// Seems to me something important happens today. Hmmm...it's 
// Harry Potter's birthday, but something else...OH YEAH!
// IT'S THE DAY NANCI'S NEW CD COMES OUT!!!
// She looked and sounded good on TV last night.
// Enjoy!  [BP

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Subject: NN: Nanci on Letterman Last Night 
From: DvBGardner@genelogic.com 
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:29:05 -0400 

I can't believe that I caught Nanci on TV after all!!!!   In the past few
years since I joined nancinet,  I've missed every single show simply
because I can't hang that late at night anymore........    But I forced
myself to stay awake last night, fell asleep after all and missed David's
intro, but my good music guardian angel woke me up just as Nanci started
singing.    She looked good with her long hair -- last time I saw her live
(2 years ago), she still had short hair.   Unfortunately, it seems the TV
makeup crew got a bit carried away and piled way too much stuff on her
face...... she looked almost unreal to me.

I did not recognize the song she played -- is this from her new CD?    I
found it interesting that she played guitar through the normal chords (she
played in C), but stopped each time the key/chords changed in the bridge
parts -- which, to me, sounded like a normal D minor at the time (I was way
too tired to really pay that much attention)........    so, all of you who
are experienced Nanci watchers, what do you think, what do you know?    Did
she stop playing those parts for showmanship reasons - perhaps to dramatize
-- or do you think she didn't know how to play the chords in those
segments?   I couldn't imagine the latter, but perhaps one of you knows.
I often have the chance to play in a group with guitarists who are much
more accomplished than I am, and I am known to drop out every now and then
when the chord progressions (i.e., jazz chords, etc.) seem out of my
league, so I was wondering if the same was going on with Nanci.

WOW!!!!!   The first time I saw Nanci on TV (finally!) and I am entitled to
participate in a "morning after" discussion about it.   :):):):)    Thanks
to all of you kind souls who kept reminding us about it.    What a treat.

Donate   ----- ordering my Indigo Girls at Wolf Trap tickets TODAY!!!!!!

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Subject: NN: letterman 
From: Scaryxxx@aol.com  
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:23:15 EDT 

wonderful wonderful, I thought Nanci sounded great on Dave and to me she 
seemed to be making a strong effort not  twist any words but to sing every 
line very straight, no twang no, no  pronunciations from Nanciville, Gary

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Subject: NN: Notes from the St. Pete concert
From: "Jim Dixon" (dixon@ieee.org>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:46:40 -0400 

The opening act for the St. Pete concert was Vestial Virgo.  I think the
only reason they were there was this was an act the promoter wanted to get
on the road.  They were a little loud and the sound problems that plagued
Nanci's performance were not present when they were on stage.  

On stage, Nanci said that CWH was the first album in four years with
original material.  She probably remembers BRFTM.  She also gave away some hints why
she has not "retired".  She did not want to be a "Clock without Hands".

The concert started just after 9:00 and I think she said that John Prine's
manager was in the crowd just before she sang The Speed of Loneliness.

Jim Dixon

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Subject: NN: Clock Review from NY Daily News 
From: Cindy McArthur (seaborn@mjblue.com>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:45:56 -0500 

I found this at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-07-29/New_York_Now/Music/a-119671.asp
Cindy

The Shadow of the Past
Two folk singers delve into history with mixed success

By JIM FARBER 

GILLIAN WELCH "TIME (THE REVELATOR)" (ACONY RECORDS)
NANCI GRIFFITH "CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS" (ELEKTRA)


Pop music only cares about the here and now, which makes good sense. If your
greatest goal is to get on "Total Request Live," why allude to anything
older than Carson Daly?

Thankfully, that isn't the aim of every musician. New albums arrive this
week from two prominent female singer-songwriters ( Gillian Welsh and Nanci
Griffith ( that soak up the past. The Lincoln assassination, the sinking of
the Titanic, the Great Depression, the birth of rock 'n' roll, the Vietnam
War, the first moon walk and other key events spanning the last 150 years
are fair game for both Welsh and Griffith.

The results don't always click. In their weakest moments, these albums offer
the equivalent of a boring afternoon in the dingiest of museums. But at
their best, they blend the past and present into something that's built to
last.

Welch, who headlines the Town Hall on Thursday, has a finer sense than
Griffith of how to make history fresh. From the start of her career, she
riskily adopted an archaic image that was at odds with her own background.
The Hollywood-reared daughter of television composers (her father was a
musical arranger for "The Carol Burnett Show"), Welch dressed and sang like
a red-dirt girl from the Kentucky backwoods.

Welch drew on the desolate sound of Appalachia's most hardened music for her
1996 debut album and its 1999 follow-up. Her voice, accompanied by the
acoustic playing of her musical partner and guitarist, David Rawlings,
sounded like the loneliest in the world on both discs. It also seemed the
sonic equivalent of Walker Evans' black-and-white portraits of the poor
people in 1930s America. Yet her passion made it all seem of the moment.

Welch also deserves credit as the first artist to bring back the pure sound
of American folk from the first half of the 20th century. She not only set a
precedent for the success of the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack,
but co-produced and contributed to it as well.

Rock of Ages

On Welch's latest LP, she brightens her music slightly. Her voice sounds
clearer and fuller, while Rawlings' acoustic solos are more aggressive than
before, showing the influence of '60s folk. Yet there's nothing musty about
any of it. When Welch sings of President Abraham Lincoln's death and the
Titanic disaster, she binds them into an ongoing narrative that is
preoccupied with dread. She makes the past just as immediate in "Elvis
Presley Blues" by reminding us of Presley's role as a radical sexual
groundbreaker.

She recalls more music history in "I Want To Sing That Rock 'n' Roll," a
ballad about the '50s country and folk stars who were outshone by the
amplified onslaught of Little Richard, Carl Perkins and the like. Her record
succeeds in erasing the boundaries between folk, country, blues and rock, in
the same way that Welch's gorgeously solitary voice transcends eras. It is
singing that's for all seasons.

Folk-rocker Nanci Griffith tends to use history in a more teacherly way. Her
delicate new songs frequently conjure the '60s with their lyrics about a
female Saigon war photographer, a Vietnam War veteran and Neil Armstrong's
giant leap for mankind. She's least effective when these historic figures
are positioned as role models. The songs come across as voyeuristic while
Griffith's own experiences seem remote from them.

Like all writers, she's best when she's least sentimental. She deserves a
thumbs-down for a song about her dying mother that lacks for emotional
nuance, and a thumbs-up for one called "Truly Something Fine" in which love
isn't celebrated as necessarily a good thing but as something rare.

In the album's best songs, the prettily voiced Griffith achieves genuine
poetry. The love between a Vietnam vet and his wife in "Roses on the 4th of
July" is symbolized by a gesture they never discuss, creating a smart
metaphor for what should never be questioned in love. In the moving ( and,
for once, personal ( "Ghost Inside Me," every hesitancy, fear, and
disappointment of Griffith's life comes back to haunt her. But she peaks
with the title track, "Clock Without Hands," in which she sings of pulling
off the arms off a timepiece to let it just tick. For all Griffith's
attention to history, a song like this reminds us of the importance of
living for the moment.


// " Welch also deserves credit as the first artist to bring back the 
//   pure sound of American folk from the first half of the 20th century."
// Huh? What about Iris Dement?  [BP]


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Subject: Re: NN: Eric Taylor Spam, Eva Cassidy & Some Clock 
From: Bill Lavery (bill@villagerecords.com>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:07:08 -0500 

> Mike Barrett wrote:
> It is indeed called "Hemingway's Shotgun" and it is from the 1995
> Watermelon album simply entitled "Eric Taylor".

We still have a handful left.  New, still sealed.

Here are the tracks:

 
           Dean Moriarty (Taylor) - 6:23 
           Prison Movie (Taylor) - 4:44 
           Hey Little Ryder (Taylor) - 3:31 
           Deadwood (Taylor) - 4:50 
           Mission Door (Taylor) - 3:29 
           Tractor Song (Taylor) - 4:51 
           Visitors from Indiana (Taylor) - 3:56 
           All So Much Like Me (Taylor) - 3:36 
           Whooping Crane (Taylor) - 4:00 
           Hemingway's Shotgun (Taylor) - 3:45 
           All Day Saturday (Taylor) - 3:51 
           Shoe Shine Boy (Taylor) - 2:51

http://villagerecords.com/cgi-bin/villager/scan/mp=0/sf=artist/se=taylor,eri
c

Bill Lavery

Village Records

PS:  To those that pre-ordered Clock, you should see it Tuesday.

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Subject: NN: Ft. Worth Dates 
From:  Mike Weinberg (mweinberg98@yahoo.com>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT) 

I saw on Pollstar.com that Nanci was scheduled for
FOUR consecutive dates in Bass Hall in April next
year.

Does anyone know anything about this?  While we love
Nanci around here, four dates seems a bit much, I
think the most I've seen around here is two in a row
in Austin.  Could this be some kind of special event? 
Multi-night live recording session?  Maybe a hook up
with a symphony orchestra?  Also why was this date
posted so far in advance without any other Texas
dates?

Bass Hall is a great theater.  Lyle Lovett did some
excellent shows there (he actually played three
consecutive nights, but I think he has a wider
audience than Nanci.)

Does anyone know what's up?  In any event I can't
wait.

P.S. Does anyone have any tickets available to her
show in Denver next month?  I'm going to be up that
way and it's sold out.


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Subject: Re: NN: Ft. Worth Dates 
From: Petop@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:44:33 EDT 

mweinberg98@yahoo.com writes:

> I saw on Pollstar.com that Nanci was scheduled for
> FOUR consecutive dates in Bass Hall in April next
> year.

       On many occasions, a booking agent will want to put a hold on a venue

and will book it for multi nights far in advance. Then when the dates get 
closer, the agent will settle on the date he/she wants or works the best. I 
would imagine the agent is going to try to book other venues on those other 
dates and this gives the agent some booking flexibility.

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Subject: Re: NN: Ft. Worth Dates 
From: Poetmuse@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:47:51 EDT 

mweinberg98@yahoo.com writes:

(( Bass Hall is a great theater.  Lyle Lovett did some
 excellent shows there (he actually played three
 consecutive nights, but I think he has a wider
 audience than Nanci.) >>

Gotta agree with Mike- Bass Hall is where I saw Nanci the last time she 
played Austin and where I got to meet all those wonderful nanci-netters in 
person (including Ms. Griffith herself!). It's a wonderful place and if
these 
dates are true, I may have to see if I can make it out there again...!!!!!
I say we have a Nanci net convention in Austin around...April of 2002????
(she's playing extra dates just for us.) yeah right.

-Christina 'it sure is humid there' Myers

Now playing: Melissa Ferrick/Valentine Heartache 
Followed by: Alejandro Escovedo/ A Man Under the Influence

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Subject: Re: NN: Ft. Worth Dates 
From:  ann osborn (acsosborn@yahoo.com>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:04:37 -0700 (PDT) 

Christina wrote: 
> I say we have a Nanci net convention in Austin around...April of 2002????
> (she's playing extra dates just for us.) yeah right.

YES, YES!! I bet she'd do it. I lived in Austin 80-83
and i couldn't afford to go to concerts 'cept whoever
was at the Armadillo World Hdqts...and whoa we heard
some great music there...so i don't remember the Bass
Theater; when was it built??  but if y'all got Nanci
to do an NN concert in Austin in 2002, i'd fly down
from Seattle for THAT!!! let's ask her!! 

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Subject: NN: Nanci Europe Review 
From: "John Schexnaydre" (john@johnschexnaydre.com>  
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:22:13 +0200 

Now when I was living in Austin, one of my favorite things to do on a bad
weather day, was to head to the bookstore and get a copy of the NY Sunday
Times. What a treat! Living in Brussels Belgium for a few years and my treat
here is every week - The London Sunday Times.  The Culture Magazine section
had a review by Mark Edwards of Nanci new album in last Sunday's issue.

>From the London Sunday Times Culture Magazine. Cannot send direct link, but
go to
   http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ 
then Choose Culture and scroll down to New Releases.

NANCI GRIFFITH
Clock Without Hands
Elektra 7559626602, £14.99
THIS IS the first collection of new material from country/folk star Griffith
since 1994. On the surface, much of the album's inspiration comes from her
work for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. But Griffith takes the
idea of Vietnam vets closing down on the world and widens it out to explore
the tendency of all of us to lose the innocent passion for life that we once
had. The key to her own struggle to feel emotion seems to be revealed on
Shaking out the Snow, in which traumatic childhood scenes are recalled in an
angry, cracking voice that comes as a shock from the usually immaculately
understated artist. Elsewhere - notably the title track and a cover of Paul
Carrack's Where Would I Be - a more characteristically restrained Griffith
matches her usual high standards, while the Blue Moon Orchestra never put a
foot wrong.

Under Jazz I thought this looked pretty good as well.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Rough Guide to Americana
Rough Guide RGNET 1080 CD, £10.99
ROUGH GUIDE discs usually shine a light into corners of the globe that most
of us only think about when Womad rolls around (as it does this weekend). So
the idea of America needing a helping hand may seem odd. Yet, as this
compilation demonstrates, Americana is another country. The collage of
alt-country and grungy folk comes shambling into your living room, dust
falling from its boots. The late Townes Van Zandt needs no introduction, and
Suzie Ungerlieder (alias Oh Susanna) is building a following here. Utah
Carol and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers may not be so familiar. As
for the Arlenes, they currently hail from London. If the country mainstream
is the equivalent of the Hollywood dream machine, this sampler is, I
suppose, the musical equivalent of a trip to the Sundance Festival. Clive
Davis.

If you are new to the list or just haven't visited my web site, you may
visit my web site and see what Nanci was singing about "On Grafton Street."
http://www.johnschexnaydre.com/grafton.htm

Now I hope to treat myself to either Nanci Oct 24 at the Olympia Theatre in
Dublin or Nov 1 at the Royal Albert Hall  in London . Decisions, decisions,
decisions. Anyone else in Europe planning on attending one of these, please
email me direct, so perhaps we can meet up for the show.

Thanks
John Schexnaydre

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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Love Is a Hard Waltz 
From: PRobin5478@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:05:49 -0400 (EDT) 

BMiller224@aol.com writes:

> I actually was hoping someone might explain why Nanci never seems to use 
> ["Love is a Hard Waltz"]

Nanci NEVER seems to perform many of her older, better songs.  (I, too, love

"Love Is a Hard Waltz.")

Her set list is so restricted - songs from the new album (whatever it is)
and
the same old "favorites" - "It's a Hard Life," "Tecumseh Valley," "Speed of 
the Sound," "This Heart," "The Wing and the Wheel," etc.

She has such a fine catalog that it's a shame she doesn't dip into it more 
often.  We've been through this before but it still shortchanges her legacy.

Just once she should surprise us.

Peter Robinson

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Subject: NN: Re: Where have all the single NanciNet men gone? 
From: "Musicant  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:36:16 -0700 

	This single NanciNet man is gathering the essence of Lucinda
Williams concerts, waiting for Nanci to follow Lucinda into town. See you at
the House of Blues in West Hollywood: Lucinda tonite (July 30), Nanci on
August 25.

	Now, if Lucinda could only replace her current guitarists with the
1998 version--where are Kenny Vaughn and John Jackson when we need them?


Paul Musicant (Paul.Musicant@cax.usa.xerox.com)

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Subject: NN: What's the reasoning for the spin? 
From: ChocChippy@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:10:35 EDT 

I keep noticing that the press releases and reviews say that CWH is Nanci's
"first album of original material in five years." Why, I wonder, do they
discount Blue Roses from the Moons? The pr describes that album as "a gift
from the BMO to the fans," but does that mean it's NOT an album of
originals? That it somehow doesn't count? In fact, there are more originals
and fewer covers on that one that on CWH. As far as I'm concerned, BRFM was,
in fact, a real album, and it was Nanci's last album of originals, and it
came out less than five years ago. (And contains one of my all-time favorite
lines in a Nanci song: Waiting for love, God forgives your lack of grace).

Kathleen W.

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Subject: NN: No Nanci Whatsoever/Melissa Ferrick 
From: "Todd Barrett" (astrocity@hotmail.com>  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:16:17 -0400 (EDT) 

>-Christina 'it sure is humid there' Myers
>
>Now playing: Melissa Ferrick/Valentine Heartache
>Followed by: Alejandro Escovedo/ A Man Under the Influence

Ahhh...Christina...I am listening to Valentine Heartache also!  It is my 
favorite of hers so far.  Just yesterday I loaned it to a friend to listen 
to.

On another totally different angle....I would recommend that everone check 
out Michelle Malone.  I saw her play the other week and it was awesome.  She

played a rocking cover of "9 to 5" and I couldn't stop singing it for a 
week.

Todd "in a funk over Stevie Nicks postponing her Charlotte show" Barrett
*Girls With Guitars*
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/9132/music.html

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Subject: Re: NN: No Nanci Whatsoever/Melissa Ferrick 
From: Poetmuse@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:28:07 EDT 

In a message dated 7/30/2001 3:20:17 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
astrocity@hotmail.com writes:

(( Ahhh...Christina...I am listening to Valentine Heartache also!  It is my 
 favorite of hers so far.  Just yesterday I loaned it to a friend to listen 
 to. >>

Isn't it great?? I'm really pleased with it and am glad I bought it. So many

songs on here are directly correlating with my life right now- sad to say!
At 
least I know I'm not alone. :-P

I'll check out Michelle- ANYONE who does 9-5 is okay in my book. lol


-Christina "it's just a day off for music" Myers

Now Playing: The eels/ Electro Shock Blues
followed by Continental Drifters/ Better Day

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Subject: NN: New CD 
From: Kinassocs@aol.com  
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:48:23 EDT 

Over at John Stewart's "Bloodlines" site were all buzzing about Nanci's new 
CD, due tomorrow,  and tonight's Letterman appearance.  If "Lost Him in the 
Sun" is a featured cut, we're all hoping for a hit.  Heck, we're all hoping 
for a hit regardless.

On behalf of the "Bloodliners,"

"Big Jim" Kinkead
 Scottsdale, AZ

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