From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Mon Jun 3 03:38:15 2002 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g537cFQl027034 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:38:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g537cEKr027025 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200206030738.g537cEKr027025@smoe.org> From: "Sanders" To: Subject: PattyG-News: New Patty date! Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 02:02:37 -0500 Organization: dtpx design X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Patty will be playing the Ntelos Pavilion Harbor Center in Portsmouth, VA on Friday, July 26 at 8:00pm. Tickets are available NOW at the box office and ticketmaster.com. More dates to come... - Sanders From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Mon Jun 24 20:24:27 2002 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5P0ORG7019482 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g5P0ORW9019480 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200206250024.g5P0ORW9019480@smoe.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:19:01 -0400 From: Robfouch@aol.com To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: PattyG-News: Patty interview X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Hi, guys. At last, Newsday ran my interview with Patty from back when she was in New York for the Joe's Pub shows. I've included the link below. The feature's called "Fast Chat" and it lives up to the name. It's fairly brief, which means there's not a lot of depth. Newsday's a general circulation newspaper, and unfortunately, a lot of our readers probably haven't heard of Patty. I had to keep my questions kind of general. anyway, hope you enjoy. There's more of the interview that I was unable to include. If I get some free time (a big if), I'll post the rest. I'm thrilled Patty's coming back to New York. The Bowery Ballroom is where I first saw her play. It's a cool place to see a show. Thanks, Rob http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/printedition/fanfare/ny-fffast2759195jun23.story?coll=ny%2Dfanfare%2Dprint From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Mon Jun 24 20:29:27 2002 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5P0TRG7025399 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g5P0TQ7a025389 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:29:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pronetisp.net (mail.pronetisp.net [12.23.44.4]) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g5P0TOG7025353 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:29:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27385 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 00:15:59 -0000 Received: from dialin-bing12-180.pronetisp.net (HELO oemcomputer.aol.com) (12.96.182.180) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 00:15:59 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020624202740.00ab67f0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: ducksoup/pop.pronetisp.net@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:29:24 -0400 To: mad-mission@smoe.org From: Mike Connell Subject: PattyG-News: Re: Patty interview In-Reply-To: <4E883396.4DDC97FF.00822098@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Rob wrote: >Hi, guys. At last, Newsday ran my interview with Patty from back when she >was in New York for the Joe's Pub shows. I've included the link below. {snip >http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/printedition/fanfare/ny-fffast2759195jun23.story?coll=ny%2Dfanfare%2Dprint Here's the full text of the interview - Mike :-) Fast Chat Patty Griffin June 23, 2002 For someone who sings such sad songs, Patty Griffin comes across as a little, um, how should we say it ... silly. That's meant in the kindest, fun-loving sense of the word, of course. There she was on a recent sunny day in Central Park, giggling like a schoolgirl and singing a goofy ode to her pet dog Beanie, who seemed oblivious to his owner's obvious talents. Griffin has reason to smile nowadays. After a traumatic stint with Interscope, in which her last album was shelved because of creative differences, she's now with Dave Matthews' independent ATO label and has just released her first album ("1000 Kisses") in nearly four years. She sat down with Newsday's Robert L. Fouch to talk about the joys of sad songs, the evils of the recording industry and the kindness of New Yorkers. Can you talk a little about the new album? It was made without any involvement of any record label whatsoever. Doug Lancio, who's my bandleader, and I got together to just sort of play music and record it. We didn't know how it was going to turn out. We sat down and played and had a good time and made it in about five days. It's got to be frustrating, though, to know your previous album is just sitting there and you can't do anything about it. Well, I could pick some of it up at some point in the future. I think things sort of turn out the way they're supposed to turn out. This is a nice record - I hate that word nice - this is a good record, and, yeah, eventually you just don't know what could happen. Maybe it'll see the light of day. How do you put an album together? Do you have a theme or do you just put a bunch of your best songs together? This record I tried to sing just things that I really wanted to sing. And when I sat down with Doug before I flew to Nashville to record it, I told him, looking at this list, that they're actually really cohesive. It just worked out that way. It was an accident. And these songs also were very recordable in a minimal kind of way. Since I was making the record out of my own pocket, I couldn't really afford to put a big rock band together. These songs hold up really well. How do you classify yourself musically? Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't define myself whatsoever. It's one of my worst fears [laughing]. Don't like it. Don't like it all. Do you think that presents a problem in the marketing aspect of the business? I guess it's a problem if people want it to be a problem. I personally don't have that problem. I like so many different types of music. I wish it was easier to find out about more different kinds of music. When you're on a major label ... if you asked me a year ago, I would have said, "Oh yeah, it's very much of a problem." I don't feel that way anymore. Do you have a specific career goal? Do you want the typical pop thing? I want to sing and I want to write. And I'd like to make my living at it. I guess I think it's becoming obvious to me that you don't necessarily have to be on the radio like everybody thought to make your living doing this. Because I know a lot of people who are doing just fine and nobody plays their records on the radio. I remember as a young girl listening to the radio. I was one of the kids who fell asleep listening to the radio and knew all the words to all the songs in the summer and listened to the radio all day long. You know, I could tell you where I was sitting when I heard "Midnight Train to Georgia" for the first time. There's a lot of great memories that I have on the radio. I'm sad because I think that radio has lost a lot of its soul. You seem a little bit shy. How do you get up on a stage and open yourself up like that in front of hundreds or thousands of people? Practice, practice, practice. It was really, really hard at first, and it gets easier as I go along. Do you try to interact with the audience much? Or are you terrified of them? [Laughing] I'm not terrified of them. Somebody pointed out to me a long time ago that the audience wants you to do well. They want to be entertained, and they're not out for blood. How are the New York crowds? They're great. Is there something particular you like about playing in New York? I think audiences are very enthusiastic here. People who don't get to New York very often, their impression of New Yorkers is not necessarily of being warm and open. And I find that the audiences here are very warm and open and giving. It's a surprise, given the reputation New Yorkers have had from the tourists. Well, of course, you're a tourist, they're going to be cranky with you. [Laughing] You're annoying. All your songs seem to have some melancholy about them, or are a little dark. Is music therapy for you? I'm half Irish and I'm half French-Canadian. Those are two sad-song traditions right there. Just genetically, I've been given that. And I have a sad voice. I love sad songs. Sad songs make me happy.