// I would've sworn I sent a digest earlier this week, but it.
// appears that I did not. Sorry for the delay.
// Enjoy!  [BP]

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Subject: NN: Smile
   Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:03:00 -0500
   From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>

The mail today included the brand new album "Smile" from Mae Robertson.  What
should I find at the top of the song list but Kate Campbell's  "Lanterns on the
Levee." Further inspection revealed that Kate provides harmony on the cut. Tim
O'Brien on the mandolin, Viktor Krauss the bass and (ex member of Nanci
Griffith's Blue Moon Orchestra) Fran Breen on drums.

I swear Mae and I are not related. In any event, I would have to be related to
her husband- since, like Kate, Mae uses her married name. I first learned of
Mae about three years ago, when someone on the MCC list mentioned that she was
collaborating with Chapin on a project. At that time, Mae had been living and
working in the NYC area for a few years. But her family all hail from
Birmingham, AL and they have since returned to Birmingham, where Mae organizes
the Troubadour Series at the WorkPlay Theatre when she's not busy with her own
music.

While Mae is a very talented songwriter, "Smile" is a collection of well chosen
covers. In addition to the one mentioned above, there's:

Ships- Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille
Side of the Road- Lucinda Williams
Paper Wings- Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Summer of my Dreams- Dave Mallett
Show the Way- David Wilcox
I Still Miss Someone- Johnny Cash and Roy Cash, Jr.
Western Highway- Gerry O'Beirne
You Don't Know Me- Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker
Seven Shades of Blue- Beth Neilsen Chapman
American Tune- Paul Simon
Feels Like Home- Randy Newman
Smile- Charles Chaplin, John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons

Take my word for it- if you like Nanci, you'll like Mae. How can you go wrong
when you pair a gorgeous Southern voice with good taste in music? Admittedly,
this album is a collection of mostly slow, contemplative ballads- best listened
to late in the evening when you're in a contemplative mood.

http://www.MaeRobertson.com/

Steve Robertson

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Subject: NN: No Nanci Content--sorry!
   Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:30:03 -0500
   From: davidtsteere (davidtsteere@yahoo.com>

just a recommendation...

consider the following:  Alison Krauss, Union Station, Allison Moorer, Rhonda
and Darren Vincent, Rob Ickes, Alan Jackson, Royce Kendall, Ricky Skaggs, Alan
Jackson, Carl Jackson, etc.

All play/sing on Jeannie Kendall's first solo cd, JEANNIE KENDALL, on Rounder.
Really beautiful!  A seamless combination of folk, country, alt-country and
bluegrass songs and elements. And what a voice Jeannie has! I never knew her
from the Kendalls but now wish I had.

Run and pick it up.

david

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Subject: Re: NN: No Nanci Content--sorry!
   Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:57:29 EST
   From: Halesbop@aol.com

davidtsteere@yahoo.com writes:

> Alan Jackson
> All play/sing on Jeannie Kendall's first solo cd, 
> JEANNIE KENDALL, on Rounder.

Well, I won't hold that against her. Still sounds like it might be really 
good. Thanks for the tip.

Steve

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Subject: NN: Re: What I'm Doing
   Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:36:38 -0600
   From: "Anne Marie Parsley" (a.parsley@insightbb.com>

From: Lexington, Kentucky

Standing in my kitchen on a glorious, 55' sunny day.  Windows down.  Fresh
Air.  Massive tree damage throughout our entire city from the Ice Storm of
Valentine's weekend.  Continuous cleanup until May will hopefully take care  of
things throughout Fayette County. Lots of chainsaw noise outside but we are
muting it with loud music. Aesthetically the damage is permanent for the
foreseeable future.

Anyway, preparing a feast for all of my siblings, their children, in-laws and
out-laws with my 15y/o daughter.  We're listening to Nanci, Dixie Chicks, et al
and she is telling me her favorite Nanci song (Spanish Leather).  She has been
listening to Nanci since she was born and can sing all her songs whenever.  The
feast is to go along with watching the UK men's basketball team play Florida
and go 16-0 in their conference.  When we're not bleeding Nanci we bleed blue!

Going to see the beloved Nanci March 26th at the renowned Kentucky Theatre. Got
tickets on the third row after going to the theatre the afternoon of ticket
sales (daughter in tow) and sitting on the ground for 90 minutes.  A very nice
and fun afternoon.

I love reading the list daily. Thank you.

Dreamboat Annie

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Subject: NN: American singer tours Australia
   Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:22:51 -0500
   From: kenn lippert (lippert@www.nauticom.net>

Sorry for the off Nanci topic, but since I know many Nanci fans are also Kate
Campbell fans, I wanted to take this opportunity to alert any Australian NN'ers
that Kate is now touring in your fair land in a few days.  Don't miss this
chance to see Kate live.  Check her tour schedule at 
http://www.KateCampbell.com and make every effort to see her.  You will not be
disappointed.

In some of our minds, Kate has actually replaced Nanci at the top of our "must
hear" list.

Is it true you grease your automobile  transmissions with Vegamite?

kenn "stuck in the northern climes" lippert

| kenn lippert     lippert@nauticom.net
|
| "Reach me down my Tycho Brahe,
| I would know him when we meet...
| Though my soul may set in darkness,
| it will rise in perfect light;
| I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
|                                             -Sarah Williams
|
| "See Kate Campbell"  http://www.KateCampbell.com
|
| "The moon, the music, and me."
|      -Vince Bell "Texas Plates"

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Subject: NN: nanci muzak
   Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 06:59:43 -0500 (EST)
   From: "Anna Henderson" (anna-san@excite.com>

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Subject: NN: No Nanci Content: How prophetic he was
   Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:21:12 -0500
   From: Rich Kulawiec (rsk@gsp.org>

Back in 1995, Kevin Gilbert, a member of the Tuesday Night Music Club, released
a record called "Thud".  Which, especially if you can find it with the bonus CD
"Kashmir" -- yes, *that* Kashmir per Messrs. Plant, Page, Jones, and Bonham --
is well worth picking up.   There are a number of excellent tracks on it --
including "Tea for One", which beautifully weaves a story of unrequited love
together with an interesting arrangement worth of Neil Finn or Karl Wallinger.

But the main reason that you need this disk is the track that I thought was the
finest song of the decade: "Goodness Gracious".  It starts out "soft and slow,
like a small earthquake" and builds to a thunderous roar of outrage...and when
I happened to hear it again today, it seemed so amazingly apropos that I just
had to share it with all of you.

(Tragically, Kevin Gilbert is no longer with us.  There will be no more. But if
this record is his legacy, it's a damn fine one.)

---Rsk


Goodness Gracious
by Kevin Gilbert

Goodness gracious,
Is there nothing left to say?
When the ones that get to keep looking,
Are the ones that look away.
It's pabulum for the sleepers,
In the cult of brighter days,
Cult of brighter days.

Goodness gracious,
At the mercy of the crooks.
We're broke and stroking vegetables,
And there's way too many cooks.
In every pot a pink slip,
In every mouth a hook,
Every mouth a hook.

Goodness gracious,
I'm not listening anymore.
'Cause the spooks are in the Whitehouse,
And they've justified a war.
So wake me when they notify,
We're gonna fight some more,
Gonna fight some more.

Goodness gracious,
Not many people care.
Concern is getting scarcer,
True compassion really rare.
I can see it on our faces,
I can feel it in the air,
Goodness gracious me!

Goodness gracious,
My generation's lost.
They burned down all our bridges,
Before we had a chance to cross.
Is it the winter of our discontent,
Or just an early frost?
Just an early frost?

Goodness gracious,
Of apathy I sing.
The baby boomers had it all,
And wasted everything.
Now recess is almost over,
And they won't get off the swing,
They won't get off the swing.

Goodness gracious,
We came in at the end.
No sex that isn't dangerous,
No money left to spend.
We're the cleanup crew for parties,
We were too young to attend.
Goodness gracious me!

Goodness gracious,
We came in at the end.
No sex that isn't dangerous,
No money left to spend.
We're the cleanup crew for parties
We were too young to attend,
Goodness gracious me!

Goodness gracious,
My grandma used to say.
The world's a scary place now,
Things were different in her day.
What horrors will be commonplace
When my hair starts to gray?

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