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jiffer
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response 121 of 228:
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May 24 17:30 UTC 1998 |
I *WILL* be at the Moxy Fruevous show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *screams of excitement*
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krj
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response 122 of 228:
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Jun 3 03:52 UTC 1998 |
twila/#117: only 24 in the audience for Artisan? Darn. Leslie and I
would have made it 26, but we had a previous, um, engagement; we've
veen fans of Artisan for some time. Reminds me of the English singer
Peter Bellamy, who rarely drew more than 20 people for his Michigan
concerts.
Item from the Progressive Torch & Twang radio show: there is going
to be a touring "Newport Folk Festival" concert package this summer,
and it might have a stop at Pine Knob. (For out of towners:
Pine Knob is a music amphitheatre in southeastern Michigan.)
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katie
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response 123 of 228:
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Jun 3 04:03 UTC 1998 |
It's been on the Pine Knob schedule for months.
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mziemba
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response 124 of 228:
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Jun 4 23:11 UTC 1998 |
So, Ken, are you going to see Richard Thompson? As a bonus, you'll also get
to see Bruce Cockburn and Dar Williams, two favorites of mine...
I think they're all playing the Royal Oak Music Theater this month sometime
soon...
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mcnally
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response 125 of 228:
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Jun 5 02:32 UTC 1998 |
Hmmm.. I thought Thompson put on a really good show last time I saw
him (a year or two ago at the Michigan Theater) but I'd pay money *not*
to see Cockburn. For some reason he just *really* annoys me. Probably
not his fault, I guess, but it's hard for me to enjoy anything involving
him..
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krj
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response 126 of 228:
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Jun 5 07:08 UTC 1998 |
I'd heard about this tour, but not about a Detroit-area stop.
I'm somewhat doubtful that I'll go, alas, just because I'm being a lump.
I don't share Mike's antipathy towards Bruce Cockburn, but I also feel
that Cockburn and Dar Williams would just be taking away stage time
from Thompson.
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mziemba
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response 127 of 228:
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Jun 6 04:59 UTC 1998 |
Picky, picky, picky...
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mziemba
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response 128 of 228:
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Jun 11 00:22 UTC 1998 |
Billy Bragg, who I've long considered the British "Woody Guthrie", is
about to release _Mermaid Avenue_, an album of updated, previously
unrecorded Guthrie tunes with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, featuring some
stunning guests that will include Eliza Carthy and Natalie Merchant.
We owe some thanks to Guthrie's daughter, Nora, for the wise choice.
Looking forward to it!
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mcnally
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response 129 of 228:
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Jun 11 03:24 UTC 1998 |
hmmm.. that could be interesting..
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mziemba
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response 130 of 228:
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Jun 12 00:13 UTC 1998 |
Bragg and Wilco are supposed to be touring together this summer, too. That
would be a very cool show...
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eeyore
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response 131 of 228:
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Jun 16 04:14 UTC 1998 |
For those that are interested, Dar Williams and Richard Shindell put togethr
an album together, with a bunch of other people....I'll let you know more as
I find out more...it was recorded in April, but not out yet.
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krj
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response 132 of 228:
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Jun 17 06:36 UTC 1998 |
British folksinger Martin Carthy was awarded an MBE in the Queen's
birthday honors list, for services to folk music.
(MBE = Member of the Order of the British Empire, which I think
is about as low an honor as the Queen gives out.)
Carthy's resume includes: a fairly influential folk guitar style;
a duo act with fiddler Dave Swarbrick; two tours of duty with the
electric folk band Steeleye Span; marrying into the great English
acapella singing family, the Watersons; a folk brass band, Brass Monkey;
a trio act with his wife Norma and their daughter Eliza, under the name
Waterson:Carthy. Almost everything he's recorded in his 35+ year
career has been kept in print or reissued.
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orinoco
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response 133 of 228:
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Jun 17 12:33 UTC 1998 |
(Is the MBE the same honor as was given the Beatles, or did they get something
higher?)
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bruin
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response 134 of 228:
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Jun 17 14:39 UTC 1998 |
RE #133 The Beatles received MBE honors in 1965 or 1966, and a number of
recipients turned in their honors in protest. John Lennon returned his
MBE in objection to British support of the Vietnam and Biafran wars.
I believe that the MBE is the highest honor in Britain short of
knighthood.
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krj
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response 135 of 228:
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Jun 17 19:07 UTC 1998 |
An OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) appears to be
higher. Fantasy author Terry Pratchett received an OBE, which is why
folks I know were discussing this.
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mziemba
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response 136 of 228:
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Jun 17 23:58 UTC 1998 |
Well, pleased to see hear Martin's being recognized, officially. Well done!
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mziemba
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response 137 of 228:
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Jun 18 00:00 UTC 1998 |
Now, if only Waterson: Carthy would drop by the Ark sometime soon, I'd be
even happier!
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krj
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response 138 of 228:
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Jun 19 16:16 UTC 1998 |
Right now I imagine Eliza Carthy is busy touring to promote the RED RICE
album, so I don't expect to see Waterson:Carthy here this summer.
(This is just a ploy to get me to talk about RED RICE, isn't it? :) )
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anderyn
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response 139 of 228:
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Jun 19 20:50 UTC 1998 |
Well, let's see. I was supposed to talk about Capercaille here. It was
a good show, as these things go, although there was a synthesizer up
there on stage, along with two drum sets. That kind of takes the folk
out of folk music, but it was pretty darn exciting during the instrumental
sets -- the fiddler and the Northumbrian small pipes were especially
noticeable. I wasn't as happy with the arrangements on most of the songs
because it seemed much too pop-oriented. Too smooth, almost, like
elevator music, although I don't think most of the audience cared. I did
enjoy it but not as much as I had thought I would.
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mziemba
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response 140 of 228:
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Jun 20 16:03 UTC 1998 |
That's pretty much why I was more in favor of seeing Frances Black, although
she hasn't exactly been stuck on traditional styles, either.
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mziemba
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response 141 of 228:
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Jun 20 16:05 UTC 1998 |
So I was eating this rice the other day...it was red...
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krj
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response 142 of 228:
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Jun 20 18:09 UTC 1998 |
There is a longish biography article on Sandy Denny, and by extension
on the Fairport Convention circle, in the June issue of Mojo magazine,
from the UK. $8; I held off for a while due to sticker shock, but
it will be well worth it for fans. More after I absorb it for a bit.
(There's also a brief interview with Eliza Carthy.)
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mziemba
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response 143 of 228:
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Jun 21 02:46 UTC 1998 |
I enjoyed the Norma Waterson album a few years back, where she covered a few
songs, including one by Billy Bragg, I think.
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mziemba
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response 144 of 228:
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Jun 24 00:24 UTC 1998 |
Wow, close brush with death. I nearly lost my Simon and Garfunkle album, my
Weavers album, *and* my Cat Stevens album, all in one fell swoop. *Whew*
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jiffer
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response 145 of 228:
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Jun 24 17:05 UTC 1998 |
dd they try to kill you or wwere you and the albums in danger of death?
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