// Concert reports -- Nanci in Glasgow, more from the Royal Albert Hall! 
// Some folks like Lucinda Williams, some don't...and more!
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Nanci at Glasgow
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:51:49 -0400 (EDT)
   From: scott_m@talk21.com

Well I said I would share my thoughts, here they are...

Last night of the tour and why not end it in Glasgow – such a loyal,
appreciative audience. We’ve stuck with Nanci since those early days in Govan
Town Hall during the Garden Festival when she kept us waiting almost 3 hours
(yes THREE hours late) and now turned out in force (the ‘Sold Out’ signs have
been up for weeks) to witness a truly remarkable evening of music.

The orchestra (not the ‘Blue Moon’ variety – the other one) kicked things off
with a pleasant mix of well known classics including ‘The William Tell
Overture’! Then she walked on stage to a huge ovation, explained how she felt
as if she had come home again (her grandmother was from Aberdeen, well it’s not
THAT far away) and started signing ‘Trouble..’. I must say the mix of orchestra
(real) and orchestra (Blue Moon) was great – even better than the album. I
wasn’t at the RAH and am sorry to read that there were sound problems but here
in Glasgow it was spot on.

The set was the same as that listed for the RAH. ‘Faucet’ is clearly a song she
enjoys singing (did I mention I had front row seats? I swear I saw a tear in
her eye a few times during the evening) and while it is different to what we
have come to expect from Nanci why should she not indulge herself a little,
it’s her show! Then we had the MAG appeal just before half time. I must say I
didn’t mind too much, we know Nanci likes to talk between songs and what the
hell, we were enjoying ourselves.  

Into the second half and after another little classical interlude (‘March of
the Toreadors’ was in there) we  almost  had a disaster! She started to
introduce ‘Tell me How’ and we could see the BMO getting very agitated. They
were giving each other strange looks but couldn’t attract Nanci’s attention.
Eventually they spoke to the conductor of the Orchestra who bent over and spoke
in her ear. How embarrassed was she!! She was introducing the wrong song – they
were all ready to play LNGH, and what a great job they did of it – magical!

Complaints? Yes, the ‘final’ song ‘Well All Right’. It’s just not Nanci. Maybe
as a finale to the first half it would have worked but not the last song on the
last night of the UK/Eire tour. Anyway, we knew it wouldn’t be her last song of
the night. Glasgow audiences would not let her get away without an encore and
that’s just what we got. She came out alone, no orchestra of any shape or
colour in sight and sang (guitarless) ‘Road to Aberdeen’. Now the night was
complete. It was a striking contrast to what had gone on before and all the
more
memorable for that.  We had witnessed a wonderful mix of music using all sorts
of instruments to provide the music but when it came down to it what we had all
come to hear was Nanci’s voice, and that’s how she left us. The ‘Road to
Aberdeen’ isn’t that long if you start from Glasgow – let’s hope it wont be
long before she comes back ‘home’. 

Scott (in Nanci's spiritual Homeland) M.

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Subject: NN: Glasgow
   Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 12:35:29 GMT
   From: "John Courtney" (jc_riselaw@hotmail.com>

Drifted back to Edinburgh last night on the 11:30 train (the last one - 
having rather unwisely scorned the 10:30 and 11:00) on a cloud of beer and 
what I can only describe as pure nancification.

Nanci was fabulous last night, absolutely at the top of her unique and 
rather peculiar game. She sang superbly and bubbled around the stage with 
the sort of happiness that probably only comes with reaching the end of an 
exhausting tour. (Who designed her itinerary, by the way. It seemed like an 
academic attempt to cover every square inch of English motorway at least 
twice)

Mitch has already filled in the details, so I won't reiterate any of it, 
except to say I have never seen a mistake milked to such wonderful effect 
before.

God only knows what she was wearing. My wife Cath described it as "sort of 
pedal-pushers with a long kind of shiny thing over the top", if that helps.

She finished up by saying she would be back. Good.

John C.

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Subject: NN: Albert Hall
   Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:21:07 +0100
   From: "Pugsley, R.M." (rmp6@leicester.ac.uk>

I'm presuming that they'll be other reviews of this gig so I just want
to get a few impressions down here.
 
Firstly, Nanci was very emotional.  So much so that she could hardly
speak at the beginning. Standing on stage with the London Symphony
Orchestra at the Albert Hall was obviously a big deal for her and she
ket it show.  She's just about recovered her composure for the start of
the seconf set when the orchestra did Barber's Adagio for Strings and
set her off again (incidentally what else did they play, I'm guessing it was
Copland but I don't know for sure, anyone here know?).
 
Secondly, musical highlights, the orchestration on Nobody's Angel and
Outbound Plane (the second was so good it even had the conductor jumping
up and down), the new song (without the orchestra) Living Through This Part
of You (this is a new classic, and has a great instrumental opening bit)
and Late Night Grand Hotel (I just wish this song was longer...) and A Wing
A Wheel was just fantastic. Oh and aforementioned Adagio...
 
Thirdly, musical (and otherwise) lowlights (are there such a thing as
lowlights?), Drips From A Faucet (please no more with the faux jazz thing), the
mix wasn't the best where I was sitting, the orchestra was just too quiet, the
intros - now don;t get me wrong I'm generally a fan of intros but some of these
were longer than the songs themselves and Nanci seems to be leaving longer gaps
between words than ever before in thes intros, so they just seem to go on and
on and finally, no encore!
 
OK, that'll do for now.
 
Robert (Pugsley)
now playing - Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
next up - Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits

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Subject: NN: nanci at the rah
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:24:41 +0200
   From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

Hi,

You can take a look at the photos I made from Nanci during the concert in
Royal Albert Hall May 29, 2000 at http://listen.to/nanci .

Hope you like them.

met vriendelijke groeten,

Hans Janssen.
http://tradefolk.da.ru/

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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci at RAH, London - setlist?
   Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:19:17 +0200
   From: Georg (gvallest@c2i.net>

Matthew Bloomfield wrote:
>I'm not a fan of classical music, no real reason, I just can't
>appreciate it like others do, and as such was most dissapointed that
>both halves started with the LSO sans Nanci.  

I agree it was too much LSO before Nanci came on to the stage. My 
daughter got impatient and kept on asking me for when she would appear, 
and I don't know how many times I had to answer 'soon'. When you also
count the MAG presentation, we got only about half an hour with Nanci before
the intermission. The next part she was on stage for about 50-55 minutes(?).

>From our 8th row small and narrow RAH seats we had a very good view of
the stage, and Nanci's voice was brilliant. Highlights for me were to finally
here her sing the favorite track from my favorite album (LNGH) and the new
song, 'Travelling to this part of you', which make me long for a album with 
NEW Nanci songs. Unlike Robert, I also enjoyed 'Drops From The Faucet' very
much. I love that song.
Let's hope BBC will broadcast part of this concert.

I have read various reports on Nanci's new guitar player earlier this year.
I think he did a very good job, and fits well within the BMO.

I haven't seen the setlist posted yet. Does anyone have it?

Now I look forward to Nanci touring Europe and visiting Norway with the BMO
again.  When will this happen?

Georg

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Subject: RE: NN: Nanci at RAH, London - setlist?
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:46:51 +0100
   From: "Pugsley, R.M." (rmp6@leicester.ac.uk>

I've just been transferring from the digest to the non-digest,
did I miss the setlist?

Robert (Pugsley)

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Subject: NN: RAH Setlist
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:00:18 +0100
   From: "Mike Barrett" (mikebarrettuk@hotmail.com>

The setlist was as follows -

Trouble In The Fields
Love At The Five And Dime
These Days In An Open Book
Nobody's Angel
Gulf Coast Highway
Drops From The Faucet
If I Had A Hammer

(Intermission)

Always Will
Not My Way Home
Outbound Plane
It's a Hard life
Late Night Grande Hotel
Tell Me How
This Heart
The Wing And The Wheel
Travelling Through This Part Of You
Well All Right

Great show, particularly memorable for me as firstly I've never been to the
RAH before - and isn't the Albert Memorial opposite an impressive sight? -
and secondly I've never been that close to the stage, and consequently to
Nanci, before.

Hans' photographs on his web site are nice too!

Mike Barrett

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Subject: NN: Re: Nanci at RAH, London
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:53:04 +0100
   From: "Tricky" (tricky@reeves.swinternet.co.uk>

Er, hello. Just subbed after finding this list while looking for set-
lists and such last week. Saw the Birmigham show at the start of the 
tour, and decided that it was going to be worth the trip to London 
for the RAH gig. Also took along a friend who'd just been played 
Flyer and the MCA best of. My guinea-pig, so to speak :-) 

Matt: 
> About 80% of the top balcony and a fair amount of the middle two were
> empty so the hall was far from full capacity.  
It looked alright. Symphony Hall looked full, though. 

> I was actually seated to the right
> of the stage (as you look at it), and was able to get a good view of Mr
> Hooker's fingers dancing across the keys. 
Must have been almost opposite you, then. It's a lovely venue. Sound 
not as good as Birmingham, but SH is the best there is, so to speak.

> The unfortunate lady behind me
> must've had drawing pins on her seat because as she shifted at the end of
> each song she let out a loud yelp.
HeHe :-)
 
> More dissapointingly, the atmosphere of part one was spoilt by the
> introduction, before the last song, of two guys from MAG.  This was
> wholly unnecessary (IMHO), when all they came on to do was repeat what
> Nanci had said 30 seconds before.  With the LSOs performances and this
> interuption I think we actually got less Nanci than at Hemel :-(  
That was my concern, that the orchestra and the MAG stuff took up 
time. My guinea-pig, however,wasn't impressed with the "stop the gig 
and ask for money" side of it. Not that we don't recognise the hard 
and dangerous work they do, but they could have used the interval. 

But, there were too many wonderful moments to list. The highlight for 
me was the reason I went (that makes sense :-) ), and that was to 
(finally) hear ...Hotel live. My favourite Nanci track, and played so 
well. I was worried for a moment that LNGH had been dropped in favour 
of something else, and was having a minor panic attack as time drew 
on :-)   

> An absolutely beautiful version of the Wing and The Wheel was
> followed by This Heart which was slaughtered, dear me, pass the
> earplugs please. It got rapturous applause tho', I must've missed
> something!
The sound mixing was awful, really. At last the loudest in the mix 
was Nanci and her guitar.

> case of It's a Hard Life had the trumpets drowning out Chas Williams'
> guitar.  Talking of Chas, he performed much better than at Hemel, I spoke
> of him being almost aloof there, whereas here he seemed much more a part
> of things.  
Loved the "As opposed to Buuuuurminghaaaaam, England" intro, but 
being a Brummie, I would. At the SH, on the first day of the tour, 
that seemed quite ironic that his first UK gig was in his hometowns 
namesake. He's a great player, to say the least.  
 
> Overall it was a good night, certainly different, and certainly
> memorable.  The lack of an encore was a little disspointing although
> with hindsight, it's difficult to see how you can "spontaneously"
> come back out on stage against the tidal flow of an orchestra.  
I missed "Road to Aberdeen", but I too couldn't see how she'd have 
done that.

> One final mention for James Hooker, his Gulf Coast Highway Duet is the
> best of the lot.
Definitely. Cracking voice he's got. Fits the song to a tee.

Cheers,

Richard

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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci at RAH, London - recorded?
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 00 13:42:07 +0100
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

I have noticed that a number of people have mentioned that they hope a 
recording of the Royal  Albert Hall concert is broadcast soon. 

Well I may be wrong, but I've never heard mention of any organisation 
recording the show and there was certainly no evidence of it being 
recorded on the evening. 

I stand to be corrected if anyone has information to the contrary.

John Graveling

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Subject: NN: Re: Broadcast, was: Nanci at RAH, London - recorded?
   Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:14:11 +0200
   From: Georg (gvallest@c2i.net>

It was just a thought. Since Nanci broadcasts seems to happen quite 
often in UK, isn't it a small possibility that one of last month's 
concerts may turn into a broadcast?

Georg

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Subject: NN: Nanci in Glasgow
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:47:38 -0000
   From: "Mitch" (Mitch.M@tesco.net>

I was fortunate enough to attend nanci's show last night in Glasgow.  
She was brill.  She semed very high and looked as though she was really 
having fun.

In the second half of the concert she got a bit mixed up an almost 
missed out a song which seemed to make the audience and the rest of the 
BMO laugh.  Poor Nanci.

To top it all off, not only did I have a front row seat I got to meet 
the lady herself as I managed to get a back stage pass form someone. I 
had a brief conversation with her and then chatted to Lee a bit.   A 
great end to a very enjoyable evening.

P.S.  Does anyone know anything about her doing extra dates in 
September?

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Subject: NN: Champion of Chirp
   Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:13:42 -0700
   From: "KENDRICK,TOM (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" (tom_kendrick@hp.com>

Well, one thing you can never accuse United Airlines 
of is having up-to-date magazines.  I was flying last 
week and picked up the May 12 "Entertainment Weekly," 
which included a review of the new Stacy Earle CD (p. 79).  
It said:

"... She has an extremely squeaky voice.  She 
outsqueaks even the former champion of chirp, Nanci 
Griffith."
 
Tom "what the heck does AOL/Time know anyway?" Kendrick
San Carlos, CA

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Subject: NN: orchestras
   Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:14:22 -0600
   From: "Deb Thornton" (68coyotes@onms.com>

Having driven 800 miles one way to see Joni Mitchell in San Francisco a
couple of weeks ago, I have to say that the reviews of the concerts may
have been mixed (ain't been reading the Mitchell list very closely in the
last ten days), but several orchestra members have said that the pieces
were very complex--surprisingly intricate and aesthetically pleasing--and
difficult to play. People have always crabbed when Mitchell's done
something new, which is essentially every time she's released an album in
the last 24 years.

Gonna wreck my stockings in some Torrey dive,
deb thornton

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Subject: Re: NN: orchestras
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
   From: odddduck@deltanet.com (Bill Lukesh)

>Having driven 800 miles one way to see Joni Mitchell in San Francisco a
>couple of weeks ago, I have to say that the reviews of the concerts may
>have been mixed (ain't been reading the Mitchell list very closely in the
>last ten days), but several orchestra members have said that the pieces
>were very complex--surprisingly intricate and aesthetically pleasing--and
>difficult to play. People have always crabbed when Mitchell's done
>something new, which is essentially every time she's released an album 

  Classical violinist (Nigel) Kennedy has an instumental version of a  Joni
Mitchell song on his new album of encores. I honestly don't remember which
song, I just sort of looked at the back cover at the store. But I was kind
of impressed  to see her name down along side of the usual suspects on such
an album like Bach and Paganini. 

 Bill Lukesh

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Subject: NN: re: Lucinda Williams (NNC)
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:06:35 EDT
   From: PRobin5478@aol.com

Dear List --

Since a lot of Nanci-listers are also fans of Lucinda Williams (or should 
be), I want to call your attention to a long article in this week's New 
Yorker by Bill Buford about Lucinda.

An interesting article about LW, Southern storytellers, and difficult people. 
It has some interesting background about the people behind LW's songs.

Worth a look.

Peter in SoCal
(wishing he had been one of the holes filling the Albert Hall)

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   Subject: Re: NN: re: Lucinda Williams
      Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 05:57:01 GMT
      From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)

I heard a version of "Wings of a Dove" sung by Lucinda Williams and
Nanci. Does anyone know what record that was on?

john

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Subject: NN: re: Lucinda Williams
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:05:24 +0200
   From: "Marius Molstad" (marius.molstad@c2i.net>

Well, it's on Nanci's "Other voices,too" album, but I don't know if it's on any
Williams' albums. 

By the way, everybody seem to love Williams, but I don't like her voice, at
least from what I've heard. It's probably something wrong with me I guess. She
sang "Here in California" on a Kate Wolf tribute and I think it's painful to
listen to. Don't attack me, I give her a new chance....someday(G>.

Marius Molstad

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Subject: Re: NN: re: Lucinda Williams
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:31:59 -0700 (PDT)
   From: John Alvord (jalvo@mbay.net>

Thanks... I have that album, but never listened to it all. I like more
Nanci and more sweetness...

Lucinda has the West Texas roughness in her voice. Like a teenage Tom
Waits.

(Odd. I can usually remember songs without prompting. Recently I ran
across a Bruce Springsteen song "Janey Don't You Worry" which has never
been on a studio album, but was on an official bootleg "Tracks" boxset,
and I can't seem to stop hearing it.)

My favorite Lucinda W. song is "Sweet Old World", partly for very personal
reasons and partly for the melody.

John Alvord

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From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
Subject: NN: Lucinda Williams's voice

I love Lucinda Williams's voice but there are many who
hate it and can't get past it.  If my memory serves me
well, a few years back a similar discussion broke out
here on the nanci-net about Iris Dement's voice, which
likewise raises creates passionate lovers and haters.

Since we all came to Nanci for different reasons, I
don't think this is surprising.  A lot of people love
Nanci because her voice is so pretty and presumably
like other singers for the same reason.  I love
Nanci's songs and her voice has never been the factor
with me that it has with lots of you.  Consequently,
there are artists many on this list love that bore me
because I find their songs much weaker than Nanci's
and the classic beauty of their voices doesn't
interest me.  But as the much-belittled, much-beloved
Mr. Dylan sang, "And if you won't underestimate me/I
swear I won't underestiomate you."

Reid Sententious Mitchell


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Subject: NN: Interview - Sara Hickman - Austin's Singing Angel - Part Two
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 03:22:51 EDT
   From: KFYI@aol.com

Part Two of an interview with Sara Hickman - Austin's Singing Angel is now 
posted at:

http://members.xoom.com/Newsstory2/sara/Questions.htm

Sincerely, 
Paul Johnston

News Story

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Subject: NN: Nanci Website
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:51:56 -0000
   From: "Mitch" (Mitch.M@tesco.net>

A good few months ago someone form nancinet had put together a new 
website with Nanci content which was great.  All I can remember about it 
is that it had blue roses at the top of the main page. I had a note of 
it but have changed e-mail address and provider and can't seem to find 
it.  Can anyone help?

// Could that be the Peete's great site, http://nanci-griffith.com [BP]


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