NanciNet Digest 3-25-00
// Bits and pieces, mostly all Nanci content, including a review
// or two, and a report from a Stacey Earle concert. A short digest.
// Enjoy...[BP]
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Subject: NN: That Rake
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:03:14 -0800
From: Theodore W. Budlong" (TBudlong@worldnet.att.net>
Good posting earlier this week from somebody who noted that in one concert
Nanci lost the thread of LATFAD at the second verse, followed about her
quip about a rake she might have stepped on.
After all those years of singing a chorus after the first verse, it must be
destabilizing to have to go straight on to the second verse as if Darius
Rucker were there. I felt a substantial wrench when I heard her do it
live, before I'd heard it on DBS and knew why. Nanci even seemed unsure of
herself when she did it (last July in LA before the album was released),
and the rest of the audience must have been disconcerted as well.
But then, I could write a small thesis about the differences between LATFAD
as sung on LOTTB and on OFSE. How I miss that little chirp before "It's
closing time"...
And aren't we all crazy with all these initials that look like acronyms but
really aren't?
TWB
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Subject: NN: Morristown, NJ Show Review
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:41:22 -0500
From: Rich Dixson (rdixson@gdats.com>
Greetings all!
We thought the show in Morristwon on March 14, 2000 was fabulous! I've
been waiting to see Nanci and the Blue Moon orchestra for years. Rodney
and Guy were great and when they all played together it was really magical.
The song list was great and the sound was really well done! For the northern
NJ fans, the Community Theater in Morristown is an excellent place for
Music. It's small enough to make the event very close. The audience was
so quiet during the songs that I think the players were a little
uncomfortable. They actually whispered some of their banter.... I just
thought that that's how a gracious audience should be! Can't wait to
see Nanci again! It was my first live show!
Rich
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci @ the Birchmere 3/21/00
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:01:58 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
jcochran@co.loudoun.va.us writes:
(Spanish Steps (I wish I was in Austin, drinking mad dog margaritas, etc)>
You sure this isn't Guy Clark's song "Dublin Blues"?
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Subject: NN: Nanci-less island
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:41:03 -0000
From: "Jenny" (jenny.frog@virgin.net>
Yo all,
Someone wrote:
>>I don't know what to do with the blue roses I bought yesterday.
Well that's an easy one, send 'um to me. Last thursday I casually asked my
violin teacher if she knew anybody in the SOO (orchestra playing with Nance
in glasgow), and she said, "Yeah, Paul". Now, that means nothing to you,
but Paul is her husband...one of my parents' best friends and *he* *will*
*be* *back stage*....
Speaking of restoring faith...I have been on a nanci-less island for the
past few months...
jenny*
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Subject: NN: post review
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:13:19 EST
From: GORDON1717@aol.com
Here's the review from the post, I'm wondering if this guy went to the same
show as everyone else. Apparently there is no accounting for taste (suprise,
suprise).
Gordon (In Missouri and green with jealousy that all my friends in md/dc/va
get to see Nanci again and I don't).
It was a very processed Nanci Griffith that the
Birchmere crowd heard on Monday, as she opened a
sold-out three-show run at the club. The youthful
45-year-old Texan has never lacked charm, and on this
night, sporting leather pants and a scarf that, Griffith
announced, was made by land mine victims in Southeast
Asia, she was as lovable as ever. And her lovely
soprano, with its very slight lisp, had just enough twang
to verify her Lone Star State roots.
But Griffith's set was hampered by the utter absence of
crackle and buzz coming from her stripped-down,
guitarless backing band, the Blue Moon Orchestra.
Griffith is used to playing bigger houses and now tours
regularly with a full orchestra. Longtime band leader
James Hooker, late of the Amazing Rhythm Aces, tried to
re-create the big-band sound through use of his
reverb-soaked electric keyboards, but the arrangements
obscured the simple beauty of much of Griffith's work.
During the earlier portions of her show, as Griffith
delivered her better-known fare like "Outbound Plane"
and "Gulf Coast Highway," the timbre was so sterile she
might as well have been singing karaoke.
Griffith briefly overpowered the keys during her
pro-kids anthem, "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go,"
and seemed eager to cut loose by the end of the night,
inviting local duo the Kennedys and opening act Guy
Clark onstage for ensemble versions of Woody Guthrie's
1937 Dust Bowl sing-along "Do Re Mi" and Pete
Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer." Ad-libbed solos from
fleet-fingered guitarist Pete Kennedy and Clark's
mandolinist Verlon Thompson provided welcome edge.
// one wonders if this critic was at the same show some of our
// other folks have reported on? And no guitar in the BMO??? [BP]
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Subject: Re: NN: post review
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:27:04 EST
From: Catelaw@aol.com
> The youthful 45-year-old Texan has never lacked charm, and on this
> night, sporting leather pants
The "leather pants show" must have been after the one we saw. Or maybe the
reviewer had Nanci confused with Pete Kennedy, who was appropriately grunge
in red leather.
The Nanster played two instruments, one dark blue, one wood-grained, both of
which appeared very similar to guitars, but heck, I was 15 feet away, so
maybe they were actually accordians.
Hee hee.
Cate, still wearing a Cheshire cat grin, in Atlanta
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Subject: NN: Re: Post Review
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:45:21 -0500
From: "Shawn Kimbro" (kimbroj@charter.net>
Well --
I'm just sittin' here, mindin' my own business, and workin' out a bluegrass
version to the Back Street Boy's "I Want It That Way," when some reporter
writes that there's no guitar in Nanci's band, and insinuates that she
sounds better with an orchestra. So I'm thinkin', maybe Nanci just outta do
a bluegrass album. A while back someone posted a video of her doin'
"Do-Re-Me" backed by a bluegrass band, and I loved it. I mean, think about
it, wouldn't that be the perfect counterpoint to the last album? And
besides, we heard recently that Hooker can play banjo. So here's some
suggested covers for Nanci & The Bluegrass Orchestra:
Bile Them Bluebonnets Down
Houston Stockade Blues
Girl In The Blue Moon Band
Go Tell Aunt Nanci
I'll Go Two-Steppin' Too
Wing & The Wheel Hoss
Blue Moon of Texas
I Remember Old Joe Clark
Ponchetrain 45
Nobody's Angel Band
How Texas Girls Can Love
Well, c'mon, a guy can dream can't he?
-Shawn
` _________________Nanci Is My Aeroplane___________________
| __ ___ Shawn Kimbro |
| "And they danced | \____o__/_/___| kimbroj@charter.net |
| all night to the \(>-----_/_/____]> Morristown |
| fiddle and banjo" `o | Tennessee |
|__________ http://www.geocities.com/~trailzzone _________|
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Subject: NN: Re: Nanci at the Birchmere
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:10:52 -0500 (EST)
From: "Donate von Bredow-Gardner" (dvbgardner@genelogic.com>
Thank you, Ron and Cate, for a wonderful account of the Birchmere shows.
Cate, we had hoped to meet there -- I'm glad you made it up from Atlanta after
all. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to catch either show although I live only 1/2
hour away from the Birchmere. Between intense litigation activities and
preparing for my own personal gigs, the night life has been passing me by
lately. But I was
certainly able to vicariously experience the evenings through your thorough and
colorful descriptions. Hope Nanci will come around again to the D.C. area some
time soon. This year has already brought many unexpected blessings and a
series of small, wonderful miracles into my life during these past few
months.........there gotta be a few opportunities to see some favorite artists
in the area as well (even though this is a year without Lilith Fair). Perhaps
Nanci will recapture the WolfTrap or Merriweather in the summer......... next
time I'll be there.
Donate "there's always another day" von Bredow-Gardner
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Subject: NN: Stacey Earle
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:16:40 EST
From: Tricia9999@aol.com
I saw Stacey in concert last night and what fun it was. I can certainly
understand the common "like early Nanci" comments. (She even shakes her head
in a similar fashion.) She is not as lyrically sophisticated, but I LOVE her
music, her voice. Her husband, Mark Stuart, is a wonderful guitarist and a
wonderful harmonizer. She forgot the lyrics to "Next Door Down" for just a
second, and even that was charming.
She didn't play very long as she shared the bill with Mollie O'Brien who has
a very nice voice. Nina Gerber and Mollie's husband whose name I've forgotten
played guitar with Mollie.
If you get a chance to go see Stacey, I highly recommend the ticket. Her new
cd is due out next month and it will be one of my must haves. (Sheryl Crow
visits on this one.)
Tricia
np Cliff Eberhardt
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Subject: NN: Starry Starry Nights Again
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:11:12 -0500
From: James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu (James Troiano)
Hello again: A couple of readers took issue with what was perceived to
be my assessment of Nanci's performance in the Mclean special. In
reality, most of what I wrote was quoting Don Mclean. He was in our
local station in Bangor, Maine: he was answering the phone, playing the
guitar and being interviewed. This was a unique opportunity for the
people of Maine to have an insider's view of the concert. As I
previously wrote, Don spoke about how much fun Nanci was, how well
prepared she was for the concert, and praised her high energy and
creativity in the finale of American Pie (she did do a great imitation
of a school girl and Bob Dylan in the appropriate moments of the song.)
I forgot to mention in my previous missive that he also thought that
if he could credit any single individual for the success of the
concert, it was Nanci Griffith. This comment was entirely unsolicited
by the interviewer. I did love the enthusiasm Nanci displayed for Don
as she does for so many other artists, but my preference is always to
see Nanci alone, with the wonderful Blue Moon Orchestra, or the London
Symphony, doing her own magical songs she has blessed us with. So if
any of you think that I am one of those starry-starry eyed Nanci fans,
who feel that she can do no wrong, you are probably correct.
Nevertheless the review I presented was not my own, but Don Mclean's,
and he was a lot closer to what went on than any of us.
Thank you kindly, Jim Troiano
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Subject: NN: Tarrytown Town Clapper
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:12:36 -0500 (EST)
From: James Brock (James.Brock@revolutionmagazine.com>
Bernie wrote:
> While I am rambling, was anyone at the concert in Tarrytown on Friday
> night?
> And if you were, did you see the guy up front that was standing up and
> clapping out of sync to every song, ballads included. Goodnight all.
> Bernie
MY REPLY: I was at the Tarrytown concert, and whoever the guy in the first
row was, standning and clapping and acting the fool, I am glad he was
escorted out of the hall. My concern: If he is indeed mentally
incapacitated, he requires help, and I would be the first to help him. But,
if he is just being an A__, good riddance. One must learn when to clap and
yell and stand and holler...
James Brock
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Subject: Re: NN: Tarrytown Town Clapper
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:50:34 -0500
From: Stanley Zucker (szucker@chelseastudios.com>
I had the pleasure of sitting in the front row of the before mentioned
Tarrytown show and of being close enough to know the story. This guy happens
to consider himself the foremost Guy Clark groupie and was just in an extremely
exuberant mood (he was hammered). The Town Hall staff could have handled the
problem a bit quicker but I would cut them some slack as they are all
volunteers and not professional show security people.
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