Delivered-To: mbaya@svaha.com From: TsunamiInc@aol.com Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:19:13 EST Subject: The Jamie Anderson Newsletter To: DakotaAZ@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Hey everyone! You're on this mailing list because you signed up at a concert or emailed me and requested to be added. If you'd like to be deleted or if your address is changing soon, please notify us at tsunamiinc@aol.com. Please do not forward jokes, virus warnings or petitions but do send personal mail. I try to answer every piece of mail I get. Feel free to forward the newsletter, especially if you know someone in one of the cities where I'll be performing. ______________________________ I'm writing to you from the wilds of Las Cruces, NM. I performed for a wonderful crowd at New Mexico State last night and soon I'll be moving on to Alamogordo. See the tour schedule below for more details. It's been so wonderful to be back in the desert. I've gone hiking in Sabino Canyon, visited the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and eaten lots of awesome Mexican food. I have friends and family in Arizona who I've enjoyed seeing. Dang but I've had some fun gigs on this tour. I had the great pleasure of performing at the Superstition Mountain RV Park in Apache Junction and at the Unitarian Church in Tucson. Many thanks to everyone who attended. It was so wonderful to play in my home state again! ______________________________ World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS day. Take a moment to think about the people who are living with HIV and AIDS. Do what you can to support the efforts of those working to find a cure. Ask a local AIDS group how you can help. AIDSWatch has a memorial site at http://www.aidswatch.org It'll be online until midnight on December 2. ______________________________ Now Playing While I was in Tucson, I satisfied my music addiction with a visit to Hear's Music, a terrific independent music store. For those of you in the area, I highly recommend visiting their store. You can find them on Campbell, just north of Grant in the same shopping center as 31 Flavors. If you aren't in the area, they also mail order. Sorry, but I don't have their contact info handy. I'm sure that with a good search engine, you can find them. What I really like about this store is that you can listen to any CD before purchasing it. It's a great way to discover new music. Here's what I've been listening to in my rental car. (Yep, I lucked out. Usually the budget rentals I get don't have a CD player. Heck, I'm lucky if there's a tape player. But they were out of the budget cars and HAD to give me a free upgrade. Whoo hoo! ) Patti Austin, "Carry On", GRP Records Mark Erelli, self-titled, Signature Sounds, www.signature-sounds.com Deanna Carter, "I Shaved My Legs for This?", Capitol Records Steve Goodman, "Somebody Else's Troubles," Buddha Records, www.BuddhaRecords.com (This was one of my favorite LPs and I'm thrilled to find it on CD. Most people remember where they were when Elvis died. I remember where I was when Steve Goodman died. He was one of the best.) ______________________________ On the radio in New Mexico Yesterday, David Brower from KRWG interviewed me for his folk show. It'll be aired this Sunday evening. As I understand it, the station's signal reaches not only Las Cruces but also Silver City, Alamogordo and Deming. Sorry, I don't have the exact time or frequency but you can get that by calling the station (505-646-4838). KRWG has been very generous in playing "Drive All Night" too. I've also recently recieved airplay on The Mister Sam Show on KNFT in Silver City. It's not unusual for my work to get played on the radio -- many public radio stations have been generous in doing so. But this is different -- KNFT is a mainstream country station. Yep, there I was, sandwiched between the likes of Reba and Dolly. If you'd like to thank them, you can call the station at 1-800-303-KNFT. They weren't able to play any of the out songs (hey, this is bubba country!) but it was very generous of them to play anything. And while I'm talking about radio, don't forget to thank the DJs and station staff in your hometown. There are lots of great public radio stations out there who play the music that mainstream radio is afraid to touch. Many of the folks who work at these stations do it for little or no pay because they just want to get the music out there. I know, because I DJed for KXCI in Tucson for six years. It was a lot of work but it was a thrill to know that I was introducing new music to many folks. ______________________________ How I First Heard Jamie's Music Thanks for the responses to the question in last month's newsletter, "How did you hear about my music?" Here's one story I enjoyed reading. I hope you will too: I was pretty old when I came out. Nearly 30, actually. Was pretty confused and all. This is starting out like a coming out story, but it's not, I promise. I was a computer network administrator at the University of Wyoming, and one of my friends suggested that I join the gay student group on campus. The group was primarily for students but faculty, staff, and anyone else that cared to join, were welcome. I got pretty involved in the group activities over the next couple of years. Became the secretary or treasurer or both. I forget exactly. Anyhow, some gals from Tucson showed up for school and started taking part in things, and pretty soon it was time to put together the national coming out stuff. We had to plan a display for the student union, and a dance, and some kind of a concert or entertainment for the university community. These gals from Tucson started talking about some Jamie something or other. About how she was real big in Arizona. They shared some copies of recordings with the rest of us. They even got in touch with Jamie's office and discovered that she would come to our little campus for well under budget. Quite a few of us thought it was a done deal. The music was neat, the price was right. What else did we need? In the end, the faculty advisor, decided that Jamie Anderson was way way too "OUT" to be entertainment for the campus community and she managed to convince the rest of the group to get someone more acceptable to the straight people. I forget who they finally went with even though I know I was there. A very memorable evening, I'm sure. The gals from Tucson were pretty torqued about all this and managed to rub this feeling off on my partner and myself. The four of us decided to take a shot at bringing you to Laramie anyway. In the end, you came. You played for us even though you were terribly sick. You were great. You made quite an impression on everyone who attended. I don't think you made enough money to pay for your gas to come up from Boulder, but hopefully the record sales helped. I'm sure you've had lots of bigger crowds, and made lots more money in other places, but I really doubt you ever had a bigger impact. It was really the first event of it's kind in Laramie and possibly even in the state. When I saw your "How did you hear about my music?" question, I got to thinking about this and wondered if you had any idea how much we all appreciated you coming. ******* She's right, it's not the size of the crowd that matters to me. When I get a letter like this, I know I'm doing good work. As long as I make enough to put bread (and cheesecake) on my table, I'll keep touring. I love my job! ________________________________ Gift Ideas With the December holidays coming up, remember that you can purchase my recordings for gifts. Think how thrilled Mom will be when she gets her very own copy of "Drive All Night!" Okay, maybe not Mom. Uh, your sister? Neighbor? Whomever. You can purchase my recordings at www.ladyslipper.org, www.goldenrod.com and www.hrmusic.com. Also, many stores carry my stuff, including women's bookstores, gay bookstores and some chains like Tower and Borders. Look in the folk music section. _______________________________ Triangle City Classes If you live in the triangle city area of North Carolina, don't forget that I'll be teaching some classes in Durham and Carrborro in January and February. I'll be teaching "Songwriting" at Duke and Carrborro Parks and Recreation. Also at Parks and Rec, I'm teaching a bellydance class. At the ArtsCenter in Carrborro, I'm teaching "The Art of Performance" and "Getting Gigs." For more info on class content, write to me. To register, phone the school. ______________________________ Tour, tour, tour As always, contact the venue ahead of time to verify the details. 12/2 Alamogordo, NM, PFLAG, frantz@nmsua.nmsu.edu 12/3 Alamogordo, NM, house concert, 505-437-6129 frantz@nmsua.nmsu.edu 12/4 Silver City, NM, Gnetwork, 7 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, 7th and Texas, 505-388-8899, rustypig@zianet.com 12/5 Albuquerque, NM, 5 pm, MCC Church, 2404 San Mateo Pl, NE, KmKinTrnr@aol.com, 505-341-0802, 1/8 Fuquay-Varina, NC, Hyphen Coffeehouse, davidthecat@worldnet.att.net 1/12 Greensboro, NC, Borders, Singer-Songwriter showcase 1/15 - 16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, South Florida Folk Festival 1/21 Atlanta, GA, with Deidre McCalla 1/29 Durham, NC, Unitarian Church, benefit for Triangle Hospice 2/10 - 13, Cleveland, OH, Folk Alliance Conference 2/18 Winston-Salem, NC, opening for Small Potatoes 3/2 Knoxville, TN, University of TN March CA, OR, WA, NV 3/31 Durham, NC, Gay Music Festival (tentative) April/May Midwest 5/27 - 29 GA, Southern Womyn's Festival, gaywomyn@aol.com, www.gaywomyn.org./festival ______________________________ As usual, I'll end with a quote. Like last month's quote, this one has a political bent: "I have learned from the mistakes I may or may not have made. When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible." -- George W. Bush WHATever. Y'all take care. -- Jamie Anderson Tsunami Recordings, tsunamiinc@aol.com http://www.jamieanderson.com Order Drive All Night! Goldenrod: www.goldenrod.com Ladyslipper: 800-634-6044, or www.ladyslipper.org Harmony Ridge, www.hrmusic.com