NanciNet Digest 11-11-00
// So little traffic on the NN, you'd think folks were busy
// paying attention to an election, or something...
// Enjoy...[BP]
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Subject: NN: Archives updated
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:06:44 -0600
From: Shelly Brisbin (sbrisbin@prismnet.com)
Hi folks,
After far too long a delay, I've updated the NanciNet archives for
your reading pleasure. The good news is the book I've been working
on is almost done and there are back orders. Enjoy the archives, and
thank you for your patience.
The NanciNet Archives
-shelly
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Subject: NN: Nanci on BBC Prime
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:14:16 +0100
From: "Catherine Christ-Taha" (cec@wcc-coe.org>
For those of you in Europe, Nanci appeared on "Later with Jools Holland" on
Saturday (November 4) evening. She looked and sang well. She played "Sound of
Loneliness" and "Across the Great Divide". I only caught the programme already
in progress so I don't know if she sang something else too. I also don't know
if it was an older programme being rebroadcast.
Whatever it was - it sure made my Saturday night!
Catherine
Geneva, Switzerland
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Subject: NN: plasticIII
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:54:18 EST
From: Scaryxxx@aol.com
OK I've been waiting patiently to hereabout the new plastic objects project,
but nothings been mentioned for a long time, is the project off or still in
the works? gary
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Subject: NN: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:03:58 -0500
From: "Shawn Kimbro" (kimbroj@charter.net>
Hey gang --
I've decided to abandon my yellow-dogdum, leave the rank and file, and vote
Bush for president....... No, not George Bush! (Ha!) Sam.... Sam Bush! --
I'm currently jamming along with ICE CAPS, just digging the coldest mandolin
chops I've ever heard and wishing I could match pitches with John Cowan.
ICE CAPS may be my pick of the year. (Ouch!) Here are some other
recommendations for recent releases and artists with a buzz:
Robbie Fulks - Most of you know I'm not an alt.country fan, I mean c'mon,
most of those guys can't even tune a guitar, but Fulks isn't yer usual
alt.country artist. This guy can actually sing! I caught him on CMT's
WESTERN BEAT tonight wearing a WDVX t-shirt and talking about his hero
Harlan Howard. There's no depression in his material, just dern good music
done with an independent attitude. His album has been out a while, but it's
just now getting hot!
Merle Haggard - Well, I admit it. I've been a Hag fan since that night on
an Oahu Beach with an "All In The Game" tape, a bottle of cheap red wine,
and a cute, blue-eyed... oh heck, you don't want to know the rest. Merle is
back with one heck of an album on Anti records, the label that brought us
Mule Variations a few years back. The Hag chose Anti because they wouldn't
impose any artistic limitations. It's good. I just heard "Honky Tonk Mama"
on the radio (yes, WDVX) and it's the best modern treatment I've heard of
the Gov. Jimmie Davis hit from 1933. (God rest his soul, Jimmie "You Are My
Sunshine" Davis died yesterday at age 101.) Don't get this one mixed up
with the two other major label releases just available by Merle. Ask for
"If I Could Only Fly," it's the good one.
Kasey Chambers - Wooo-weee! Any misplaced Southerners out there? Kasey's
"Southern Kind of Life" is enough to make even a Green Bay Packer fan long
for a taste of catfish and grits. How about this lyric: "I use to think the
north was the end - Cause people go there and they don't come back again."
Yeah, buddy! But before you join me in a Rebel yell and raising the stars
and bars, read her bio. The sweetest new voice from the New South is really
from New South Whales! She's talking about Southern Australia! Oh, er,
yeah, I knew that! Fans of Iris, Nanci, or Gillian should love this disc.
Y'all write.
.---. ___________
|===|////SEE/////\ All my best,
| ////ROCK////[]\ -Shawn
| ////CITY////|__|\
| ^|^^^^^^^^^^| | Years go by and everything changes,
| | | | But nothing does - Kate Campbell
|__ |___[X]____|__|
http://mountainsoul.cjb.net
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Subject: Re: NN: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 20:15:34 -0500
From: Tony Cox (tonycox@pacific.net.au>
Shawn Kimbro wrote:
>Kasey Chambers...
>The sweetest new voice from the New South is really from New South Whales!
>She's talking about Southern Australia! Oh, er, yeah, I knew that! Fans of
>Iris, Nanci, or Gillian should love this disc.
But Shawn!
Your posts are always informative and/or high on entertainment value - but so
are many of the others on this list, so read 'em! There must have been at
least
20 posts about our Kasey in recent months, of which several mentioned that she
was from Australia (from an area about 2000 miles west of New South "Whales").
Pay attention, over there!
And while I'm at it, if you all do decide to deliver a halfwit as "leader of
the
free world", please make sure he (and his policies) stay at home :-)
Tony (realising NN'ers aren't responsible for W, but wanting to comment
anyway!) Good luck to all the good people over there.
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Subject: NN: RE: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:57:21 -0500
From: "Panchyshyn,Roman" (panchysr@oclc.org>
Here's my take on the P-word, since we seem to have this E-lekshun today.
Every time we have one, I think of the 3 Stooges show where the stooges are
supposed to be working as pest exterminators, but are actually in the back
room playing poker on work time. The Boss walks in and asks the secretary,
where are those 3 new men. She says, they're in the back room talking
p--itics. The Boss asks, How do you know that? She replies, "Because I just
heard one of them ask for a new deal!"
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.
Good old American humor.
Don't forget to vote.
Roman from Ohio.
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Subject: NN: Re: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:14:28 EST
From: BMiller224@aol.com
Shawn wrote pre-election:
(( I've decided to abandon my yellow-dogdum, leave the rank and file, and
vote Bush for president....... No, not George Bush! (Ha!) Sam.... Sam Bush!
-- >>
Shawn, I think I liked it better when you were on the "Vote Old Hickory"
bandwagon.
Speaking of Yellow Dog Democrats, who would have thought that the hardest
core Yellow Dogs would be in...Missouri!!?! There, Democrat Mel Carnahan,
who is quite literally dead and has been for several weeks, won in the Senate
race against Republican John Ashcroft.
And they say Californians are weird!
Bruce Miller
Oakland CA
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 00 17:38:00 -0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Jeez guys and gals. I think Europeans are beginning to think Americans
are weird (never mind other Americans thinking Californians are weird)
after the likely victory of Bush. A man who has only been out of the USA
on four occasions to lead the worlds most powerful nation. In the
interview I saw recently he could not even pronounce half the words he
tried to use, and it had nothing to do with his Texan accent.
John "glad we have total incompetents running our country too!!" Graveling
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:39:29 EST
From: Tricia9999@aol.com
BMiller224@aol.com writes:
> And they say Californians are weird!
No..... really? I've never heard this. Who says that?
Tricia
in Berkeley, land of non-wierdos
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 14:18:09 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
Shawn Kimbro mentioned a wonderful album "Ice Caps: The Peaks odf
Telluride" by Sam Bush. There have been some other wonderful bluegrass albums
to come out this year as well. So, if you are a fan of the bluegrass genre, I
also recommend:
"Nickel Creek" My personal favorite bluegrass album this year (in fact my
third favorite album of the year so far, behind the great "Tanglewood Tree"
by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer and "Broke Down" by Slaid Cleaves)
"Scene It All" by Seldom Scene (this group is wonderful and has
absolutely no shame--they even do a bluegrass version of Chuck Berry's
"Nadine" on this album)
"Back Home Again" by Rhonda Vincent. If you liked the CD "The Grass Is
Blue" that Dolly Parton released last year, you should really love this. Ms.
Vincent even delivers a nice bluegrass version of Ms. Parton's "Jolene."
"Love Light" by Claire Lynch (Alison Krauss has some vocals here)
"Talkin to Myself" by the Lonesome River Band
"Fair Weather" by Alison Brown (Ms. Brown is a banjo picker, not a
singer, but one of the cuts on this CD features vocals from the aformentioned
Sam Bush)
"Wires and Wood" by The Johnny Staats Project. From what I've heard,
Johnny Stats is actually a fulltime fireman or something of the sort and
plays mandolin almost as a hobby. But he does things with that instrument you
would not believe are possible.
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Pete Oppel
Managing Director
Fairchild/Oppel
A Division of Publicis Dialog
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Yellow Dogs & Ice Picks
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:14:17 -0500
From: "Shawn Kimbro" (kimbroj@charter.net>
> From what I've heard, Johnny Stats is actually a fulltime fireman
> or something of the sort and plays mandolin almost as a hobby.
UPS man.
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Subject: NN: Loafer's Glory
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:33:54 -0500
From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>
Does anybody remember hearing a group called Loafer's Glory back around
1977? They came from the Western N.C. mountains, and claim to have
"generated a cult following on a winding path from D.C. to Atlanta". They're
sort of a cross between the Allman Brothers Band and Asleep at the Wheel-
with a big helping of A.P. Carter.
The only reason I know about them is because a Charlotte sound engineer
rescued their only album from an eight-track tape (!) and put it on CD. I
ran across this piece of musical archaeology at a site called Rich Mountain
Bound- which is where R.B. Morris and his brother sell their CDs and books.
This is the only item for sale on the site that is not created by the
Morrises, so I figured R.B. must vouch for its worthiness.
This may very well be the very first alt. country band. If you want to own a
CD that no one else in your neighborhood (or your town) has, check this one
out:
http://www.richmountainbound.com/
Steve Robertson
host of the starchart.com
Acoustic Performance Series
http://www.starchart.com/
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Subject: NN:Sweet(?) Dreams Will Come
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:44:39 GMT
From: "John Courtney" (jc_riselaw@hotmail.com>
I would normally keep stuff like this to myself but things have been so
quiet around here lately that I thought any mention of Nanci Griffith might
be a good thing.
I have been a fan of Nanci for about seven years and seen her live five
times but the other night she invaded my dreams for the first time.
It wasn't much of a dream: very short and nothing really happened but the
curious thing is that she was wearing a sort of black bikini which afforded
the revelation that her upper body is extensively covered in tattoos -
soaring eagles and suchlike - which is something I had not previously
suspected.
I don't suppose anyone really wanted to know that...
John C. "...but what does it mean, doctor?"
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Subject: NN: Oh Brother, What a Soundtrack
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:57:19 -0500
From: Shawn Kimbro (skimbro@bhset.org>
Hi folks --
I just listened to a pre-release version of the OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU
soundtrack This is easily the most exciting compilation CD I've heard since
THE HORSE WHISPERER soundtrack came out a couple of years ago. Produced by T
Bone Burnette on Mercury Records, the disc contains twenty songs. Most are
traditionally performed in the style of the period in which the movie is set.
There is one tune written for the film by Gillian Welch. Artists include
Welch, Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, The
Fairfield Four, Norman Blake, The Whites, The Cox Family, and The Nashville
Bluegrass Band and others.
The movie is produced by the Cohen Brothers who are obviously fans of delta
blues, traditional gospel, and mountain music. It is a comedy fashioned after
Homer's "Odessy" except that it takes place in Mississippi in 1937. It stars
George Clooney who portrays a chain-gang escapee with a passion for Dapper Dan
Hair Pomade. Chained to two cohorts, he sets off across the music-laden
countryside in search of his wife in Ithaca (Mississippi) while encountering
sirens, cyclops, lotus eaters, and soothsayers along the way.
My favorite cut on the album and the one with the highest wow factor is "Didn't
Leave Nobody But The Baby." It's a call-and-response lullaby performed by
Harris, Welch, and Krauss. I also enjoyed the arrangement of "I'll Fly Away"
on which Welch provides lead vocals to the accompaniment of Krauss's harmony
and some excellent claw-hammer banjo and traditional guitar work. Ralph
Stanley's a Capella rendition of "Oh Death" left me breathless and I'll never
grow tired of his traditional version of "Angel Band." Other favorites
include Mac
McClintocks 1929 hobo classic "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (Not the sugar-coated
version, Mac's mountain has liquor springs, cigarette trees, and paper-walled
jails.), and Dan Tyminski's cover of "Man of Constant Sorrow," a song that
appears three times on the disc.
Both the film and the soundtrack attest to the fact that old-time music is very
much alive and well. As revivalist artists such as Welch, Hartford, and
Tyminski attest in their other recordings, a return to the old ways can be
absolutely refreshing when performed with a modern attitude. Congratulations
to The Cohen Brothers, T-Bone Burnette, and these artists for providing a sound
track that is certain to be a Grammy winner, and one that gets my early vote as
compilation disc of the year.
.---. ___________
|===|////SEE/////\ All my best,
| ////ROCK////[]\ -Shawn
| ////CITY////|__|\
| ^|^^^^^^^^^^| |
| | | | http://mountainsoul.cjb.net
|__ |___[X]____|__| Fiddle Fiction
http://www.geocities.com/trailzzone/hog.html
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Subject: NN: Richard Bicknell (some Nanci content)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:32:54 +0100
From: "aequalis" (aequalis@wanadoo.fr>
Dear all,
Just ran into an Atlanta-based artist, Richard Bicknell. Thanks to Mean
Jean and his banners for investigating the Atlanta phone book and
sending the CDs over the pond! Those who attended the Writers in the
Round show at Eddie's Attic in early september already know Bicknell.
Bicknell's first album, Sometimes Blue, includes covers of Nanci
Griffith songs (Cradle of the Interstate), Tom Russell (Black Pearl)
and David Olney (Roses, with a string section).
Released in 2000, Mayflower features even more celebrities : Eric Taylor
produces and plays guitar on Townes' St John the Gambler and duets on
his own Dean Moriarty.
Katy Moffatt duets on Steve Forbert's When the sun shines (taken from
Steve's The American in Me) and David Olney duets on his own Barrymore
Remembers, in the role of the bartender originally held by John Prine on
David's Real Lies.This version could have been performed by the
Contenders and suits David's more rocking side. Also featured are The
Other side of TYown by Robin and Linda Williams, and Poor Man's House by
Patty Griffin.
You see this guy could have worse tastes!
The only problem is I don't know where you can get those Cds! Probably
directly from Richard, but I don'rt have his e-mail yet.
I should received another parcel from Jean with more detailed info
sometime next week.
Have a nice week end
Herv
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Subject: NN: Nanci on Austin City Limits
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 07:28:47 -0400
From: "Douglas Dick" (cddick@viaccess.net>
Our local PBS in the Virgin Islands has an Austin City Limits on it's =
schedule tonight at 11 pm Virgin Islands time which is a show that's a =
tribute to Townes Van Zandt. Nanci is a scheduled participant. Our =
listings don't always coincide with other PBS stations so I am not sure =
as to the broadcast times and dates in other areas.
Subject: NN: Disasters
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 00 13:17:39 -0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Well as the USA lurches through it's political dilemma, here in the UK we
are going through a natural disaster, namely the worst floods for 500
years. Parts of Yorkshire, in the North of England, are under many feet
of water and the River Ouse in York ran 17 feet above it's normal level,
and it's highest since 1550. Parts of the West Midlands and the
South-East are also badly affected, and at present there is little
respite for those so badly affected. The rain continues to fall, our
public transport systems have virtually ground to a halt in many areas,
and the railways have virtually ceased running anywhere in the UK. To
think it's barely the start of winter, what more can we expect.
There is little to cheer us in the way of music, with many local gigs
cancelled, due to lack of transport and only Emmylou Harris' national
tour hitting (well it's hitting 5 cities-so it's barely national!!) the
bigger arenas.
John "watching the river run" Graveling
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