From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V7 #50 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Thursday, April 15 2004 Volume 07 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] The new album ["Maryanne T.Window" ] [MLL] should be listening to... ["Cinnamon Brunmier" ] [MLL] ANything we should be listening to? ["Amy Emerman" ] [MLL] femmes fatale ["Solomon, Aidan" ] Re: [MLL] femme fatales [mail@rachelkramerbussel.com] Re: [MLL] femmes fatale [Patrick T Power ] Re: [MLL] Anything we should be listening to? [mll@information-age.org] Re: [MLL] femme fatales [Snsetblaze@aol.com] RE: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To ["Journey Bear" ] Re: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To [Snsetblaze@aol.com] Re: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To [Thomas Mckelvy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Maryanne T.Window" Subject: [MLL] The new album Apologies if this question has already been asked, but I am in Australia and was wondering if Mary Lou's new album is being distributed here? If so, who is distributing it? If not, is there a recommended retailer that I can purchase it from online? I am also happy to cut out the middle man and send a money oreder straight to the source ;) On the topic of new music, I'm in the process of contributing to a new album myself. I'll keep you posted as the release date draws closer! See ya, Maryanne Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:42:02 -0700 From: "Cinnamon Brunmier" Subject: [MLL] should be listening to... Joe Purdy. He's originally from the South but now hails from good old Glendale, CA. He's very aw shucks in person and can play the heck out of an acoustic guitar. His voice lies somewhere between gravel and molasses and he reminds me of Ben Harper by way of Kurt Cobain. His record was one of my top ten of last year. Listen with headphones. http://www.joepurdy.com/ Also, Joe's ex-girlfriend (and still singing partner sometimes), Catherine Feeny, has the most beautiful, haunting voice I've heard in years. Sometimes she reminds me of Cat Power with a smidge of Gillian Welch thrown in. She's pretty on the inside and out. http://www.catherinefeeny.com/ XoX--Cin ----- Original Message ----- From: Bopst@aol.com To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:51 AM Subject: [MLL] Hi there... Ok kids....talk to you soon...anything we should be listening to? Love, -Mary Lou ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:03:17 +0000 From: "Amy Emerman" Subject: [MLL] ANything we should be listening to? OH, boy, don't get me started... By the way, EMM GRYNER RULES!! Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, but her music is beautiful (she plays keyboards and guitar and has a gorgeous voice) I saw her play at the Bitter ENd in NYC a few years back and she is very, very nice. My friend Heather has the Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries) thing going http://home.att.net/~heatherflynn/ (check her out) and my recent acquaintance Antje Duvekot has a gorgeous voice and interesting songs check out http://www.antjeduvekot.com who else? I've been listening to the latest NOrah JOnes and digging it, although she probably doesn't need the promotional help Richard Julian and Jesse Harris are great, and who else? well...I'd like to hear what people on this list recommend And I haven't gotten "Baby Blue" yet...is it available at BOrders? Just shows? online? I"ll have to look into that... it's been ages since I've popped an MLL cd into my player, but I used to love the last LIVE CITY SOUNDS except I had the original version and not the one with "Speeding Motorcycle" on it...never heard "SM" ... ah, my virgin ears... Amy (here's a silly fan site devoted to me http://www.amyemerman.co.nr ) when is MLL coming to NYC again? I must go see her...it's been a long time since I last saw her play at Mercury Lounge or was it Bowery Ballroom probably both once when she was 7 months pregnant, and once several years ago...and she was saying she sucked at guitar and I was thinking, "I beg to differ, darlin'" she was also very nice when I bought a CD afterward...extremely down-to-earth and pretty and cool _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:41:44 -0400 From: "Neil" Subject: RE: [MLL] Hi there... What the hell, I'll join in: >>anything we should be listening to?<< We're currently hooked on a band called Cordero (www.corderomusic.com) who we saw open for the Indigo Girls a month or so back. They're a kind of an indie-alterno-latin rock band and they have some *damn* catchy tunes. Oh, and for pure pop you can't go wrong with Sean Altman's (www.bigsean.com) latest: alt.mania I'm pretty sure they both have MP3s on their site for y'all to sample... Neil @}---,--'-- Coming soon to our house concert series here in Media, PA April 18th: Martyn Joseph www.SixthSt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:19:57 -0700 From: "Solomon, Aidan" Subject: [MLL] femmes fatale If anyone comes by this magazine or a way to purchase it (with MLL in it). Can you give a shout out to the list for my sake please? XO - Aid ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:36:34 -0400 (EDT) From: mail@rachelkramerbussel.com Subject: Re: [MLL] femme fatales > If anyone comes by this magazine or a way to purchase it (with MLL in it). > Can you give a shout out to the list for my sake please? The official website is http://www.femmefatales.com and I know I've seen it at Virgin Megastore. The editor who interviewed Mary Lou is on this list so he can probably speak more to distribution and when that issue hits newsstands and such. Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:49:16 GMT From: Patrick T Power Subject: Re: [MLL] femmes fatale Aidan suggested: >>If anyone comes by this magazine or a way to purchase it (with MLL in it). Can you give a shout out to the list for my sake please?<< Based on his previous remarks, I'm guessing that if Dino happens to get his hands on this first, we'll be able to actually *hear* him shouting!!! We won't need no steenking list! Pat ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:12:51 -0400 From: mll@information-age.org Subject: Re: [MLL] Anything we should be listening to? On the topic of other artists... For music in the Boston area "alternafolkrock" world, I'd suggest trying out (if you have time): Bryan McPherson - http://bryanmcpherson.com/ - (I think he played with MLL at least once) Boys Suck - http://www.boyssuck.com Kelly Buchanan - http://kellybuchanan.com John Gerard - http://johngerardmusic.com/ Joe Kowan - http://www.counterfolk.com/cfc/mp3.html They probably all have mp3s up...some I know personally, others not so much. M ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:27:26 -0400 From: Snsetblaze@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] femme fatales Barnes and Noble has the magazine every month. So does Borders and just about any major chain book store. It is in the movie magazine section. It is a sister mag to Cinefantastique. Alycia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:00:38 -0400 From: "Journey Bear" Subject: RE: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To I first heard of Emm Gryner when they announced the artists for the first Lilith Tour 1997. In my capacity as a writer and my natural curiosity as a music lover I requested a bunch of CDs from these artists, as I wasn't sure which show(s) I was going to go to or even who these musicians were. I didn't end up seeing her after all. I can't say I really remember what her album "Public" was like nearly seven years later, but I do know it didn't suck - I'd have remembered that. And I also picked up a few copies from used bins, so maybe that means something too. (It may mean nothing more than that they got dumped by Mercury just as she did after that one album). Anyway, go to her website - she's got six albums and an EP and a DVD, with many soundbites available. Always always always check for artists' websites. It's easier than you might think. F'rinstance, one of MY favorite artists I discovered in the aforementioned Lilith process is Holly McNarland, who put out an EP and CD, both brilliant, and even won a Juno Award for Best New Solo Artist in 1998, before mysteriously vanishing - well, not so mysteriously, just vanishing to have a baby. I was just about to ask if anyone had heard of her when I thought to take my own advice, and did a google search on her, and lo and behold she's back, with an album released in 2002. Geez, it's hard to keep up with eveything! I guess that's who I WOULD be listening to if I'd known a little earlier ;-) So I present all this in the interest of furthering enlightenment. But I have been listening to Amy Rigby "Til The Wheels Fall Off" - Mary Lou shared a gig with her at The Iron Horse in Northampton MA a few years ago. (Whew - got back on topic somehow). Amy is more country than some people may care for, but she is a great writer with a brilliant, wicked sense of humor and somewhat quirky voice ... but the writing quality supersedes that. Someone else mentioned Nerissa & Katryna Nields. I haven't heard the new album, but Nerissa is one of the best writers I encountered in the 90s, and The Nields as a band (now no longer) were one of the best unknown bands I've ever heard. I think I've seen them more times than The Grateful Dead, which is saying something. I would be surprised if their album isn't worth checking out. I've been revisiting Heather Nova and Kate Bush too, seeking out rarities via the internet. Heather Nova (another great Lilith discovery) has a most amazing transport device masquerading as a voice. Her latest album "South" is pretty darn good, though maybe not quite so much so as "Siren" and "Oyster." I should dig it out again. Finally, I recently got the new double album by Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. This amazing quartet from the Hudson River Valley is hard to describe, sort of a mix of folk, psychedelia, and mysticism, very downhome yet somehow ethereal. They don't have a bass player (though there is bass on the album, for a change), the low end being covered by the kick drum, the rhythm guitar, and the lead singer's baritone voice. They also throw accordion and cello into the mix, and the lead guitarist has great feel and texture. I've heard few bands recently who are into stretching out yet keeping it real the way they do. Got to slambovia.com. Didn't mean to go on so long, but I guess once I get started .... Journey Bear _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:06:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Donna Taylor Subject: [MLL] RE: listening to.... Besides Mary Lou of course, which I love Baby Blue - listen to it endlessly - Gingersol, Jesse Malin, Ryan Adams, Coldplay, Cold Mountain Soundtrack - Jack White of the White Stripes does several songs on the soundtrack and sounds incredibly like an old bluesman. Alison Krauss is also on it, doing a great Elvis Costello song. I got into Jesse Malin & Ryan Adams after talking to Johnny Pisano at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle. He was playing bass for Gingersol and Mary Lou and told me he recently played bass on Ryan Adams Love is Hell Pt One and on the RockNRoll CD on "Shallow" which I totally love. I've liked Ryan Adams since I saw him in Whiskeytown (Mary Lou opened for them at the Showbox) but never owned a CD til after the Tractor. I bought the Gingersol CD that night and had Johnny sign it. He said I have to be honest with you I didn't play on it - to which I said I don't care. He played live on the songs from Eastern, so it's all good. Meeting Mary Lou that night was such an honor. She performed beautifully despite having dysphonia problems, no one really noticed that. They all noticed the honesty in her voice. I can honestly say she is my favorite artist of all time. I've seen her 7 times over the past 10 years and each time is better than the last. Just like wine, she improves with age and very gracefully too. Only the Foo Fighters are equal with her in my devotion. ~ Donna P.S. Mary Lou - My son was the one who turned me onto your music - he's coming home in a few weeks and I will get to give him his Baby Blue CD that you signed - thank you so much!!!! I will treasure mine forever too! Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:43:49 EDT From: Snsetblaze@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To This is fun - reading what others are listening to. Thanks for the great question. I also like Emm Gryner. Another CD I just picked up over the weekend is Toby Lightman (at the same time I picked up Baby Blue which I will listen to tonight.) Lightman has a fantastic voice. She's a little bit rock and a little bit folk and pop - sort of like Liz Phair (the old Liz Phair before she hit top 40) but with a voice type more like a cross of Sheryl Crow and Nellie Furtado or Fiona Apple. She is actually a friend of my boss and I had known about her vaguely, but I did not make the connection though when I picked up the album until I started listening to the cd. Then the lightbulb went off. Damn I could have gotten the cd for free. Another singer if you like it a little more bluesy - Rory Block. I bought Last Fair Deal last month but I think she has something new coming out. She was actually at Newport with Mary Lou in the singer-songwriter circle 2 or 3 years ago. Some of her music does have a bit more of a religious slant - she will do old spirituals if she feels like it one moment and a country stomp the next. Other recent cd's I'd recommend: Jonatha Brookes' Back in the Circus Shannon McNally - Jukebox Sparrows. Folk/jazz and pop. Tantric - After We Go - This is a bit harder rock - almost a jam band and is probably right at home on a classic rock station but not on a rock station that plays Incubus, Fred Durst, etc., Linkin Park, etc. Sort of like a Rusted Root without the heavy drumming. Some of the band used to be the band Days of the New. Laura Love - Welcome to Pagen Place. She is very hard to describe. She can be a bit political. A blurb I saw described her as Afro-Celtic-Folk-Rock, which is appropriate. And she yodels when she sings - a lot - and extremely well. You would not believe how well yodeling and rock go together until you've heard her do it. This is a good album but if you want to listen to her best, try Octaroon or even the compilation put out by Putmayo (??) Records. Toshi Reagon - self-titled. She's a daughter of one of the Sweet Honey in the Rock singers. I'd describer her as folk rock. Jem - Finally Woken - this is a mix of styles with a singer reminiscent of Beth Orton or Dido. So far I like her better than Dido - the music is more interesting - but not as much as Beth Orton. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me - A female singer who mix of styles from 40s caberet to rap to trip hop. This is a double album. The wierdest a nd funniest thing I have heard in a while. Groovelilly - Are We There Yet is their current release. I have seen this band a couple of times live and may see them again this weekend. Groovelilly is a trio fronted by Valerie Vigoda who sings amazingly and plays a mean electric violin. Her husband, the keyboard player, is also a fantastic singer and writer. The music is described as "eclectic folk." It treads the line between folk and pop (but is nothing like top 40 pop). TV and print ads for the army on CNN feature this band because Valerie used to be a lieutenant in the army so you may have seen her. Girlyman - this group is like the Indigo Girls with an Indigo Guy. I just saw them open for Mary Fahl a couple of weeks ago. Lastly, Antigone Rising. An all female band that rocks. Their latest release is a live album - Traveling Circus. I am partial to them because they are good (I've seen them live three times) and because they are from NJ near where I live. Well I'd better get back to studying. Alycia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:26:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Mckelvy Subject: Re: [MLL] Emm Gryner? and also Listening To Hello everyone, I guess I'll jump on the artist sharing bandwagon too. The new Catie Curtis album "Dreaming In Romance Languages" is Great. She does and excellent cover of "The Night" written by Mark Sandman. www.catiecurtis.com Rose Polenzani is an amazing local Boston artist who I actually discovered when she opened a Catie Curtis show. she is on Daemon Records which was created by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. www.rosepolenzani.com The guy artists who I can't stop listening to are Mark Erelli and Steve Tannen, you should definitely check them out! www.markerelli.com www.stevetannen.com I have loved Melissa Ferrick for a very very long time and still enjoy her to this day. Her new live album "70 People@7000ft" is really great with Brian Winton who is such a compatible drummer for her. www.rightonrecords.com Last but not least I am absolutely in love with a folk duo from England, Pooka. They are not together anymore, but Pooka consisted of the collabortations of Sharon Lewis (now in a band called Magic Baby) and Natasha Lea Jones who now has a beautiful solo album called "The Morning After". www.sharonlewis.net www.natashaleajones.org You can check out their new material plus Pooka material at both of their sites. But of course nothing compares to the amazing Mary Lou who is by far the most talented, amazing, inimate artist I've ever heard. Thank you everyone for your reccomendations, I'll be sure to check them out. Hope you enjoy mine!! Thomas Snsetblaze@aol.com wrote: This is fun - reading what others are listening to. Thanks for the great question. Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:39:27 -0700 From: raven@igc.org Subject: [MLL] Re[2]: Listening To At 09:26 PM 04/14/2004, Thomas Mckelvy wrote: >I have loved Melissa Ferrick for a very very long time >and still enjoy her to this day. Melissa is one of my favorite artists, I've seen her 34 times since 1995, even went on tour with her through several states, just for the fun of it... she has become a dear friend. And no matter how good her CD's are, she really shines live! >Her new live album "70 People@7000ft" is really great with >Brian Winton who is such a compatible drummer for her. I am about to release to the Ferrick list at an even better recording at SLIM's, March 2003, Melissa usually does not listen to boots of her own shows, but she BEGGED me for a copy of this show, it was so good. -------- The list members here have mentioned so many interesting artists, many of whom I have been following for years, but I haven't seen one of the most fascinating artists I have heard in years, Jeff Lang, from Australia, his web site is . I literally had to stop in my tracks when I heard him, I just stopped and listened... heard him first on WUMB (in Boston) for their noon live artist they have every day, I was just stunned, he is one of the most unusual and fascinating artists I've heard in a long time. He plays a variety of guitars/styles, from slide guitar and bottleneck, to the lap steel resonator guitar, plus things like a "stomp box"... he is distinctive! John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 02:11:43 -0400 From: "Jill" Subject: [MLL] RE:also listening to.... This is no new news, but I am listening to Eva Cassidy all the time. Her voice makes my heart expand and I have to stop whatever I am doing at some points in her songs. Also, Beth Nielson Chapman's "Sand and Water" CD -- it's her musical working through her grief when he husband died. So moving -- the lyrics are beautiful, stunning. Her voice is crystal clear, pure, and heartfull. It will help you work through any painful loss. The CD is a real amazing journey in that way amd has helped me very much. My favorite line is in the last song, ("Say Goodnight, Not Goodbye") -- "you are everything you oughta be" -- I find it so comforting. Also, give a hear to Idina Menzel's new EP -- "Here". You can buy it through CDbaby.com. (She is currently playing the "wicked" witch of the west in "Wicked" on Broadway.) This woman is spell-binding. :) Thank you, everyone, for sending out names of musical artists, most of which I do not know. This is the only way I find out about music--through referrals. I hope I didn't write too much. I apologize. Jill ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V7 #50 *********************************