// Lots crammed in this little digest. 
// We start the polling for "the best CD 2002," and hear about
// good and rough times. 
// For those of you who follow the US calendar, Happy Thanksgiving!
// Enjoy  [BP]

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Subject: NN: Best of 2002
   Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:12:42 -0600
   From: Shelly Brisbin (shelly@brisbin.net>

Well, I've volunteered to coordinate our annual tabulation of the 
best recordings of the year. I'll have a full announcement, rules and 
deadlines posted sometime today. So start thinking up those lists, 
but don't post or e-mail them yet.

-shelly

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Subject: NN: Polls are Open for the NanciNet Top Ten of 2002!
   Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:30:57 -0600
   From: Shelly Brisbin (shelly@brisbin.net>

Greetings NanciNet,

It's time to choose the Top Ten Albums of 2002, as judged and voted 
upon by you, the wise members of NanciNet. The Top Ten Tradition 
dates back to 1996, and the tabulation torch has been passed to me 
this year. As of now, the polls are open for your votes. I will 
tabulate the results early next year. As an added incentive to 
contribute your list, I will offer a prize to one lucky participant, 
to be chosen at random from all submissions. The winner will receive 
the CD of his or her choice from the final NanciNet Top Ten list, 
unless that person actually owns everything in the Top Ten. We'll 
work something out in that case.

And now please, give your attention to the rules of the event.

THE RULES
-You may vote for up to ten albums, each of which must have a release 
date of 2002.
-Each vote carries equal weight. Each item on your list receives one 
point toward the final tally for that album.
-If you include more than ten albums, I will count the first ten on your
list.
-the deadline for submitting your top ten list is December 31, 2002.
-To have your vote counted, you must send it to me via e-mail at the 
address below. You may post your list on the NanciNet as many have in 
years past, but your submission does not count until I receive it in 
e-mail.
-Albums released in the UK or elsewhere in 2002, but that have not 
yet been released in the US ARE eligible. (This rule is courtesy of 
last year's tabulator, David Steere. If there are special release 
situations that you'd like to alert me to when sending your lists, I 
will do my best to make a fair ruling about that album's eligibility.)

Anthologies and Re-Issues
If you would like to acknowledge anthologies, box sets, re-issues or 
other recordings that were released in 2002, but  contain older 
material, please list them separately. Using the above rules, I will 
compile a  list of the top vote getters among these recordings.

OK, that's it. Send your Top Tens to TopTen@brisbin.net and I'll do the
rest.

-shelly
Your Top Ten Tabulator

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Subject: NN: Buddy & Julie & Nanci
   Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:55:31 EST
   From: GORDON1717@aol.com

Hi everyone,

haven't posted for a while (possibly due to my disgust at all the recycled
material that keeps appearing year after year masquerading as new NG product
but we won't go there) but I went to see Buddy and Julie Miller at the
Birchmere on Friday and she mentioned Nanci in passing. It appears that B&J
and NG were on the same flight recently when Julie and Nanci fell in love
with a little 3 pound dog that one of the fellow passengers was carrying. 

Nanci apparently said it reminded her of her own Yorkshire terrier (Julie
actually said it was a Worcestershire sauce dog or something and Buddy
corrected her and said actually she meant Yorkshire not Worcestershire).
Anyway, the upshot of it all is that Julie wants to know what kind of dog it
was so she can get one (any suggestions to their website). If you get the
chance to catch this show you will not be disappointed, Buddy and Julie are
always fresh and exciting and don't seem to need to rehash their back
catalog every year or so to...oops, there I go again.

Gordon

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Subject: NN: Nanci's coming to Tucson
   Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:19:46 -0500
   From: Bestgirl3@aol.com

I'm SO excited.  This will be my first time to see her show.  
Is anyone else from Tucson on this list?

Timalee

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Subject: NN: KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 10 (NNC)
   Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:03:33 -0600
   From: "Hank Van Slyke" (chevelle@pnx.com>

Howdy!
  It's time to grab one of Austin's more outstanding collections of music,
songs that were originally broadcast on KGSR.  They regularly play Nanci
Griffith.  Proceeds from the sale of this CD are donated to the SIMS
Foundation - Services Invested In Musician's Support. The foundation offers
low cost mental health services to Austin musicians and their immediate
families.
  This set is two CDs, and if you can get to Austin you can get the set for
15 bucks.  If you have to do the mail-order thing, go to
http://www.waterloorecords.com  and they are 20 bucks plus shipping, but
check out their other CDs -- I got Steve Earle's new "Jerusalem" for $14.38
when I preordered my Broadcasts.  They go officially on sale the day after
Thanksgiving, so I guess they will start shipping them then.

Here's the song list from Vol. 10:
Disc One
1. MIKE SCOTT (OF THE WATERBOYS) "Bring Em All In"
2. RODNEY CROWELL "Rock Of My Soul"
3. THE BE GOOD TANYAS "Light Enough To Travel"
4. BEAVER NELSON "The Beauty In Store"
5. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk "
6. SAFFIRE "Hard For Me To Sing The Blues"
7. SHAWN COLVIN "Not A Drop Of Rain"
8. COWBOY JUNKIES "Something More Besides You"
9. RAUL MALO "Every Little Thing About You"
10. CAROLINE HERRING "Whipporwill"
11. PATTI SMITH "Citizen Ship"
12. LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III "No Sure Way"
13. KASEY CHAMBERS "Not Pretty Enough"
14. INDIGO GIRLS "Moment Of Forgiveness"
15. BILLY BRAGG "St. Monday"
16. WILLIE NELSON "Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground"
17. DARDEN SMITH "Loving Arms"
18. RAY WYLIE HUBBARD with STRINGS ATTACHED
    "Ballad Of The Crimson Kings" bonus tracks
19. BONNIE RAITT "Fool's Game" (live)
20. LUCINDA WILLIAMS "Get Right With God" (radio remix)

Disc Two
1. THE FLATLANDERS "I Had My Hopes Up High "
2. BRUCE ROBISON "What Would Willie Do"
3. NEIL FINN "Private Universe"
4. DAVID BAERWALD "Political Science"
5. NORAH JONES "Come Away With Me"
6. THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT "Up The Canyon"
7. J.J. CALE "After Midnight"
8. MICHELLE SHOCKED "What Can I Say"
9. CHIP TAYLOR and CARRIE RODRIGUEZ "Sweet Tequila Blues "
10. DWIGHT YOAKAM "Fast As You"
l1. BOB SCHNEIDER "Honey Bomb"
12. RAY BENSON "If I Needed You"
13. PATTY GRIFFIN "Rain"
14. BILLY JOE SHAVER "Star In My Heart"
15. THE DAMNATIONS "Bloodhound"
16. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO with ROSIE FLORES "Ballad Of The Sun And The Moon"
17. SUZANNE VEGA "Widow's Walk"
18. SHANNON MCNALLY "Now That I Know"
19. BETH ORTON "Concrete Sky"
20. DAYNA KURTZ "Love Gets In The Way"
21. LINDA THOMPSON "Dear Old Man Of Mine"


Happy Thanksgiving!

Hank "working up an appetite for deep-fried turkey" Van Slyke

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Subject: Re: NN: KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 10 (NNC)
   Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:16:45 -0500
   From: Mike Chesman (chesman@preferred.com>

At 08:03 PM 11/25/02 -0600, Hank Van Slyke wrote:
>Howdy!
>  It's time to grab one of Austin's more outstanding collections of music,
>songs that were originally broadcast on KGSR.  They regularly play Nanci
>Griffith.  Proceeds from the sale of this CD are donated to the SIMS
>Foundation - Services Invested In Musician's Support. The foundation offers
>low cost mental health services to Austin musicians and their immediate
>families.

These are great CD sets and many on Nancinet will wish they had picked up
Vol. 9 last time around when Nanci was among the artists featured.  Although
Nanci is not on Vol. 10 just look at the great track listing that Hank
provided in his original email.

Mike 

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Subject: NN: Turkey Day
   Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:22:25 -0800 (PST)
   From: Shawn Kimbro (shawn@mountainsoul.net>

Hey y'all  --

Just wanted to say be safe to all those traveling
during the holiday rush.  Also, in this time of
thanksgiving I want to tell all of you how much I
appreciate and value the words so astutely written
here, and I am deeply honored by the friendships I've
made as a result of sharing this wonderful music.

Lots of big changes going on in my life at the moment.
 Ah, drama!  More on that later, but for now, for
those of you looking forward to a weekend of quality
family time, please cherish it and realize what a gift
you have.  For the rest of us, could someone please
check a current PDR about any possible negative
interactions between turkey and Xanax? (grin>

Warm regards,
-Shawn "spooking the horses" Kimbro

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Subject: FW: Wedding Bells! (NNC)
   From: "Matt Bloomfield" (mail@mattbloomfield.co.uk>
   Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:44:05 -0000

This arrive on the Lucy-list today, I thought it might be of interest to
some of the folks here too...

>This may be old news to all the "folk-hip" people on this 
>list....but it sure was news to me!!  While reading the Minneapolis 
>Star-Tribune over lunch today I caught the following notice:
>
>"Bob Feldman, president of Red House Records, had noticed 
>something diferent about the set lists played by his 
>flagship artist Greg Brown recently:  Far more love songs 
>than usual were creeping their way into concerts.
>
>Feldman's hunch that the Iowa folk singer was in love was 
>confirmed Monday when he found out that Brown, 53, married 
>singer/songwriter Iris DeMent, 41, in a private ceremony in 
>Kansas City, Mo., last Thursday.
>
>"They both sounded incredibly happy," said Feldman, confirming 
>that the two had not dated long but "had admired each other for years."
>
>It's not the first marriage for either singer.  They 
>reportedly got to know each other better during the making 
>of this year's "Going Driftless:  An Artits' Tribute to Greg Brown," 
>which features DeMent and others.

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