// The annual holiday exchange, ABBA fans come out of the closet,
// and more. Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Annual Holiday Music Exchange
    Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:38:21 -0800
    From: Susan Peete (suepeete@cruzio.com>

For each of the last eight years, there has been a NanciNet tradition 
which
we refer to as the Annual Holiday Music Exchange.

This "Holiday Tape/CDR Exchange" has turned out to be a lot of fun. 
It's a
great way to be introduced to some wonderful music by artists that you 
may
not be familiar with. It's also a nice way to get to know fellow
Nancinetters through their musical interests.

If you'd like to participate this year, reply to this message, by Monday
November 24, 2003. When replying, please send a private e-mail to
suepeete@cruzio.com so we don't clutter up the list (NanciNet). A 
simple "I
want in" is sufficient. I will confirm your entry by replying with a 
simple
"you're in". Then you will need to record a tape/CDR of some of your
favorite *NON* Nanci tunes.

As in previous years, I will toss all the participants names into 
Bill's NG
"Flyer" hat and will draw names to determine who gets who's tape/CDR.
Witnesses will be present. Within a few days, of November 24, I'll post 
one
public message that tells you who to send your tape/CDR to.

Please join us in spreading the joy of music this holiday season.

Cheers!

-Sue

Susan Peete
suepeete@cruzio.com

In loving Memory of Bill Peete:
http://members.cruzio.com/~billpeet/

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Subject: NN: Which pre-2003 records do you play most?
    Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:24:00 EST
    From: ConorMG@aol.com

You know how you go for ages without good food or something, and then 
such a
huge glut of it comes along that you can't properly enjoy it? Well,
Christmas is something like that, and so is the flood of great music
suggestions on the NN in December. What I want in the depressing weeks 
when
the glorious leaves (and do they seem more beautiful to you with each 
new
year?) are pouring out of our lives, perhaps forever, is a crowd of 
people
saying "You've just got to go out and grab the latest cds by Jo-Beth
Krinklehorn and Harry Bloom and the Inflaters!"

The trouble with naming our 2003 favourites this early though, is we 
might
miss a rogue all-time classic release in the weeks leading up to
Christmas...And so we leave it till later when we're so full of tinsel 
and
turkey that, frankly, we just don't give a damn.

So could I propose something? As a run-up to the best of 2003, could 
people
name the records from the previous ten years which they still like a 
lot and
play. (That will stop people naming Revolver and Best of the Eagles, 
and me
trotting out my usual Joan Baez Vol 2 and Perry Como Sings Songs of
Christmas.) I get a bit behind the times with this music anyway over 
here in
England, and don't want to buy the latest craze without having seen the
singers on tv or even in a photo. So I tend to buy things a year late. 
(Then
they also can cost pennies instead of  pounds.) I bought a Jimmy Buffett
last year, but only saw him for the first time the other night on the
CMAs...I'd like to remind people over here that we have recently had 
visits
from the Dixie Chicks, Mary Gauthier, Caitlin Cary, Allison Moorer, 
Gretchen
Peters, so there is a lot of great music to go out there and support.

So get stuck into making a list of your non-2003 favourites, and send it
soon.  I have a theory that half the favourites from only a few years 
ago
aren't played any more.

Here's 1998 for example:
NanciNet Top Ten for 1998

Compiled by Robert Pugsley
1. Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Too
2. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
3. Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
4. Lyle Lovett - Step Into This House
5. Various Artists - Treasures Left Behind
6. Kate Campbell - Visions Of Plenty
7. D. Williams, L. Kaplansky and  R. Shindell - Cry Cry Cry
8. Various Artists - Horse Whisperer Soundtrack
9. Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings
10 Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue(/A>

What do you think?

Conor
(trying hard to stop playing the same two cds)

// Well, I still play #s 1, 4, 5, 6 fairly often.
// I think I can safely say I've not gone a week
// without playing "Visions of Plenty" since I first
// got the CD...[BP]

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Subject: Re: NN: What I'm listening to, Fall '03
    Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:22:05 EST
    From: RoanInish@aol.com


(( In reviewing the new Dolly tribute disc, ChocChippy Kathleen says: 
(And
Shania never sounded so good as on "Coat of Many Colors.">
((The simple reason that Shania's "never sounded so good" is "her" 
backup
band. The song is performed by Shania Twain & Union Station! >>

The fact that she also has a decent (make that a GREAT) song to sing 
helps
too, no doubt.  None of this "Man I Feel Like a Woman," or "I'm Gonna 
Getcha
Good" (with its electronic vocal compression, long a staple production
technique in country music).

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Subject: NN: OT: I'm a closet ABBA fan
    Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:06:03 -0800 (PST)
    From: Ed Maier (evhmaier@yahoo.com>

There, I've said it. Most favorite songs: Chiquita, Fernando, Waterloo. 
I'm
finally out of the closet. Please don't hate me.

:-)

Ed Maier

=====
Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like there's nobody watching,
And sing really, really loud.

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Subject: NN: RE: OT: I'm a closet ABBA fan
    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:56:19 -0800 (PST)
    From: "Troy Roepke" (taroepke@ucdavis.edu>

Ed,

There is no need to be in the closet about ABBA. Why, I own their entire
catalogue on CD. One the best CD purchases I have made in recent 
memory. I
even have the DVD 'ABBA: The Definitive Collection' which contains most 
the
videos to their biggest hits...some even in Spanish! That's a must have 
if
only for the hilarious fashions of the seventies. Cheers.

Troy

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Subject: Re: NN: RE: OT: I'm a closet ABBA fan
    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:28:13 +0000
    From: "Robert Pugsley" (robertpugsley@hotmail.com>

> From Deep Lurking...( a small village in The Cotswolds...)

In full agreement with Troy and Ed on this although my favs are The 
Visitors
and the epic Day before You Came featuring the outstanding lyric...

"I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then. I must have 
read
a while The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style"

Excellent.

Robert (Pugsley)

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Subject: NN: Songwriters Tour-Nanci content
    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:07:47 -0800
    From: "Molly Prive" (prive@charter.net>

Was anyone else from the NanciNet at the Songwriters Tour concert last 
night
in Portland, OR (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Dar Williams, 
Patty
Griffin)?

First of all, did the guy in the beginning announce the line up and say
"Nanci Griffith" instead of "Patty Griffin"? And, was the comment Shawn
Colvin made about feeling like Nanci Griffith when singing right after 
Patty
Griffin a reference to the difference in hers and Patty's voices? I 
didn't
catch all she was saying.

It was a great night, I thought, although I could have done with a 
little
less silliness. It was the last night of the tour and they were ready 
to let
their hair down!! Exciting news about Dar expecting a boy. The group
suggested she name him Shawn Patrick Chapin. I kind of like it myself!!

And, if anyone can help me place a song-Shawn Colvin sang a song about 
going
home and said it was requested by Mary Chapin's husband. It was 
absolutely
beautiful and I would like to know how I can get my hands on it.

All in all a great concert and worth the 4 hour trip!

Molly P. (they did a BACKSTREET BOYS song???, guess you had to be 
there!)

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Subject: NN: RE: Songwriters Tour-Nanci content
    Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:03:31 -0800
    From: "Susan Krauss" (sekrauss@comcast.net>

It's a Talking Heads song called Naive Melody (this must be the place) 
and
it's on Shawn's record Cover Girl (a whole record of incredible covers).

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Subject: NN: Re: RE: Songwriters Tour-Nanci content
    Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:39:46 +1100
    From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au>

>> It's a Talking Heads song called Naive Melody (this must be the place)
and it's on Shawn's record Cover Girl (a whole record of incredible
covers).((

I'll second that - it's one of my favourite CDs of recent times.

Tony

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Subject: Re: NN: RE: Songwriters Tour-Nanci content
    Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:31:51 +0000
    From: "Robert Pugsley" (robertpugsley@hotmail.com>

Oh i just got to comment on this as well. If me and my significant other
have a song it's this. The lyrics are not at all straightforward but I 
think
(well it's my experience anyway!) that love and relationships aren't 
like
that - as Nanci has sang many times as well...

You can read them here...

http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=gdnbsmdt

"And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love"

all the best,
Robert (Pugsley)

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