// The thread titled "emmylou in the uk" is only peripherally
// about emmylou...and a new member introduction 
// Don't forget the holiday music exchange.
// Contact Sue Peete at: suepeete@cruzio.com
// For those of you in the US, Happy Thanksgiving!
// (For those of you not in the US, Happy Thanksgiving anyway!)
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: emmylou in the uk
   From: DWF Abbott [mailto:D.Abbott@bristol.ac.uk]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:57 AM

I saw Emmylou Harris in Bristol on Saturday night. I've never seen her play
live before. And frankly I'm only a relatively recent convert to her music
since I always found her (older) stuff too close to country for my liking.
Anyway the gig was awesome. Second song up was a lovely cover of 'Orphan
Girl' by Gillian Welch. There was stuff from the new CD and the set was wide
ranging including unrecorded stuff, a song the band had half worked up in
the sound check and an encore of John Lennon's, 'Imagine'. Ms Harris (like
Ms Griffith), obviously reads reviews as 'The Guardian' had described her
choice of 'Imagine' as a cliche. Emmylou Harris said she was going to do it
anyway as it seemed to her to be an important song for the times we live in.

Overall the set was fresh and exciting and (controversial bit) made me wish
that Nanci's performances in the UK over the last few years were a little
less formulaic and more like this....

David

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Subject: Re: NN: emmylou in the uk
   From: kai21@dial.pipex.com [mailto:kai21@dial.pipex.com]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:47 AM


I would have to concur with the sentiments expressed here. Nanci does need
to take a few more 'chances' again with her music. She is still a great draw
live, but even so there needs to be something different again. I have heard
that the new album will be a more acoustic affair now that Chas Williams
(guitar) is no longer part of the BMO. I believe there has been some work on
the album and that Clive Gregson may be producing, but I guess we'll have to
wait and see.

John Graveling

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Subject: RE: NN: emmylou in the uk
   From: Ken Stiffler [mailto:ksls@kmsx.net]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:50 PM


John wrote:
I have heard that the new album will be a more acoustic affair now that
Chas Williams (guitar) is no longer part of the BMO.((

This all sounds like good news to me. Chas may be technically good and I was
content with his contribution to the Winter Marquee concert, but I just
don't hear any particularly interesting guitar playing on Clock Without
Hands.

Ken

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Subject: Re: NN: emmylou in the uk
   From: Rob Boucher [mailto:rboucher@nexicom.net]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:32 PM


I think KEN is correct as much as NANCI may, through the grapevine we
honestly hope, catch wind of his comment! NANCI has enough to do out on the
stage remembering all the tough lyrics to get herself into too deep of
guitar work. There are all kind of very talented young guitar players up
here in CANADA and would love to see NANCI get some type of music scout from
her lack-luster GOLD-MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINMENT team come up here north of the
49th and start searching the clubs for that needle in the haystack that i
know is here and just waiting for that huge brake. If a scout would walk
into any music store they would. It would be so nice to see some CANADIAN
flavour to the B-M-O that my comment may someday make this happen which
would also get NANCI to re-due the TORONTO show someday and a few more up
this way in the future! I am SENDING THIS AS PLAIN TEXT BILL so please le me
know if I screwed up and i am sorry if i did but it has been a while since i
sent a reply post .     rob boucher  AKA - nanccinut   rboucher@nexicom.net 

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Subject: NN: Not-in-the-closet ABBA fan...
   From: David Grant [mailto:david@grantguerrero.com]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:00 PM

You can count me as another ABBA fanatic.  I actually sat down about two
months ago and made a CD-ROM containing MP3 files of every studio track they
released!  It got me from Austin to somewhere east of Baton Rouge in my
car's MP3 player...

I, too, have many, many albums that are more than 10 years old that are
played frequently.  Some that are sitting in the stack next to my computer
are:

Carly Simon - NO SECRETS
Carly Simon - HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY
Original Cast Recording - HAIR
Carole King - MUSIC
Shawn Colvin - STEADY ON
Rosanne Cash - RHYTHM & ROMANCE
Supremes - WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO
Simon & Garfunkel - BOOKENDS
James Reyne - JAMES REYNE
Rosemary Clooney - SONGS FROM WHITE CHRISTMAS
Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett -- JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL
and the entire pre-1975 Carpenters' catalog

It's just stuff I've been in the mood for while I work this past week.
Stuff gets taken in and out of rotation all the time, and much of it is
frequently more than 10 years old.  Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, Olivia
Newton-John, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Linda Ronstadt, Anne Murray,
Elton John, Billy Joel, and John Denver get played frequently in my house.

David

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Subject: NN: the 90's: a Decade in Song
   From: Ryan McCabe [mailto:valleyfan@hotmail.com]
   Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 6:16 PM

Greeting to all from Seattle, WA!
I am fairly new to this list, but I've been a fan of Nanci's ever since I
picked up a copy of "Other Voices, Other Rooms" back in 1994.  (okay, I
thought I was buying some sort of "tribute" to the Truman Capote novel, but
was so pleasantly surprised.)  I was a senior in high school, driving around
my small town blasting Nanci Griffith on my CD player, and loving it. 

Since that time, like so many it appears, I have grown to love and connect
with the multitude of brilliant songs that Nanci has written or recorded.
("Late Night Grande Hotel" and "Southbound Train" being two personal
favorites)

For me, the 90's were all about growing up, getting out into the world, and
finding my voice.  My list is merely a small example of the music that
defined that decade for me, and I listen to each and every one of them at
least once or twice a month (in no particular order):

- Everything But the Girl --"Worldwide"
- Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt -- "Western Wall: the Tucson Sessions"
- Joni Mitchell -- "Night Ride Home" and "Turbulent Indigo"
- Bryan Ferry -- "Taxi"
- Holly Cole Trio -- "Don't Smoke In Bed" and "Dark Dear Heart"
- Jane Siberry -- "When I Was A Boy"
- Adam Cohen -- "Adam Cohen"
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions -- "All This Useless Beauty"
- 10,000 Maniacs -- "MTV Unplugged"
- "Songs For A New World"
- "Grace of My Heart" (motion picture soundtrack)
- Cassandra Wilson -- "New Moon Daughter"
- The 5th Dimension -- "Up, Up, And Away: the Definitive Anthology"

Happiest of Holidays to ALL!

Ryan P. McCabe
Entertainer at Liberty
www.ryanpmccabe.com (a work in progress)

~Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I
have no grasp of it whatsoever.~ "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"

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