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for anyone out there who has directv--xm satellite channels will be replacing musicchoice channels effective november 15. for more information, tune into directv channel 800 or visit http://directv.com/xm
this is good news to me (i have directv). i think some of the xm channels play ig. ;-) i got disgusted with musicchoice after they took away americana, only to bring it back to cable later on but not back on directv. :-/
later~lorna
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date: sat, 8 oct 2005 13:32:47 +0200
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hi there,
emily will participate in two benefit concerts at eddie's eddic for
caroline aiken (she injured her left wrist in an accident recently).
here's the news snippet from caroline's website:
october 21, eddie's attic, decatur, ga - 2 shows with emily
saliers, three5human, cowboy envy, and special
guests to be announced
you can read more about it here:
www.carolineaiken.com
be well,
kathrin
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i'm surprised at chickeman too. and just to clarify, i agree that you're awesome, i'm just impressed by the bordom as well!
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i guess i'm mostly surprised that chickenman is so low on the
list. i've been to probably about +/-30 concerts since 1997,
and i think they've played it at all but a few. (in fact, i
know they have, because i always miss it when it's not there.)
kari, did you include amy's solo shows in your tally? also,
you're awesome.
mandy
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>subject: [indigo-girls] 1,000 closer to fines?
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>in my effort to sustain a minimul level of mental activity
and not be
>totally bored to death at work, i came up with a little
graph. you will have
>to click on it in some browsers to expand it to a readable
size. i based
>this on the information on lifeblood, not that the
information there is
>all-encompassing or totally accurate, but at least it gives
an interesting
>snapshot. i had to omit some songs like 123, lifeblood, and
go because they
>were just too difficult to filter out results.
>
>i further use this data to lobby that ctf and galileo be
retired for awhile.
>(haha don't flame me, i'm just kidding. i still sing along at
concerts.)
>
>~kari
>
>*http://tinyurl.com/bbps3
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>
>*
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definitely - please! don't leave it for 7 years again! tea at the
convocation house in oxford guaranteed :)
eileen
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>i do wish they'd pop across some time. i'd make them a cup of tea.
>maybe buy some biscuits. possibly even a cake.
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date: mon, 10 oct 2005 07:43:52 +1000
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hey folks,
here's an amy article from the lexington herald-leader. you can read
it online at:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/music/12829682.htm
-sherlyn
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posted on sun, oct. 09, 2005
amy ray: solo and so ready to rock
by walter tunis
contributing music writer
viewing the fall of 2005 as a "starting over" period for amy ray might
seem a bit ridiculous.
after all, the georgia-born songsmith and activist has spent much of
the past two decades establishing herself as half of the contemporary
folk duo indigo girls. as such, she has regularly played to sold-out
concert halls around the globe, including a packed kentucky theatre as
recently as last month.
but when ray returns to town wednesday to play the dame, a musical
identity still in its infancy will be in the spotlight. unlike the
warmer acoustic sing-alongs that dominated the september performance,
ray will plug in, crank up the amps and rock out with a more punkish
pack called the volunteers.
a new career path for a proven pop voice? in some ways. but ray,
though acknowledging the challenge in getting a devout audience to
accept an unfamiliar sound, prefers to promote her non-indigo music as
another shade of the same musical voice.
"it is daunting to go back and play in bars again, but i rather like
that," ray said in a recent phone interview. "it's important to be in
these sweaty clubs playing really close to people and being in this
independent world where i feel everything has a lot of integrity.
there, i'm my own guitar tech, loader, roadie -- everything, really.
so when i go back and play with indigo girls again, i feel this sense
of immense gratitude for everybody working with us."
what has ray back on the road this fall after a monthlong trek with
indigo girls is a solo record called prom. the record explores
friendships and alliances established in youth -- specifically, high
school -- with the "rural white south" ray grew up in as a backdrop.
it's not her first record outside of the indigos. that came in 2001
with her solo debut, stag. but this time, ray admitted, the pressure
is on to form a fan base of her own.
"when i came out with stag, it was a brand-new thing for me to do a
solo record. it was a lot easier to get accepted and have people
interested in it. it's more of a challenge on your second project
because people are like, 'oh, we know you do solo stuff. it's no big
deal.' now, i've truly got to win an audience. and that audience is
different than the one we established with indigo girls because a lot
of indigo fans don't necessarily get into my solo stuff. some do and
some don't.
"so it's tough to realize, 'wow, i'm 40 years old and starting over
with something i really want to do.' i mean, the solo music isn't just
something on the side. it's a main project for me. i'm propelled by
it. i want to keep making solo records. but my solo career has to
support itself to a certain degree."
while several indigo girls albums kick up an electric fuss, they
maintain a folk sensibility when compared to such prom rockers as give
in, blender, driver education and sober girl. but this fall, ray's
dual career is converging in a curious way. with the release last
spring of rarities, ray and indigo girls partner emily saliers have
completed all contractual obligations in their long-running
association with sony music. in other words, they very well could face
a future in the indie world ray already inhabits as a solo artist.
"there's a lot of flux at the moment," ray said. "now that emily and i
are done with our record deal, we're going to start something new. we
don't know what, exactly. but it's like starting over in a sense, too.
but that's good because we will really have to work to challenge
ourselves, maintain integrity and not rest on our laurels. so i look
at everything -- and emily does too when she's involved with her
projects -- as something that adds to the whole.
"what i do by myself ultimately helps indigo girls and vice versa. it
reveals more of the branches of who we are."
if you go
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amy ray and the volunteers
when: 8 p.m. wed.
where: the dame, 156 w. main st.
tickets: $12.
call: (859) 226-9005.
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i caught amy's solo show here in birmingham, yesterday. she seemed much
more comfortable than normal, especially since she said it was the first
show of the new tour. i thought the new girl on bass was really good, the
mix of her bass was really good. you could actually get a sense for the
bass-lines in the songs for once. different than the butchies, for sure. i
think i paid a lot more attention to amy and the songs than when she has
played with the butchies in the past. i like the butchies, don't get me
wrong, but this seemed like more music, less comedy. many of the songs on
prom translate well to being played live. they rock a bit more that way.
definitely worth catching if she is in you area. it was oustanding that my
wife and i didn't have to travel for once.
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date: mon, 10 oct 2005 09:42:41 -0700
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from yesterday's show:
rural faggot
sober girl
late bloom
driver education
mtns of glory
covered for you
put it out for good
black heart today
blender
on your honor
give in
laramie
lucy stoners
let it ring
refugee
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"you tied a knot and you dared me, the stem of a cherry,
to find my own humanity, and just let it breathe"
~~ amy ray (solo)
"i'm running to the end of the earth, and i'm swimming to the edge of the s=
ea,
and i'm laughing, i'm under a starry sky
this world was meant for me, don't bury me carry me..."
~~ amy ray (indigo girls)
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date: mon, 10 oct 2005 12:37:31 -0400
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not mrs robinson -
but homeward bound - amy and emily duet with alliosn brown...
is this - like completely old news????
anyway - here is a link - heard it on world cafe yesterday - was superb!
http://www.folkalley.com/music/amazon.php?asin=b00096s2gy
mike r.
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date: mon, 10 oct 2005 19:57:49 -0600
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hey guys,
i was wondering if anyone has any info on a late june/early july tour of
europe in 1989?
this is the little i know so far:
the tour lasted two weeks
the tour visited five countries, including belgium, england, and the
netherlands
most of the dates were showcases for the media and record company personel
they played ronnie scott's jazz club in london
in amsterdam they were joined on stage by melissa etheridge
in amsterdam they opened for mojo dixon
they played a few british pubs
on july 1st they made an appearance on radio 1
if you have any other info and would like to share it here or e-mail it to
me at underdog@earthlink.net it would be most appreciated : )
thanks very much,
carolyn
http://www.lifeblood.net
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date: mon, 10 oct 2005 23:44:39 -0700
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too exhausted to type a review (plus i have a 7am flight outta here
tomorrow), but here's the setlist:
rural faggot
late bloom
blender
covered for you
put it out for good
sober girl (take one)
sober girl (take two)
give in
driver education (take one)
driver education (take two)
on your honor
(katz from athens boys choir does a spoken word)
black heart today
mtns of glory
pennies on the track
let it ring
lucy stoners
laramie
refugee (w/ tanner & bitch)
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"you tied a knot and you dared me, the stem of a cherry,
to find my own humanity, and just let it breathe"
~~ amy ray (solo)
"i'm running to the end of the earth, and i'm swimming to the edge of the s=
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and i'm laughing, i'm under a starry sky
this world was meant for me, don't bury me carry me..."
~~ amy ray (indigo girls)
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<in amsterdam they opened for mojo dixon
--correction: mojo nixon. that's all i know. wish i could be of further help. good luck!--lorna
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date: tue, 11 oct 2005 22:13:45 -0400
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subject: birthdays!!!!!!!!!! (october 10th - 16th, 2005)
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howdy all!
here's a quick shout out to all the lovely listees celebrating their triumphant entrance into the world this week!
october 10
alhastings@mindspring.com (allison hastings)
october 10
bronwen_besso-smith@sunshine.net(bronwen)
"you don't have to like me for who i am but we'll see what you're made
of by what you make of me"-ani difranco-willing to fight-
"high school is like a sickness.trust me,the fever breaks.then you get
over it."-dolores price-she's come undone-
* 1200 curfews, 10 october 1995
* watershed, 10 october 1995
october 14
kporcaro@usit.net
oct 15, (74)
wpatter@bmimetronics.com (winona patterson)
october 16
eccemis@hotmail.com (lyndsay)
have a wonderful time - and be safe!
much love and devotion,
audra
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hey kids,
here's the latest official mailer. you can see the lineup for both 6.30 &
9.30 shows at the url given below...
-sherlyn
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emily saliers is scheduled to headline two shows at eddie's attic on october
21st, 2005. the first show will begin at 6:30 and the second at 9:30. each
show also includes several other local artists. all proceeds from the event
will benefit atlanta musician caroline aiken.
read more:
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at the risk of making this unavailable to latecomers ala mrs robinson
suddenly becoming a "buy album" song, i thought i'd just announce that
homeward bound with alison brown and ig is available on itunes (at
least in the us). it is still available by song only for .99. it is
quite lovely and worth a look. thanks, mike, for informing the masses
of its existence. i love when ig do well known covers. makes me
happy. greg
on oct 10, 2005, at 11:37 am, mike reynolds wrote:
> not mrs robinson -
>
> but homeward bound - amy and emily duet with alliosn brown...
>
> is this - like completely old news????
>
> anyway - here is a link - heard it on world cafe yesterday - was
> superb!
> http://www.folkalley.com/music/amazon.php?asin=b00096s2gy
>
> mike r.
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oh, very nice! thanks for letting us know about the song.
anna
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hey ya'll -
we need your help in some extra promotion for amy's shows in the following areas:
10/15 - st. louis, mo (blueberry hill)
10/18 - ames, ia (the maintenance shop)
10/19 - madison, wi (high noon saloon)
10/20 - chicago, il (abbey pub)
if you can hang posters, send a quick email to us at: daemonstreetteam@gmail.com, and we'll overnight some to you. please include your address so we can get them out right away. word of mouth works too. tell your friends about the show, call your local radio dj and request a song, bring a co-worker, etc etc. they will not be disappointed!
the first person, in each area, to volunteer to help us out with this extra special request will receive a pair of tickets for the show.
thanks!
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hey kids,
here's an amy interview from rolling stone online - i don't know if it's in the
magazine also. you can read it online at (long url, needs to be all on one
line) -
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7702899/amyray?pageid=rs.news&pageregion=double1&rnd=1129249447328&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1212
-sherlyn
---begin forwarded article---
indigo girl goes to prom
amy ray's second, grittier solo effort draws on teen life, sexuality and the
clash
on her second solo album, prom, amy ray -- half of grammy-winning folk-rock duo
the indigo girls -- tackles heady social topics including homophobia, racism
and sexism through stories of a southern high school. released on her own
daemon records (currently celebrating its fifteenth anniversary), the follow-up
to her 2001 debut stag is equal parts tom petty and the clash, and stands as a
defiant statement of ray's political activism and diy ethos.
following a fifteen-date solo tour with her band the volunteers -- guitarist
les nuby, bassist tara jane o'neil and drummer will lochamy -- ray will head
back to the studio with fellow indigo girl emily saliers for an album due next
summer. rolling stone catches up with the singer-songwriter to talk about her
own prom, falling in love and just how many men really go to her shows.
why did you choose the south as the setting for prom?
i always heard that you should write about what you know, and that's where i
am, where i've always lived. but although the record's really thematic, i'm not
that directed. i was just writing, and it started coming out that way. i have a
sort of backlog of stories about neighbors, my life and my friends' lives that
i draw from.
and all the songs take place at a high school, specifically . . .
it ended up being set in a time that was very young, probably because i was
thinking about that -- i had some younger neighbors that i talked to a lot, and
i had a second cousin who died when she was a teenager. i spent a lot of time
meeting with her friends. emily [saliers] and i did this sort of punk-rock high
school benefit show to make a memorial garden for her, and all her friends came
and played -- they were all in bands. that was the impetus for the song "put it
out for good" -- and the rest of the stuff that came out.
how do you inhabit the people whose stories you're telling?
i use things that they've told me directly. like in "rural faggot" -- that's
actually two or three guys i've watched grow up since they were seven,
conflated into one person. i used pieces of stories they told me from different
times in their lives that applied to what i saw as the trajectory of a young,
rural gay man. that song is the most fun to play because the gay guys sort of
pop out of the audience. all of a sudden, i'll see all these hands go up in the
air and i'm like "wow, there's a lot of guys in here."
"let it ring" sounds like an attack on the christian right.
pretty much. it's an attack against the christian right, but it's supposed to
depict any orthodox religion, really. there's just so much power from the
christian right through the administration -- it's definitely scary. i read up
on all the ways this administration has let the christian right influence the
way scientific studies are done. these are important policies that people
aren't really going to know about because it's not going to be covered. the
media can't cover everything.
why did you decide to go solo?
i just needed to get my ya-ya's out and be independent. my heart's in a very
independent sector, and i wanted to not only make a solo record but put it out
independently. that's a world i love and feel more a part of than any other.
and i was writing a lot of songs that weren't fitting in. there are some things
that are just more graphic and more personal, and i thought to add emily's
voice in there would just be weird. and honestly, there's songs that she
doesn't really want to do.
your music has a strong punk influence. how did you get turned on to punk rock?
i think that husker du, patti smith and the clash were the people that i heard
and went "ok." mostly i was more interested politically in what was going on
underground, and, lyrically, i was more attracted to bands that were in that
movement. when you went into the punk world, people were doing their own thing
and putting out their own records, and everything was backed up by what they
were saying and what they were saying was backed up by what they were doing.
what about today's punk?
well, i love green day. i love them. i think they're great. i might be moved by
green day the way i'm moved by the clash -- if they weren't so popular
[laughs]! but it's not their fault that they're so successful. of course,
because of urban outfitters, it's hard to even say punk with a straight face.
gender issues are a prominent theme on the album. how is gender being
defined -- or redefined -- today?
i think we've learned how to separate gender from sexuality, so it's not tied
to who you sleep with. i'm not sure that's a nuance the gay movement talked
about years ago, but it's almost a point of entry now to talk about gender to
people who aren't necessarily familiar with the queer movement. there's this
weird phenomenon in the south where they can almost understand a woman who
inhabits or has a female body but is more male. they can understand why that
person would end up being queer because they can see it.
do you feel like you're misunderstood?
i have no idea, actually. i have a good part of me that feels like i'm
inhabiting the wrong body and have felt that way my whole life. i can't tell
whether that's a societal influence or that i was born in the wrong body or
that i'm just really split chemically. but it's not enough of me to want to
have a different body. so instead, i try to love the parts of me that i've
always hated gender-wise, and those are the female parts. i know that i'm happy
now the way i am, and i've worked for it.
when did you come to terms with your own sexuality?
i had a girlfriend my senior year of high school and just struggled. i was so
in love, but with my age group and where i grew up in the public school system
of the south, i thought gay meant you had sex with farm animals or something.
some would probably still argue it is.
[laughs] i know some of my neighbors still think that because of the things
they say to me. but [back then], i was just really idealistic, like "i'm in
love, and nothing else matters." and then all of a sudden people started saying
things, and i thought, "ok, i have to deal with this."
i had a couple of boyfriends, too, but not for any other reason other than they
were just people i liked. then i discovered, "wow, i'm really gay." it was kind
of a bummer because i like guys a lot. i realized i was attracted to guys
because i wanted to be like them, not be with them. you grieve for something
that you're just never going to feel or have. and then you get over it and
realize, "i have what i have, and i love it."
do you fall in love easily?
not really. i fall in like easily [laughs]. i'll meet somebody and be really,
intensely interested in them, but i don't ever really want to sleep with
somebody. it's not like this instant sexual feeling.
did you go to your own prom?
yeah, i went to all of those [high school] dances. i liked all of that stuff. i
was really participatory in high school. i didn't wear a dress or anything. my
senior year i actually went with my girlfriend -- but we didn't go as
"girlfriends." everybody knew, but no one knew what to call us. but the
teachers knew what to call us . . . and they were concerned.
jessica robertson
(posted oct 13, 2005)
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date: fri, 14 oct 2005 11:03:42 +1000
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hey folks,
emily's going to be performing at a church in st. paul this sunday with her
father. details below, and/or go to the church's website
(http://www.pilgrimstpaul.org/) for contact details...
-sherlyn
---begin forwarded message---
an insightful, intimate evening
with indigo girl and her father
emily saliers and dad coming to pilgrim lutheran church in st. paul
enjoy a musical and spiritual evening with popular singer and songwriter emily
saliers of the indigo girls and her father, rev. dr. don saliers. together this
father-daughter team reflects on the profound power and spirituality of music.
emily saliers and amy ray of the indigo girls have been performing together for
more than two decades. they are known for a folk rock sound with lyrics that
address love and empowerment. emily saliers' father, rev. dr. don saliers, of
emory university, is a composer, cantor, professor and church musician who
writes and arranges for congregations.
during their visit to pilgrim lutheran church, emily and don will perform and
talk candidly about how their music, shared with different kinds of audiences,
has brought healing to people in many settings and circumstances. they will
also explore themes from their recent book a song to sing, a life to live:
reflections on music as spiritual practice -- themes of music and justice,
music and human emotions, music and the search for god.
when: sunday, october 16 @ 6:51pm
where: pilgrim lutheran church
1935 st. clair avenue
st. paul, mn 55105
651-699-6886
tickets: $20 per person
proceeds benefit pilgrim lutheran church
doors open at 6pm
for advance tickets, mail checks to "pilgrim
lutheran church";
tickets will be held at will call.
send email or phone number for confirmation
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date: fri, 14 oct 2005 09:05:17 -0700
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yippee!
you can now download indigo girls videos on itunes. put hammer and a
nail on your computer, watch shame on you on the subway (on a new
video ipod).
so far i've bought four music videos. two ig, two madonna... that
seems balanced :)
enjoy!
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