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A C A D I E
The Internet newsletter for Daniel Lanois
The Internet newsletter for Daniel Lanois
Number 59, Sunday 9 February 1997
Today's Topics:
Lanois recording
a few poems
re: Cool Water & Rocky World
Golden Dream Interpretation
Hi everybody!
bootlegs
TAB?
Lanois recording in Mexico
Emmylou & Daniel in Portland ME
recent Lanois news for you
New Orleans Jazz Fest
REVIEW: SLING BLADE (fwd)
Rocky World & others
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POSTS: Please send all posts to lanois@sfbayconcerts.com
WWW: http://www.sfbayconcerts.com/lanois/home.html
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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 08:49:47 -0800
From: Chad Hartery
Subject: Lanois recording
Hey there,
Well since it seems it would be alright to distribute this recording, and
I think this is the most appropriate place for it, how will it be done.
I know that all of us would like a copy but that might be a lot to ask.
Perhaps we could devise a copy chain to evenly distribute the work load?
Just a thought.
Chad Hartery
hartery@magi.com
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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 97 00:23:11 -0600
From: cliff dyck
Subject: a few poems
here are a few poems i wrote, thought you might like to read
them
come stand where it's sad
have a little pain
surround yourself with some heavy freedom
let the trees wail and scream your name across the nation
but keep your sorrow close to your heart
for their is no redemption in self-hatred
i've heard you whisper
something, not alot mind you
or was it, and my untrained ear could not hear
i could have been mistaken
i don't know what it's like to carry eggs in my belly
help me to understand
i'll bring the balls
you bring the egss
we'll play
like real lovers
or better yet, i'll stroke your soft white belly
and whisper to it
like i would a nest of unhatched robins
capital
startled at the whipping calf's intent
vigorous notions not yet realized
in the sauntering moonlight of discretion
absolute nonsense, catch-phrase of the day
no...inhumane
i hope we keep some...humanity
in our ever-realizing aspirations to capital
i should much rather like to stare ahead
and see me standing with pockets full
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:52:05 -0400
From: burdick@wombat.eng.fsu.edu (Donna Burdick)
Subject: re: Cool Water & Rocky World
Hello all,
I got Cool Water in Oct. 96 at Best Buy in Melbourne, FL. I was VERY
surprised to see it and jumped on it immediately. It may be possible to
order CW thru them. And I got Rocky World while on vacation from Tower
Records in Campbell, CA. They ordered it for me and shipped it to my FL
address. I'm sure both of these stores have web sites (I know Best Buy
does, even tho it is rather sketchy.)
Donna
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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:05:40 +0100
From: Stephen.Fruitman@idehist.umu.se (Stephen Fruitman)
Subject: Golden Dream Interpretation
I hardly think I will be the only one to respond to this query, but here
goes anyway:
_Golden Dream_ is a Lanois/Roger Eno/Syd Straw collaboration, (recorded at
Brian Eno´s house, according to the liner notes) appearing on her solo
debut album _Surprise_ from about seven years ago. It closes a strong,
quirky album on an appropriately mellow note: her fine vocals against a
backdrop of Roger Eno´s Celtic washes and Lanois´ sparing (and therefore
all the more powerful) guitar strummings. _Lullabye_, as someone
characterized it, is the right word.
And regarding what was said about _Apollo_ (Eno/Lanois/Eno): Absolutely!
The people demand more collaborations between these three! A couple of the
tracks on that record create a whole new genre: country ambient! Brian Eno
never did better work than the work he did (mostly in Hamilton?) with
Lanois.
Stephen Fruitman
Dept of the History of Ideas
Umea University
Umea, Sweden
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:57:51 -0800
From: Jean-Claude Lacasse
Subject: Hi everebody!
It's great to see so many people interested in Daniel's work. In
response
to rupshaw222@aol.com, I think Kenley his right, we should respect the
work Daniel does and wait for a permission from him or his management,
it's a question of ethic. I am myself an artist into another field and
I know what it's like to create and have your work use without
permission.
But please, if the management decides to give their permission let us
know.
Now I would like to know if someone has the song "Need somebody" or know
were I could get it. My e-mail his jc@sympatico.ca. I love that song and
I
can't find it anywhere.
Finally to Daniel
« Salut Daniel!
À quand ta prochaine visite à Gatineau ou dans
l'Outaouais pour un "visite" (spectacles) inoubliable. J'attend
toujours avec impatience. En attendant continu ton merveilleux travail.
Tu est un exemple pour moi!
Admiratice à jamais,
Martine Lacasse »
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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 20:36:05 -0400
From: spider@vemporium.com (Michael C. Marge)
Subject: bootlegs
I wasn't sure if everyone would want to see this, but here goes...
I belong to the Samples and Dave Matthews Band lists, and tape trading is
the raison d'etre of everyone involved, much like Phish and Dead fans.
Basically, all of these bands' position is that taping and trading is OK,
but selling is thoroughly uncool. Of course, if the band involved is
opposed, then it's obviously a no-go. But the opposition arises to the
selling, as it is someone else making a profit from the artist's work.
When it is simply fans passing on good tunes, then it is the creation and
spreading of something positive, to no one's loss.
As for me, I would *love* to get a copy of this show; if you agree, please
send me your address, and I'll send along blanks and postage (that's
usually how "newbies" get started).
*VERY* interested,
Spider
>My question is: is there a way to distribute this that is not against the
>law, and I won't get in trouble for?
>
>I would appreciate any answers =)
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Michael C. Marge spider@vemporium.com
Internet Analyst - Philter Group Virtual Emporium, Inc.
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From: travis@cnx.net
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 19:01:38 -0800
Subject: TAB?
Do you know of any Lanois Tablature available?
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From: LISAPEARL@aol.com
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:32:27 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Lanois recording in Mexico
In Acadie Digest 58, Nat Pearson asked if it was true that Daniel was
recording in Mexico. I had heard this from a member of Junkhouse (a band from
Hamilton) way back in May 1994! I've often wondered when those recordings
will be released, if ever?
I also heard at the same time that Daniel had sold Kingsway, but when I heard
his appearence on KCRW from last summer, I got the impression he still owns
it. Does anybody know?
Lisa
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:02:54 -0400
From: tunaluna@nlis.net (Elizabeth of the North)
Subject: Emmylou & Daniel in Portland ME
I am fairly new to this newsletter and it's so heartenning to hear how
many Emmylou
and Lanois fans there are. I started out as a Grams Parsons fan in the
late sixties and
then took to Emmylou like wildfire. Lanois and Emmylou played here in
Portland, Maine
11/8/95 (yes over a year ago) at the State Theater. I try to see Emmyloy
whenever she's in
the area and I was thrilled she was touring Wrecking Ball. The concert
info said that DL's
band would be backing her up, but I didn't realize DL would be there too.
It was the four of them:
Emmylou, Daniel, Brian Blade and Daryl Johnson.
What an amazing concert. They did almost everything from Wrecking Ball,
and Daniel did a couple without Emmylou from Acadie with long guitar work.
I was mezmerized. They also did Still Water together. I sank into the
music and it was wonderful to see how much fun they had playing together.
It's really hard to find Lanois fans up in this neck of the woods, and I
look forward to each issue of Acadie. Thanks for the fine work Kenley.
Could anyone comment on the previously unreleased material on Emmylou's
boxed set?
~Elizabeth
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there is no time, but there is day and night
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From: E_Ganon@magic.ca (E Ganon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 23:41:09 -0500
Subject: recent Lanois news for you
I'm new here but thought you would like some recent Lanois news.
Jocelyne Lanois is sitting next to me right now and we thought we would
look around the net.
re:
I am trying to find out which Production Company BOB LANOIS directs
through. We may have a uncoming project for him. I understand he
directed
the video All my tears from the CD
Wrecking Ball
Bob Lanois has an independent production company out of Hamilton,
Ontario
196 Holton Ave South
Hamilton L8M 2L7
Presently he has been documenting the bob Dylan recording sessions
taking place in South Florida with his brother Daniel.
Camilla (which Dan and John Altman did the music for) has an average
rating of 7.4 out of 23 votes. (I gave it a 7.) I'd recommend it just
for Dan's music.
Well, actually Jocelyn worked on that as well.
She is a well known and respected Bass player who has worked with many
of the same artists including..
Martha & the Muffins,
Chris Whitley
Ani DeFranco
Crash Vegas
Tomandandy (techno-duo out of New York City..)
Jocelyne has recently moved to Toronto (via New York).. and has set up
shop in a studio focusing on Soundtracks and she's performing and
writing with lots of local musicians. Lucky us..
Most recently, she scored a soundtrack for a documentary airing on the
Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC) about east coast artists Christopher
and Mary Pratt.
Airdate: Feb 5 97
Check local listings.
About the Global Village Radio show.. the host, Jowi Taylor a friend.
If there is a message you would like me to pass along to him... I could
do that for you..
E
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From: RokknRobbn@aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 11:40:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: New Orleans Jazz Fest
To all fellow Lanois fans from around the globe who may not have had the
privilege of attending a Jazz Fest - I highly recommend going this year.
It's always the last weekend in April and first in May. All kinds of music
- Santana, Nevilles, Blues Traveller are rumored or scheduled, plus tons of
zydeco, gospel, rock, and you never know, perhaps even Mr. Lanois himself;
he's performed in previous years. Check out New Orleans' Offbeat Magazine
web site for great info on the fest: http://www.neosoft.com/~offbeat/.
Would love to correspond with anyone out there who's going! -
RokknRobbn@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:10:34 -0330 (NST)
From: Phillip
Subject: REVIEW: SLING BLADE (fwd)
Been hearing a lot about Dan's contribution to Sling Blade. Here's a
review for those who are interested.
From: Scott Renshaw
To: movies@mtgbcs.lucent.com
Subject: REVIEW: SLING BLADE
SLING BLADE
(Miramax)
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Lucas Black, John Ritter,
Natalie Canerday.
Screenplay: Billy Bob Thornton.
Producers: Brandon Rosser, David L. Bushell.
Director: Billy Bob Thornton.
MPAA Rating: R (profanity, violence)
Running Time: 135 minutes.
Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
Billy Bob Thornton has presented me with a wonderful dilemma in SLING
BLADE: I don't know where to begin praising him. There are writers who
get a shot at directing films, and actors who do some writing, and
film-makers who take the occasional turn in front of a camera, but in
most cases you can tell you are watching a writer direct, or an actor
write, or a director act. In SLING BLADE, you never feel as though you
are watching a writer try to act, or an actor try to direct. You realize
you are watching a natural born story-teller who understands that the
words, the performers and the images are not discrete elements, but
indivisible parts of a cohesive story.
In SLING BLADE, that story is an enthralling drama centered around
Karl Childers (Thornton), a mentally handicapped man who has spent the
last 25 of his 37 years in a psychiatric hospital for murdering his mother
and her lover after catching them together. Deemed fit to return to
society by the state, Karl is released from the hospital and returns to
the small Arkansas town where he grew up. There he finds work as a
mechanic, and befriends a fatherless boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas
Black). Karl is invited to live with Frank and his mother Linda (Natalie
Canerday), but he same welcome is not extended by Linda's abusive
boyfriend Doyle (Dwight Yoakam). As Karl tries to adjust to life in the
outside world, he finds himself caught in the middle of a growing domestic
crisis, and faced with some challenging decisions.
Thornton, who co-wrote the acclaimed ONE FALSE MOVE with Tom
Epperson, is a writer who seems to understand every facet of the craft as
though he created it. His setting, an insular Southern town, is rendered
with a vivid combination of characters and locations; his characters, down
to the last minor player, are given personalities uniquely their own. But
it is the remarkable dexterity with which Thornton weaves the threads of
his story that makes SLING BLADE so powerful. It is the story of a
simple-minded man trying to understand Christianity directly from the
source, the Bible, after being schooled in a twisted version of the faith
by his unstable parents. Even that effort is complicated, however, by an
experience of the world which seems to contradict the Bible, particularly
when he comes to respect Linda's gay friend Vaughan (John Ritter). Karl's
story is heart-breaking because he always is striving to do the right
thing, but it is terribly hard for him to get his mind around what that
right thing is supposed to be.
It is a marvelous character Thornton has written for himself, and he
does an astonishing job of bringing Karl to life. Playing someone with a
mental or emotional handicap is one of the most treacherous assignments in
acting (right up there with playing an alcoholic), because it is so easy
to nail the character's twitches without nailing his soul. The former can
be achieved through technical proficiency and a gift for mimicry, with
Dustin Hoffman in RAIN MAN and Geoffrey Rush in SHINE as a couple of showy
recent examples. Neither of those roles, however, showed us a character
trying to grow as a person, and that is what Thornton accomplishes in
SLING BLADE. Karl is far from oblivious to the world around him; he is
trying to understand morality, atone for his sins and learn from the
wrongs that were done to him. While Thornton does turn in an exceptional
physical performance, which his polite demeanor and quirky speech
patterns, he does not allow Karl to be defined by the way he talks. This
isn't a character you feel sorry for, like a pet; this is a man you feel
for as a fellow human being.
Thornton the director draws similar superb performances from his
entire cast, particularly Dwight Yoakam (yes, _that_ Dwight Yoakam) as the
cruel Doyle. He is casually chilling as he mixes insults and threats with
chuckles and expressions of endearment as though incapable of telling the
difference, and we can see the pathetic man behind the monster.
Complexities spill over from SLING BLADE, a film so perfectly crafted and
acted from the moment Karl leaves the hospital that I wish Thornton had
reconsidered the first fifteen minutes. That opening finds Karl
describing his crimes to a reporter in a darkened room, with Thornton
re-creating the stage monologue which inspired the film. It is an awkward
conceit which gets SLING BLADE off to an uneven start, but it is just as
well Thornton demonstrated imperfection as a director. With the kind of
flawless work he does as writer and star of SLING BLADE, he might have
become positively insufferable if he had directed a perfect film as well.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 razor-sharp blades: 10.
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 10:36:12 -1000
From: "'uhane"
Subject: Rocky World & others
Hi, I'm new here & live in Hawaii. I'd love to find
copies of Rocky World & Cool Water. Anyone know where
I can get them? Also, I've heard that Lanois produced
an album recently for Geoffry Oryema. Anyone know how
to get that? Thanks, 'uhane
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