I was there too. Erika is wonderful, I agree. I'd seen her once before, also with Garrin, at a different venue and loved her. She and Garrin, both, are featured artists in January's "Viva Variety XXII", Walt, in case you didn't know. http://www.makeitsoproductions.org/curpro.html, it will be a great night!
What Walt didn't tell you . . .is he left at 'intermission' and . . .afterwards, in 'part 2', there were a couple of special guests: Deborah Pardes, who also records on the same label as Kathryn Chase and is amazing: she's been on West Coast Live radioshow a bunch of times. And Michael Rodriguez, who engineered Garrin (and Boz Scaggs latest) CD, and is a pianist in his own right, played an acoustic piece for us, a la George Winston. And a friend of Garrin's, Jason Durant, read an amazing poem, about the beat poet/radical faerie/friend, Haia Ted Berk, who is in hospital. What a beautiful poem. It truly was a great evening. Richard in San Franicisco - n.p. Deborah Pardes "blessing" ------- On 12/8/01, JMDL Digest wrote: > >Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:51:06 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Erika Luckett (njc) -- keeping on the lyric-writing theme... > >Yo, Gang, > >I had the good luck to be at the Bazaar Cafe two nights ago (Wednesday -- it >was miserably drizzly, nothing unusual in SF), and saw, besides the wonderful >Garrin Benfield, who MCs and sings wonderfully, Catherine Chase and Erika >Luckett. Catherine sounds like a young Joan Baez to me and I liked her >enough to buy her CD, but !!!Erika Lucket is an amazing find!!! Any of you >coffeehouse-cabaret circuit musicians know her? She's amazing! Her lyrics >are all good, some funny, many musing, and some searing -- check this out, >from "Lulu" on her second album (My Little Crime): > >Five o'clock in the morning and >I don't know where you are. My >hand stretches over dampened >sheets to find the lengthy ridge of >a scar that doesn't fade, a wound >that does not heal. The absence of >your breathing is like an ocean >without waves -- an ocean where >the tides have stopped, lost the >pulse of an internal clock. >That's me without you. >That's me without you. > >That's just the first verse, and the other two are just as devastating (to >me, at least). Oh, and her voice! -- I'm going crazy trying to remember the >name of a singer (one of the multitude who has been compared to Joni over the >years -- so unfair -- no one can be Joni, and I'm often mystified even when I >end up liking the artist) who had an album called "Porcelain". I had the >album and loved it, but I just cannot remember her name. Anyway, Erika's >voice reminds me of this artist's. Smooth, maleable, adjusting perfectly to >each lyric... > >Can you tell I like Erika? If you like intelligent but ?struggling artists, >check out her website: <www.erikaluckett.com> > >I'm musically smitten, and believe me, it doesn't happen every day. > >warm wishes to everyone, > >walt
