// Welcome to the Kate Campbell edition of the NanciNet Digest.
// (After all, it's her birthday.)
// And we have some Halloween stuff, too.
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Robert Earl Keen
    From: Joe O'Connell (josephoc@admin.stedwards.edu>
    Date: Oct 29, 2003 6:20 AM

Haven't seen a note about this on here yet. Seek out Robert Earl Keen's 
new
album "Farm Fresh Onions." It reminds me in some ways of recent NG 
albums in
that it's a mix of the expected and a turn in new directions. It's off 
of a
small label (which shocks me given his rabid fan base
among college-age folk here in Texas) so it allowed Keen to experiment. 
The
title track is downright rap-like (rappish?) and extremely catchy.

In my mind his best song ever was "Dreadful Selfish Crime." I liked it 
so
much I stole the title for the mystery novel I've penned and am trying 
to
place currently (the protagonist is a REK fan). This album provides 
close
competition with the haunting "Beats the Devil."

It took a few listens for me to sink into this one, but I think it's 
Keen's
best in a number of years.

Joe-O sez check it out.

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Subject: NN: Re (non) UK tour
    From: Paul Reeve (paul@preeve.plus.com>
    Date: Oct 28, 2003 10:57 AM

Helen Mitchell wrote:
> so where and when are the england dates, as in England UK i assume???

Helen, John

I think the origin is Emmylou Harris's concerts in the UK next month 
(I'm
going to the RAH) and somehow it ended up as people thinking it was 
Nanci.
As an aside, I saw Kate Campbell (solo) at the Beamish Mary, Co Durham, 
in
September - drove up from holiday cottage in Swaledale - and very good 
she
was to, with a small but appreciative audience. I guess this was much 
more
like her house concerts in the US.

Paul (looking forward to ELH 3 days after my birthday!!)

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Subject: NN: VARIOUS THINGS
   From: "Young, Howard" (Howard.Young@argyll-bute.gov.uk>
   Sent: Oct 31, 2003 5:16 AM

There has been various correspondence ref future plans by Nanci. I
understand that a new album is likely to be recorded in the second 
quarter
of next year followed by a few festival dates. There will then be a 
tour in
the US and UK later in 2004.
Hope this is of use.

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Subject: NN: All Hallows Eve Poetry
    From: Shawn Kimbro (shawn@mountainsoul.net>
    Date: Oct 30, 2003 9:24 PM

> From Dover
S. Kimbro

Whispering wind
Through raven tress
Enshrouding fog
Alluring dress

Beguiling night
Follow her call
> From fitful slumber
Awakening walk

Summoning ballad
Incessant voice
Sings ever onward
No sanction for choice

Shimmering moon
A jewel on her lips
Reflects in the channel
Beneath the White Cliffs

Resplendent alter
Surrounded by souls
Seduced by her spell
Hymns from below

Persuasive descant
Embrace from the edge
Melt in her harmony
Step from the ledge

Copyright ©2003, All rights reserved.

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Subject: Re: NN: All Hallows Eve Poetry
    From: DvBGardner@genelogic.com
    Sent: Oct 31, 2003 6:02 AM

Awesome, Shawn, as usual. On my way to work this morning, I was 
thinking of
sending out a message to haunt you for your annual Halloween story, but 
this
poem does the trick...thank you! :)

After 20 years or so of organizing Halloween parades in my neighborhood,
decorating our house to scare the little trick-or-treaters, thinking up 
new
and original costumes every year, spending our grocery money on 
worthless
candy for other people's kids, hosting goooey parties for hormone-raged
teens, etc., we have decided that it is time for others to take on the 
torch
now.

WE ARE GOING TO HIDE OUT TONIGHT!

Don't know yet if we'll just go away or hide out in the library 
downstairs
with a good movie and wine, turning off the doorbell.

Do NOT, repeat, NOT come by our house in Maryland tonight to get your 
candy
fix!
Instead, take I95 South straight down to Tennessee and bother Shawn. He
loves that stuff!

Donate "becoming a Halloween Scrooge" v.B.-G

// Actually, that would be I-95 to I-40...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Re: Kate Campbell
    From: Helen Mitchell (ellie1980@blueyonder.co.uk>
    Date: Oct 29, 2003 10:33 AM

Yeah, Kate is fab, much in league of Nanci, as lyrical, Kate has many 
time
been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor for the quality of 
the
storytelling in her songs.

Try Visions of plenty (crazy in Alabama, Jesus and tomatoes, visions of
plenty), monuments (strangeness of the day, yellow guitar, joe louis'
furniture, walk on stones), rosaryville (rosa's coronas, rosaryville),
moonpie dreams (bud's sea mint boat, tupelo's too far, delmus jackson, 
older
angel) songs form the levee (lanterns on the levee, mississippi and me),
Wandering Strange (bear it away, last song).

Kate has managed to get me, in the UK, fascinated in southern civil 
rights
movement, (always had an interest in civil war!) and [Martin] Luther 
King,
and in cuban revolution...I have seen her perform twice, incredible, 
and she
is so lovely and down to earth when u get to meet her. A real gem, who 
draws
inspiration form the oddest of places!

Let us all know what u make of her!!! And yeah im sure she and Nanci 
know of
each other.

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Subject: NN: RE: Nanci and Kate
    From: Ken Stiffler (ksls@kmsx.net>
    Sent: Oct 29, 2003 11:22 PM

Lorrie wrote:
>> I was just wondering, do you suppose Nanci knows Kate Campbell's 
>> music.((

I'm pretty sure that Kate opened for Nanci once or twice during a three 
or
four night run at The Birchmere a couple of years ago. At the time, I 
had
never seen Kate live and wanted to go to a show that she opened, but it 
was
sold out by the time I tried to get tickets.

Ken

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Subject: NN: Kate Campbell
    From: Molly & John Prive (prive@charter.net>
    Date: Oct 30, 2003 9:21 AM

I got to see Kate Campbell a couple of years ago and after the show I 
told
her what a huge fan I was (yada, yada, yada!) and that I had been 
turned on
to her music by the NanciNet. She said the NanciNet had been a huge 
boost to
her career and she appreciated everyone so much. At that time she had 
not
met Nanci but was anticipating playing with her in the near future. I 
was
the only person in the audience of about 50 people that was familiar 
with
her music. I told her I was disappointed she did not play "Like A 
Buffalo"
and she said to remind her next time around, and she would sing it!!

Kate you are on notice!! February 13, 2004-Ashland, OR, I will be 
reminding
you!!

Molly P.

PS Got to see Laurie Lewis and Gillian Welch recently, (GREAT SHOWS).
Looking forward to seeing Guy Clark and the Songwriter Tour (Shawn 
Colvin,
Dar Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Patty Griffin) in November!!

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Subject: Re: NN: Kate Campbell
    From: Bill (bpage3@earthlink.net>
    Date: Oct 30, 2003 12:04 PM

Molly wrote:

"I got to see Kate Campbell a couple of years ago and after the show I 
told
her what a huge fan I was (yada, yada, yada!) and that I had been 
turned on
to her music by the NanciNet. She said the NanciNet had been a huge 
boost to
her career and she appreciated everyone so much."

The moonpie list on yahoo groups was a direct outgrowth of the NanciNet.
List members who were discussing Kate's music in back-channel 
discussions
finally had such a long "cc" list that a more structured list was 
suggested,
and the rest is history.

Bill

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