// This digest has almost no nanci content, and little of anything else...
// Enjoy, I guess...[BP]

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Subject: NN: NAMM show in Nashville 
   From: GORDON1717@aol.com 
   Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:39:18 EDT 

Hi everyone,
just a quick de-lurk to say that I will be at the NAMM show this summer in
Nashville exhibiting our new line of hand carved archtops and I know that a
fair number of people here are regular attendees. I would love to say hi and
meet anyone that's going to be there, we are exhibiting at booth #2033
(Eastman Strings), I'll give you a free pick too if you are good! Come play
some guitars and enjoy some live Nanci chat. We are also expecting to be
visited by some famous people so you never know who you might meet.

See you there

Gordon
(you can check out the guitars at eastmanstrings.com and even see a pic of
me holding one of those smithsonian blue guitars!)

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Subject: NN: See you in Texas 
   Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:10:04 -0500 
   From: "Sarah Wrightson" (swrightson@vincebell.com> 

Off to no-mail land, and driving to Texas.  Here's where I'll be (well,
okay, Vince will be), should anyone feel so inclined:

Friday 7/12 Dan Electro's in Houston
Saturday 7/13 Old Quarter in Galveston
Wednesday 7/17 Texana Grill in Arlington/Dallas (7:00pm) with Brian Burns

Good music, friends and food,

Sarah W.
vincebell.com
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Subject: NN: CountryFest 2002 across the pond (NNC - as far as I know!) 
   From: "Paul Castle" (pdcmusic@freeuk.com> 
   Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:59:59 +0100 

Hoped this might be of interest to any nanci-netters 
living or holidaying in London England next weekend  -

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Countryfest 2002
http://www.geocities.com/countryfest2002

4 floors of Country, Americana & Bluegrass 
to raise money for Cancer Research

Sunday July 14th at The Studio and Rouge Rooms, 
144 Charing Cross Road London WC2 (3pm - late)

Along with the promise of a 'very special guest',  the 
current list of bands donating their time includes:

The Handsome Family http://www.handsomefamily.com/
The Rosinators http://www.mp3.com/The_Rosinators
Julian Dawson http://www.juliandawson.com/
Menlo Park http://www.menlopark.co.uk
The Coal Porters http://www.zotnet.net/~dennison/CoalPorters.html
Bap Kennedy http://www.bapkennedy.com/
John Wayne Army http://www.johnwaynearmy.co.uk/
Cicero Buck http://www.kriswilkinson.com
Grand Drive http://www.grand-drive.com
The Vessels http://www.thevessels.co.uk
The Redlands Palomino Co. http://homepages.unl.ac.uk/~raineyc/
Bob Collum http://www.bobcollumonline.com/
Loudermilk http://www.loudermilk.net/
The Broken Family Band http://www.thebrokenfamilyband.com/
The Folk Orchestra http://www.folkorchestra.com
Mahony http://www.mahony.org.uk
Antonia http://www.antonialive.com
Lomax feedback@saltgrass.freeserve.co.uk
Charlie Boston Band http://www.laramusic.co.uk/
Southern Star http://www.southernstar.co.uk
and more.....

Running order @ 
http://www.geocities.com/countryfest2002
Band information @
http://www.geocities.com/countryfest2002/bandinfo.html

For further information please contact 
Paula Gillespie at gillspie@hotmail.com


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All the best
Paul Castle
Across the Pond
http://www.mp3.com/stations/acrossthepond
guitar/banjo/vocals in The Rosinators
http://www.mp3.com/The_Rosinators
Hold Out for Summer @
http://www.mp3.com/paulcastle

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Subject: NN: Dulcie Taylor [no Nanci] 
   Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:01:26 -0700 (PDT) 
   From: "Reid Mitchell" (reidmitchell@yahoo.com> 

Netters,

Any of you know Dulcie Taylor's music?  Or the woman herownself?  I'm
listening to her cd Diamond and Glass and want to recommend it.  It's mainly
a series of songs about--surprise--love, its strength and fragility:

      Love can cut like a diamond
      Love can shatter like glass

I'm going to be reviewing it for Rockzilla if I can think of something to
say; unfortunately so far I've been making it sound like a poem sequence by
Emily Dickinson and I can't imagine anybody coming home and saying, "Hey
honey, let's push back the furniture, roll up the rug, put on the new Emily
Dickinson cd, and dance." I'll bang out something eventually.

Taylor plays mainly in the D.C.  I wish I was up there to check her out
live.  Her website's at http://www.dulcietaylor.com/homepage.html

Reid "they passed the independence ordinance on July 2nd" Mitchell
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Subject: NN: THE NATURAL LIFE CYCLE OF MAILING LISTS 
   From: Petop@aol.com 
   Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:28:49 EDT 

I have no idea who the author of this is, but it has a familiar ring to it,
so I thought I would pass it along.

THE NATURAL LIFE CYCLE OF MAILING LISTS

Every list seems to go through the same cycle:
1. Initial enthusiasm (people introduce themselves, and gush alot 
about how wonderful it is to find kindred souls).

2. Evangelism (people moan about how few folks are posting to the 
list, and brainstorm recruitment strategies).

3. Growth (more and more people join, more and more lengthy threads
develop, occasional off-topic threads pop up).

4. Community (lots of threads, some more relevant than others; lots 
of information and advice is exchanged; experts help other experts as
well as less experienced colleagues; friendships develop; people
tease each other; newcomers are welcomed with generosity and
patience; everyone -- newbie and expert alike -- feels comfortable
asking questions, suggesting answers, and sharing opinions).

5. Discomfort with diversity (the number of messages increases
dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every reader;
people start complaining about the signal-to-noise ratio; person 1
threatens to quit if *other* people don't limit discussion to
person 1's pet topic; person 2 agrees with person 1; person 3
tells 1 & 2 to lighten up; more bandwidth is wasted complaining
about off-topic threads than is used for the threads themselves;
everyone gets annoyed).

6a. Smug complacency and stagnation (the purists flame everyone who 
asks an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious post;
newbies are rebuffed; traffic drops to a doze-producing level of a
few minor issues; all interesting discussions happen by private
email and are limited to a few participants; the purists spend
lots of time self-righteously congratulating each other on keeping
off-topic threads off the list).

OR

6b. Maturity (a few people quit in a huff; the rest of the 
participants stay near stage 4, with stage 5 popping up briefly every few
weeks; many people wear out their second or third 'delete' key, but the list
lives contentedly ever after).

==================================
"I stepped past the crawling girl and picked the gun up. She looked at me
and began to giggle. I put the gun in my pocket and patted her on the back.
'Get up Angel. you look like a Pekingese.'"
        Phillip Marlowe from The Big Sleep
        Raymond Chandler

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Subject: NN: You are so Nashville if... 
   Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:52:54 -0400 
   From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au> 

Couldn't resist sharing a bit of humour I stumbled on while
looking for something else.

There's a page on the Nashville Scene site with the results
of a competition where readers were asked to finish the
sentence:

"You are so Nashville if..."

OK, so some of the answers are lost on someone like me
without the local knowledge, but there are plenty more which
have left me with a pretty good idea of what supposedly
makes the good citizens of Nashville tick!  Here are a few
of my favourites:

You are so Nashville if:
- You came here because of the music business and now you're leaving for the
same reason.
- You answered a Singles Scene personal ad and wound up on a date with your
ex-husband.
- You spent more time dressing for the Frist Center than touring it.
- You support historic preservation, just not the historic building you own.
- All your plural's have apostrophe's.
- You've dated a waitress from Waffle House, or at least considered it.
- You really miss the pest strip on the ceiling of Rotier's.
- You don't see anything funny about this year.

And Nanci hangs out here??!  No wonder she drinks!  There
are plenty more such gems at this link - dozens of them, in
fact, so if you enjoy a good therapeutic laugh at someone
else's expense, check them out at:
     http://www.nashvillescene.com/YASNI/


Tony "aren't *other*people funny?" Cox

(How about that - emphasis asterisks inside quotes!  Is that
a first on this list?  Or just a case of too much
punctuation?)


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