Re: Ashley Cleveland/Margaret Becker

Here's another listee who likes Ashley Cleveland. I've been able to see her three times at Cornerstone. I just found out this week about her latest album "Second Skin" which came out a few months ago, I think. So I went to her website http://ashleycleveland.com and signed up for the e-mail list, so I won't miss out on things like this again.

>(many thanks...also to Jeff for the C-stone show),

You're welcome! I have to say that whoever does the sound for OTR's shows is very very good. I've recorded shows from the last three Cornerstones, and the recordings of the OTR shows always sound the best.

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>From: Shank Zehr

>Reply-To: Shank Zehr

>To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com

>Subject: Ashley Cleveland/Margaret Becker

>Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 06:31:29 -0700 (PDT)

>halloo-

>This past weekend I went to an Ashley Cleveland/Margaret Becker concert in

>Hanover PA, which I had been anticipating for quite awhile. Concerts are a

>much rarer phenomneon for me than for some of you, and Ashley is probably

>my favorite singer (along with that Bergquist woman). Are any other

>listees aware of her?

>Anyway, the concert was very good. I was in the front row, maybe eight

>feet from Ashley, and the sound was excellent. Both women were on stage

>the whole time with their guitars, alternating songs and singing backup

>for each other. I thought their musical styles, though quite different,

>complemented each other nicely. Ashley plays mostly straight-up blues

>rock, while Margaret has a more intricate, modern pop feel.

>Ashley was wonderful as always - intelligent, earthy, passionate - but she

>didn't play anything I hadn't heard. Margaret, though, was a revelation.

>Back in the late 80s I had considered her one of my favorites, and saw her

>with a band a couple of times (including once at Kingdom Bound Fest with a

>guitarist named Ric Hordinski - you all should hear this guy, I think

>you'd really like him) but I lost interest as she turned more to hiphoppy

>pop and adult contemporary (CCM radio). I'd liked what I'd heard of her

>more recent stuff, but still hadn't paid much attention. So I was seeing

>her this time riding on Ashley's proverbial coattails, and I was very

>impressed. She is an amazing solo performer. My favorite songs were "I

>Wouldn't Know What Love Is" and "Soul Tattoo", both of which were more

>exciting with just her acoustic guitar than they had been on the very pop

>_Soul_ album, and "Just Come In", which I have loved since the

>aforementioned Kingdom Bound concert. All in all, I was very pleased . . .

>except it was TOO SHORT. Eighty minutes including encore, which was just

>one song by Margaret, none by Ashley. Granted, that's quite a while to be

>standing on stage with no break, and it seemed shorter because they each

>only played half the time, but whatever happened to two fifty minute sets

>and a double encore? I mentioned it to Ashley afterward, and she grimaced

>like it wasn't her idea, but didn't really say anything about it. This

>seems to be something of a trend recently; a couple of months ago, Loudon

>Wainwright III also played a disappointingly short show here in

>Harrisonburg. Both of these concerts were in theaters, not clubs. Is it

>somehow classier to play short concerts (as well as to charge higher

>ticket prices)? Has anyone else noticed this? I know the OtR Atlanta show

>was longer (many thanks to JB for making this available, also to Jeff for

>the C-stone show), but of course they *are* exceptionally cool. Anyway,

>just wondering if any of you more frequent concertgoers could assuage or

>affirm my fears that this is the way the world is heading.

>Kirk

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