// This is a very short digest because you have all been very 
// quiet...still...
// Enjoy!  [BP

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Subject: Re: NN: "our" music on the radio [was "These are days...']
   Date: Thu, 28 Mar 02 22:09:43 +0000
   From: John Edward Graveling (kai21@dial.pipex.com>

In response to Reid's story. 

We do not own the music we so dearly love, it belongs to the artists. I 
am sure the vast majority of them would love to be heard on radio 
stations at regular intervals. The royalty cheques would provide an 
invaluable source of income. 

It is a very selfish concept to think we have a right to deny access of 
this music to the masses. Most of the masses would probably reject a lot 
of what we listen to, but given decent exposure, a good number of the 
artists we champion here, would at least earn a better living than they 
do at present.

John Graveling

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Subject: Re:NN:These are the days... and Nanci sighting
   Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:48:31 -0500
   From: tgill@igc.org

>(one programmer saying after the grammys -
>"Don't think we're going to play Alison Krauss >after this.")  

Reminds me of a similar quote I saw recently in
a newspaper by a major "country music" executive
lamenting the "current sad state of the genre"???
who stated- this is an exact quote- "the problem
with country music today is that there are too
many artists and not enough stars."   He was
referring to the days when anything Garth Brooks
or whoever the superstar du jour was would sell
ten million copies sound-unheard, just on the
name alone, and lamenting the "poor sales" of
Garth's new album.  Made me cringe.

Did I miss it, or did no one else report the
segment they (surprisingly!) did on Nanci in CMT's
"A Century of Country" series last weekend?  The
show was discussing the 1980s.  It was interesting.

-Tom Gill
 Lubbock, TEXAS
 tgill@igc.org

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Subject: Re: NN:These are the days... and Nanci sighting
   Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:15:03 -0600
   From: Ed Maier (evmaier@sbcglobal.net>

tgill@igc.org wrote:
> 
> Did I miss it, or did no one else report the
> segment they (surprisingly!) did on Nanci in CMT's
> "A Century of Country" series last weekend?  The
> show was discussing the 1980s.  It was interesting.

I caught it too, Tom. I also saved it to MPG. It's
kind of a long file, though. 87 meg. I could burn
a few copies to CD. The Nanci content was less than
three or four minutes.

Eddie

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Subject: NN: Jan Bell
   Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:36:36 -0800 (PST)
   From: Reid Mitchell (reidmitchell@yahoo.com>

Hey folks--

Those of you waiting for he next equivalent of "Poet in My Window" might want
to check out the music of Jan Bell.  Does anybody here know her?  I saw her do
one song when she recently visited New Orleans and I was impressed enough to
ask if she had a cd. 
She does and it's just available from CDbaby.  You can listen to samples at
http://www.littleredhenmusic.com/listen.html    
There you'll find a song I'd think would be perfect for Nanci--"Moon Song."

I ordered the whole cd and I like it a lot, particularly the song writing, but
before you order it you should be warned it's short (8 songs; 33 minutes and 10
secs) and not all cuts sound exactly professional.  

If you get a chance to see her live, do so.  She lives in Brooklyn and I think
plays the East Coast.  The Little Red Hen website has more details.  Anyway, if
you like early Nanci or if you just like great songwriting, you'll want to keep
an eye for her.

Reid Mitchell

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Subject: NN: Nanci/Kasey trade?
   Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:53:20 -0500
   From: Tony Cox (tonycox@pacific.net.au>

Does anyone have a recent (i.e. featuring songs from "Clock
Without Hands") decent quality Nanci concert recording (from
FM radio preferably) they'd like to trade?

In return I can offer a CD-R of a radio broadcast of Kasey
Chambers at the Byron Bay festival last Friday.  It includes
a duet with Steve Earle, by the way, at the end of which
Kasey says something to the effect of her being so excited
at performing with Steve that she nearly went into labour!

Please contact me off-list if interested.  Or on-list if
this is a scoldable offence (Bill??) and I won't do it again
;)

Tony

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Subject: NN: FW: RE: These are days...
   Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:10:10 +0100
   From: "Matt Bloomfield" (mail@mattbloomfield.co.uk>

This didn't arrive the first time.  Trying again.

Hi All
 
 > Except for the long article in the NY Times on how American
 > country radio will never embrace this music (one programmer
 > saying after the grammys - "Don't think we're going to play
 > Alison Krauss after this.")
 
This article is available on the NYTimes website if anyone would like to read
it.
 
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/arts/music/24STRA.html
 
You will need to register (free and they don’t spam you) before you can access
the article.


Matt

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Subject: NN: Radio
   Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:12:40 -0500
   From: Tony Cox (tonycox@pacific.net.au>

> This article is available on the NYTimes website if anyone would like
> to read it.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/arts/music/24STRA.html

This is indeed alarming stuff.

One of the things that made me gag on my sandwich was the figure of 11,000
broadcasters in the US.  HUH?  Talk about sensory overload - no wonder
you're all on pills!  And what, none of them play decent music?  Surely
that can't be the case.

Calculating the pro-rata figure from that 11,000, that would mean
approximately 120 radio stations for the population of Melbourne!  In fact,
there are less than 20, and about 8 of them are non-commercial-crap type
stations.  (Sadly, though, the most popular stations *are* the crappy
ones.)

The point I'm making is that even here there are 3 or 4 stations where I
can get a decent fix of alt country/folk programs (though only one of those
is an exclusively specialist country station).  Two of these stations are
subscriber-based (totally voluntary - anyone can listen - though I pay up
for both, as do thousands of others, as a mark of appreciation for their
excellence) and the other two are ABC (public) stations.  Hence no adverts
on any of them, other than gig guides.

It's encouraging that despite the best efforts of the corporate dictators
the US buying public has other ideas, as the NY Times article points out.
Just as it's encouraging that Mike Moore's book is a bestseller;)  You
can't fool all the people all of the time, huh?

Power to the people!
Tony


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