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Subject: NN: Nanci in Santa Cruz
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:19:48 EST
   From: Tricia9999@aol.com

Well, it's been a wonderful several days for music. Saw Kate Campbell twice, 
Nanci in Santa Cruz, and tonight will be Russell Malone (jazz guitarist).

So, as to Nanci....she seemed relaxed, subdued, comfortable. Missing was Le 
Ann Etheridge, so Ron de la Vega filled in nicely on harmonies. She stated 
that there was no particular reason for them to be out playing -- "just 
because we can." The set included most of what you would expect, the sound 
balance was sometimes a bit off (Hooker's keyboards and vocals maybe), but 
overall a very nice show. As my husband said, a good sound guy is hard to 
come by, and this is really nitpicking anyway.

My favorite story was of her New Year's Eve - she and many others, including 
other Nashville musicians, had nothing to do on New Year's Eve, so they found 
themselves at a local bar/restaurant called, I think, Brown's(?). And she 
said "no-one got drunk, no-one came to blows, no-one lost an eye,"  just had 
an impromptu musical experience with all having a wonderful time. She said 
she had a request for FAD from one of her least favorite patrons of this bar, 
so she sang it in French so as not to please him too much. Oh to have been 
there on New Years.

She also said that she and some others (Steve Earle, John Terrizano (sp)) 
have been having Haiku writing contests and quoted her favorite which I will 
not attempt as I won't get it right. 

Santa Cruz so takes me back to my days of the Volkswagen bus with curtains. I 
counted so many of the old ones as soon as we entered town. The same night 
had Depok Chopra visiting to speak and the lines were wrapped around several 
blocks to get in to his talk. I was so delighted with my husband's ignorance 
of current pop culture when he said "Who is Depok Chopra?"

Anyway, it was a nice night and if anyone has specific questions about tunes 
played, I'm sure I can provide that. I don't really know the nancinetters who 
might have been there ('cept Bruce) so couldn't connect to say hello, but 
maybe next time.

Take care all,
Tricia

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Subject: NN: Nanci in Santa Cruz: Rock On!
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:19:52 -0500 (EST)
   From: Susan Marsh (susanemarsh@earthlink.net>

I wanted to provide y'all with a quick recap of Tuesday night's Nanci
Griffith concert in Santa Cruz.  In a word, it was magical.  This was the
third time that I've seen her in person (and also the third time I've had to
travel to see her, as I've yet to spot Nanci in my hometown of Sacramento,
California) and she just gets better and better with every show.  Has anyone
else noticed the same thing? The first time I saw Nanci was a few years ago
in Santa Rosa, and then I was fortunate enough to catch her at an outdoor
show at Villa Montalvo.  Each and every time, the emotional connection is
indescribable.  And yet, with each subsequent concert, her performances have
just gotten more and more meaningful.  I often find myself tearing up when I
hear certain songs, songs that have so many strong memories attached.  What
a high to look around the concert hall and see so many others sharing in
that same emotion.

My only regret is that I've never been able to thank the person who first
turned me on to Nanci's music.  I'm sure he doesn't even know what an
incredible gift he gave me when he first sent that tape so many years ago
with "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" tacked onto the end.  So Eric, if
you're out there somewhere, please know how grateful I am.  If it weren't
for you, there might have just been a small Nanci-shaped hole in my life
that went unfilled.

Susan

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Subject: NN: Older Nanci Music Live?
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 06:05:03 -0800 (PST)
   From: Elizabeth Keyes (elizabethkeyes@yahoo.com>

Hi,

I am also going to the Nanci NSO concert at the end of March, and am just
counting the days. I've been going to see Nanci every chance I had since her
Flyer tour, and am just wondering what the chances are that Nanci will play
some of her older music this time around. Although she could pretty much sing
"Happy Birthday" for two hours and I'd still be happy, I do sometimes feel like
about 2/3 of the same music is performed at each concert. My question to the
list is whether she still plays some of her older music at shows these days?
What I wouldn't give to hear "Last of the True Believers" or "Fly by Night!" 

Liz Keyes, bursting out of lurkdom for just a minute

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Subject: NN: Iris DeMent & Gillian Welch - new albums?
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:26:41 EST
   From: RoanInish@aol.com

(( I cannot beleive how the time has flown by.....
'The way I should' 1996
'Hell among the Yearlings' 1998
I cannot find any mention on the net of any more recent releases.
My best gig ever was seeing Gillian & Dave Rawlings, two years ago.
And 5 years is too long to wait for more Iris.
Does anyone have any news? >>

A couple of years ago I heard an interview with Iris DeMent in which she 
confessed to suffering from writer's block.  At that time it didn't sound 
like we were likely to get any new music from her and, sadly, I have not 
heard any indication to suggest that anything has changed.

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Subject: NN: update on Atlanta's Freight Room
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:47:32 -0500
   From: "Nina Gooch" (nina-gooch@mindspring.com>

For those of you miss the Freight Room, I wanted to give
y'all an update.  In the 90's, the old depot in Decatur,GA
(which sits at a major intersection in the city) became a
restaurant and then a wonderful venue for live music, but in
January 1999, the Freight Room was forced to close because
of the deteriorating condition of the building.  The city of
Decatur entered into negotiations with CSX, the railroad
company, to buy or lease the building and fix it up, but no
progress was reported until very recently and I'd come to
believe that CSX was willing to let the building just sit
until it collapsed into a pile of lumber.  But--after
prolonged negotiation, CSX has agreed to donate the building
to the city--if they move it 25 feet farther away from the
tracks!  The city has received a grant to do this, and will
be working to make the building a vital part of the
community again.  Also, the Decatur Preservation Alliance
has formed to preserve historic structures, with the depot
as its first project.  Their website is
http://www.savethedepot.org/

Nina Gooch
Atlanta, GA
(that's my address anyway--I actually live 2 1/2 blocks east
of Atlanta and 2 1/2 blocks south of Decatur and would
prefer to claim Decatur!)

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Subject: NN: i would like to plead incompetence
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:25:26 -0500 (EST)
   From: lippert@pgh.nauticom.net

1. Go to the "official" Nanci Griffth web page at Elektra
(http://webobjects.elektra.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/elektra/Home.woa/-/ArtistNavTemplate.wo?ID=249),

2. Click on "Photo Gallery"

3. Tell me when Nanci had the sinistrality surgery.

This is why artist's web pages should only be authored by obnoxiously
devoted fans.

kenn "yeah, i looked it up" lippert

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Subject: Re: NN: i would like to plead incompetence
   Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:17:59 -0600
   From: Ed Maier (evmaier@dhc.net>

lippert@pgh.nauticom.net wrote:

> 3. Tell me when Nanci had the sinistrality surgery.


Not only did she have the surgery, she also has a new left-handed guitar.
(/rimshot.wav>

Ed

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Subject: NN: non Nanci
   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:00:30 -0800
   From: JOHN PRIVE (prive@internetcds.com>

I am looking into seeing Kasey Chambers in Portland, OR March 24. I am
hooked on her CD and am so excited to have a chance to see her in
concert!

Molly P.

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Subject: NN: Re: non Nanci
   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:28:22 -0800
   From: "Maudeen" (maudeen@olypen.com>

She's going to be in Portland?  Do you know anything about Seattle?  I
checked the website and there isn't anything for March 24th.

~Maudeen

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Subject: NN: Re: Pam Durban's "A Long Time Coming, a Long Time
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:20:45 -0800 (PST)
   From: Michael Wilt (handofgrace@yahoo.com>

Griffsters,
Reid Mitchell wrote:

>>>I don't know about the rest of you, but as a writer I
find writing about music one of the most difficult
jobs around. . . .So I was happy today when I read Pam
Durban's "A Long Time Coming, a Long Time Gone," about
a Tennessee singer/songwriter. Anybody else out there
know that story?(((

I haven't read the Durban story (Reid: can you provide
a cite? I've seen yer books, they gots feetnotes!),
but some of you may recall the mid-90s release of Bill
Morrissey's novel, Edson, about a New England
singer-songwriter--perhaps not as much about the music
as about the coming-of-age of a thirty-something
adolescent, but I thought it was worth reading. It's
out of print now, so check your local liberry. Nick
Hornby's High Fidelity chronicles well the influence
of music on a man's life, though like Edson it is at
heart a mid-thirties bildungsroman. (It also contains
a mention of Nanci.) The film version of same is also
a lot of fun and quite touching.

I think it was Roy Blount Jr. who once wrote a piece
entitled something like "Why There Will Never Be a
Great Bowling Novel" -- perhaps there are solid
reasons that the genre of "Great Folkie Novel" is so
lacking. I've read a number of wonderful novels lately
that base their plots in the visual arts: The Girl
With a Pearl Earring*, The Girl in Hyacinth Blue**
(both of these inspired by the paintings of Vermeer),
and The Day Laid on the Altar***, all of which do a
fine job of engaging the art of painting. But I
haven't seen any music-related fiction that takes on
the music anywhere near as directly as these writers
take on painting.

Something to think about.

Michael "my first email use of 'bildungsroman'" Wilt

FEETNOTES
*by Tracy Chevalier
**by Susan Vreeland
***by Adria Bernardi

www.NimbleSpirit.com

=====
Michael Wilt
handofgrace@yahoo.com

"These days your face in my memory
is in a folded hand of grace
against these times." -- Nanci Griffith

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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Pam Durban's "A Long Time Coming, a Long Time Gone"
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:30:55 -0800 (PST)
   From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>

--- Michael Wilt (handofgrace@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I haven't read the Durban story (Reid: can you provide
> a cite? I've seen yer books, they gots feetnotes....

Sorry I forgot this,  It's in Pam Durban, ALL SET
ABOUT WITH FEVER TREES, a short story colelction that
should be in your library--or as we called it growing
up, the li-berry.

Reid "day after Ash Weds." Mitchell

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Subject: NN: RE: Re: Pam Durban's "A Long Time Coming, a Long Time
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:31:37 -0500
   From: "Trucksis, Katie" (ktrucksis@mtw.org>

Lee Smith's "Devil's Dream" migh be the kind of thing you're looking for.
It's a novel about a (fictional) musical family from Appalachia. The
preacher-husband of the matriarch fiddler regarded fiddle music as the
devil's music. The novel traces the generations & their lives in music down
to the near-present. 

If you just like good reading, I'd have to recommend Oral History and Fair &
Tender Ladies, also by Lee Smith.

Happy reading!
Katie, joining Liz in a burst from lurkdom....

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Subject: Fair and Tender Ladies
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:26:58 +0100
   From: "pArispAl" (aequalis@wanadoo.fr>

Let me go out of lurkdom too!

Lee Smith's Fair and Tender ladies has been adapted as a musical by Tom
House, Tommy Goldsmith and Karren Pell. You won't find the CD in the stores
but you can get from Tom House. Email me back-channel for the address.

According to Lee Smith, the songs based on her book were exactly the music
she was hearing as she was writing the book.

Tom, Tommy and Karren have just performed Remembering Blue at the Hoover
Public Library, in Hoover, Alabama.

For more information about Tom House, please checl
www.multimania.com/songwriters.

Herve, pAris pAl

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