Anyone on the list out there who can should look at the article on page
B-1 of today's Wall Street Journal (yeah, yeah, I know) regarding the
success Widespread Panic has had through fan loyalty and word-of-mouth
(without the benefits of hits, MTV etc.).  It's instructive and
relevant, I think.

There must be a way to get it from the Web but I confess I don't know
how.

Fingers crossed, everybody.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacee Killian [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 3:30 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Talking about producers...
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> Cheryl, you ROCK !     :  )
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> Cheryl Wolf <[log in to unmask]> on 02/17/99 01:19:34 PM
>
> Please respond to The Connells <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Stacee Killian/Catalog/Sundance)
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> Subject:  Re: Talking about producers...
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> In a message dated 2/17/99 2:23:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > So, please,
> >  Just Say No to Eno.
>
> The producer wish-list so far has been intriquing.......  the
> suggestions
> so
> far seem to fall into two categories;  producers who have a track
> record
> either with the Connells or with similar artists, and producers for
> whom
> the
> 'Nells would be, for lack of a better term, "uncharted territory".
>
> I am of the mind that what they require is a producer who will
> recognize,
> understand, respect, and therefore enhance the inherent "Connell-ness"
> of
> the
> music:  that special and sublimely unique combination of melody, voice
> and
> instrumentation.  Perhaps that is why many of us seem to respond so
> viscerally
> to their music in a live setting....  because there, it is
> unencumbered by
> someone else's "vision" of what a Connells song should sound like.
> Does
> that
> make any sense?