From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V2 #278 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 Monday, September 21 1998 Volume 02 : Number 278 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: New Patty Concert at Duke [Jason Kreuter ] MM: Patty is Artist of The Week at Rock On TV [ABershaw@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:46:10 -0400 From: Jason Kreuter Subject: MM: New Patty Concert at Duke Hi Everyone, I am currently trying to bring Patty Griffin to Duke University (that is in Durham, NC) on Nov 20 or 21. I was wondering if there were people on the list who would come to the show? I am just trying to see what kind of draw she will have outside of the university. Thanks, Jason ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:25:19 EDT From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty is Artist of The Week at Rock On TV Mornin' all, The best website to keep up with all television music performances, the Rock On TV Website, now has a new feature called "Artist Of The Week". None other than our Patty is the feature this week. This site gets zillions (approx) of hits per week so I'm sure it will turn many onto Patty. Below is the text of their article. Audio clips & the most basic of Patty links are also included there. The URL is http://www.rockontv.com. Didn't see any upcoming Patty TV appearances though. Sure would like to see her get some TV exposure sometime. She's done very little in the video medium. All the best, Alan RockOnTV - Artist of The Week. PATTY GRIFFIN An artist about to explode! Forget everything you think you know about Patty Griffin, either as a songwriter, singer or performer. With the release of FLAMING RED, her second album for A&M Records, you are about to really hear her for the first time. Unlike her 1996 debut recording, the sparse, universally-acclaimed LIVING WITH GHOSTS--which was actually a collection Griffin's song demos which featured her accompanied only by her acoustic guitar--FLAMING RED is an album chock full of big guitars, drums, keyboards, percussion, and her stunning, evocative voice. On FLAMING RED, Griffin indulges the restless whimsy and fantasy of her wildly divergent tastes in music, showcasing 13 new songs in as many settings. There are some ballads ("Goodbye" and "Big Daddy"), but there are plenty of rock and roll tunes ("Change," "Wiggley Fingers") and pop tomes ("Blue Sky" and the first single "One Big Love") that extend her aesthetic reach and prove that, as an artist, she can accomplish virtually anything she sets out to. "I just tried to give myself permission to do things I love to do. I am trying to be myself here and that happens to be a lot of different things. I don't want to be led around by classifications as to what I can and can't do. I'm not a kid and I want to indulge everything, even confusion." Griffin is originally from Old Town, Maine, just outside of Bangor. "They make canoes there," she says. The youngest of the family, tagging behind her three brothers and three sisters, she followed her mother around as she did housework, listening to her sing. "My mom is an amazing singer. People turn around in church to tell her so and my grandmother's family used to sing on their porch at night, watch the sun go down and harmonize, so I guess it's in my blood." Produced by Jay Joyce, who also provides most of the album's stunning guitar work, FLAMING RED also features one of the greatest drummers around in the venerable Kenny Aronoff. "Jay and a lot of the other musicians on this record seems to have as diverse tastes musically as I do," she explains. The ensemble provides Griffin with the support she deserves in delivering an album which will undoubtedly establish her as an artist of rare merit. The songs on FLAMING RED range from raw, primal rockers like the tittle track, a song about the famed fairy tale of the Red Shoes, to shimmering pop songs such as "Christina" based on the troubled life of Christina Onasis. The pieces are all of a whole and move in directions to give the album a distinct sound, that, as wildly divergent as it is from Griffin's debut outing, is the first real taste listeners will get of her expansive and passionate musical vision and of her singular interpretive abilities as a singer ."There are a few songs from the archives here as well as some brand new stuff. These songs just ended up working well together. I didn't think about what I wanted to say. The music had its own life. And whether Griffin is rocking out while revealing the ironies of desire as she does on "Wiggley Fingers," or exploding spiritual myths as she does on the atmospheric, dreamily-textured "Mary," she successfully evades all attempts at being pigeonholed. And lest anyone should wonder if the emotion in her delivery that sets her apart from other singers has been at all tamed, one listen to the simply arranged and deeply moving "Go Now," should dispel those notions. If anything, because of the breadth of this project, Griffin has reached new levels of maturity and depth as a singer. "What we did, Jay and I, was to give all of these songs of mine new lives, and I'm at home in their arrangements. They aren't painted over me and I'm not propped up on top of them." Griffin has a busy summer planned, touring with a full band instead of just her guitar. With the release of FLAMING RED likely pushing her into the limelight, the next year will find her headlining her own dates as well as being featured on this summer's Lillith Fair, where she'll be reaching an ever-widening audience while surprising and delighting existing fans. FLAMING RED is a not only a record that challenges and amazes as a singular work, but one that makes LIVING WITH GHOSTS even more fascinating than the first time. It provides the rare chance to glimpse back at an artist's rawest, single-take demo beginnings--the pure songwriting essence that has metamorphosed into the broader vision she delivers on her first real studio outing, FLAMING RED. ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V2 #278 *********************************