Carrie Newcomer

Two friends and I drove across town to folk singer Carrie Newcomer's concert.

http://www.carrienewcomer.com/carrie_flash.html

One of my friends has been a fan for years. My friend's brother-in-law is Carrie's mail carrier, though I think this is truly a coincidence unrelated to her love of Carrie's music. At any rate, she has been trying to get us to one of Carrie's concerts for at least two years, but the timing never quite worked out until last weekend.

That night Carrie told a story that, according to my friend, she often tells at concerts. Carrie was on her way to a concert in Henderson, Kentucky, as part of a weekend devoted to promoting peace. Throughout the larger event, protestors had shown up, yes, protesting peace. With a guitar case in each hand, Carrie was hurrying up the sidewalk to the church where she was to perform when she heard one of the protestors, a woman, call out, "You!" Carrie stopped and looked around. "Yes, you!" the protestor shouted, "You are the whore of Babylon!"

"Wow," Carrie said. "The whore of Babylon! And here I thought I was just an obscure folk singer from Indiana." With a mischievous grin on her face, she added, "Things are looking up!"