In this issue:
Re: Folk Radio?
Updated Songwriters/ Free Pages
RE: Darryl Purpose
Re: Folk Radio?
Sing Out! magazine -- now on Music Blvd
"Roll Your Own": NOMA Goes Liquid
REVIEW: block house concert - Glenn MacPherson
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:01:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stan Curts <scurts@indy.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Folk Radio?
> Meanwhile, has anyone ever heard "Water is Wide" as done by Lucie Blue
> Tremblay? Best in my book and among the most requested versions from Folk
> Radio 91.9FM (Boston) listeners.
Folk Radio?! You guys have a radio station that plays nothing but Folk??
Here in Indianapolis, our radio selection consists of Classic Rock,
Country, Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock,
and a little Classical. Oh, and did I mention Classic Rock? No Folk. No
singer-songwriters. No Adult Alternative, New Acoustic, or whatever
anyone finally decides to call it.
All ye who have decent radio stations, I hope you appreciate them!
- -Stan Curts
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:01:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: summerdroit@juno.com (Summer Droit)
Subject: Updated Songwriters/ Free Pages
Hey folks, just wanted to say hello and invite everyone to my award
winning web site with a ton of links, photos, sounds and other stuff on
SINGER SONGWRITERS
including some pages totally unique to the web,
With Links To:
Nina Adel & Danny Wells, Elizabeth Wills, Michael Elwood, The Mojodeans,
Kevin So, Al Grierson, Kristin Lems, Sara Hickman, Ky & Owl, Shawn
Colvin, Adam & Kris,
Steve Brooks, Polk Barton & Towhead, Jana Stansfield, David Rosenbloom,
Mulberry Lane
And Unique Pages for:
Chris Chandler, Summer (me), Peter Wilde, Anne Feeney, Danny Dolinger &
Kale Kalloch, Colleen Springer, George Tucker, Still On The Hill, Blue
Honey, Indian Summer, Joanna Dejarnett;
and just recently added:
Robin Hopper, Janice Carper, Valerie & Walter Crockett, Andrew McKnight,
Stephanie Fein, Susan McClelland, Jim Savarino, Larry Murante, Judy
Krueger
Brian Cutean, St. Stephen's Blues, Syd & Co., Stammers Rameau, Ratsy,
Monk Wilson, Kathy Morgan Jones, Robin Anderson, Dan Marsh, & Certainly
not least
Terri Hendrix !
Please visit at
http://www.syspac.com/~ddroit/summer/new.htm
and as before I am offering free links from my site to yours if you are a
singer-songwriter and if you are un-signed I will do you a free web page
just e-mail me privately at summerdroit@juno.com
I will going to the Kerrville Folk Festival for a couple of weeks so any
updates will be after that ______Peace Through Music
_____________SUMMER Droit
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joe Jones" <joejones@texasfolk.com>
Subject: RE: Darryl Purpose
Daryl, along with Dave Nachmanoff, performed a Shared Show House Concert
at my place on Sunday. Daryl mentioned the award, but didn't really say
much about it. I suppose he is a bit modest about his work. No one here
in this area (Dallas) had heard either one of the perform and it was a
treat. They each did a set solo then they had several songs worked up
that they performed and they sounded GREAT together. Both are headed to
Kerrville today and I think both will be on Main Stage working backup
with other featured artist. Three members of the Uncle Calvin's
Coffeehouse Booking Committee (Bill Nash, Woody Woodward and Drake
Rogers) were in attendance and they were offered a show on the spot at
Calvin's. Calvin's is a venue that features the best of the best and is
a venue that is hard to break into.
Take time to listen to Daryl - he has great material
Joe Jones
North Dallas House Concerts
Richardson (Dallas), TX
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:38:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Melissa Huffsmith <melissa@pseudo.com>
Subject: Re: Folk Radio?
Hey!
If you like acoustic singer sonwriter stuff, you should check out my
Internet TV show. It's called J'Open Mike, but we're going to change it to
Strum soon. You can watch people like Judy Collins, Chris Whitley, and
Michelle Malone do their thing live in the studio. We also interview them
in between songs. You need to download the Real Player to watch and listen.
The show goes out live every Tuesday night at 9pm EST. If you can't make it
then, don't worry because you can watch or listen to an archive any old time.
Here's where to go:
http://pseudo.com/shows/jopen
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Thanks...
Melissa
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:38:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Denton <todd.denton@n2k.com>
Subject: Sing Out! magazine -- now on Music Blvd
I'm pleased to announce that portions of Sing Out magazine are now
available on Music Boulevard:
http://www.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/1148_121_426
The current issue features the cover story on David Grisman, plus 126
reviews, including John Hurt, Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack, Doc & Dawg,
Greg Brown, Martin Simpson, Ralph McTell and Utah Phillips.
I'll let you know about future issues as they appear.
Enjoy!
- --
Todd Denton
Editorial Director, Music Boulevard
tdenton@n2k.com | http://www.musicblvd.com
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:38:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Perfesser <perfessr@songs.com>
Subject: "Roll Your Own": NOMA Goes Liquid
A recent exchange in the FM_Digest about "roll your own CDs" and "digital
music delivery" has certainly been interesting, and timely. "Bits instead
of atoms" was a hot top at two conventions I attended in the past week,
the CMA MINT (Music Industry New Technologies) conference here in Nashville
("...a gathering of the dinosaurs to discuss the asteroid...") and the AFIM
(formerly NAIRD) convention in Denver.
It's encouraging to see that there really is interest on the consumer level
in experimenting with these new technologies, because a lot of people at
the mainstream industry level don't think much of it, either by preference
or paranoia. But it's clear this train is coming down the track and
gathering steam.
Particularly in light of all this discussion, I am excited to announce that
NOMA has joined the digital delivery revolution. We are now offering a
small selection of individual tracks in our own " Liquid Music Library" at
<http://songs.com/liquidaudio/>.
So far, we are pleased to offer selections by:
Richard Gilewitz
The Killens
Stan Moeller & T.S. Baker
Nancy Moran
Teresa James
The Electric Range
Katherine Dines
Freeway Philharmonic
Jackie Tice
Lisa Cannon
Joel Rafael Band
Don Conoscenti
and soon to come:
Buddy Mondlock (from the new CD, Poetic Justice)
Kate Wallace
Kate Wallace & Michael Camp (Two Lane America)
Tom Kimmel
Richard Berman
Angela Kaset
Gary Nicholson
Craig Carothers
Fritz Hayden
Calaveras
and who knows who else. I suspect this library will grow very rapidly.
At the NOMA Liquid Liberty, you can preview these selections in a variety
of formats. You can listen to the whole song with a 28.8 modem, you can
listen to a clip at 14.4 (nobody should listen to more than a minute of
music over the Net at 14.4) and, if you have the bandwidth, you can listen
to a clip in dual-ISDN stereo, which sounds every bit as good as FM Stereo
on your computer speakers.
Of course, you can download the CD-quality files to your computer and, if
you have the proper equipment, burn your own CDs. Or you can listen to the
track to your heart's content right off your hard-drive - the files only
take about 5MB apiece. And anybody who purchases a track (for $1.99) will
receive a $2.00 credit against the purchase of ANY CD in our catalog.
Because digital delivery is such a hot topic - and such uncharted
territory, we are also launching some ancillary services to facilitate a
discussion of the subject:
The Digital Delivery Discussion Center is an online bulletin board devoted
to new music technologies and the Internet. It's accessible from the main
NOMA Liquid Audio page <http://songs.com/liquidaudio/>. I hope that people
with a more than passing interest in recordable CDs, the software, and
sources of downloadable music will find useful information in this message
center.
We are also announcing the "NOMA Liquid Radio Network." This is a very
specialized service aimed primarily at folk and roots radio DJs and
programmers, and is intended to spare our artists the enormous costs of
sending CDs out to all the radio outlets that comprise our "acoustic music"
network. The idea is simple: subscribe to our "nomaradio" listserv, and
every week or so we'll send you an e-mail with a listing of new tunes that
have been added to our Liquid Music Library. If you stay online, you'll be
able to preview the tracks (in 28.8 quality) right from the e-mail, and
when you hear something you like, you'll be able to download it (at no
charge) from a password-protected website set up specially for this purpose.
Interested radio station folk - Program Directors, Music Directors, DJs and
program hosts are invited to sign up now for the NOMA Liquid Radio Network
by steering their browser to <http://songs.com/liquidaudio/la-radio.html>.
Liquid Audio is just the tip of an iceberg that the Titanic of the Music
Industry is steaming toward. There is also an exciting (and very
controversial) technology called MP3 which lets you get as many as 200
songs on a single CD -- but you can only play it on your computer (when is
Intel going to start putting its chips in stereo receivers?) And lately
I've been listening to music over the net in near-CD quality via a cable
modem - I wonder what's playing on channel 4,762 in Netherlands tonight?
There's no question that we are at the threshold of a new frontier. So
fire up those browsers and come on by <http://songs.com/liquidaudio/> and
join us for the revolution.
- --PS
Paul Schatzkin perfessr@songs.com
AKA The Perfesser http://songs.com/pws
President, National Online Music Alliance
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:38:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Eggleston <danedan@swbell.net>
Subject: REVIEW: block house concert - Glenn MacPherson
I phoned Eddie Block just before the Glenn MacPherson concert last night
to make sure there was space & he said, "Come on out, since it's YOU, we
can squeeze you in." When I arrived, there was no extra furniture out &
my first thought was "is this the right time &place?" it was. the
normal size was decimated (numerical allusion inTENded) by the "land
rush" (the reservation of campsites for kerrville). Thus, the "crowd"
was as large as a minyan.
Glenn was a 1997 Kerrville New
Folk Finalist as well as a Fast Folk Care (NYC) Song Contest Finalist.
He has won many awards for both Best Song and Best Performance from the
Northern California Songwriters' Association, including the NCSA's 1997
Song of the Year. He was also the 1996 Winner of both the
Sisters(Oregon) Folk Festival and Santa Cruz (California) Redwood
Faire's Songwriter
Competitions, and received Honorable Mention from the Napa Valley Music
Festival's Emerging Songwriter Showcase.
His CD is great Eddie joined him on bass for a few songs, and it was a
very relaxed evening. Though there was plenty of space, almost half of
the group sat on the floor. (in a couple of cases, lying down) Eddie &
Ann's teen daughters think he looks like george clooney and sounds like
james taylor. (Unfortunately for them, this was their weekend with the
grandparents, and they missed out.
He sang "What was I thinking of" and one other about a girl he
fell
in love with in Santa Cruz CA, where he lives. She lived there at the
time, but it
turned out her home was in Hamburg, 5000 miles away. She told him to
visit,
but when he did, he quickly realized it was over. He did a couple of
covers
(Tupelo Honey and Red House) and more of his finely crafted songs.
Glenn
apologized for the Beatles/Van Morrison elements of "Nothing More" and
his G
String promptly broke. So we took a break. He did that song in the
second
set along with "Mr Fix-it Man" (title song of the CD), "Freedom Blvd"
and
others.
His voice is indeed similar to Taylor's and the concert was a
thorough
delight. This was his first visit to Austin and he mentioned the
intimidation
he felt to be in a city renowed for singer-songwriters. He can hold his
own.
Try to see him if you can.
Dan Eggleston
Austin TX
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