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Post by james on Aug 30, 2011 14:41:50 GMT -8
Nancy was one of our own,thats a chicks fan,a CYH fan and most of all an amazing person,although i we never met,iv had plenty of discussions with her online throughout the years. Her dedication,her thoughts for others,her kindness will never be forgotten. You hear from time to time,of people being the best fan etc,but Nancy never spoke like that,a big fan but very humble with the great work she did for us all,the hours and hours spent with her own money,building this place to be the best site for Chicks information online. The friends iv made since being a fan online and the friends iv met on here has certainly changed my life and thats all thanks to Nancy. I am sure like us,the fans,the Chicks/CYH are sad with this news,but also proud to know that you have some amazing fans,although one has left us today,her dignity and love for yous will carry on.CRCR. She was one of our own.
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Post by erik on Aug 30, 2011 17:49:40 GMT -8
Hear, hear!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 0:11:44 GMT -8
Very well said, James.
I don't know how she managed it, in what I see has been rightly been called an oasis in the sea of internet insanity, but somehow Nancy did succeed in attracting and welding together a bunch of disparate characters using so very light a touch that she must've been magical in some way that I don't think was ever fully realised by those she did touch. Perhaps it was the subtle influence of her - and our - music and words in the background? Above all, though, compassion and a sure sense of humanity run through Nancy's creation, and it was her skill and silken threads that gently bound us all together.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Aug 31, 2011 0:43:57 GMT -8
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Post by Bingo on Aug 31, 2011 4:30:04 GMT -8
We all feel the loss and sorrow of Nancy's passing - and at the same time, we all feel her memory and presence in this site she created.
Country Music, for me, is full of passion and emotion, and it so often expresses the pain of loss and grief. Of all the contemporary singers, few can touch that chord more eloquently than Mindy Smith.
These videos have helped me through some hard times, and I hope they might be of some help to others:
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Post by eaglemaster on Aug 31, 2011 4:45:42 GMT -8
Thank you, Bingo.
It felt good listening to these two songs by Mindy Smith.
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Post by chicksnut4life7 on Sept 1, 2011 11:50:12 GMT -8
RIP nancy
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Post by Tony on Sept 1, 2011 18:39:20 GMT -8
I often thought,"where does she get the time to do all this?"
Does anyone think that she was just as dedicated to us the members, as she was to the Chicks themselves?
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Post by jwaldorf on Sept 1, 2011 20:05:23 GMT -8
^^^ Uh, yeah!!!
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Post by Bingo on Sept 2, 2011 16:49:41 GMT -8
Over the years, the Chicks' fans have seen many changes, and been through many difficult times. Inevitably, through the years people have come and gone, but Nancy was one of those special people who kept an archive of performances and a welcoming forum for discussion, criticisms, hopes and fears.
Another video which I like is this clip, from Austin City Limits, of three of the Chicks' artist friends, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris and Shawn Colvin (backed by Buddy Miller, John Deaderick and others), singing Alfred Karnes 1933 classic, "We Shall All Be Reunited":
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Post by Bingo on Sept 3, 2011 6:36:02 GMT -8
I wonder how many Dixie fans might be aware of what (with hindsight) could be taken as a poignant coincidence.
On the recent album, "Rare Bird Alert", which Steve Martin made with the Steeps, he included this moving instrumental, "The Great Remember", with the dedication "for Nancy".
I presume he meant this dedication for Nancy Dolman, the wife of his close friend, Martin Short, who also died of cancer. Here is an extract of Barbie Angell's review of the track:
"The last song I’m going to talk about is another one of my favorites. “The Great Remember” is perhaps the most truly difficult type of song to write and yet possibly also the easiest. I say this from my own experiences of writing poetry and not music. This is a piece about a love who has passed away. I’ve written such a multitude of poems which have been read at funerals that I’d rather not count them. As an artist, writing is a funnel for my grief. I have sat and composed poetry which took me only minutes and once spent sixteen hours at a Perkin’s restaurant to complete something for the tragic death of a dear and sweet friend. In every case the words came out of me like a river of ink onto the page. There is no dam which can ever halt that which needs to be said.
“The Great Remember” is not a mournful tune just as my poems were not subdued and somber. To remember someone is to call forth all that made them a part of you. This song does not bring to mind a funeral, it conjures the images of a wake. The inability to suppress a smile when an iconic anecdote is retold. Foibles, habits, the good times had amongst friends or family. This is what I hear when this instrumental comes through my speakers. Happy chatter of loved ones “remembering” the loveliness of the person who is now gone. And in the background, dancing and twisting through the joyous remember is the melancholy sound of the fiddle. That tear which everyone is holding back and letting go finally….with the laughter of their love."
Anyway - this track is lovingly handled by Tony Trishka's production and the engineering of the Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, and is a beautiful example of modern North Carolina music, whatever its history. I hope you like it.
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