From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Sun Jan 13 20:46:56 2002 Received: from smoe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g0E1ktpT000783 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:46:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16/submit) id g0E1ksVw000780 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:46:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from pronetisp.net (mail.pronetisp.net [12.23.44.4]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with SMTP id g0E1kkpT000758 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:46:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 23850 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 01:46:39 -0000 Received: from dialin-bing12-106.pronetisp.net (HELO oemcomputer.aol.com) (12.96.182.106) by mail.pronetisp.net with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 01:46:39 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020113204857.00a2a180@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: ducksoup/pop.pronetisp.net@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:49:23 -0500 To: mad-mission@smoe.org, mad-mission-news@smoe.org From: Mike Connell Subject: PattyG-News: NPC: Announcing a new list for music from the 50s, 60s & 70s! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks :-) My name is Mike, and I own/run a number of lists here at smoe.org, most notedly the Jewel, Patty Griffin & Tiny Tim lists. A few of us had tossed this idea around for over a year, and I finally decided to make it happen.....a list devoted to the discussion of the many evolving genres of music from the 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s. (yeah...I know...I guess this has to include disco too......oh well....so much for a "perfect list") I know there's a rather decent number of "baby boomers" on many smoe lists, so to them this will be a welcome addition. For others who did not grow up during the 50s, 60s or 70s, this list could be a very good learning tool that can turn you on to some of the best and most influential music of those eras, which is also some of the best and most infuential of all time. So, if you want to learn, or want to discuss any music genre or artist/group from those decades, please join us. As far as I am concerned, you can discuss ANY music from those eras: pop/top 40, rock & roll, folk, new age, jazz, broadway musicals, R&B...you name it...and yes....... I guess disco too. This list, like most others on smoe.org comes in loose mail and digest formats and you are welcome to join to either one or both. So, to join up on the loose-mail version of this list, send an email with the following two-line command subscribe 50s60s70s end in the body of an email to majordomo@smoe.org To join the digest version of the list, send the two-line command subscribe 50s60s70s-digest end in the body of an email to majordomo@smoe.org Hope to see many of you there real soon! Born the year "Rock Around The Closk" was the number 1 record in the USA, Mike Connell :-) 50s60s70s list owner ducksoup@quackquack.net mikec@smoe.org P.S. I was just joking about the Tiny Tim list. :-) From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Thu Jan 24 15:42:01 2002 Received: from smoe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g0OKg0tP017959 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:42:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16/submit) id g0OKfxPu017958 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:41:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201242041.g0OKfxPu017958@smoe.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:15:15 -0800 (PST) From: Kristen Subject: PattyG-News: Official ATO Announcement of Patty's signing To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hi folks. i rarely ever post, but i thought you might like to read the email i received from the ato records mailing list today. the deal has been inked. :) read on... ATO RECORDS INKS DEAL WITH PATTY GRIFFIN 1000 Kisses to be released by ATO April 9, 2002 According To Our Records, the independent record label formed by Dave Matthews, his manager Coran Capshaw, and long-time Matthews/Capshaw associates Michael McDonald and Chris Tetzeli, is pleased to announce the addition of singer songwriter Patty Griffin to their roster. Griffin joins a label that includes David Gray, Govt Mule, Chris Whitley, and Ben Kweller. Says ATOs Michael McDonald about the signing, We couldn't be happier about having Patty as part of our family. She is one-of-a-kind. Her songwriting kills us and she's got a voice like no one else on the planet. We're incredibly happy to be working for her! ATO Records will release Patty Griffin's 1000 Kisses on April 9, 2002. The new album is her third release following two releases on A&M Records: 1997's Living With Ghosts and 1999's Flaming Red. These releases showcased Griffin's unique voice, melodic guitar playing and most prominently her immense talents as a songwriter which has led to artists like Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, The Dixie Chicks, Bette Midler, and Martina McBride to cover her songs. 1000 Kisses was produced by Griffin and Doug Lancio (he's worked with Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle and others). The album, for the most part, is minimally arranged with just vocal and guitar, but sounds more lush than sparse largely in part to Griffin's beautifully evocative voice high in the mix. The album includes the lush Spanish standard "Mil Besos," and Bruce Springsteen's Stolen Car. Patty Griffin plans to tour extensively in support of 1000 Kisses. www.atorecords.com From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Thu Jan 24 15:43:12 2002 Received: from smoe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g0OKhBtP018070 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:43:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16/submit) id g0OKhB05018068 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:43:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201242043.g0OKhB05018068@smoe.org> From: "Kellner, Leslie" To: "'mad-mission@smoe.org'" Subject: PattyG-News: PATTY PERFORMING! Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:16:16 -0800 Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk We need to sell tickets to the following event! Patty Griffin is opening and playing with Steve Earle on February 6th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. This is a benefit concert supporting the Park Center Charity. This charity helps place mentally handicapped people in jobs. Tickets can be purchased for $32.50 and $28.50 through TicketMaster. Let's sell...Patty needs our support!!!! From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Sun Jan 27 21:08:16 2002 Received: from smoe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g0S28GtP024607 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:08:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16/submit) id g0S28E1A024605 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:08:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201280208.g0S28E1A024605@smoe.org> From: Underwoodskee@aol.com Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:40:56 EST Subject: PattyG-News: Patty article in Billboard To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk I thought you all would be interested in reading this. Stephen http://www.billboard.com/billboard/musictomyears/index.jsp Patty Griffin Gives '1000 Kisses' "For me, the cohesion in this record is the feeling that struggle is never-ending, and I think you get to the point in this life where you face that," singer/songwriter Patty Griffin says of 1000 Kisses (ATO/BMG, due April 9), the most magnetic album yet by one of the most compelling recording artists in popular music. "The longer you live," she adds, "and the more people you know who are getting older, the more loss you're experiencing and the harder it's getting. But to be passionate to the point of being celebratoryI think that's a great approach to struggle." An absorbing performer with writing skills to match, Griffin has seen her songs recorded by such artists as Emmylou Harris ("One Big Love"), Harris and Linda Ronstadt ("Falling Down"), Martina McBride ("Goodbye"), Reba McEntire ("Up and Flying"), and Bette Midler ("Moses"). Dixie Chicks' huge-selling 1999 Fly album was named for the country trio's spirited cover of Griffin's "Let Him Fly." Griffin herself made two of the finest albums of the 1990s (Living With Ghosts, 1996; Flaming Red, 1998), her gritty, grandly resonant sound establishing her as one of the best and most original voices of her generation. Griffin's many road trips (touring solo or with the Chicks, Harris, and Lucinda Williams) have won her a loyal national following. Nonetheless, A&M Records sat on Silver Bell, her 2000 sequel to the acclaimed Flaming Red, ultimately declining to release what later proved the final project to be completed at Daniel Lanois' bygone New Orleans studio, Kingsway. "They kept pushing it back," she now says of Silver Bell, "and I was trying to write singles for them, and it just felt so contrived. I felt I might as well be waiting tables. Now big labels are looking for platinum records; they're not looking for gold records anymore. Even platinum artists are getting dropped for not having hit singles. How weird is that? When I got let go, I knew I can only do what I do." At that time, the guitarist in Griffin's band, Doug Lanciowho had just bought a house in Nashville and installed an informal home studio in his basementinvited her down from her current home in Austin to do some recording for fun. It dovetailed with an idea hatched by Griffin and manager Ken Levitan to cut an acoustic session he could shop to a new label. Griffin says, "I had all these songs that got passed over for other records because they weren't obvious pop songs, and I had some cover things I wanted to try [Bruce Springsteen's "Stolen Car," Lonnie Johnson's 1948 R&B hit "Tomorrow Night," the vintage Tejano lament "Mil Besos"as well as a new version of the one piece she retained from the Bell debacle, "Making Pies"], so I said to Doug, 'Why don't we co-produce my next record?' " >From the opening "Rain," a torrential anthem (inspired by the end of a protracted Austin-area drought) about a steady downpour of disillusionments, through the self-critical "Chief," the kindly "Be Careful," and the magnanimous "Nobody's Cryin," each painterly track on the brilliant 1000 Kisses (named for a line in "Mil Besos") fills in a portion of a tenderly sketched emotional landscape, examining each impasse for the creative impulse in an intensely commodifying and integrity-impairing industry. "I wish I was the boogie queen," Griffin says of her sure, unmistakably bittersweet vocals, which part radio's often marsh-like airwaves like a pale heron through the high grass. "But I have a sad voice," she admits with a laugh. "I've done jingles and gotten rejectedthey say, 'It's pretty, but you sound so sad singing the Downey fabric softener ad, it's not working for us!' " No part of Kisses is merely about the increasingly punishing clash of art and commerce. Each song concerns either the larger or the more personal matters that the modern marketplace hastens to exploit. Surveying a culture in which public expression is contemptuously deemed "content," most musical fare is evaluated with language-/ideas-disdaining critical grading systems, and sales levels are championed over substance by the same Fourth Estate quislings that help foster the business community's deceitful accounting standards, the disturbing power of Kisses lies in its attempt to plead for decency in the daily life that art has always aimed to imitate. "Culturally, women are mistreated," Griffin says, "and what is the most powerful force in our culture right now? It's the media. And where are more women murdered than anywhere else? In the media. Meanwhile, there's violent upheaval in the world against women. It's a bad way to go." Griffin, who was signed to ATO in August 2001 on the strength of the completed 1000 Kisses, explains that the poignant song "Making Pies" was inspired by a story in a Boston newspaper about the 75th anniversary of Worcester, Mass.-based Table Talk Pies, Inc. "You realize people are out there living these lives and working these jobs that are really difficult and not necessarily or obviously rewarding," she says. "I've had a lot of those jobsat a Pizzeria Uno in Harvard Square for five years and as a telephone operator at Harvard University for a couple of years. I've met a lot of people like the women in 'Be Careful,' who managed to have more dignity, self-respect, and a life outside of their jobs than most people I now know." Griffin was born on March 16, 1964, in Old Town, Maine, an island community of 8,500 astride the Penobscot River on the edge of the Great North Woods. She was the last of seven children by an Irish-American father and a French-Canadian mother who met in the 1950s while they were school teachers in remote Fort Kent, Maine. "My parents, who are retired, are really humble and strong," she says. "I grew up hearing my grandmother sing hymns and my mother singing Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" around the house. I emptied my savings account of $55 when I was 16 and bought a used Honer guitar, because I wanted to do what Rickie Lee Jones could do. "I don't just like to sing," she says with a bashful giggle, "I love to sing. I used to run home from school, because I had a song in my mouth I had to get out. In high school, I was pretty sure I was the most misunderstood, most distraught. You can get so self-absorbed and so in-your-own-shit that you don't have any idea that everybody's got some kind of agony they're in." One example she cites is a classmate at Old Town High School, eulogized in fictional form on Flaming Red's riveting "Tony," who committed suicide in his early 20s. Contemplating the intimate new level of conversational eloquence in 1000 Kisses, Griffin says, "It's an attempt to imagine another framework for your life than the difficult or painful one that may have grown up around you. I was married from when I was 24 until I was 31. I grew up with all these expectations of having a family and not being singlethings that didn't happen the way I expected. They're not disappointments, just surprises. I'm somebody who has high hopes for humanity. "In a way," she muses of her brilliant new release, "it's a grave record, because it's kind of uncool. This record is two people who never produced a record before, Doug and me, just feeling it out, piecing it together, not really having a clue. I think I'm proud of us," she realizes with a laugh, having turned a prior disappointment into a musical surprise. "It was brave." -- Timothy White