// Today we have a concert report, and more discussion.
// This digest contains posts received through Wednesday, 26 March.
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NN: Concert 3/26/03 in Lexington, Ky
    From: "Anne Marie Parsley" (a.parsley@insightbb.com>
    Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:28:41 -0600

What a wonderful evening.  Great write-up in the Lexington, Ky Herald 
Leader
by Walter Tumis, page A-2.

She came out wearing black cropped pants, a beautiful black and red 
Chinese
tunic and played barefoot the entire night!

She said nothing about the war but sang From A Distance, Traveling 
Through
This Part Of You, Big Blue Wall Of Fire, Flyer, It's A Hard Life, and
There's Alight Beyond These Woods Mary Margaret. She blew everybody away
with a very heartfelt and emotional From A Distance. After this song 
she got
a five minute standing ovation. I think the people who had never heard 
her
sing, especially From A Distance, were in absolute awe. During this 
ovation
she had tears in her eyes that slowly ran down her cheeks.

I will live high on this concert for at least a month.

Thank you Nanci.

Dreamboat Annie

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Subject: NN: Nanci's Fall Tour
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 06:49:15 EST
    From: Rocalittl@aol.com

Hi folks,

Just saw this on cmt.com:

Voices of Bluegrass Tour Planned for Fall
Immortal Entertainment, the folks who brought you the two successful 
Down
> From the Mountain tours last year, is planning a Voices of Bluegrass 
> tour
for this fall. Immortal's Kevin Lyman tells Hot Talk that the acts 
expected
to be involved are the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rosanne Cash, Nanci 
Griffith,
Australian singer Kasey Chambers and the group Robinella & the 
CCstringband.

Nanci's going back on tour-yes! What a great line-up of artists. Looking
forward to picking up the new Roseanne Cash CD today, "Rules Of Travel."

~Lisa

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Subject: NN: Nanci on war
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:55 -0800 (PST)
    From: Shawn Kimbro (shawn@mountainsoul.net>

Here are some lyrics I thought of, anyone know of
more?

-Shawn

--

War and hate are killing off the only earth we have
- Armstrong (John Sterwart lyrics)

> From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
> From a distance I can't comprehend
What all this war is for
- From a Distance (Julie Gold lyrics)

I am guilty, I am war, I am the root of all evil
- It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go

He was a soldier in the Vietnam war
He lost half his right leg while daydreaming of her
She lit a candle each holy hour he was gone
You Were On My Mind was their favorite song
- Roses On The Fourth of July

Love wore a halo back before the war
- title line

It was 1965,
Over Chu Lai in a free fall dive
In a dawn patrol to cover the dead zone ground
She tiptoed through the land mines
All along the enemy lines
But she never saw the one that took her down
She captured the bloody pearls of war so well
That war was bound to steal the end of Dickey Chapelle
- Pearl's Eye View

You'd gone off to fight the war when
I returned from school
I traded in my innocence when the
springtime came to bloom
- So Long Ago

One year I watched a war in London
In the airport leaving London
- The Flyer

This old town should've burned down in 1944
When the last men went to war
They came back different
If they came back at all
- This Old Town

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Subject: Re: NN: Nanci on war
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:51:04 -0500 (EST)
    From: KENN (lippert@nauticom.net>



"...to protect you from your fantasies."

"...and there wouldn't be children who cried in their sleep."

"I'm in a Lone Star state of mind."

"I'm not driving these wheels."

pax,
kenn

| kenn lippert                     "See Kate Campbell"
| lippertNO@SPAMnauticom.net         KateCampbell.com
|
| "I have loved the stars too fondly     "The moon, the music, and me."
|  to be fearful of the night."            -Vince Bell, Texas Plates
|        -Sarah Williams                        www.VinceBell.com
|           3ap.org

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Subject: Re: NN: Out of the blue!
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:20:58 EST
    From: Poetmuse@aol.com

mcmichael_a@cqm.co.uk writes:

> I'd generally agree.  Except I have a Debbie Gibson CD.
> And I (gulp!) like it.
>

It's okay, Andrew. Admitting it is the first step to getting help...

heheh. I admit I think I *still* have a Debbie Gibson RECORD around here
somewhere- so you're still not in bad company. :)

It's right next to my Glass Tiger records and gulp... Duran Duran.

Can anyone say child of the 80's?!


-Christina "Her name is Rio" Myers

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Subject: Re: NN: One more thought...
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:43:18 -0500
    From: DvBGardner@genelogic.com

yeah, but I DID ask all my fellow songwriters on the list to get in 
touch
with me about making a CD of new originals for peace...does that count?

Tony wrote:
It just occurred to me that the posts that seem to be beyond the limits 
of
what's acceptable to many are those where not only is there no Nanci 
content
- there is no reference to *any* matters musical.  Thus (to me, anyway) 
the
Dixie Chicks or Darryl Worley discussions seem at least semi-pertinent,
whereas a statement on the war without a musical reference doesn't.  
What
does anyone else think?

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Subject: Re: NN: One more thought...
    Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:24:26 +1100
    From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au>

Absolutely, Donate - but your heart-felt outpouring would in any case 
have
qualified under the "just keep it interesting!" sub-clause;)

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Subject: NN: Re: NanciNet #03325
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:00:25 -0800
    From: "Patrick OConnor" (pocee@altrionet.com>

Hey Pete the K ....

I wrote

>>> ...She personalized the issue to Bush and Texans and invoked the 
>>> spectre
of shame. By shaming him, and by extension his supporters (many who have
voted for him three times) ...(((

Pete replied:
>> Voted for him 3 times? That could help explain all our problems with 
>> the
vote count. :*)((

That's just Texas...who knows how many times folks voted for him in 
Broward
County, Florida

Pat


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Subject: Re: NN: More fuel for the fire
    Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:44:01 -0800 (PST)
    From: Bob K (rkettig@yahoo.com>

Sorry for not being more timely.  I'm just a digest lurker these days. 
In
fact these meager contributions could well be OBE by now.

Diane wrote (Sun, 23 Mar):
> Dick Cheney was in the middle of one of his five
> deferments while he  worked on his dissertation.

I don't claim to know about Cheney specifically, but I wasn't aware of 
any
dissertation deferments.  Student deferments ended when you received 
your
bachelor's degree...or after 4 years of college...whichever came FIRST.

Bill wrote:
> Just an aside: if the National Guard had been as active a part of the
> Viet Nam conflict as they are now part of the action in Iraq, no one
> question the fact that Bush served in the Guard. Those who served in
> the Guard or Reserves WERE subject to being called up...even those
> of us who were in ROTC during that time knew that we could be called
> up if necessary. [BP]

For those who might not know, Bill is referring to the fact that the 
Guard,
which was ostensibly for domestic protection, became a haven from the 
draft,
which of course is the practice of "calling up" civilians and placing 
them
in harm's way.

Not to say that made sense even then, but certainly in today's world of
police action military, today's approach makes a lot more sense. For one
thing, it seems to me that as soon as you start sending civilians to the
front, you lose the right to say that you are going to put them at 
greater
risk in order to "save [other] civilian lives". In other words, how 
would
you justify *not* carpet-bombing Baghdad?

Hoping for a short campaign and a grateful world community,
Bob K.

// Dick Cheney was only one of thousands of students to obtain
// deferments; indeed, most of the men I was in college with
// were on deferments. It should not be something used against him,
// or any other person who was fortunate enough to receive them.
// http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/bush/stories/cheney/
// And again, just for the record, the National Guard WAS subject
// to being called up; less likely, but still possible. Those who served
// in the Guard weren't all spoiled rich kids; one of them was my
// next door neighbor, another was my high school civics teacher.
// Those who served in the Guard, served. [BP]

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Subject: NN: Transatlantic sessions
    Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:17:26 -0000
    From: "Tony Warran" (tony.warran@btinternet.com>

Mike wrote "That series was NEVER shown here in England - they clearly
decided that only the Scots would appreciate it :)"

Not true I am afraid. I live in London and saw this wonderful series on
BBC2, I believe it was, over a 6-week period in half hours shows and I 
still
have the three hours on Video.

It was the fusion of British music, Mainly Celtic, with the likes of 
Nanci,
Emmy Lou, Iris Dement, Kathy Mattea and people like Dougie MacLean and I
think I remember Guy Clark on it but I haven't watched it for ages.

The Scottish scenery was evocative and the music haunting.

I was hoping that they would issue a CD from the show but sadly not. I 
did
however take off a C90 audio tape of the bits I liked and I would be
prepared to offer this to anyone who can put onto CD and let me have a 
copy
back. Then offer a copy to anyone on this list.

If anyone is interested in doing this please contact me off list.  
Sadly I
don't have the equipment to do this myself.

Tony - London


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Subject: NN: This Sad, Sad War
    Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:39:09 -0600
    From: "Anne Marie Parsley" (a.parsley@insightbb.com>

"Violence is not a natural human trait. If it was so, human society 
would
not have lasted so long."

Dalai Lama

// one could argue that human society has lasted so long
// because we've become adept at violence...[BP]


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Subject: FW: Transatlantic sessions
    Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:25:45 +0100
    From: "Hans Janssen" (hjanssen@zeelandnet.nl>

>> I was hoping that they would issue a CD from the show but sadly not. 
>> I did
however take off a C90 audio tape of the bits I liked and I would be
prepared to offer this to anyone who can put onto CD and let me have a 
copy
back . Then offer a copy to anyone on this list.((

Actually one of the sessions, it is the 2nd series, is released on a 
double
CD. It is released on an unknown label and was rather expensive, that 
was
told by the one that gave me a copy.

Whenever my computer is repaired I can make some copies for list 
members.

met vriendelijke groeten,


Hans Janssen.
http://vlissingen.da.ru

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