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Item 139: Lucinda and Nanci and Gillian and...

Entered by krj on Thu Jul 30 05:13:02 1998:

I'm really not sure what to call this one: The Women of Americana, 
maybe?  Gavin's "Americana" seems like a made-up category, but 
there's several interesting women who straddle folk/country/rock
who have new albums out.
7 responses total.
#1 of 7 by krj on Thu Jul 30 05:17:55 1998:

Right now I'm listening to some of the opening tracks from 
Nanci Griffith's OTHER VOICES 2, her second album of 
covers.  So far I mostly like it, though I'm finding 
Griffith's voice a little odd.  I was wondering if she was 
getting into serious vocal trouble, but Leslie doesn't hear anything
like that, and Leslie says that Griffith isn't singing flat.
 
The opening track, Richard Thompson's WALL OF DEATH, is pretty 
close to the original Thompson arrangement from 1982; I was surprised
to see in the credits that this is one of the few tracks which 
Richard Thompson does *not* play on.
 
There do seem to be a lot of tracks on which Nanci is not singing 
the lead.

#2 of 7 by goose on Thu Aug 6 20:25:08 1998:

I worked with Nanci a couple weeks ago, while she was in town for a show.
She was a real pleasure to work with, which is in contrast to her reputation.

#3 of 7 by krj on Tue Aug 11 20:08:16 1998:

Gillian Welch has an Ark show coming up in September.  Looks like she 
is opening for Guy Clark, but I'm not sure.  
 
I finally had a chance to open up Gillian's new album, HELL AMONG THE 
YEARLINGS; on first listen I like it a lot, but I haven't been able
to write anything articulate about it yet.

#4 of 7 by katie on Wed Aug 12 05:39:59 1998:

I was really looking forward to it; but now that I've got it, I'm underwhelmed.
Perhaps after a 3rd or 4th listen...

#5 of 7 by krj on Thu Aug 13 20:45:23 1998:

I find today, while web-searching for other stuff, that Emmylou Harris
has slipped out a live album without much hoo-haw.  The title is SPYBOY,
and it's drawn from the touring to support the WRECKING BALL album.
 
A Dallas News article from today, on a website, reports that sales of 
WRECKING BALL were disappointing.  That's a disappointment, since that
was such a smashingly good album.

#6 of 7 by katie on Thu Aug 13 20:50:25 1998:

OK, the Gillian Welch is growing on me...

#7 of 7 by krj on Wed Oct 13 00:40:46 1999:

np: Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt, WESTERN WALL: THE TUSCON SESSION.
I liked it enough on first play to press "play" again.  Some really 
nice electric guitar sounds from Bernie Leadon (Eagles) and 
Ethan Johns (and the H-Bombs).  Maybe it will only appeal to old 
fossils like myself.

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