// A note from Nanci's publicity folks (a VCR ALERT),
// discussion of an upcoming movie, and a bit more...
// Enjoy...[BP]

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Subject: NanciNews...FLASH:  Nanci On Letterman Tuesday, April 15th!
   Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:36:34 -0400
   0/,From: info@nancigriffith.com

NEWSFLASH... Nanci will be appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman
tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 15th!  She will be performing with Tom
Russell in support of his new album Modern Art.  So, mail your taxes, check
your local listings for times, and tune in!
	
http://nancigriffith.com

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Subject: NN: Tom Russell w/Nanci on Letterman
   From: Bill Lavery [mailto:blavery@mindspring.com]
   Date: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:45

Hopefully this is the last change.  Just got word that Tom's appearance on
David Letterman has now been changed from the 17th to the 15th.  So reset
your VCR.

Bill Lavery
http://villagerecords.com

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Subject: NN: John and Nanci next week
   From: James Troiano [mailto:James_Troiano@umit.maine.edu]
   Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 7:56

Hi folks: I am in heaven because next week I get to see John Stewart at
Sully's in Augusta Maine and I am told that Nanci will join Tom Russell on
Dave Letterman on Tues April 15. (That date by the way has been changed 3
times.) . It can't get better than this. 
Jim

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Subject: Re: NN: Folk music spoof: A Mighty Wind
   From: Tanyalita [mailto:tanyalitatoo@yahoo.com]
   Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 14:05

--- DvBGardner@genelogic.com wrote:
> you remember the "Mighty Quinn"? 
> well, i'm glad i'm not the only "mature" person on
> this net...... :):):)


Well, I can't claim remembering it from when it first came out. I can't
remember the first time I heard it either as I was probably too little.  I
was born in 1970 to a pair of youngish, music loving people who did a great
job exposing me and my brothers to all kinds of music.  When I was a kid I
had the strangest musical tastes of almost anyone I knew.  I think in 1984 I
may have been the only girl sunning at the pool listening to a tape on my
walkman with Love's Forever Changes on one side and Billy Idol on the other.

Tanya

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Subject: Re: NN: Folk music spoof: A Mighty Wind 
   From: David Barnett [mailto:davidcbarnett@earthlink.net]
   Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 23:17

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I was lucky enough tonight to attend a free sneak preview of "A Mighty Wind"
at a downtown Chicago theater. I had loved Christopher Guest's earlier
features ("Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show") and was delighted to see
some of his ensemble from those films appear in this satirical view of 60's
folk music (Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Michael
McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, and John Michael Higgins were all
excellent!).

This film was not quite as solid as Mr. Guest's two earlier directorial
efforts but was still quite entertaining. The audience laughed so loud in
spots that I missed hearing the next line or lyric. I was surprised to see
that cast members were involved in writing the songs that were performed.
They did a great job in capturing the spirit of songs from this period. The
cast created some delightful characters, although with the fourteen
musicians, the concert producer and two family members, theater management,
and talent management, it made for a lot of characters to track! The singing
was not half bad either (though I will not be rushing out to get the
soundtrack for the film -- I have a hard time imagining that I would want to
sit and listen to the songs over and over - though, I may want to borrow a
copy so that I can read the lyrics and see what I missed! There are some
great double entendres in a couple of the songs that only some audience
members seemed to catch.

Some of the biggest guffaws came from small bits (shots of the album titles
from the three acts which appear at this tribute to a recently passed talent
manager, seeing the parallels between these acts and some real acts of the
period, and some brief interchanges between characters). There is not much
of a story but the film reminded me somewhat of the documentary of the
Weaver's concert in the film "Wasn't that a time."

I recommend folks see this film if they are looking for some light-hearted
entertainment and can appreciate a spoof of the folk music scene of a few
decades back. It probably won't make my ten best of the year list but I had
a good time (and seeing it for free made it even better). It's due to open
nationally on April 16.

Visit http://amightywindonline.warnerbros.com for more info on the film

Dave
n.p. Carrie Newcomer: The Gathering of Spirits

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Subject: Re: NN: Mighty Wind (NNC)
   From: AnnaMac [mailto:carwheels_2000@yahoo.com]
   Date: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:30

Maybe someone has already said all of this (I haven't catched up on my
messages yet...) but---

Did you guys see the Folksmen on Letterman last night?  It was
great---totally cracked me up.  I can't wait until the movie comes out...

Christopher Guest was on Dennis Miller's show a few weeks ago and talked
about how the cast had to learn instruments, which most of them had never
touched before.  Dennis Miller was sort of in awe of Guest.  The cast is
phenomenal---they have such great chemistry.  Eugene Levy seems to have the
burnt out folkie persona down pat & Fred Willard is always hilarious.  

It's amazing to me how Guest gives them a sort of outline of what's going on
and the rest is improvisation.  I've only seen bits and pieces of Waiting
for Guffman, and absolutely love Best in Show.  

This one is going to be good...I can feel it!

Anna

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Why reach for the stars when you can pick the daisies beneath your feet?
Frances Black

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Subject: NN: Nanci mention in Seattle P-I (yikes!) 
   From: Laura Osterbrock [mailto:osterbrock@cellini.org]
   Date: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:04

First off, please forgive me if someone else has already mentioned this--I'm
a digest-only subscriber. I seem to recall that there aren't many NNers in
the Seattle area, so perhaps it hasn't come up yet.

Secondly, please don't flame me for bringing up the most sensitive topic
around these days.

OK, here goes:

This morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer carried an article about how
mainstream country music is the stuff to listen to if you are pro-war, and
isn't if you're not. The Dixie Chicks are, of course, discussed. The article
concludes with a list of current pro- and anti-war songs, including "Big
Blue Ball of War."

Here's the link to the article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/116282_prowarmusic.shtml

For the record, I listen to "Lunch with Folks" on KBCS (Bellevue, WA) with
some regularity, and have heard *lots* of Phil Ochs, John McCutcheon ("The
List"), and many other pro-peace singers and songs.

Going back to my lurker's cave now,
All best,
Laura

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Subject: NN: Lucinda Williams' "World Without Tears"
   From: Ed Maier [mailto:evmaier@sbcglobal.net]
   Date: Friday, April 11, 2003 17:49

I wish I had my $16.11 back.

Ed

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Subject: NN: Re: Lucinda Williams' "World Without Tears"
   From: John Graveling [mailto:kai21@dial.pipex.com]
   Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 2:01

Do we take it that you do not like "World Without Tears" Ed? For me it is
one of THE seminal albums that have been released in the last five years, an
absolute masterpiece where the lyrics and the music meld as one. Stellar
musicianship wrought with angst. If only Nanci could rekindle her fire and
release something this open, this honest, this good!!

John "I love it" Graveling

// I imagine John's use of the word "seminal" is keeping
// with the second meaning: "2: containing or contributing the 
// seeds of later development : CREATIVE, ORIGINAL"
// To which I think we'd have to respond that it' too early
// to make that assessment!  [BP]

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Subject: Re: NN: Re: Lucinda Williams' "World Without Tears"
   From: Ed Maier [mailto:evmaier@sbcglobal.net]
   Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 8:11

John, she crossed the line. She used the "f" word a couple of times. That
ruined it for me. Possibly I'm old fashioned.

Ed "I'm not changin', either" Maier


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Subject: NN: Re: Lucinda Williams and Nanci  
   From: ConorMG@aol.com 
   Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 05:50:28 EDT 

evmaier@sbcglobal.net writes:
> I wish I had my $16.11 back.
> Ed

I find 'Essence' hard to listen to because of all the moaning and heavy
breathing. It was very disappointing after the thrill of a couple of years
earlier when I'd realised what was going on in the erotic masterpieces on
'Car Wheels' and couldn't contain myself at that ecstatic record.  But if
'World' is as melded, stellar and seminal as John says, then I can't wait to
get my hands on it!  
Can Nanci still produce a masterpiece?  Of course she can, as 'Snow',
'Travelling' and several other songs from the sadly maligned mid-career
album 'Clock' show.  Many musicians do their best work early in their
careers, but most true artists don't run out of ideas; they keep expressing
better what they did before, or they develop beyond the point where their
paths crossed those of their erstwhile followers.  

Conor
n p the greatest British singer, Dick Gaughan


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