Missouri (my 10 yr old daughter Meg, the Chicks' 
biggest ever fan) to see them last week and they were awesome. Go see them if 
you can, you won't be disappointed. I actually saw a Nanci Griffith t-shirt 
at the show and figured that there are probably a lot of us here that like 
these guys. Don't miss this tour!
Gordon
NP. John Gorka  "Land of the Bottomline" (what a great cd this is!)

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Subject: NN: Nanci's next album
   Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:50:13 -0500 (EST)
   From: "Dave" (dbrons@ptd.net>

I just got this from the Kennedy's newsletter:

> We've updated our website to include more fun photos 
> (including recent recording session with Nanci Griffith
> and John Stewart in Nashville), early 2000 diary entries
> (along with haiku-style commentary from our traveling companion,
> Dashboard Buddha), and concert dates. 

        http://www.kennedysmusic.com

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They refer to working on "Nanci's next album".  Anyone know anything more?

Dave

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Subject: NN: Eric Taylor
   Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:54:19 +0100
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

Hi all,

Last Friday I was at a Erci Taylor concert in the Happy Days in the
Hague,Nl. Eric did there a good show from about 8.45 pm till after midnight,
I left at nidnite because of the 2 hour drive I had to make to get home. He
did a lot of talking and all the songs from his 2 CDs and at one song one of
the audience, a wellknown to Eric, was invited, not on stage because there
wasn't any, but behind the mic to help with the refrain.

The harmony singer who was with him wasn't that bad either: Iain Matthews

And believe it or not Eric don't spit in it.

met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.

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Subject: NN: Act of Desperation - non Nanci
   Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:12:53 -0600
   From: "Nigbor, Sara" (SNigbor@experiosolutions.com>

Ok Nanci Netters.  I am a lurker.  Come out of hiding every once in awhile
to see the sunshine.  Right now I am in Switzerland.  I found out today that
Emmylou is playing in Basel on Thursday night.  EGADS I say, I better get
tickets.
So I call thinking no problem.  Well, THEY ARE SOLD OUT.  

So....if anyone has an extra ticket or two to see Emmy on thursday night
in Basel, Switzerland...gimme a shout.  

This was a terrible act of desperation wasn't it??  My apologies and I know
the chances of anyone having an extra ticket to an Emmy concert in Basel
are pretty close to nil.  But I am giving it a try anyway...

Cheers all.  And hi to Fran Prior in New Zealand!!  Sara

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Subject: NN: Nanci's new album
   Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 07:42:48 -0400
   From: James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu (James Troiano)

Hi folks: I was reading the John Stewart Bloodlines Digest the other
day and lo and behold there was information on our very own Nanci
Caroline.  She was in the studio on Nov. 1 with Pat McInerny, James
Hooker, John Stewart, and Maura and Pete Kennedy recording her new CD. 
These are some great people and I am all excited.  You can a couple of
terrific pictures at: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/tourphotos.htmI.  I
hope that I have that address exactly correct, I cannot tell if the
last letter is an l and I or a 1. I am not too great with computers,
but I do love Nanci. Se you, Jim

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Subject: NN: Election Day Coming
   Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:00:07 -0500 (EST)
   From: BMiller224@aol.com

// Folks, I forwarded this on for Bruce. PLEASE don't use the word 
// "political" if you reply...it'll cause the message to bounce...[BP]

It's that time of year again, where 49% or so of Americans manage to get 
themselves to the polls to be part of the democracy that supposedly our 
politicians are referring to when they call this "the greatest country in the 
world."  (I'm going to start worrying when German politicians start saying 
things like that.)

I know some people get irritated whenever any kind of "political" topic comes 
up, even though Nanci has been accused of singing such songs on occasion.  I 
understand why.  In America anyway, most people literally don't involve 
themselves in the minimum exercise of citizenship by going to vote.  So 
anything "political" seems to be a strange, alien thing they can't relate to.

But for that old-fashioned minority who aren't willing to leave political 
decision entirely to corporate lobbyists and Wall Street sharks, I thought I 
would mention some Web sites featuring "political" music I came across today.

The SonicNet site has a brief article, "Kick Out The Jams: 25 Songs 
That Rock The Vote."

http://www.sonicnet.com/

I think this is supposed to have songs to hear, but I couldn't find out how 
to do that.

The AOL Music screen has a special selection of politically-oriented songs 
that I think is a proprietary screen for AOL members only.  This site has 
Johnny Cash singing a good song I'd never heard before, "Singin' in Vietnam." 
 It's not a pro- or anti-Vietnam War song.  It's a statement of sympathy for 
soldiers in a "living hell": "Whether we belong over there or not/Somebody 
over here loves 'em."

A site called Launch.com has an article called "Statement Through Song" by 
Bob Gulla that's more interesting than the SonicNet one.

http://www.launch.com/music/content/1,,168093,00.html?vo=aoli

This one list 20 popular songs Gulla considers important.  He includes:  
Johnny Cash's "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" written by Peter La Forge,) a protest 
over discrimination against American Indians, antiwar songs like Pete 
Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and Buffy St-marie's "Universal 
Soldier,"  Neil Young's famous protest over the Kent State murders in 1970 
"Ohio," Woody Guthrie's statement of solidarity with the homeless, "I Ain't 
Got No Home in This World Any More," and even Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns 
and Money."

I didn't come across any Nanci Griffith songs in these lists.

It strikes me in Gulla's list once again that's it more than a bit strange 
that people assume that "political" songs are usually more left-leaning than 
otherwise.  A lot obviously are.  Pete Seeger has been a lifelong political 
activist than no one could accuse of being conservative, and so was Woody 
Guthrie until health problems overwhelmed him.

But Neil Young, though he may have meant the anti-Nixon lines in "Ohio," 
publicly endorsed Ronald Reagan in at least one of his Presidential races.  
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" celebrates a war hero, while "Universal Soldier" is 
basically a distribe against soldiers.  I couldn't imagine a Pete Seeger 
writing a song like that or a Johnny Cash performing it.

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Universal Soldier" are not about 
specific wars.  Like many antiwar songs, they are general statements about 
how war is a bad thing in general.  In the most public recent US military 
conflict in Kosovo, where American soldiers are still serving, of course, it 
was mostly conservatives rather than liberals who were opposing the war.  (I 
say "most public," because we've had an ongoing low-level conflict in Iraq 
for almost a decade now, and we've just committed military advisers to a 
shooting "war on drugs" in Columbia.)

Bob Gulla also caught my attention with this comment:

(( Can you hear 98 Degrees ever singing a song about something other than 
wanting to get laid? Can you hear Britney singing about a desperate Third 
World economy? That would be like hearing Dylan sing about how he just can't 
stop dancing. >>
    
Actually, I can easily picture Boo Spears doing a "political" song, or at 
least one that makes some kind of social statement.  Since some hardline 
fundamentalist groups have decided she is too sexy for moral people to listen 
to or watch, doing a song lampooning obsessive-compulsive prudery would be a 
natural.  She SHOULD record Janis Ian's recemt "Play Like a Girl," an 
interesting combination of fun and protest against gender stereotyping.

For that matter, the narrator in a Bob Dylan song like "My Back Pages" sounds 
to me more like some sneering Young Republican with limited experience of the 
world than anything else.  Besides, I think Britney has a much more 
interesting stage presence than Bobby Dylan.

Bruce Miller
Oakland CA


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