Table of Contents What's New? 2 Gospel 62 Drumming * Percussion 11 Blues 63 Native American 12 Jazz 64 Women's Spirituality * New Age 14 Classical 65 Recovery 26 Spoken 67 Women's Music * Feminist Music 27 Babyslipper Catalog 68 Comedy 39 Mehn's Music 70 Jewish 40 Videos 72 African 41 Songbooks 77 Arabic * Middle Eastern 42 Books 78 Asian * Pacific 43 Jewelry, Cards, T-Shirts, Grab-Bags, Posters 80 Celtic * British Isles 43 1993 Women's Music Festivals 81 European 46 Donor Discount Club 83 Latin American 47 Musical Month Club 83 Reggae * Caribbean 49 Ordering Information 84 Country 50 Order Blank 85 Folk * Traditional 51 Freebies, Credits 86 Rock 57 Artist Index 86 R&B * Rap * Dance 62 Bernice Johnson Reagon, editor ^^^^_ We'll Understand It Better By & By Subtitled Pioneering African American Gospel Composers, this extensive volume explores the history of gospel music as both a sacred form and a profound influence on contemporary popular culture. Following a general overview of gospel music C Etana Finkler in African American social history, the book focuses on 6 pivotal Festival Cards — Set of 8 figures in gospel music — Lucie Eddie Campbell, Thomas Laura Davis and Ellen Bass These 8 full-color reproductions of original watercolors. all Dorsey, Roberta Martin, Charles Albert Tindley, William Herbert The Courage to Heal (Book) depicting women's music festival scenes, make a great set of Brewster, Sr., and Kenneth Morris — drawing on interviews Now out of print, but we have a limited quantity which we urge notecards for all festie-workers and festie-goers who'd like to with composers, families, associates, and performers, you to order ASAP before they're forever gone. This inspiring, write friends you've met at women's festivals, or friends you'd included are musical analyses and 49 complete piano-vocal comprehensive Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual like to convince to come to a future festival... as well as for scores. Known to many as founder and artistic director of Sweet Abuse offers encouragement and hope, as the authors com­ those of you contemplating making a music festival part of Honey in the Rock, Bernice Reagon is also a curator at the bine personal experience with professional knowledge. They your next vacation plan, for the first time! The designs include: Smithsonian, author, researcher, and editor extraordinaire. P_° .. e clear exP|anations. practical suggestions, a map of Shakerees (with the Ladyslipper booth pictured in the back­ (SIP1BK) 19.98 the healing journey, and hundreds of interviews of survivors ground), Registration. African Herstory Storyteller. Jewish telling the stories of their experiences and their recovery pro­ Wimmin's Tent. Poolside Conversation. Concert at the Pool, Gillian G. Gaar cess. (HRP348BK) 18.98 and Serenade, featuring an artistic rendering of Pam Hall! Bold and bright interpretations of our multi-cultural women's commu­ She's A Rebel nity. (FES.NC) 15.98 Subtitled The History of Women in Rock & Roll, this book William Robertson chronicles many of the women who have shaped rock and pop k.d. lang: Carrying the Torch Irene Young music for four decades — from the R&B charts of the 50's... This 1993 publication is The first biography about the woman the girl groups, Motown, folk rock and the counterculture of who continues to send shock waves through the music industry. Women of Note: 16-Postcard Set the 60's... the women's music scene and the punk explosion Highlights include: her tomboy girlhood... formative experi­ Irene Young's captivating portrait photography creates beauti­ of the 70's... to the rappers, all-girl bands, and pop icons of ences at Red Deer College... the making of her first 5 albums ful postcards of some of our favorite women's music and com­ the 80s and 90's. Packed with interviews, facts, and personal and her first film... her struggle to avoid being narrowly edy artists: KateClinton, Karen Williams. Marga Gomez. Rhian­ anecdotes, it also provides a provocative commentary on the categorized by the music industry and to speak out for a variety non, Teresa Trull & Barbara Higbie. Lucie Blue, Holly Near, male-dominated music business. (We think Ladyslipper should of causes... her move away from country to jazz and pop..POP.v. Deidre McCalla, Margie Adam, Altazor. Cris Williamson. Cris be described, or at least listed as a resource, but it's a valuable and how she put an end to constant media speculation ab & Meg, Tret Fure. Linda Tillery, Dianne Davidson, Nancy Vogl. book in spite of that omission!) Paperback. 467 pages, photos, her sexual orientation. Includes photos from her high-scg Buy two sets: one to send, and one to keep! (SKL1 PC) 10.98 indexes, preface by Yoko Ono. (SLP8BK) 16.98 years: 112 pages. Don't miss it!! (ECW158BK) 9.98 " 2 Ladyslipper Catalog Women's Spirituality • New Age ™ole & Bren You Are the One Attention women's spirituality circles! This 1993 album features songs and chants to honor the healing of the earth and her people. The voices of Carole Etzler Eagleheart and Bren Cham­ bers intertwine with a fascinating array of instruments — cello, turtle whistle, rattles, serpent drum, keyboards, Celtic harp, and bowed psaltery — singing of oneness with the earth, heal­ ing from domestic violence and sexual abuse, healing through ancient wisdom and through new visions of how the world should be. (SIS6) CS: 9.98 ... CD: 15.98 Esther "Little Dove" John The Elements, Volume II More rhythmic than her first paean to the elements, especially the Brazilian-influenced Ocean Bossa (Samba lor a Dove). this beautiful 1992 recording also represents the sounds native to other places on our planet. The fire aspect is expressed with water (!) in Hot Springs, a tribute to the belief of the native peoples of Washington's Olympic peninsula that dragon's breath heated the bubbling pools found there. The air principle is divinely represented with Air/Song to Attract Seals, a haunt- ingly gorgeous piece first performed (fittingly) at the Concert of Angels in Rio. which ended with a seaside vigil and medita­ tion with the Dalai Lama! Ending with earth's Evensong, a plainsong chant (similar in tone to Gregorian), this reviewer found herself wishing the recording would never end - and Marcey promptly punching the replay button! I could go on and on, but Dream Partner will end with a recommendation that you avail yourself This 1992 release is a mellifluous'flow of healing music, more immediately of this precious gem. (MMH2292) CS: 10.98 . melodious than her earlier works, with synthesized grand Mary Watkins CD: 15.98 piano, 12-string guitar, and Peruvian flute. It was designed to The Soul Knows enhance the listener's awareness about co-working with Spirit. Jean Shinoda Bolen Arranged and interpreted with care and great affection, Mary This reviewer has little experience in these advanced stages treats familiar gospel hymns (in the words of Will Thompson) Goddesses in Everywoman of consciousness, but this music does tend to move one into "softly and tenderly" on this 1992 album, in a generous attempt We once again have a supply of this now out-of-print title. an altered state! Seems ideal for meditation and massage, to share their healing and soothing qualities with a frenzied Here, the noted author of the best-seller demonstrates that and lots of people have claimed miraculous healings from lis­ and wounded world. Performing solely on her synthesizers there are 7 archetypal goddesses, or personality types, living tening to Marcey's music. (MRC5) CS: 13.98 . , CD: 15.98 and electric pianos, she presents such gems as Amazing within each woman, and shows how this knowledge empowers Grace. Blessed Assurance. Pass Me Not, By and By, I'll Fly us to make the conscious choices that will bring the highest Marianne Williamson Away (WEN1) CS: 9.98 level of fulfillment- 60 min. (HRP1873) CS: 10.98 On Dealing with Anger In this lecture based on A C-ourse In Miracles, Marianne dis­ MotherTongue cusses how the need to get in touch with anger and release Fire Dance! it — rather than suppress it — is essential to our spiritual More Pagan and Earth-based ritual chants and songs by this well-being and our relationships. In expressing anger, without vocal and instrumental mixed ensemble, for every season: attacking, we need to feel safe enough to share our truth, and includes Lammas Night. Haste To the Sabbat. The Wintry willing to hear truth from others. (HRP1957) CS: 10.98 Queen. The Fairest Maid, Kiss Me My Laughing Lover, Invoca­ tion. Air I Am, 14 in all, both originals and traditional songs Mamie Jones included. (ESC3) CS: 9.98 Grace The remarkable music of whales and dolphins (all wild, from Moving Breath the Atlantic to the Pacitic to the Amazon River), blended with harp, flute, clarinet, cello, and Mamie's angelic voice, make She Changes this 1992 album a feast for the spirit as well as the ears. Moods Subtitled A Collection of Songs from Healing Circles, this range from reverent to playful, as the awesome creatures of album was created to commemorate the Ecstatic Woman the deep inspire the musicians to create from their deeper Gathering held in Santa Barbara on Halloween of 1991. These selves. This all-acoustic recording is accented with some bril­ 24 chants and songs — both traditional invocation and God­ liant hand percussion and Tibetan bowls. One of the best dess songs, and original healing and affirming songs — are albums incorporating sea-mammal sounds we've heard: intended to open women's hearts to the power of healing.