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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #130 on: December 10, 2009, 04:37:28 pm »
Excellent word, Sonja!  8)

It is! But I can't take the credit for it.

It took me a minute, too. At first, I thought it was some arcane bit of Brokieana and thought, wow, I'm way out of my league here. But it's not arcane, just very clever. (I may still be out of my league!  ;D)

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #131 on: December 10, 2009, 04:49:14 pm »
We're still on Mendocino.

I can think of three bits of Brokieana connected to this.

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #132 on: December 10, 2009, 07:54:24 pm »
We're still on Mendocino.

I can think of three bits of Brokieana connected to this.

In January 2007, At the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, Rufus Wainwright forgot the words to 'Maker Makes'.

Later in the show, he performed Talk to me of Mendocino with his sister Martha and their mother Kate McGarrigle.

These are not my videos.

I was at the folk festival, with my camera, and I thought I was recording 'Maker Makes'. When I got to the car and checked my camera there was no video.

I didn't press the button down hard enough.

When he forgot the words, someone in the audience prompted him, and he picked up the song from there.


Mendocino
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hiUuRpUqs4[/youtube]
Maker Makes
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoZ5hVe7ek[/youtube]
Mendocino is Brokeish

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #133 on: December 10, 2009, 07:59:20 pm »
Next:  The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #134 on: December 10, 2009, 08:48:19 pm »
That's great, John.  You are indeed a formidable player!

That's the first thing I thought of.  Also, Mendocino County is famous for its liberal view of marijuana (Brokieana #2) and also is home to the tiny town of Elk (Brokieana #3). 

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #135 on: December 10, 2009, 09:02:36 pm »
That's great, John.  You are indeed a formidable player!


Formidable? or just the fact that for the last 3 1/2 years I haven't had much of a social life outside of the Wonderful Land of Brokeback.

Here's an off-topic trivia question.

Who was the other Brokeish performer at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival that night?

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #136 on: December 10, 2009, 09:28:38 pm »
Formidable? or just the fact that for the last 3 1/2 years I haven't had much of a social life outside of the Wonderful Land of Brokeback.

Here's an off-topic trivia question.

Who was the other Brokeish performer at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival that night?

I'm wracking my brain, and can't come up with a connection.  "Miillish" reminds me of our lovely member Milli. 

THE 2007 ANN ARBOR FOLK FESTIVAL LINE UP

FRIDAY NIGHT

Rufus Wainwright
Jackie Greene
Ember Swift
Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble
Martha Wainwright
Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Millish
RFD Boys
MC: TBA

SATURDAY NIGHT

John Prine
Mountain Heart
Over the Rhine
Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines
Bill Staines
Paul Thorn
Daisy May
RFD Boys
MC: TBA

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #137 on: December 10, 2009, 09:31:15 pm »
I'm wracking my brain, and can't come up with a connection.  "Miillish" reminds me of our lovely member Milli.  

THE 2007 ANN ARBOR FOLK FESTIVAL LINE UP

FRIDAY NIGHT

Rufus Wainwright
Jackie Greene

When I feel that lonesome prairie wind
I let my soul get back to you again

And I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Even though this wasn't meant to be
It's gonna break my heart to watch you leave
But I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Why I'm feelin' so, so low
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Why I'm feelin' so, so low,
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go
Why I'm feelin' so, so low
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go


From the Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack

1."Opening" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 1:31
2."He Was a Friend of Mine" - Willie Nelson - 4:42
3."Brokeback Mountain I" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 2:32
4."A Love That Will Never Grow Old" - Emmylou Harris - 3:20
5."King of the Road" - Teddy Thompson & Rufus Wainwright - 2:53
6."Snow" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 1:18
7."The Devil's Right Hand" - Steve Earle - 2:34
8."No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" - Mary McBride - 3:06
9."Brokeback Mountain II" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 1:59
10."I Don't Want To Say Goodbye" - Teddy Thompson - 3:12
11."I Will Never Let You Go" - Jackie Greene - 1:55
12."Riding Horses" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 1:24
13."An Angel Went Up In Flames" - The Gas Band - 2:36
14."It's So Easy" - Linda Ronstadt - 2:27
15."Brokeback Mountain III" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 2:14
16."The Maker Makes" - Rufus Wainwright - 3:50
17."The Wings" - Gustavo Santaolalla - 1:52

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #138 on: December 10, 2009, 09:33:08 pm »
Next:  The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Steve Earle!  Were you there?

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

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11."I Will Never Let You Go" - Jackie Greene - 1:55

I'm a bad Brokie! :(

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Re: The Brokie Connection (a game)
« Reply #139 on: December 10, 2009, 09:36:12 pm »