wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> As much as I love her music, I've only seen her
> > play live once. I was living in Eugene, Oregon
> > (still a TMer and working as a State Coordinator)
> > and she came to town with her band and played
> > one of the local taverns. A small tavern. I've
> > lived in houses and apartments with bigger living
> > rooms. So me and about a hundred other people
> > crammed into that space to hear her play. We
> > are talking college students and lumberjacks
> > and construction workers and other musicians
> > and hippies left over from the Sixties, all drinking
> > beer and smoking and dancing and doing a great
> > impression of Leonard Cohen's glorious bar song
> > 'Closing Time,' long before it was written.
> >
> > Emmylou was in hog heaven; this was her kinda
> > crowd. She played for something like four hours,
> > non-stop, and then did every request the crowd
> > asked her for. I think I've managed not to see any
> > of her concerts in the years since because part of
> > me wants this to be my sole memory of seeing
> > her live. Hard to explain.
>
> She used to play up in Corvallis, Oregon at about the same time--
> 1975-77, and I saw her in a coffee shop playing bluegrass, while I
> was living there. She was relatively unknown then, but it was hard
> to forget that face!
And that voice.
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