Hello,

     I have been lurking since I joined the list in early 1999 and have
really enjoyed the conversation of the list.

     I first saw Greg Brown live in Lawrence, Kansas, sometime in the fall of
1998, accompanied by Bo Ramsey.  What a show!  I had front-and-center seats
and it was wonderful.  I think both were wearing shades.  Bo seemed to be in
another world or spiritual plane.  They really complement each other.  His
Brownness came out afterward and signed some stuff.  He asked where I was
from and when I told him that I was from Manhattan, Kansas, he said that he
remembered that his father had preached there.  Does anyone on the list have
information pertaining to places where Greg's father had preached?

     He is coming her on November 3rd, and I am thrilled to pieces.  Louise
Taylor, another outstanding songwriter, is opening.  I am also sick in bed
with bronchitis and am trying desperately to recover.  If there are any
other people on the list from here, please e-mail me off-list.

     I am a big Prairie Home Companion fan.  I recall that someone had put
together a CD of GB's performances on the program.  I would be interested in
that collection, if someone would e-mail me with that off-list.  Thanks.

i can't believe there are so many greg brown fans out there
but i am happy to know there are.
going to see him 11/18/00 at the irving plaza in NYC....can't wait

i turned my brother from AZ onto greg back in sept. while we were
driving from telluride,co back to phoenix...
i just bought covenant and told him that you have to listen to this
guy!!! well, needless to say, he loved it and it was particularly
interesting for me becuase i had not heard the cd yet as well.
a couple of weeks after returning to ny, he e-mailed me and had to
tell me he bought about six more of greg's cd's and is eternally
greatful for introducing him to some awesome music
i hope to see some of you at the NYC show
-andy

http://www.justgo.com/twincities/    - then click on Music News

Published: Sunday, October 29, 2000
Folk music review
Greg Brown charms with warm vocals, gentle guitar
------------------------------------------------------------------------
KATHARINE KELLY SPECIAL TO THE PIONEER PRESS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps it was all the festivities going on over at the University, but Greg
Brown's concert Saturday night at the Cedar Cultural Centre -- the first in
a two-night stand -- felt like a homecoming of sorts. After all, with his
ties to locals Garrison Keillor and Red House Records, it would be easy to
forget that the folk singer isn't actually from Minnesota.

The evening started out with a country twang as Austin, Texas,
singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson warmed up the sold-out house. Gilkyson,
whose father, Terry, wrote the classic tune ``Bare Necessities,''
immediately won over the crowd with her simple love songs and comedic
between-song banter -- enthusiastic applause even persuaded her to do an
extra song before clearing the stage.

Known for his down-to-earth modesty, Brown was the essence of casual as he
entered the stage. The Iowa-based musician, wearing cargo pants and a
fishing hat, gave the crowd a smile and started right into his mellow set.
It was immediately apparent that the cozy confines of the Cedar were a much
better fit for the musician's heartfelt ramblings than the larger Northrop
Auditorium, which he played last spring.

With nearly 20 years of material to draw from, Brown had no need for a set
list and seemed to let his whim carry him from tune to tune. Naturally, a
few songs from Brown's new album, ``Covenant'' (his 16th Red House release),
did pop up during the evening -- the endearing `` 'Cept You & Me Babe'' was
one of the standouts -- but album promotion seemed to be last thing on the
musician's mind.

Soaring through one song after another, Brown's humble demeanor and gentle
guitar playing made his bottomless voice the undeniable star. Even when
cracking jokes between songs, Brown's voice exuded the kind of comfortable
familiarity that makes him instantly likable -- a gift that has guided him
to his living-legend status within the folk world.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Katharine Kelly is a free-lance writer living in Minneapolis.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
©2000 PioneerPlanet / St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press - All Rights
Reserved

Dear Fellow Brownies:

I've been an avid GB listener for around ten years, and have been
reading your postings for a few months now.  It's very nice to have
the company of those with such great taste in music.  Some might call
us slightly obsessive about Greg Brown's writing, etc. but what else
will do when one is in a Greg Brown mood? It's just like when you need
____________(fill in your own analogy here)

I also find it bleak in the short term when I think of the upcoming
hiatus.  I hate it when my friends go away. But, think of what he may
write, compose, live in the meanwhile.  Fires the imagination, doesn't
it?

So, I think we need to come up with strategies to pass the time. How
about we all think up some ways to get through.  I'll start, and maybe
you will add to it.

One of my favorite road/campfire games (Brownies should be good at
campfire games) is something I learned from a field botanist named
Bill.  It's called "There I Was".  Everyone has to tell a story
beginning with those words.  The rules are: it has to be a true story
(more or less) about something one experienced.  Usually we have a
theme of some kind, such as something that happened that was
beautiful, wonderful, terrible, when we were seven, or whatever.  I'm
thinking we could do it with a Greg Brown theme.  Topics such as: I
first heard Greg Brown when...., there I was listening to GB
and......I'd love to read your stories about concerts, inspirations,
disappointments, whatever.  then we could all have vicarious GB
thrills.

Oh, yes.  I just read this over and I forgot to introduce myself.  I'm
Virginia, I'm from Colorado.  "Further In" is my favorite CD, too,
Graham, Maybe it's a Colorado thing.  I think "Covenant" is lovely, if
a bit dark and sad. "Over and Under" is musically pretty great, but
some of those characters can be kinda jarring when you"ve set your
player to random, and something like Matty Price shows up right after,
say, Think About You. Although I'm sure they're interesting to write
about and all that.

Anyway nice to meet you. I'll be following along at home.  The quilt
blocks are splendid. Hope you post a pic of the finished product.

V in C

Virginia said:

So, I think we need to come up with strategies to pass the time. How >
about we all think up some ways to get through.  I'll start, and maybe
you will add to it...It's called "There I Was". >

This is a great idea and what I hope will happen, especially when Mr. Brown
is off the road. I would love to see this digest keep going and not just "dry
out." That happens, quite often, even when performers are just in the
recording studio. Let's hope it doesn't happen here! As far as "Further In"
being a favorite, there are folks as far away as Florida who love that one
the best! :-) It isn't necessarily a " Colorado thing!"
Fern

Hey,

While we're talking about Greg and Marge Piercy (okay, it's been a
few months), take a look at this Piercy poem I stumbled across--
some cool connections here.

			 To be of use

The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.    (1974)

Michael Schaefer wrote:

Hey,

While we're talking about Greg and Marge Piercy (okay, it's been a
few months), take a look at this Piercy poem I stumbled across--
some cool connections here.

			 To be of use .....


Since Mike brought up a GB poetry connection, here's a poem by Kenneth
Rexroth that he dedicated to his daughter Mary:

	 The Great Nebula of Andromeda

We get into camp after
Dark, high on an open ridge
Looking out over five thousand
Feet of mountains and mile
Beyond mile of valley and sea.
In the star-filled dark we cook
Our macaroni and eat
By lantern light.  Stars cluster
Around our table like fireflies.
After supper we go straight
To bed.  The night is windy
And clear.  The moon is three days
Short of full.  We lie in bed
And watch the stars and the turning
Moon through our little telescope.
Late at night the horses stumble
Around camp and I awake.
I lie on my elbow watching
Your beautiful sleeping face
Like a jewel in the moonlight.
If you are lucky and the
Nations let you, you will live
Far into the twenty-first
Century.  I pick up the glass
And watch the Great Nebula
Of Andromeda swim like
A phosphorescent amoeba
Slowly around the Pole.  Far
Away in distant cities
Fat-hearted men are planning
To murder you while you sleep.

How do.  I may have already done this, because I do it every time Ms.
Piercy's name appears but below is the great american novel in a not so
many lines.  Also Greg Brown Tickets for the Tractor/Seattle shows are
finally on sale on line. They use Ticketweb at http://www.ticketweb.com/
which has way lower additional fees that the dreaded T M.  Eighteen a
show and they are giving each show longer than last time.  Yum.  Left
coast Eric.

Smalley Bar  -- Marge Piercy   [The Twelve Spoked Wheel Flashing]

Anchored a ways off Buoy Rocks the sailboat
bobs jaunty, light, little.  We slide
over the side after scraping bottom.
The water up to our waists looks brown
ahead.   We wade onto Smalley Bar.
I leave the men clamming and walk
the bar toward shore.

By the time I walk back straight out
from the coast of the wild island the  tide
is rushing in.  My shoes already float.
I walk the bar, invisible now,
water to my thighs.  The day’s
turned smoke.  A storm is blowing
thick from the east.  I stand
a quarter mile ou in the bay with
the tide rising and only this
strange buried bridge of sandbar under me,
calling across the breaking grey waves,
unsure whether I can still wade
or must swim against the tide to the boat
dragging its anchor loose.

Unknown territory.  Strange bottom.
I live on bridges that may or may


not be there under the breaking
water deepening.  I never know
what I’ll step on.  I never know


whether I’ll make it before dark,
before the storm catches me,
before the tide sweeps me out.
The neat while houses across the bay
are fading as the air thickens.
People in couples, in boxes, in clear
expectations of class and role
and income, I deserve to pity
shivering here as the water rushes past.
I find more than clams out on
the bar.  It’s not my sailboat
ever, but it’s my choice.

At 9:12 PM -0800 11/2/00, Eric wrote:
>How do.  I may have already done this, because I do it every time Ms.
>Piercy's name appears, but below is the great american novel in a not so
>many lines.

Ms Piercy lives about 30 miles from me.  Her places, I visited the place in
this poem last week to watch one of the last sunsets of fall.  You cannot
imagine how wild this place is and how wild the tide is here unless you've
been there racing against the tide on the Bay side.  The coast she refers
to is one of the few really large pieces of land left on Cape Cod which has
no houses on it at all.  It is a microcosm of all the lower Cape 's
ecosystems, unlike the other huge wild piece of land on the ocean side.

And the storms do indeed blow thick when they're from the east, bringing
all the ocean violence with them.

Ms Piercy's cogency has been patent for many years.  She is a truly
powerful and plain woman.

And the houses across from where she stood are just as she says!  Sad
little summer cottage boxes with cute names.


Emily L. Ferguson
elf@...  508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
Beetle cats on the web at:
http://www.beetlecat.com/gifts.htm
http://www.capecod.net/sqtg/nebcba/results/99champs.html
landscape at:
http://www.capecodlife.com/CCD/regions/upper_cape.html

I've been receiving and enjoying the Digest for several months. But,I'm not sure
I know how to send a message to the group (I ain't tooswift about some things)
and am just trying this to see if I'vefigured out how to do it.  I've noticed a
few other "first time"messages from listers lately.  I'm writing from Portland,
Oregon.We've got our tickets for the December show at the Roseland.
The"Oregonian" even had a small review of Covenant in a recent "Arts
andEntertainment" which was pleasing to see.  I've emailed a local radio
station, KINK, and tried to get them toplay Greg on their Sunday Morning
Accoustic Sunrise show.  It seemslike a perfect venue to finally hear Greg on
the radio.  I alsoemailed Mr. Feldman at Red House and suggested he send KINK
some ofGreg's CD's.  He replied that he had but it was very disappointingthat
they never seemed to play them.  I wonder why they won't?Anyway, if this goes
through, I enjoy all the news from all of you.Barry

I have just returned from my 1st GB concert. Jana--Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS
is great. It was too short. I need more!!   Sorry I don't know all the songs
yet, but he started  with Home in the Sky(?)
                    Walkin' Daddy
and ended with Betty Ann
                        Rexroth's Daughter
and in between (not in order)
Marriage Chant
Lullaby
.cept You and Me Babe
Inabell Sale
Down at the Mill
Fishing from the Shore??
others i don't know

Did I see any of you there?
melanie


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hey all...
i JUST discovered greg brown - a MONTH ago!!! i cannot believe i missed out
for soooooo long...

i am a BIG bluegrass freak.. bill morrissey.. john gorka...  townes van
zandt.. tony rice...  doc watson... emmylou... and such, but JUST was turned
onto greg...

i a have tickets for his sommerville theatre show and i was wondering if he
allows board taping???

i hear he is the coolest.. does anyone know?
thanks.
mystic
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On Thursday, November 02, 2000, mystic lake (mystic_lake@...) wrote:
> i a have tickets for his sommerville theatre show and i was wondering if he
> allows board taping???
>
> i hear he is the coolest.. does anyone know?

Yup, he's the coolest.  Greg allows taping of his shows.  The best
approach in my experience is to ask the sound person nicely when he's not
busy.  Somerville Theatre's a relatively large venue so it might be a
little harder to find the right person to give the OK.

And if you get a digital recording of a show you have to send me a
copy; it's the rule.  Just kidding, just kidding...

Ron

One additional point here.  Greg is also very respectful of the other artists
playing with him in this regard.  When I was waiting for the doors to open
for his gig here in Bezerkeley about four years ago, I overheard him tell
someone who asked him about taping that it was fine with him.  Greg asked the
fellow, to check with Nina Gerber as well before assuming it was okay to
tape.

Enjoy!!!!!

Michael Friedman


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Emily,

I'm a big Greg Brown fan who mostly lurks on the list, and I also love the
Cape. (Though I mostly lurk quietly there too)  Where is Smalley Bar?  Is it
out around point Jeremy north of Wellfleet harbor?  Thanks, Tim

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There are 9 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

       1. Walkin' Daddy & Piercy
            From: "Michael Schaefer" <Schaefer@...>
       2. RE: Walkin' Daddy & Piercy
            From: "Flower, C. David" <cdflower@...>
       3. Marge Piercy
            From: Eric <ecscc@...>
       4. Re: Marge Piercy
            From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@...>
       5. Writing To The List
            From: BRTrout@...
       6. first concert
            From: "Melanie" <mvta@...>
       7. taper friendly?
            From: "mystic lake" <mystic_lake@...>
       8. Re: taper friendly?
            From: Ron Mura <rmura@...>
       9. Re: taper friendly?
            From: LaffRunner@...


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Message: 1
    Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:19:03 -0600
    From: "Michael Schaefer" <Schaefer@...>
Subject: Walkin' Daddy & Piercy

Hey,

While we're talking about Greg and Marge Piercy (okay, it's been a
few months), take a look at this Piercy poem I stumbled across--
some cool connections here.

			 To be of use

The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.    (1974)


________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 2
    Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:40:04 -0600
    From: "Flower, C. David" <cdflower@...>
Subject: RE: Walkin' Daddy & Piercy

Michael Schaefer wrote:

Hey,

While we're talking about Greg and Marge Piercy (okay, it's been a
few months), take a look at this Piercy poem I stumbled across--
some cool connections here.

			 To be of use .....


Since Mike brought up a GB poetry connection, here's a poem by Kenneth
Rexroth that he dedicated to his daughter Mary:

	 The Great Nebula of Andromeda

We get into camp after
Dark, high on an open ridge
Looking out over five thousand
Feet of mountains and mile
Beyond mile of valley and sea.
In the star-filled dark we cook
Our macaroni and eat
By lantern light.  Stars cluster
Around our table like fireflies.
After supper we go straight
To bed.  The night is windy
And clear.  The moon is three days
Short of full.  We lie in bed
And watch the stars and the turning
Moon through our little telescope.
Late at night the horses stumble
Around camp and I awake.
I lie on my elbow watching
Your beautiful sleeping face
Like a jewel in the moonlight.
If you are lucky and the
Nations let you, you will live
Far into the twenty-first
Century.  I pick up the glass
And watch the Great Nebula
Of Andromeda swim like
A phosphorescent amoeba
Slowly around the Pole.  Far
Away in distant cities
Fat-hearted men are planning
To murder you while you sleep.



________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 3
    Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 21:12:07 -0800
    From: Eric <ecscc@...>
Subject: Marge Piercy

How do.  I may have already done this, because I do it every time Ms.
Piercy's name appears but below is the great american novel in a not so
many lines.  Also Greg Brown Tickets for the Tractor/Seattle shows are
finally on sale on line. They use Ticketweb at http://www.ticketweb.com/
which has way lower additional fees that the dreaded T M.  Eighteen a
show and they are giving each show longer than last time.  Yum.  Left
coast Eric.

Smalley Bar  -- Marge Piercy   [The Twelve Spoked Wheel Flashing]

Anchored a ways off Buoy Rocks the sailboat
bobs jaunty, light, little.  We slide
over the side after scraping bottom.
The water up to our waists looks brown
ahead.   We wade onto Smalley Bar.
I leave the men clamming and walk
the bar toward shore.

By the time I walk back straight out
from the coast of the wild island the  tide
is rushing in.  My shoes already float.
I walk the bar, invisible now,
water to my thighs.  The day's
turned smoke.  A storm is blowing
thick from the east.  I stand
a quarter mile ou in the bay with
the tide rising and only this
strange buried bridge of sandbar under me,
calling across the breaking grey waves,
unsure whether I can still wade
or must swim against the tide to the boat
dragging its anchor loose.

Unknown territory.  Strange bottom.
I live on bridges that may or may


not be there under the breaking
water deepening.  I never know
what I'll step on.  I never know


whether I'll make it before dark,
before the storm catches me,
before the tide sweeps me out.
The neat while houses across the bay
are fading as the air thickens.
People in couples, in boxes, in clear
expectations of class and role
and income, I deserve to pity
shivering here as the water rushes past.
I find more than clams out on
the bar.  It's not my sailboat
ever, but it's my choice.


________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 4
    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:31:13 -0500
    From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@...>
Subject: Re: Marge Piercy

At 9:12 PM -0800 11/2/00, Eric wrote:
>How do.  I may have already done this, because I do it every time Ms.
>Piercy's name appears, but below is the great american novel in a not so
>many lines.

Ms Piercy lives about 30 miles from me.  Her places, I visited the place in
this poem last week to watch one of the last sunsets of fall.  You cannot
imagine how wild this place is and how wild the tide is here unless you've
been there racing against the tide on the Bay side.  The coast she refers
to is one of the few really large pieces of land left on Cape Cod which has
no houses on it at all.  It is a microcosm of all the lower Cape 's
ecosystems, unlike the other huge wild piece of land on the ocean side.

And the storms do indeed blow thick when they're from the east, bringing
all the ocean violence with them.

Ms Piercy's cogency has been patent for many years.  She is a truly
powerful and plain woman.

And the houses across from where she stood are just as she says!  Sad
little summer cottage boxes with cute names.


Emily L. Ferguson
elf@...  508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
Beetle cats on the web at:
http://www.beetlecat.com/gifts.htm
http://www.capecod.net/sqtg/nebcba/results/99champs.html
landscape at:
http://www.capecodlife.com/CCD/regions/upper_cape.html




________________________________________________________________________
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Message: 5
    Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 05:46:58 -0000
    From: BRTrout@...
Subject: Writing To The List

I've been receiving and enjoying the Digest for several months. But,I'm not
sure I know how to send a message to the group (I ain't tooswift about some
things) and am just trying this to see if I'vefigured out how to do it.
I've noticed a few other "first time"messages from listers lately.  I'm
writing from Portland, Oregon.We've got our tickets for the December show at
the Roseland. The"Oregonian" even had a small review of Covenant in a recent
"Arts andEntertainment" which was pleasing to see.  I've emailed a local
radio station, KINK, and tried to get them toplay Greg on their Sunday
Morning Accoustic Sunrise show.  It seemslike a perfect venue to finally
hear Greg on the radio.  I alsoemailed Mr. Feldman at Red House and
suggested he send KINK some ofGreg's CD's.  He replied that he had but it
was very disappointingthat they never seemed to play them.  I wonder why
they won't?Anyway, if this goes through, I enjoy all the news from all of
you.Barry



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Message: 6
    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:38:31 -0600
    From: "Melanie" <mvta@...>
Subject: first concert

I have just returned from my 1st GB concert. Jana--Liberty Hall in Lawrence,
KS is great. It was too short. I need more!!   Sorry I don't know all the
songs yet, but he started  with Home in the Sky(?)
                    Walkin' Daddy
and ended with Betty Ann
                        Rexroth's Daughter
and in between (not in order)
Marriage Chant
Lullaby
.cept You and Me Babe
Inabell Sale
Down at the Mill
Fishing from the Shore??
others i don't know

Did I see any of you there?
melanie


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Message: 7
    Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 01:12:17 GMT
    From: "mystic lake" <mystic_lake@...>
Subject: taper friendly?

hey all...
i JUST discovered greg brown - a MONTH ago!!! i cannot believe i missed out
for soooooo long...

i am a BIG bluegrass freak.. bill morrissey.. john gorka...  townes van
zandt.. tony rice...  doc watson... emmylou... and such, but JUST was turned

onto greg...

i a have tickets for his sommerville theatre show and i was wondering if he
allows board taping???

i hear he is the coolest.. does anyone know?
thanks.
mystic
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Message: 8
    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:21:46 -0500
    From: Ron Mura <rmura@...>
Subject: Re: taper friendly?

On Thursday, November 02, 2000, mystic lake (mystic_lake@...) wrote:
> i a have tickets for his sommerville theatre show and i was wondering if
he
> allows board taping???
>
> i hear he is the coolest.. does anyone know?

Yup, he's the coolest.  Greg allows taping of his shows.  The best
approach in my experience is to ask the sound person nicely when he's not
busy.  Somerville Theatre's a relatively large venue so it might be a
little harder to find the right person to give the OK.

And if you get a digital recording of a show you have to send me a
copy; it's the rule.  Just kidding, just kidding...

Ron




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Message: 9
    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:02:15 EST
    From: LaffRunner@...
Subject: Re: taper friendly?

One additional point here.  Greg is also very respectful of the other
artists
playing with him in this regard.  When I was waiting for the doors to open
for his gig here in Bezerkeley about four years ago, I overheard him tell
someone who asked him about taping that it was fine with him.  Greg asked
the
fellow, to check with Nina Gerber as well before assuming it was okay to
tape.

Enjoy!!!!!

Michael Friedman


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>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:55:23 -0800
>To: Shirley Cottle <cottles@...>
>From: eric <ericdn@...>
>Subject: Re: GB  Itinerary & light at the mid/end of the tunnel
>
>two notes:
>
> >Sat, Nov 18, 2000 @ 8:00pm
> >Irving Plaza/with Bo Ramsey
> >New York, NY
>
>Mr. Brown will be performing with a band (including Dave Zollo) this night.
>very nice indeed.
>
> >Fri, Aug 03, 2001
> >Winterhawk Festival
> >Hillsdale, NY
>
>there is a god.  Fern, you in?
>
>- eric

I thought that all of you interested in the Kate Fest would be interested in
this information which I just picked up off the Kate Fest web site:

"At the moment, nextyear's festival is up in the air....the festival will no
longer be able to take place at Caswell Vineyards, due to future plans and
needs for the property. We are currently looking at possible options, both
for other sites as well as theconsideration of taking on sponsors to continue
this event. This is a rathersudden, unexpected change of events, and we
welcome any ideas, leads, contacts,and pledges of support that can be
offered. Please send e-mail to cloud@...,or phone 707-829-7067, if
you can offer any help in this matter. Thank you, and stay tuned for future
upcoming announcements."

Let's wish the Caswell's the best in their future enterprise.  They have
provided a beautiful site for the festival for the last few years.  Let's
hope that Cloud can find a new location for the festival.  Then we can always
dream that this will be one of Greg's summer festival stops.

Michael Friedman



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>i am a BIG bluegrass freak.. bill morrissey.. john gorka...  townes van
>zandt..

Blue grass and Townes Van Zandt in the same sentence... interesting.

Did you happen to catch Greg Brown on PHC last (?) week with a bluegrass
band back up?
Way too cool.

Mike Smeets

check out lonestar north's web page at
http://members.tripod.com/Bob_Smeets/index.htm

Some other bluegrass stuff that's really good is Dolly Parton, "The Grass is
Blue"  and Steve Earle, "The Mountain" with Del McCoury and band.  LD

Hello!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Odeum on Saturday, but
would love to go to Sunday night as well!!
If anyone has just one extra ticket I would gladly give them a big
hug and take it off their hands. Thanks!! Just give me a call at 401-
247-9285, or send email!!
greatly appreciated!
---John Hayes

hay, i'm writing from France! I,m 25, name's Goulwen.
I'm a greg listener and player since five years and I am desesperatly looking
for some of the chords or tabs of his songs... (the ones that doesn't appear on
the Steidl's or the Olga site...)
I'm already playing those songs with my guitare and harmonica:
Laughing river
Vivid
Ella mae
Spring and all
Just by myself
Of course, even if Itry so hard to listen and listen those songs again and
again, I still can't play them the way greg does but if i can help any of you
guy's with the chords I have find out, just let me know what you need at
goulwenpele@...
-I am looking for the guitare tabs of
'cept you and me babe
waiting on you
I must be in oregon
solid heart
lullabye
ring around the moon
spring wind
you drive me crazy
canned goods
I don't want to have a nice day
one more goodnight kiss
dream on
on records the sound just fades away
You might as well go to sleep
and wathever you have...
thanks for taking attention to my note and i would like to sent to each one of
you a great "Bonjour!" from France!
Goulwen.

P.S 1: Greg himself can answer if he is reading me! No problem hehehe...

P.S 2: if Greg does:I want to let you know that you have a bed and a supper
ready at Rennes, in  Bretagne,France...anytime. for you or your family...
oh and thank you so much for bringing a warm piece of love and sweetness in my
life. Anytime you're playing ,it seem's that my best friend's around...


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Don't forget to vote tomorrow!  This is a really important election.
(pardon me, internationl listers, this is only in the US)

I know this is off topic but I think Greg would approve.  I can just imagine
that if he is in concert tonight he is probably singing about it.

Thanks,
Gile
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> I know this is off topic but I think Greg would approve.

OK, let's remember that this group is for discussion of Greg Brown
and the group charter, as stated on the main page
http://www.egroups.com/group/GBrown-L, says:

   Please post to this group only messages that have content related to
   Greg.

There is further elaboration on what topics are reasonable in the
FAQ (http://www.gregbrown.org/gbfaq1.html#maillist):

   In general, any message that is somehow related to Greg Brown and his
   artistic endeavors is fine.  [...]
   Never write or forward to the group any petitions, virus warnings,
   political statements, or any other messages that are not about Greg or
   his close associates (Bo Ramsey, Dave Moore, Nina Gerber, etc.).

Including a statement that Greg would approve of an off-topic post, as
several recent off-topic posts have, does not justify it.  Sorry if
this seems harsh but people join this list to receive messages about
Greg and recently there have been rumblings about the amount of
traffic that is weak on Greg content.

Ron

The July-August "No Depression Top 40" results:

1. Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues
2. Billy Bragg and Wilco, Mermaid Ave II
3. Dave Alvin, Public Domain
4. Neil Young, Silver and Gold
5. Sam Bush, Ice Caps
6.  Greg Brown, Covenant
7. Various, Down to the Promised Land
8. Johnny Cash, Love God Murder
9. Jayhawks, Smile
10. Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance
11. Greg Brown, Over and Under


This ranking is based on sales at a couple of dozen OKOM-friendly record
stores across the country (OKOM = "our kind of music," the most descriptive
descriptor I've seen bandied around).  Sal's Music Emporium in Iowa City is
one of the reporting stores, I trust their sales figures have not skewed
the results.

For those who don't know about "No Depression," the self-described
"bimonthly journal of alt.country movement (whatever that is)" is a great
publication.  In my few months of reading I've been turned on to a lot of
great musicians I might not otherwise have heard of, and learned a lot
about the music of artists I was already familiar with.  And unlike most
genre-specific magazines, which I find are often too smitten with their
subjects to be particularly reliable, reviewers in ND will give mixed or
even bad reviews to albums or shows (needless to say they liked
"Covenant").  Check them out at www.nodepression.net


cheers, Jennifer

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the guitar tabs to "Cept You and Me Babe"
which he wrote right here in this dotcom scene
should be in the January issue
of Acoustic Guitar Magazine

scheduled to hit the streets in about a month
along with an interview from last July
i'll believe it all when i see it this time
they broke to their promise to me once

according to the latest Tractor Tavern spam
for anyone thinking about doing the Seattle shows
get your tickets now while you can

glenn

I am about to embark on the last group of east coast concerts for at
least 14 months. I hope to meet lots of you great folks, from this neck of
the woods, this time around. Upon my return, sometime after the 20th of
November (maybe even after Thanksgiving), Whitney and I will finally have the
CD tree post for the Greg Brown Reading. Whitney has just received her copy.
I do not have mine as yet, but should be getting one from her, soon after my
return. Sorry this took so long, but I promise you all that it will be worth
the wait! I will try to get the set lists to Shirley. :-) If you are at any
of the concerts, please do come up to me and introduce yourself! I am about
5'8" tall, with short, black hair and glasses. I will be with a lil bald guy
named Brian, who also wears glasses. Not many folks answer to the name of
Fern. Hope to see you on the road! Fern

I was copied on this note to Glenn. -- Ron

=================Original message text===============
Date: Friday, November 10, 2000 5:29:51 AM

[...]

Just noted a minor glitch for the Tractor Tavern phone number.
Please note as a correction to the "gb" itinerary on the
Fleming Tamulevich and Associates website...

They are showing the phone number for the Tractor Tavern
in Seattle as being a number which is no longer in service.

the correct number is shown on another site...
         http://www.krmusicreview.com/US/WA/
A page for Seattle shows the number as being (206)789-3599
and to order, TicketWeb.com is reachable at (800)965-4827

Thanks for the heads-up on this upcoming engagement!
Dave in Milwaukee

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Checking to see what is on the radio this weekend I took a look at Big Top's
site and found what I have posted below. I occasional listen to this on WTIP
from Grand Marias MN. Sunday 7 am. I think the schedule on WTIP must be out
of sinc with the official web site as last Sunday I'm sure (I hope)  the
show they aired was 10/21. This may be a repeat Brown's '99 appearance as
the series in repeats and I haven't noticed and '00 shows yet. It may be
airing this weekend elsewhere.

We went to see Greg at the Cedar Centre and both of us really enjoyed the
shows. These shows were really my first as I don't count Greg's abbreviated
set I saw at Ottawa in August.  Unlike the Ottawa show the Cedar shows were
everything I expected.  Wonderful.   Recorded both nights and would say what
I'm listening to now is maybe an 8 out of 10 in terms of sound quality.  I
didn't go near the soundboard guy as I'm 60, white, short hair and straight
male. I think he would have looked at me incredulously if I had asked for
permission to plug in. I enjoyed the set list from the first night most as
many songs were off Over and Under which I hadn't heard at the time. Matty
Price and the others off O&U were wonderful and to my ears more fully
realised live than on the cd.  I'd write a review but I don't type that
well.  We saw Greg on the street in Minnneapolis each night which was a
bonus. Sharon kept me from being a "fan" each time and we didn't approach
him.

Rob just over the line

From BIG TOP's site:

10/21/2000     TSR00.16
30th STAR - part 3 of 3. This fresh water hour of Tent Show Radio features
the Blue Canvas Orchestra and Singers, and special Wisconsin guest author
Norbert Blei and the state duo.

10/28/2000     TSR00-17
Tent Show Radio with Warren Nelson spotlights Greg Brown in his annual
appearance at Big Top Chautauqua. Greg is accompanied by guitarist Bo Ramsey
in the sold out house. Warming up is the up-and-coming singer/songwriter
Corey Carlson of Bayfield.

10/28/2000     TSR00-17>
Tent Show Radio with Warren Nelson spotlights Greg Brown in his annual
appearance at Big Top Chautauqua. Greg is accompanied by guitarist Bo Ramsey
in the sold out house. Warming up is the up-and-coming singer/songwriter
Corey Carlson of Bayfield.>

Anyone who records this, Lisa? etc, PLEASE contact me after the 19th of
November and we can set up a trade, and even share w/the digest too, later
on. I am in the midst of getting ready for the 2nd east coast fling and I am
in HEAVEN!!! Fern

"I'm on the road again!" Yup, last night was the first of 8 or 9
concerts that I will have the privilege to witness with the great Greg Brown
in attendance! :-))
This was the fifth year in a row that Greg has played the Somerville Theater
in Somerville Mass, a burb of Boston. Always in November and always a VERY
special treat, last night's east coast opener may have been his "finest hour"
at this venue! You should have heard the moans and groans when Dick
Pleasance, the DJ and concert promoter, mentioned that Greg would be leaving
the road for a long needed rest. People were stunned! We have all been too
spoiled by this man's generosity to share his music and life with us for so
long! I have been one of the biggest culprits of this myself!
      Mustard's retreat opened with a very, very entertaining and enjoyable
set. These two man are talented, I tell ya, and the audience ate it up! They
praised the "folk scene" in Mass and said that folk music gives us a sense of
community as well as great art. I must totally agree. I have met so many
wonderful people, and continue to do so, all because of Greg Brown. His music
opened up doors in my life that I never would have gone through -- one of the
things I am grateful for and will deeply miss the most in the coming year
plus. Do see Mustard's Retreat if you get the chance. The audience insisted
on an encore and lots of folks knew their tunes. They did a self composed
sonnet, set to music, that was especially charming.
      Now, for Mr. Brown! There is NOTHING that I can say more about this man
that hasn't already been said by critics and writers alike, especially since
the release of
the acclaimed "Covenant." Greg Brown is an American treasure, an artist that
never ceases to amaze and delight so many of us! Sometimes I often wonder,
watching him perform, how a single individual could possess so much talent.
Last night's performance blew me away and just when I think it is IMPOSSIBLE
to witness a better concert than I already have in the past, I do!
      Greg cut a striking figure, standing all night in black cutoff tee,
black leather(?) pants, scarf, shades, work boots and as I have grown to
dearly love, that "same damn hat!"  He was wound up with unlimited energy
when he sauntered onto that stage, because as many of us know, Greg doesn't
really just walk, he
saunters. From the start of the show till it's finish, his brilliance shone
like a bright star, especially refreshing on this night, after the torrential
and chilling rain that had drenched us for the entire day and evening
outside. Playing to the last person in the balcony, Greg made the 800 plus
Somerville seem like a tinier club. The sound was superb and some of the
numbers, even though I have heard them many times, had brand spanking new
melodies that made them sound totally fresh and better than ever. "Samson and
Delilah" was one of those and I couldn't help but cheer loudly when he
finished! The energy level during that one, "Dream City" which rocked open
the evening, "Your Town Now," and "Are You Ready For the Fair?" were
exceptional! I heard him play a new one that I will title "If I Could Be With
You." I am madly in love with this song and hope to obtain a copy of a
concert with this one! I believe it will be my all time favorite! Wait till
ya hear it, everybody! It is glorious! Am I gushing here? Why YES!! :-)
Susie, he did "Fairfield!" The crowd went nuts and it was as awesome live as
everyone has described! Good thing I didn't know too many folks around me
after that one, as I pretty much lost it when he finished! I went totally
wild! It is a brilliant song and live, it blows even that great "Over and
Under" version right out of the water! I wish I had a copy of last night's
show, just for "The Marriage Chant" alone. This was the best damn version I
have ever heard that Brown guy do, and I have witnessed this one many times.
After two encores, with the second being, "Never So Far," I think I floated
out of that venue.
       Thanks to my dear friends Kris and Paul for putting up with me!
Hopefully, I didn't get too annoying for poor Paul who was right next to me!
Did I say our seats were fantastic?! Tonight, front row for the Odeum and I
have a bundle of things to do before our very own Ramcey, tCH, arrives to see
several GB concerts! Can't wait to read his review of his first live Greg
experience, after listening for so many years!
Now, finally, the acclaimed set list:
(Kris and I win! We bet the guys it was over 20 songs and I get 21!)
Dream City
Living In a Prayer
Samson and Delilah (grateful to have landed, he did a religious song, he said)
857-5413
Brand New 64 Dodge
Are You Ready For the Fair?
Happy By Myself
Cept You and Me Babe
If I Had known
Hey Baby Hey
Fooled me Once -- inspired by a story that Bo told him
If I Could Be With You -- my newest favorite!
River Will Take You
Fairfield -- Yippee!!!
Rexroth's Daughter -- amazing version, with a new melody also
Walkin' Daddy
Dear Wrinkled Face -- geesh, I LOVE this one!
Your Town Now -- another high energy version! Yup, I cheered LOUDLY!
1st Encore:
Marriage Chant
Two Little Feet
2nd Encore:
Never So Far