NanciNet Digest 12-16-01
// This started out as a slow week on the list...
// And then things took off on the weekend.
// Enjoy! [BP
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Subject: NN: Annual Music Exchange ???
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:30:11 -0500
From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>
Just wondering if Bill Peete was organizing another Holiday Tape/CDR exchange?
Hint! Hint!
I have been introduced to some wonderful music and have purchased quite a
few Cds by the artists I first heard on those compilation tapes. It's also
a chance to get to know another Nancinetter through their musical interests.
Mike "Rockin around the Christmas Tree" Chesman
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Subject: Re: NN: Annual Music Exchange ???
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:57:43 -0800
From: Bill Peete (billpeet@cruzio.com>
I got it Mike! I'm a bit late getting this rolling this year, but here's how
it goes...
For each of the last six years, we've held a "Holiday Tape Exchange" that
turned out to be a lot of fun. If anyone is interested in doing the same
thing this year, you may participate by letting me know, and then making a
100 (or 90 if you prefer) minute tape of some of your favorite *NON* Nanci
tunes. For the high-tech folks with CD recorders, I think it would be okay
to substitute a cd for a tape.
If you'd like to participate this year, reply to this message, by December
31, 2001. When replying, be sure to change the address from:
nanci@world.std.com
to:
billpeet@cruzio.com
In other words, private e-mail, so's not to clutter up the list. A simple "I
want in" is sufficient. I will confirm your entry by replying with a simple
"ok". Don't fret too much if you don't get an immediate ok... between work
and other fun stuff, my on-line time has been suffering, but be patient.
Thank yew kindly!
As in previous years, I will toss all the participants names into my Nanci
"Flyer" hat and will draw names to determine who gets who's tape. Witnesses
will be present. Within a few days, of December 31, I'll post one public
message that tells you who to send your tape/cd to.
Holiday Cheers,
-bill
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Subject: NN: Remasters
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:02:15 EST
From: RoanInish@aol.com
I recently learned that "There's a Light Beyond These Woods," "Poet in My
Window," and "Once in a Very Blue Moon" will be re-released in remastered
form on January 8, 2002. As of yet no word on "Last of the True Believers."
Anyone got any more information?
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Subject: Re: NN: Remasters
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:09:00 EST
From: Halesbop@aol.com
Great news, especially since while I have all these on vinyl, I still
haven't gotten around to buying every one on cd. Would be cool if some
bonus tracks were included, in typical reissue fashion.
What would be nice if a Nanci--the Early Years disc could come out,
with BFD material or other pre-Philo recorded stuff that may exist
(not that I know that there is any).
Steve
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Subject: NN: Friday night's heart felt moment!
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 06:21:31 +0000
From: Karen Schrempp (celtic2000@postmark.net>
I posted pieces of this to the EmmyLou site, but wanted to pass this
on to you all too. We're walking towards the Beacon Friday night, and
the marquee flashes 'Sheryl Crow' as the last name on the Landmine
Concert participants. This was new to us. The show starts, the lights
dim, and EmmyLou enters and introduces everyone....starting on the
far side from us was John Jennings, MCC, Bruce, EL, Sheryl, Steve,
empty seat with microphone and keyboard is covered....hummmmmm?????
We were in Stamford last year, which Nanci was giving her all. That
show was over the top, but this was even better....there was TONS of
harmonizing. The Landmine concert's are done in rounds .. As the
rounds finishes, Ms. Harris tells us, just when you didn't think it
could get any better, she says James Lee Hooker and the audience went
nuts...one of those moments, and Nanci, unscheduled, but appearing at
the Beacon this Monday, and James Lee appear on the stage. Nanci
endearingly speaks of the background of what's coming up and everyone
joins in on "It's Hard Life"... and then an encore. Monday at the
Beacon can not get here quickly enough.
Peace,
Karen
Karen Schrempp
celtic2000@postmark.net
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Subject: NN: Sarah Elizabeth Campbell
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:46:07 -0600
From: Ed Maier (evmaier@dhc.net>
I came across her album "A Little Tenderness" at my
favorite used CD hangout. Her songwriting is excellent,
her delivery is rock solid, and her voice is gutsy
and down to earth. The album was produced by Nina
Gerber (which prompted me to buy it), and made in
Canada by Dejadisk. This is some really good folk
music. Anyone know anything more about her?
Ed Maier
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Subject: NN: Help! Need A Reception Song
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:38:46 -0600
From: "Andrew DeYoung" (ADEYOUNG@houston.rr.com>
Hey. My daughter Jenny, currently attending Texas A&M, is getting
married May 25th to a fellow Ag. Her fiance is an Ag and graduating in
May. I'm trying to work with her on selecting a Father-Daughter dance
song at the wedding reception. I really like Robert Earl Keen's
rendition of Johnny and Roy Cash's "I Still Miss Someone", but for a
variety of pretty good reasons (I guess, sniff) it got axed. Too bad,
because Jenny and I both love Robert Earl (he's bridged the generation
gap), and he is after all an Aggie! I then thought about TVZ's "If I
Needed You" as performed by Lyle (another Aggie and Robert Earl's
roommate) but again, the lyrics didn't work for the dance. And I have
been told by more than a few people that, YES people DO listen to the
lyrics. Finally, I thought of "Turn Around", which made much more
sense of a father's lament AND joy in his daughter's moving on. This
song has been covered by many, including Nanci (OVOR) and the Kingston
Trio ("Time To Think", 1963). I must say I like the Trio version
better, as it reflects the male perspective (i.e. ME!!). I haven't
heard Belafonte's version and am certainly open to other suggestions.
Please, if you can think of other songs appropriate for the occassion, I
open to suggestions!!!!!
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Andy in Galveston County, TEXAS
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Subject: Re: NN: Help! Need A Reception Song
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:07:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Anna McCalman (carwheels_2000@yahoo.com>
I have a question of another sort about wedding songs,
so I'm glad y'all brought that up.
I'm singing at my best friend's wedding next year and
need a song. Not the usual Ave Maria or Lord's Prayer
(although they are beautiful)---and no Ice Castles ;)
I can't think of anything right off the top of my head...
Anna 'Raining fat cats and large dogs in Memphis' Mac
P.S. Hope everybody is having a good holiday season.
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Subject: Re: NN: Help! Need A Reception Song
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:13:20 -0600
From: "Tina Shackleford" (tshack@sprynet.com>
A Perfect World, by Kate Campbell
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Subject: Re: NN: Help! Need A Reception Song
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:45:21 -0000
From: "Paul Reeve" (paul@preeve.clara.co.uk>
Why not try John Rutter's Gaelic Blessing - my choir sang that for a big
(and I mean b i g) wedding in the summer - along with 4 other pieces and 5
hymns(!). It is lovely
Paul
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Subject: Re: NN: Help! Need A Reception Song
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:01:53 -0000
From: "Dean Akrill" (dakrill@fish.co.uk>
This is not much help, but my Dad wanted "High Noon", fortunately he was
already married before he thought of this, otherwise I'm sure my Mother
would have walked out!
You could always go for the comic angle, there's an old English music hall
number called "Waiting at the Church";
"Sorry, I can't marry you today, because my wife won't let me"
Or, then again, perhaps not,
Dean.
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Subject: NN: Nanci in Northeast U.S.
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:26:46 -0500
From: "Michael Harrison" (miketeked@hotmail.com>
Tickets went on sale yesterday for Nanci's Feb. 23 appearance in Albany, NY.
I'm really looking forward to seeing her again, and it looks like a very
interesting building in Albany called "The Egg". Check it out at
www.theegg.org. You may want to take a look at the other artists scheduled
to be there (Bela Fleck, Joan Baez, etc.).
Also, her Austin City Limits show with Mary Chapin Carpenter is scheduled to
be showing on New Hampshire Public TV on Saturday, Dec. 22 at 11:00pm EST.
Michael in New Hampshire
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Subject: Re: NN: Reception Song, and Mpls. Benefit Concert
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:52:06 EST
From: Brimpls@aol.com
A good friend of mine gave his daughter away in marriage last June, and he,
being a musician, agonized over what song would be perfect for their
father/daughter dance. They ended up with "It's A Wonderful World" and I
believe the recording has Louis Armstrong singing.
I saw a bit of the video of the event and it made me cry!
Also, a follow-up to the Minneapolis benefit concert at which Nanci graced us
with her presence on November 12. I received a thank-you letter from the
Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery monks with a report that the benefit concert
netted over $60,000. That was met with a challenge grant of $50,000.
They have purchased a three-level home in the northern suburbs which will
serve as a residence for the monks and for teaching dharma students.
This is good! I am now on their official mailing list so will be able to
stay in touch that way. I hope to attend some of their events in the future.
Thanks, Nanci!
Sabrina in Mpls.
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Subject: NN: Nanci Griffith-Julie Gold exchange
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:56:20 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
I thought I would pass along this exchange of e-mails from two djs that some
on this list might find interesting and, indeed, even heartwarming:
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"I just wanted to share a touching note I rcvd from Julie Gold.
On Monday,12/10, Julie was asked by Nanci Griffith (unexpectedly) to join
her on the stage of the Beacon Theater (NYC) and perform her "Goodnight NY"--
after which Nanci sang Julie's "From A Distance". She says that the audience
rose as one with a standing ovation -- and this is probably one of the great
highlights of her life."
This was the reply:
"And Nanci's another Dar Williams, isn't she? -- Never forgets old friends,
always remembers past links. That's such a tribute to both of them, seems to
me. Thanks for passing it on, Bill -- it's so nice to hear in this eerily
troubled season of "peace on Earth, good will to men."
Really warms the cockles (What *are* cockles?) - John"
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Subject: NN: Nanci in NY
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:29 -0500
From: "James Troiano" (James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu>
Hi folks: I am back from seeing Nanci at a soldout performance at New York's
Beacon Theater. I have seen her many times, but this had to be her best
performance. She looked wonderful and was in high spirits. Wendy helped me
with this description of her clothes: she had a merlot fringed skirt, boots, a
black jacket, and a sunset colored scarf. She opened with "Speed of the Sound
of Loneliness, followed by Trouble in the Fields, Ghost inside of You, Mary
Margaret-the crowd went wild at "Let's go to N.Y. City,"- Clock Without hands,
Dickey Chapelle, Across the Great Divide, Shaking out the Snow, Gulf Coast
Highway, From a Distance, Lost Him in the Sun, Armstrong, Traveling Through
this Part of You, If I Had a Hammer, encore of a Phil Ochs song. Julie Gold
sang a song entitled "Goodnight N.Y." Nanci praised John Stewart as a hero and
angel before singing his marvelous songs. She said that "Shaking out the Snow
" is her weirdest song and James had given her the music to this and she then
wrote the lyrics. She said her brother is still her hero after all these years.
Nanci dedicated "Where Would I Be" to her fans who have stood by her in her
darkest moments and are responsible for her being on stage. This concert was
originally scheduled for Sept. 14 and she said comforting words to N.Y. for
what it has suffered and continues to suffer. She joked about Madonna, by
saying that one of Nanci's guitars was giving her trouble because it wanted to
go on the Madonna tour. She then insisted that she was not about to change her
clothes. This was all in fun. There are probably some highlights that I
forgot, but Wendy and I are still reeling from the is magnificent performance.
The lovely theater and wildly enthusiastic fans certainly helped. Thank you
again Nanci for giving your fans so much.
Jim
PS I have Vince Bell's latest CD "Live in Texas" and Cate is right , it is
wonderful. I have had a tough time taking it of the CD player. Vince Bell is
one of our great songwriters and I am still on a high from meeting him and his
lovely wife Sarah in Atlanta last year.
Thank you kindly,
Jim
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Subject: NN: Re: Reception Song
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:02:06 -0600
From: "Chevelle" (chevelle@pnx.com>
If y'all are a bit on the daring and humorous side, try Todd Snider's
"Just In Case" from his latest CD, "Happy To Be Here".
A sweet song from the same CD is "All My Life". The refrain goes
"I've waited all my life for you".
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Subject: NN: Fwd: PIMTV videos
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:18:50 -0800 (PST)
From: PIMTV (poetvids@yahoo.com>
NNers,
I'm resending this message because the video tapes are about to start going
out, and some who are interested in copies may have missed this when it
originally went out, just before the tragedies in the U.S. in September.
Take care all,
Julie
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PIMTV (poetvids@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
NNetters,
As the keeper of the results of a NNet group effort to get as much TV
footage of Nanci in one place for circulating among NNers via the Poet In My
Television tapes, some of the posts in recent months have gotten me thinking
that it's time for another round of videos. Each time I see a post longing
to hear Nanci perform her older material, sing a particular song live, sing
a particular song with a particular duet partner, etc., I think of the trove
of video tapes in the "archive" here at my house because all that stuff is
in there. So volumes 5&6 are definitely going out this Fall, and hopefully
volumes 7&8 will go out at the same time, if all goes well. Each tape will
have 2 hrs. of footage spanning the mid-80's to recent years.
If you'd like a set of tapes, please reply to this message
(poetvids@yahoo.com - not the NNet list!) with your name and mailing address
and indicate whether you'd like your tapes in U.S. format (NTSC) or non-U.S.
format (PAL). You'll then receive information about the tape branch you're
on and how to make payment for your set. Tape sets are expected to be in
the neighborhood of US$12 for each 2-volume set, but we'll know more exactly
when we know how many people want sets (i.e., total project costs divided by
number of sets requested). This is a tape sharing project only, and no
profit is made; what you pay simply reimburses for costs - blank tapes,
postage, converting footage, etc.
If you'd like to contribute any Nanci appearances you've captured on video,
please let me know. And, if you'd like to help with this round of the
project, feel free to volunteer. Thanks again to Bob Ivers and John Hodges
for the initial idea years ago when volumes 1&2 were done.
I'm looking forward to getting more of this footage out there for all to
share and enjoy.
.....she was a "small child with a big dream"......
Julie
p.s. Rob Remig, the last email address I have for you bounces. Drop me a
line so I can talk to you about your tapes. Thanks.
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Subject: NN: for Dave Bronsveld and Colin Russell (no NG content)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:09:03 -0800 (PST)
From: PIMTV (poetvids@yahoo.com>
Sorry to use the list for this...
Dave and Colin - I need your new email addresses so I can get in touch with
you about your PIMTV video tapes.
Thanks,
Julie
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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci and stargazing
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:43:07 -0800
From: "Julie" (julieanne-101@home.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Chesman" (chesman@preferred.com>
> As planetarium director at Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport, TN, you've
> given me another great rationale as to why I need to bring so many of my
> Nanci recordings to work with me ;-)
> Believe me a lot of those night sky references in Nanci's songs have not
> passed this astro-nut unnoticed! I'm sure fellow stargazer Kenn Lippert
> would agree. And much thanks to another Nancinetter, Julie Broyles, who
> made the trip up to Palomar Observatory in California just to get me a few
> astro-trinkets for my too many collections. I guess I have had some
> astronomy fun over the Nancinet these past years... among discussions of
> blue moons, meteor showers, eclipses and other such goodies.
Mike,
Thank you for the kind words. It's great to make NNet friends and also find
you have other interests in common with them. And you have been a "stellar"
friend to me all the years I've known you.
Here's an interesting archeo-astronomy tidbit with something of a Nanci
ink --- There's a picture on the nancigriffith.com web page of Nanci on a
colorfully festooned pony at Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia - probably taken
while she was on the Campaign for a Landmine Free World. This temple, like
so many ancient structures built with certain alignments to the heavens and
their movements, was constructed to reflect the constellation Draco (the
dragon), which was situated so it passed directly above the temple location
at the time it was built. (Draco, which you probably know, contains the
star Thuban, which was the North Star some 4,000 years ago.)
You and Shawn pulled together such an impressive list of Nanci-sky
references in her lyrics, I turned to some of her rarities and covers for
more celestial songmaking. This one stands out for me, a song Nanci wrote
and recorded (with Robert Earl Keen?) but never put on one of her own
albums:
from Moon of the Misbegotten:
"Love's a new moon misbegotten
with no memories to blame
There's a new moon on the ocean
but the sun rests on the waves
Waiting till the stars are out
to put the sun to shame"
A couple of the songs on Clock Without Hands reminded me of this song,
because it was, before CWH came out, Nanci's "only pure love song" (quoting
from a review by, I believe, Mark Ferguson). I don't think she's been so
plainly expressive about a love without some kind of heartache until
Midnight in Missoula. (Oh, but there was Marie & Omie, and Roseville Fair,
and .....) Though Last Song For Mother is her most beautiful love song, and
manages to be both her saddest and most rejoiceful song of all.
All my best,
Julie
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Subject: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:50:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Page (bpage3@yahoo.com>
CDNow has compiled their "Best of 2001" lists for several genres of music.
In the folk category, their choices are:
1. Lucinda Williams: Essence
2. Loudon Wainwright, III: Last Man on Earth
3. Tom Russell: Borderline
4. Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: Drum Hat Buddha
5. Kelly Joe Phelps: Sky Like a Broken Clock
6. Catie Curtis: My Shirt Looks Good on You
7. Lucy Kaplansky: Every Single Day
8. Buddy and Julie Miller: Buddy and Julie Miller
9. Nanci Griffith: Clock without Hands
10. Various Artists: Concerts for a Landmine Free World
Comments? Disagreements?
Bill "I only have one of these" Page
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:09:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
> Bill "I only have one of these" Page
Bill, I only have two of 'em myself--Nanci's and
Lucinda's. I knew that no matter how good Lucinda's
follow-up to "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" was, I'd
find it a let-down. And I did, which doesn't mean it
isn't a fine album in its own right.
I hardly keep up with music as it comes out, being
usually off on some self-imposed quest to find Zambian
guitar music from the 1950s or some such, but I'd like
to mention two 2001 cds that intrigued me. The first
one I would never have heard of except it was assigned
to me to review for a webzine. "Big Rock" by Big
Smith, a stunning cd, maybe something like what you
would have had if Dylan had taken a bluegrass band
with him along Highway 61. Another one I liked this
year, by an English skiffle group The Hot Tamales, was
the very clever "Excusez-Moi!"
I doubt either of these will make many people's top
ten lists but each group has a web page with music
files if people want to give 'e, a listen.
Reid Mitchell
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:41:40 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
I was going to be working on my list this weekend but I know that two albums
not on the above list, "Love and Theft" by Bob Dylan and "The Houston Kid"
by Rodney Crowell will be at or near the top of mine.
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:34:32 -0000
From: "Dean Akrill" (dakrill@fish.co.uk>
I too would go for Rodney Crowell's, "The Houston Kid",
not very well known this side of the pond, but I bought it on a whim after
hearing it playing in a record shop. I'd also add Ryan Adams' "Gold", that
Kid's got big things ahead of him, he even got radio play here in England, a
big acheivement considering the poor state of our music scene at the moment.
Now down to the more obscure stuff. Eddi Reader is a female
singer/songwriter from Scotland, I've no idea if she's made it state side.
She draws in elements of folk, Jazz and Country. Eddi has an amazing voice
with incredible range, her new album "Simple Soul" is just sublime.
Juliet Turner is an Irish songwriter, sort of folk/Rock, I suppose, try
imagining a female cross between Bruce Cockburn and Van Morrison. Her album
"Burn the black suit" is already amongst my all time favourites, she's also
pretty good live.
And finally, there's Tom Mcrae, his new album, entitled simply "Tom Mcrae"
is a very english affair, beautiful acoustic music with a pastoral feel,
sort of like Nick Drake, but with extra bite.
Oh, and then there's Nanci of course, top of the list, not quite as good as
"Flyer", but probably my second favourite Nanci recording.
This is frightening, I spend far too much money on CD's!
Love, Peace, and mulled wine,
Dean.
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:29:23 -0600
From: "Tina Shackleford" (tshack@sprynet.com>
> I was going to be working on my list this weekend but I know that
> two albums not on the above list, "Love and Theft" by Bob Dylan and
> "The Houston Kid" by Rodney Crowell will be at or near the top of mine.
CD Now's Country List puts Crowell at #2, after O Brother, just before Patty
Loveless and Dolly Parton. Definitely striking a blow for roots music, or
Americana, or whatever.
Gillian Welch's album is on the Alternative top 10; Dylan and Ryan Adams
make the Rock list. Lucinda makes both Rock and Folk... As someone else
pointed out, categorizations can make scratch your head. Glad they're all
mentioned, though.
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:24:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Johnsen (wsjohnsen@yahoo.com>
I have to agree with the Rodney Crowell album.
This is the first I've heard of him.
I find this is a CD that I keep coming back to. I love it.
As far as Eddi Reader goes, she has been getting a lot of air time on WUMB in
Boston. So in the Boston area anyway, she is relatively well known.
(wumb.org) I have to agree here too, she is fabulous.
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: 15 Dec 2001 16:05:56 +0000
From: "Matt Bloomfield" (mailm@tthewb.u-net.com>
> 1. Lucinda Williams: Essence
> 3. Tom Russell: Borderline
> 7. Lucy Kaplansky: Every Single Day
> 9. Nanci Griffith: Clock without Hands
I have the above four, the order is probably about right, although I
might swap around Lucinda and Tom. Depends on the mood.
I think it's been a very good year for releases, certainly I bought
more new ones this year than ever before, normally I wait for the
prices to sink first.
I thought *Mary Chapin Carpenter's Time, Sex, Love* might've got a
mention. I like the album a lot.
There are a few albums released this year that I want for Chrimbo and
haven't heard yet (The Townes Van Zandt Tribute, for example) so my
favourites may change but other albums I've played over and over this
years are:
*Luke Doucet's "Aloha Manitoba"* which I bought when he opened for Tom
Russell in London. This guy is very good, check him out
http://www.lukedoucet.com
*Kate Rusby's "Little Lights"*, deserved more attention than it got I
think.
*Nerina Pallot - "Dear Frustrated Superstar"*. Probably my favourite
album this year.
*Nelly Furtado - "Whoa Nelly! "* Original and eclectic, not quite as
good as the single "I'm Like a Bird" would lead you to believe but
still a very good album.
Non-2001 releases I bought this year that every one should have.
*Various John Prine *- bought quite a few of his albums this year and
love every one of them.
*Dar Williams - "The Green World"*, had it been released this year it
would've been my album of 2001. She is also brillant live and a
lovely lady to meet. I cannot praise her and her music enough.
Thems all the ones that spring to mind. Might've forgotten some as
I've bought much more than usual this year.
Is anyone compiling a NN top 10 this year?
Matt
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Subject: Re: NN: Best of 2001?
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 01 17:14:57 -0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Rodney Crowell is actually quite well known here in the U.K. and of
course his stunning cd, "The Houston Kid", was released way back in
January (it just does not seem that long ago). Rodney toured the U.K. to
support the release of the cd in June and is heading back here for a tour
starting about January 18th. He will be accompanied, once again, by ace
guitar player, Will Kimbrough, who has his own excellent cd, "This", out
on Gravity Records.
John "kepping y'all informed" Graveling
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Subject: NN: Re: Best of 2001?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:01:39 -0500
From: tshack@sprynet.com
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' "Time (the Revelator)" is a surprising
omission. It's my #2 album for the year, after Lucinda Williams.
(At least right now.)
Tina
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Subject: NN: 2001
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:34:41 -0800 (PST)
From: todd williams (towengmjr@yahoo.com>
Being a relatively poor (financially that is) college
professor who, unfortunately, spends a lot more money
on books in a year than on music, I bought less than
10 new albums this year.
Sorry music buffs, I'm just not that cool. I may not
be worthy, but here's what I think of what I did buy
this year.
Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith, Alison Krauss, and, to a
lesser extent, Lucinda Williams, all put out
disappointing albums this year. And, they are four of
my all time favorite artists...so it goes, rough year
for me musically.
I must agree with what someone said earlier; Lucinda's
album was not going to out do "Car Wheels" either way,
but still wasn't half bad. It has a few songs that I
like a lot. So does Bob's album, but it has a lot of
ho-hum songs too. But let's face it, Bob hasn't been
Bob in 30 years (just like Nanci hasn't been Nanci in
10). I guess if I had to pick a favorite album this
year, of the few albums I bought, it might be Suzanne
Vega's latest. Remember her? She used to be great,
then she put out two incomprehensibly horrible albums
and spent several years before releasing each. Well,
she seems to be back to form on her latest.
Unfortunately I was pretty much over her ten years
ago, so I might still put Lucinda or Bob over her, but
it's good to see Suzanne back anyway. Any old-school
Vega fans out there?
Oh yeah, I didn't especially like Dar's live album
either (heard it but didn't buy it).
IMO 2001 was a good year to go through the vinyl bins
at your local used record shop, which is always fun to
do anyway.
Maybe I need some new musical artists in my life. I'm
always open to suggestions.
Happy Holidays,
Todd
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Subject: Re: NN: 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: keithhouse@cix.compulink.co.uk (K House Liberal Democrats)
Totally agree on Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red & Grey is one of the best of
the year!
k.
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Subject: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:34:55 -0500
From: "Ken Stiffler" (ksmsc@kmsx.net>
Todd wrote:
>>Maybe I need some new musical artists in my life. I'm
always open to suggestions. ((
Nerissa and Katryna Nields have a new CD "Love and China" due out March 5th
from Zoe Records. Considering the new songs they are performing live, this
CD may finally get them the recognition they deserve. OK, probably not.
Being Nanci fans, we all have some idea of the current state of the music
industry. . . Still, we can hope.
Which raises a question:
Of the artists falling in the same musical genres that Nanci regularly fits
into, so that we, as Nanci fans, also tend to listen to them frequently, who
would you consider has really broken out into more mainstream popularity?
Lyle Lovett comes to mind as maybe coming closest, at least that I can think
of right now. But I don't think even Emmylou has reached real mainstream
popularity, though maybe not all that far from it. Anybody else?
Ken
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Subject: Re: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:13:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
--- Ken Stiffler (ksmsc@kmsx.net> wrote
> But I don't think even Emmylou has reached real mainstream
> popularity, though maybe not all that far from it.
I would have said that Emmylou had mainstream
popularity back in the 70s and lost it. Am I
remembering wrong?
Reid MItchell
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Subject: Re: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:22:55 EST
From: Asherman73@aol.com
It depends on what you consider "mainstream," I guess.
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Subject: Re: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:35:04 -0600
From: "Mark" (catfan@radiks.net>
On 16 Dec 2001, at 8:13, Reid Mitchell wrote:
> I would have said that Emmylou had mainsream
> popularity back in the 70s and lost it. Am I
> remembering wrong?
Not as far as I'm concerned.
Mark
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Subject: RE: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:52:07 -0500
From: "Ken Stiffler" (ksmsc@kmsx.net>
Reid,
I'm not the one to reply, cause I wasn't paying attention to people like
Emmylou in the seventies, so I don't know what her audience was. Though I
was aware of her, I was aware of a lot of people who weren't mainstream, so
that doesn't mean anything, either.
Ken
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Subject: Re: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:58:00 -0500
From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>
Anyone who doubts that Emmy was mainstream should buy her boxed set
"Portraits". Not only will you get three CDs full of some of the best music
on the planet, but you can learn from the enclosed booklet that Emmy's
second album- "Elite Hotel"- was a number one country album, and that her
first two albums (1975-76) went gold. I could go on, but suffice it to say
that Emmy has been a very popular- though unlikely- country star since 1975.
Much like the improbable success of Mary Chapin Carpenter in the country
charts in recent years.
--
>From the Georgia Pines,
Steve Robertson
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Subject: NN: Rodney Crowell
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:50:19 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
> Rodney Crowell is actually quite well known here in the U.K. and of
> course his stunning cd, "The Houston Kid", was released way back in
> January (it just does not seem that long ago).
Those who follow Emmylou Harris should have known about Rodney Crowell for at
least a quarter of a century. He was an original member of her Hot Band and
his compositions have appeared on her albums right from the get-go. Of course
he co-wrote "Amarillo" with Emmylou and that appears on the 1975 release
"Elite Hotel." Also on that album is perhaps my all-time favorite Rodney
Crowell song "Till I Gain Control Again." That same year, Emmylou's "Pieces
of the Sky" album contained Crowell's "Bluebird Wine" and 1978's "Quarter
Moon in a Ten Cent Town" features his "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad
Daylight" and "I Ain't Living Long Like This" where he also makes references
to his growing up in Houston.
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Subject: NN: Re: Rodney Crowell /Top Albums 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:30:02 -0000
From: "Mike Barrett" (mikebarrettuk@hotmail.com>
> Those who follow Emmylou Harris should have known about
> Rodney Crowell for at least a quarter of a century.
I recall buying the album "Rodney Crowell" around 20 years ago, on the basis
of having heard just the one song on it, "Shame On The Moon". Imagine my
delight to find that it also included "Til I Gain Control Again", "Stars On
The Water", "She Ain't Going Nowhere" among its many delights.
I've bought his albums ever since, seen him briefly become a superstar,
making country history ("Diamonds and Dirt"), seen him go completely out of
fashion with country radio, and after a lengthy wait been delighted with
"Houston Kid". And I finally saw him in concert earlier this year - he
certainly didn't disappoint.
But "Houston Kid" still gets beaten into second place by "Clock Without
Hands" - a lot of people don't seem to rate it overly highly but I still
think it's great - and I'd say that even if it DIDN'T have the magnificent
"Shaking Out The Snow" on it......
Haven't bought many other new cds, but Tom Russell's "Borderland" and Eric
Taylor's "Scuffletown" have their considerable merits, and the new Mary
Black Greatest Hits compilation looks rather good too.
Mike Barrett
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Rodney Crowell /Top Albums 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 01 23:44:33 -0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Eric Taylor's "Scuffletown" is a cd that has unraveled it's charms on me,
slowly, over a number of months, to the extent that I could not take it
off the cd player. I would say it is definitely one of the finest pieces
of work, not only of this year, but of the last few years. Isn't it
wonderful when something you buy, and play initially, but fails to hit
you in any big way, comes back to haunt you and turns into a gem. I love
those cd's that slowly creep up on you and end up being hummed and sung
in the old subconscience.
John Graveling
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Subject: NN: best of 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:17:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
Netters:
I'd like to make one more suggestion for, if not the
best 10, the best 25, of 2001: Phil Lee's YOU SHOULD
HAVE KNOWN ME THEN, sort of twisted country-folk-rock.
Reid Mitchell
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Subject: NN: Favorite albums of 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:33:41 EST
From: Petop@aol.com
Here's how I would rank the best 100 CDs I purchased this year:
1. Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom,
1950-1970--Various Artists
2. Love and Theft--Bob Dylan
3. Presumed Innoncent--Marcia Ball
4. Gravitational Forces--Robert Earl Keen
5. Scuffletown--Eric Taylor
6. There Is No Eye; Music for Photographs--Various Artists
7. O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection--Various Artists
8. Songs in Red and Grey--Suzanne Vega
9. Merry Sisters of Fate--Lunasa
10. Live--J.J. Cale
11. The Houston Kid--Rodney Crowell
12. Speaking in Tongues--The Holmes Brothers
13. Drum Hat Buddha--Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
14. Eternal and Lowdown--Ray Wylie Hubbard
15. A Man Under the Influence--Alejandro Escovedo
16. American Roots Music--Various Artists
17. Nothing Personal--Delbert McClinton
18. Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records--Various Artists
19. Not All Who Wander Are Lost--Chris Thile
20. Ten New Songs--Leonard Cohen
21. Out There Live--Dar Williams
22. Last Man on Earth--Loudon Wainwright III
23. Sebastopol--Jay Farrar
24. History of the Future--Ricky Skaggs
25. Dig--Boz Scaggs
26. The Convincer--Nick Lowe
27. Every Single Day--Lucy Kaplansky
28. The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings--Ian & Sylvia
29. The Tiki Bar Is Open--John Hiatt
30. Grateful Dawg--Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
31. Time (The Revelator)--Gillian Welch
32. Midnight Pumpkin--Toni Price
33. State of Grace--Pierce Pettis
34. Del and the Boys--Del McCoury
35. Avalon Blues--Various Artists
36. The I-10 Chronicles 2--Various Artists
37. A Tribute to John Hartford; Live from Mountain Stage--Various Artists
38. Mountain Soul--Patty Loveless
39. More Songs of Route 66--Various Artists
40. Essence--Lucinda Williams
41. The Storm Still Rages--Rhonda Vincent
42. Time*Sex*Love--Mary Chapin Carpenter
43. Pneumonia--Whiskeytown
44. A Nod to Bob--Various Artists
45. Songcatcher--Soundtrack
46. Speed of Sound--Rosie Flores
47. Trouble in Shangri-La--Stevie Nicks
48. Today--Raul Malo
49. Borderland--Tom Russell
50. The Earth Rolls On--Shaver
51. Richland Woman Blues--Maria Muldaur
52. Whole New You--Shawn Colvin
53. Diamond Mountain Sessions--Sharon Shannon
54. Wicked Grin--John Hammond
55. Cuttin' Heads--John Mellencamp
56. Happy Daze--The Battlefield Band
57. Angels and Cigarettes--Eliza Carthy
58. Little Sparrow--Dolly Parton
59. The Truth About Us--Tim Easton
60. Live in New York City--Bruce Springsteen
61. Love, Shelby--Shelby Lynne
62. Anthology Vol. 1: Cowboy Man--Lyle Lovett
63. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee--The Cranberries
64. Creole Moon--Dr. John
65. New American Language--Dan Bern
66. HARP: A Time to Sing--Various Artists
67. Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute--Various Artists
68. Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary--Various Artists
69. Clinch Mountain Sweethearts--Ralph Stanley
70. Gold--Ryan Adams
71. Buddy & Julie Miller
72. Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt--Various Artists
73. Eal Scruggs and Friends
74. Treasures from the Folk Den--Roger McGuinn
75. My Shirt Looks Good on You--Catie Curtis
76. Live By Request--K.D. Lang
77. Down From the Mountain--Various Artists
78. Folkscene Collection Vol. 3--Various Artists
79. Sky Like a Broken Clock--Kelly Joe Phelps
80. Quick--Eddie From Ohio
81. Volume 3: Further in Time--Afro Celt Sound System
82. Little Lights--Kate Rusby
83. Flower from the Fields of Alabama--Norman Blake
84. Reveal--R.E.M.
85. Open--The Cowboy Junkies
86. Walls & Windows--Maura O'Connell
87. Something I Saw or Thought I Saw--Bill Morrissey
88. Texoma--Jimmy LaFave
89. Reptile--Eric Clapton
90. Clock Without Hands--Nanci Griffith
91. Step Right Up--Charlie Robison
92. Here Comes the Derailers
93. New Favorite--Alison Krauss
94. Tell the Truth--Lee Roy Parnell
95. Concerts for a Landmine Free World--Various Artists
96. If I Had a Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger Vol. 2--Various Artists
97. Everyday--The Dave Matthews Band
98. The Company You Keep--John Gorka
99. Gonzo Stew--Jerry Jeff Walker
100. Texas Rain--Townes Van Zandt
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Subject: NN: Robin Greenstein
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:09:43 -0500
From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>
This artist has probably been mentioned here before, but I just got around
to really listening to all her songs on MP3.com, and I think she definitely
deserves another mention. What surprised me was the range of styles in which
she works. The first five songs on MP3.com sound as good as anything from
Carly Simon or Carole King. As you go down the list, the songs move more
into the folk category. One song makes good use of a banjo, and has a real
"old time" feel.
Robin is good enough on the guitar to be a representative of C.F. Martin at
the upcoming Folk Alliance conference, and she's good enough on the banjo to
also host a banjo showcase. She's a long time resident of New York City, but
I hope she is working on a whole album full of old time folk/country songs,
because it's obvious she could give some of the Southeastern artists a run
for their money. Now if I can just persuade Eddie's Attic to bring her to
Atlanta.....
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/133/robin_greenstein.html
http://www.robingreenstein.com/
--
>From the Georgia Pines,
Steve Robertson
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Subject: NN: Merry Christmas from New Orleans
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:19:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>
Netters,
This email from a friend of mine will give you an idea
how we celebrate Christmas in our neighborhood.
Merry Christmas all!
Reid Mitchell
---
> Reid:
>
> The second annual Santa Rampage is going to start at
> Molly's this Sunday, 2:00 p.m.
>
> The idea is 15 - 20 folks; mostly dressed as Santa
> but with a smattering of Mrs. Clauses, elves and reindeer
> (Dee is coming as Dancer).
>
> We go from bar to bar elbowing shoppers off the sidewalks, insulting
> carolers, frightening children, etc. Great fun in the spirit of the
> season.
>
> You and Liza ought to come on down.
>
> Keith
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Subject: NN: favourite lyrics
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 01:19:13 -0000
From: "Dean Akrill" (dakrill@fish.co.uk>
Hi people,
you may have done this already, but as a new guy around here I can claim
ignorance. What are your favourite Nanci lyrics, and why?
To start the ball rolling, I would have to go with "The wing and the wheel";
"Where are all dreamers that I used to know?" . I work a lot amongst
teenagers, and I'm pretty saddend by the complaicency many of them seem to
feel at such a young age, apathy is probably the modern disease, at least
down here in South Yorkshire. I guess that its a universal problem, the old
way of life has gone (in this case mining) and there seems to be very little
to replace it, unless you have a college degree, but thats alien to this
culture. The older people seem to have only "memories for company", and,
understandably, cling on to those. There are still a few dreamers left, I
just hope that they are not the "last of the true believers".
Okay, a pretty liberal interpretation, but you get the idea.
Dean.
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Subject: Re: NN: favourite lyrics
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:27:16 EST
From: Poetmuse@aol.com
I'd have to say most anything from Flyer gets me, right in the heart-
especially These Days in An Open Book, Fragile, Southbound Train...etc.. you
get the picture... lol
I love so many Nanci songs and consider her the writer of my heart most times
that I think I have this long continuous loop of lyrics that always mean that
special spark to me:
>From Nobody's Angel:
"I was a forest for love songs,
the one who can't love wrong
but will still write it down. I'm the one who will understand
who listens with pen in hand, I'm everyone's shoulder
until it's me who falls down..."
>From Goodnight to A Mother's Dream:
"...Me, I'm getting older, and I'm plain as plain
can be. Got a bank full of mother's dreams,
maybe mother just didn't see, that love would be
the only thing her daughter would ever need...."
>From If Wishes Were Changes:
" I wish that I had your Wings of Desire..
I wish I had seen you as I see you know...then I wouldn't feel
sorrow , you left inside me, but wishing won't change right from
wrong for you now...."
etc etc etc...
also I should mention that More Than A Whisper, Late Night Grande Hotel,
Outbound Plane and I Wish It Would Rain have all been quoted and used and
thought about and ...
well. you get the picture. again.
-just one more-
Christina "this heart was born feet running" Myers
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Subject: NN: Lucy Kaplansky (no NGC)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 01 20:13:30 -0000
From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Last Sunday I saw Lucy Kaplansky perform for the first time. Despite
having all four of her solo cd's, I had never managed to see her play
live, as the times she has been touring, here in the U.K., I have been
across in the U.S.A.
She began with a song not known to me, which she claims is one of her
favourites, but as she didn't give it's title I cannot tell you what it
was called. Then she proceeded to mesmorise me with her wonderful
singing, her story-telling craft and some exceptionally fine guitar
picking. I didn't keep a set list, but she performed:
Guinevere
Scorpion
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
Mary & The Soldier
Ten Year Night
Written On The Back of His Hand
Don't Mind Me
Guilty As Sin
Nowhere
Broken Things
All My Sorrow (A Julie Miller song - she said the Millers are her
favourite people at present)
More Than This (the Bryan Ferry song - she learnt it as a tribute to him,
having recorded backing vocals for his album, while she had been touring
here in 2000)
There were undoubtedly two or three others performed, but as I didn't
keep a list that is the best I can do. It was a magical performance. One
that warmed the heart on a very cold, English December night.
John "loved every minute" Graveling
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Subject: Re: NN: Lucy Kaplansky (no NGC)
Date: 15 Dec 2001 15:36:32 +0000
From: "Matt Bloomfield" (mailm@tthewb.u-net.com>
> Last Sunday I saw Lucy Kaplansky perform for the first time
> She began with a song not known to me,
Wayfaring Stranger?
She opened with this at The Spitz in London (http://www.spitz.co.uk/)
on Wednesday. A fantastic show in a very small club right next to Old
Spitalfields Market in East London.
In addition to Lucy we had Ben Butler on guitar and Zev Katz on bass.
They added to the performance immensely, the sound in the club was
excellent with Lucy never drowned out by the others, neither of whom
sang. The extra instruments complemented her music perfectly.
> There were undoubtedly two or three others performed, but as I didn't
> keep a list that is the best I can do. It was a magical performance. One
> that warmed the heart on a very cold, English December night.
Also, very deserving of a mention was the opening act, Alice Peacock.
A very talented singer and song writer, not dissimilar to Sheryl Crow
vocally. I recommend you check her site http://www.alicepeacock.com
there are some samples there for you to listen to.
She has a new album due and will hopefully be doing a UK tour of her
own next spring.
Matt
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Subject: NN: Merry, Happy, Healthy
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:45:45 -0600
From: Sarah Wrightson (sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>
...days ahead to everyone.
This being a busy, busy time for me at the ballet, I can never keep up
during the lists and trades at holiday time. Time to send our best to
everyone, be well, and with those you love.
mailto:sarahwrightson@vincebell.com will always find us until I get back
on to lists.
Joy and music from Nutcracker land!
Sarah
--
http://www.vincebell.com
The new CD: Live In Texas
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Subject: Re: NN: RE: 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:15:23 EST
From: PRobin5478@aol.com
In a message dated 12/16/2001 8:35:30 AM Pacific Standard Time,
catfan@radiks.net writes:
> > I would have said that Emmylou had mainsream
> > popularity back in the 70s and lost it. Am I
> > remembering wrong?
>
> Not as far as I'm concerned.
>
For the record, Emmylou has had 7 #1 records on the country charts - Together
Again, Sweet Dreams, Two More Bottles of Wine, Beneath Still Waters, Last Date,
To Know Him Is To Love Him (with Dolly and Linda) and We Believe in Happy
Endings (with Earl Thomas Conley).
The first was in 1976, the last in 1988. You don't find her on the country
charts much these days, or on country radio. That's why she was smart to
branch out into "alt rock" territory with Lanois and "Wrecking Ball."
As far as her place in the Country Music Hall of Fame, she saved country music
in the 70s when it was been threatened (as it is periodically) by pop and
trash. Just ask guys like Vince Gill and Dwight Yoakam.
Peter Robinson
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