// Some weeks are slow, some are very slow...
// Enjoy!  [BP]

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Subject: NN: Looking for a tape to copy
    Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:54:27 -0700
    From: catfan@extremezone.com


Does anyone out there have the episode of Politically Incorrect,
the one Nanci was on of course.  :-)

I accidentally taped over my copy, and would like another one if
possible.

Thanks for looking,
Mark

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Subject: NN: Van Lear Rose
    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:05:16 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Shawn Kimbro (shawn@mountainsoul.net>

For a couple of decades the world of commercial
country music has needed some shaking up.  While there
have been occasional tremors, it's only fitting that
the artist most likely to turn Nashville on its top is
the same one that jolted it awake 30 years ago.
Loretta Lynn has just released one of the best records
in modern Country Music.

"You've got to have an open mind," Loretta writes in a
letter on her web site, "Van Lear Rose sounds a little
different from my other ones."

A little different indeed!  But that's only if you're
not used to country laced with loud grunge guitars,
eerie cross-tuned fiddles, and dark moody lyrics:

"IÕm sittinÕ here on death row / And Lord IÕve lost my
mind / For love IÕve killed my darlinÕ / And for love
IÕll lose my life"

Listeners who've followed the progressive music scene
in the last few years have taken note of the
admiration Van Lear Rose's producer Jack White has
shown for Loretta Lynn.  In 2001 he dedicated the
White StripesÕ breakthrough disc "White Blood Cells,"
to her.  Traditional music fans have also noted
White's forays into the roots of rural music with his
participation in the movie and soundtrack to "Cold
Mountain."

"HeÕs got a lot of energy," Lynn says. "HeÕs still a
kid, you know, so he feels like he can jump the river
and turn around and jump back over. He donÕt think
that nobodyÕs any older than him."

No matter what his age, White has shaken open the
well-springs of country music with his production of
Van Lear Rose.  There's a fresh, almost urban taste to
the original blue Kentucky girl's hillbilly twang. All
thirteen songs, each penned by Loretta, flow and swirl
with original energy and emotional resonance.

> From the the bare bones, garage-rock anthem "Have
Mercy On Me," thru the down-home sing-along "High On A
Mountaintop," to the spoken word surrealism of "Little
Red Shoes," Lynn shows us how much she's influenced
all those who've drank from her source.  A sample of
her clear vocals on Van Lear Rose reveals the strident
earthy flavors of Iris Dement, Lucinda Williams, Nanci
Griffith and so many others.

Van Lear Rose is to modern Country Music what the New
Madrid fault is to the Mississippi River.  Whether or
not it reverses the flow of Nashville's generic stream
of boredom remains to be seen.  Nevertheless, there's
no doubt that Loretta Lynn has released a brave,
raucous recording that turns Music City upside down --
a disc that is sure to keep fans rocking and reeling
for years to come.

Enjoy,
-Shawn

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Subject: NN: RE: Van Lear Rose
    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:49:03 -0400
    From: BViolet696@cs.com

Shawn,

I could not agree with you more! I am loving this album. I can't stand 
the
White Stripes and was unsure of what hellatious things Jack would do to 
her
music but he kept it sparse and simple yet fresh and exciting by country
standards. This album will probably be close to the top of my 2004 Top 
Ten
list if not the top. Now, if she would only tour with album, I would be
hap-hap-happy! pip pip.

Troy

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Subject: NN: Nanci In Nashville?
    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:20:16 -0400
    From: "Kathy Shearer" (snownobile@earthlink.net>

Hi All:

After seeing Nanci on GAC Grand Old Opry Wednesday, I went to her site 
to
see when it was recorded, and saw that she was at the Earth Day 
Festival on
April 17th..  Did anyone go?

I am not really sure if I want to know how good it was, since I was in
Tennessee that week spending a lot of time in Franklin and missed it.  I
thought I had checked everywhere for any appearances before I left, and 
did
not find any.  I am kicking myself now!

P.S.  What's up with the Blue Moon Bed and Breakfast? Do one of you own 
it?

Kathy

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Subject: NN: Nanci at Kerrville
    Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 09:47:33 -0400
    From: Steve Robertson (stever@mindspring.com>

I hope someone in the Austin area had their VCR or TIVO recording the
Austin Music Network on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon. The
Friday edition of the e-mail newsletter "Fiddlin' Around" included  a
press release about the new show on that network called "Live from
Kerrville."

As it turned out, this first show included some home video of past
performers including Pierce Pettis, James McMurtry and......... Nanci
Griffith! This appeared to be from about 1985. She sang "The Ballad of
Robin Winter- Smith" and had most of the same band members as her first
ACL show.

I saw it on a web stream, so I couldn't record it. This is the only TV
station I know of that streams their shows 24/7. But y'all forget that
I pointed this out. They can only handle 200 streams, and I want to
reserve one for myself (g>

Steve Robertson
Publisher of Fiddlin' Around
http://www.starchart.com/FidA/fida.html

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