NanciNet Digest 4-24-02
// Odds and ends, including some insight into a song lyric.
// Enjoy... [BP]
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Subject: NN: twang please
From: "Tasha Thomas" (tashat@sugarhillrecords.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:45:18 -0400
Petop@aol.com wrote:
> Houston is nothing more than Los Angeles with all the
> fun taken out of it.
then Sarah wrote:
> "Houston lay like Cleveland with the color removed."
> I couldn't resist.
Never been to Houston, so I can't comment, but now I've got "Avloc ran a
waterfront bar, Vito, he was the king of thieves, and Michael was a rock 'n
roll hood from the Odessa plains" looping through my head. Any writer that
can get Avloc, Vito and Odessa down in two lines is OK by me. And the
"twang" Nanci puts on those two lines is how I'd like to hear her sing more
often. Am I the only one who misses that?
Three more days till Merlefest....
T
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Subject: NN: Vito, Avlock and Michael (no NG)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:01:13 -0500
From: "Sarah Wrightson"
said Vince,
Vito was a panhandler on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. He had a ruler
under his overcoat that he poked out like a gun. "Give me your money." "I
don't have any money." "My name's Vito, I'm the King of Thieves." He
introduced me to Avlock, who ran a bar down there. Oh, Michael was just
some dude I met in a bar. His idea of having a good time was driving his
car through the storm drains in Odessa...they are full of sand when they
aren't full of water. We went fishtailing around them late one night.
Sarah
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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Gauntlet
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 02 18:04:56 +0100
From: "John Edward Graveling" (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Iris DeMent will be back. She has suffered some problems recently. Joy Lynn
White has written an ode to Iris on her internet only release "On Her Own
Demos 2002", called "Iris Loves Elmer". It is a marvelous song and the cd
can be bought by logging on to www.joylynnwhite.com
The whole cd is a wonderful experience. Strong songs, sung by one of THE
great female vocalists of the modern generation.
Give it a whirl. I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Those of us who
saw Joy in the U.K. recently were simply blown away by her songs and her
voice. The plaudits came in from all areas, the fans, the media.
John "just keeping y'all informed" Graveling
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Subject: NN: radio stations
From: "n gaunt" (pawandporschecafe@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:05:21 -0500
i get the strong feeling from pounding around Austin and several other towns
that satellite radio is gonna be the next big thing. i have the complaints
we all do about "same way, every day" radio. i am hoping that for those of
us who love Nanci and others (try to find a decent jazz station that plays
current and the older stuff!), this will be salvation. at least, until
someone cries "foul" and we are sent back to the drawing board.
-Nicholas
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Subject: Re: NN: Texas, no Nanci content; would she approve?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 02 18:19:57 +0100
From: "John Edward Graveling" (kai21@dial.pipex.com>
Well here in the U.K. the printed word is becoming difficult to find. The
famous Melody Maker went out of business last year and of course the weekly
musical press do appeal to a 'younger' crowd.
We have a number of decent monthly publications here, led by MOJO, Uncut and
Q magazines. All appealing to a slightly different demographic, but all
aimed at the more serious music buyer. There are specialist magazines like
Country Music People and Folk Roots, plus a few others. I also subscribe to
the American magazine No Depression.
Most of these magazines, I would say, do have an influence on what people
buy, to what extent of course I could not say. They are mainly highly
enjoyable reads, and the reviews are , in general, professional and fairly
accurate.
John Graveling
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Subject: NN: "O Brother" Tour
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bill Page" (bpage3@yahoo.com>
AP story today says that the "Down from the Mountain" tour has been
expanded...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&ncid=529&e=4&u=/ap/20020
423/ap_en_mu/o_brothe
r_tour_1
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Subject: NN: Rock journalism (NNC)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:42:41 -0400
From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au>
John Edward Graveling wrote:
> Well here in the U.K. the printed word is becoming difficult to find. The
> famous Melody Maker went out of business last year and of course the
> weekly musical press do appeal to a 'younger' crowd.
Here's an excerpt from a piece about the 'new' rock journalism, featuring
the well-received mag "Careless Talk Costs Lives", which might be of
interest to those with eclectic musical tastes and a love of challenging
musical journalism:
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Everett True, rock n roll scribe extraordinaire, is at it again. Influencing
the music-loving kids, that is. Former Melody Maker journalist and author of
'Live Through This', the definitive guide to 'grunge', has teamed up with
awesome photographer Steve Gullick, to produce 'Careless Talk Costs Lives',
a brand new fanzine asking 'whatever happened to the music press'.
I spoke to the man himself about all things noisy.
'How's it going? What are you up to at the moment?'
'I'm good, just putting together issue 10 of 'Careless Talk Costs Lives'.
We're counting down from 12 and hopefully when we get to issue 1 we'll have
destroyed the music press entirely. If we haven't then we've failed.'
'What's the problem with the music press?'
'Well I don't read it anymore but it seems that no one cares about the true
meaning of music any longer. When I pick up a review I want it to make me
wanna go out and buy the record, I want some passion, something to evoke
some emotion. I don't mean to give everything blanket good reviews but some
excitement would be nice. It's not that the writing's generally bad, and the
guys doing it are fine, I know quite a few of them personally, it's just the
people at the top have restricted their ability to actually keep me
interested. There are some good mags. Uncut and the Wire both obviously care
about what they're writing, but they have a niche so they don't really
appeal to the wider market.'
.....
.....
'What kind of advice would you give to an aspiring music journalist?'
'Well I think I'm the wrong person to ask because I'm not really the kind of
guy the publishers of magazines are looking for. But on another level,
basically it's an art form and like any other art form take pride in it.
Remember the goal is to entertain, beyond anything else.'
So the legend has spoken. Take heed of what is said, the destruction of the
music press lays in his hands. Hopefully with a little help, he'll be able
to lead us into the future free of the enemy. And go buy a subscription to
Careless Talk Costs Lives at
http://www.inchug.f9.co.uk/CT/
before it's too late.
(Not a sales pitch from me - just copying and pasting the beginning and end
of the article, while we're on the topic of the music press. Tony)
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