From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V2 #247 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Sunday, August 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 247 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Mnpls, MN lillith [Kuhl ] MM: The "Labour Day" part of Labour Day Weekend... [kartalst@HUGSE1.HARV] MM: Patty Review in New York Times ["Joseph Colacurcio" Subject: MM: Mnpls, MN lillith check out my what happened to me. My friend works for Compass (a concert promotion co.) and he told me that he got a couple of free tix to lillith, but the catch was that we needed to hand out flyers at the end. so of corse i go with him and at the end of the concert we go get the flyers, low and behold they were for Patty's show at the 400 Bar. ive never been happier to hand out flyers to people. we only had about 400 of them so they went quick but none the less it was cool to be helping Patty out ;) Sean ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:04:11 -0400 (EDT) From: kartalst@HUGSE1.HARVARD.EDU Subject: MM: The "Labour Day" part of Labour Day Weekend... Hello Everyone! I would like to invite you all to an absolutely wonderful, amazingly fun event which, in all cheesiness, can be "cross referenced" here...between the LRTs started by the Jewel List folk andthe living room series, "Tales >From the Living Room," which I have started in my own humble abode. On September 7, 1998, Joy Eden Harrison & Lisa Sanders, two of San Diego's best & finest, will be singing in my own house in Medford, MA. They have a sold out show on Cape Cod two days before and a show in Taunton, MA (email harrisbros@aol.com for info) the day before, and Lisa & Joy are "rounding out the weekend" at my house! Joy Eden Harrison, a singer with one of the silkiest, sultriest, sexxiest voices I have evre heard, and Lisa Sanders, full of power, passion, and grace, come from one of the most supportive, beautiful, and friendliest folk scenes I have ever seen--San Diego. They are "in the bunch" with Steve Poltz, Gregory Page, Mary Dolan, Randi Driscoll, Elizabeth Hummel, Cindy Lee Berryhill (who has a gig the following night, 9/8, four miles down the road from my houes at a cool restaurant/venue called Johnny D's), and...Jewel. Both women will "wow" you with their spunk, style, and just their plain old love for what they do. Please come out my way for this blessedly special event! The Low-Down... What: Tales From the Living Room #2/Living Room Tour Stop Who: Joy Eden Harrison, Lisa Sanders When: September 7, around 1-PM-ish...(please do feel free to come by earlier...) Where: My house, Medford, MA Invited: YOU! And bring family & friends... Admission: suggested minimum donatin of $10 which goes directly to & gets split equally between the singers RSVP: Please do!!!! ASAP, in fact... ***This will be al alcohol free event...and a no-smoking-inside-the-house one, too... ***Weather pending, this may be an outdoors event. In case of sun and happy fun good weather, PLEASE bring your lawn chairs &/or blankets to sit on!! ***Please feel free to bring any sorts of food & snacks you wish. Just keep in mind that my houesmates and I hold a predomenantly vegeterian household. I will have food-stuffs available...veggies, salad, stuff like that...probably more along the lines of "tons and tons of munchies"... =) ***Anyone coming from great distances? PLEASE contact me...there is some space for heads to rest on the floors, sofas, and fold-out beds in my house...first com first serve. And if you are going to sleep over, why not stay Tuesday night, also? Come support Cindy Lee if possible! Let me know...please...cuz when the sleeping space runs out, other options will have to be found... ok, that's all for now. thanks for reading... many hugs... love you all to bits and pieces and then back whole again, Stephanie * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Stephanie Maria Kartalopoulos * The Greek Poet Chyck kartalst@hugse1.harvard.edu This is my prayer for you: May the moon protect you with honesty, caring, and gentility. May the sun guide you with assertive perseverence. May the stars embrace you, bringing smiles to your faces and songs to your souls. And I hear your voice through the darkness-it's music to my ears. -J.Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:13:48 -0400 From: "Joseph Colacurcio" Subject: MM: Patty Review in New York Times Here's the Times review of Tuesday's Bowery Ballroom show (which, by the way, was outstanding): Music Review: Advice to Women in Rock: Get Wild but Not Too Wild By ANN POWERS An old pop music pun applies to Patty Griffin, who played the Bowery Ballroom Tuesday night: she is caught between rock and a hard place. The hard place is the category of the empathetic female songbird, currently the main one (besides rhythm and blues diva) open to women who want to make it to the top of the charts. With her gem-cut voice and unceremoniously insightful songs, Griffin could easily settle into that style. Rock, however, is where Griffin wants to take her fluent music, and on "Flaming Red," her second album for A & M Records, she has amplified the spare sound she formerly pursued. At the Bowery Ballroom, she surrounded herself with strapping rock dudes who delivered the vigorous power chords and neat rhythms that characterize mainstream modern pop. Griffin's strong voice was occasionally drowned out by the band's innocuous din. She did her best to muscle in front of it, pushing herself into overdrive, but rarely did her approach mesh with the music. She was more daring than it ever was. It is tempting to urge Griffin to return to the metaphorical singer-songwriter's corner, where small but attentive audiences would hang on her every well-turned phrase. The crowd that filled the ballroom cheered when she dismissed the band to perform a few older songs; clearly they loved Griffin for her passionate storytelling, which is easier to follow when she stands alone. But she is ambitious for more, and she deserves to be. Songs like 'Let Him Fly," a heartbreaking goodbye to a careless love, and "Mary," a rueful, gentle meditation on the Virgin, so far outrank the greeting-card confessions of the likes of Jewel that it seems a cruel joke that they have been ignored. Pure folk singers, no matter how brilliant, do not get radio airplay. A veteran of pop marketing games like Emmylou Harris, who joined Griffin to sing on "Mary," might have told her that. To make it, a singer needs to rock a little bit -- but women, especially, must not run too wild. Convincing rock music unleashes energy that runs counter to expectations, and for all of the breakthrough female musicians right now, barely any challenge palatable prettiness. Griffin sings and writes as if she wants to do so; she even led her band through a crashing version of "Alex Chilton," a song written by the Replacements, one band whose career was an ongoing scuffle with the mainstream, in honor of Chilton, another artist who did his best in that hard battle. But the nice noise Griffin is currently making defeats such a foray, even if it takes her to the top. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:28:22 EDT From: CornflkGl@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty Review in New York Times <> in*noc*u*ous (adjective) [Latin innocuus, from in- + nocere] First appeared 1598 1 : producing no injury : HARMLESS 2 : not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : INOFFENSIVE, INSIPID Hmm. Rachel :D ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V2 #247 *********************************