From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V4 #214 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.quackquack.net/pattyg * 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 V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Monday, July 24 2000 Volume 04 : Number 214 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Sessions [BLUEHEN@webtv.net] Re: MM: Sessions ["Gary Jacques" ] MM: patty in greenville ["Leslie Singleton" ] MM: Fwd: Dixie Chicks Live [stephenu@webtv.net (Stephen)] MM: Patty in Austin [AloanStar@webtv.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=F1e_Pugh?=] MM: Joan Armatrading ["Sherie" ] MM: Re: Patty in Austin ["amber bass-patterson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:27:50 -0400 (EDT) From: BLUEHEN@webtv.net Subject: Re: MM: Sessions Saw the special Sessions where they played one song per artist, and it had me wishing that they chose a song besides "Flaming Red" for Patty...don't get me wrong, I love it, and the band was great, but to showcase Patty in one song....I think "Mary" might have been a better choice from the selections she played that day...it seems to highlight her deep emotion, intensity, lyrical strength, melodic sense, etc...anybody else would have picked something different? Check out my webpage! ~Patty~ http://pattyblee.cjb.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:55:52 -0400 From: "Gary Jacques" Subject: Re: MM: Sessions It really is hard to pick one song that defines someone like Patty. Simply because you can't. This is the great thing about Patty Griffin. Diversity! But yeah, Mary would have been as good as any. Evil Gary - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Eryn Fleming Cc: Corey Atkins ; ; Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 10:27 AM Subject: Re: MM: Sessions > Saw the special Sessions where they played one song per artist, and it > had me wishing that they chose a song besides "Flaming Red" for > Patty...don't get me wrong, I love it, and the band was great, but to > showcase Patty in one song....I think "Mary" might have been a better > choice from the selections she played that day...it seems to highlight > her deep emotion, intensity, lyrical strength, melodic sense, > etc...anybody else would have picked something different? > > Check out my webpage! ~Patty~ > http://pattyblee.cjb.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:15:09 GMT From: "Leslie Singleton" Subject: MM: patty in greenville does anyone know if patty is definitely playing in greenville, SC in september w/dixie chicks? i know i saw something on the net that said she was, but then i read a tourdates listing for the dixie chicks in a magazine that didn't mention anything about her being at that show. anyone ?? thanks- leslie ********************************************* "A shotgun never shot no one * when it's hanging on the wall * I've got itchy fingers, * you've got knees to crawl" * -"picture in my mind," freakwater * ********************************************* ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:59:16 -0400 (EDT) From: stephenu@webtv.net (Stephen) Subject: MM: Fwd: Dixie Chicks Live - --WebTV-Mail-12516-24 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit This is a post from a discussion list for acoustic guitars. Thought you would enjoy the Patty content. Stephen - --WebTV-Mail-12516-24 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit From: "wcollings" Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Subject: Dixie Chicks Live Lines: 52 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 05:13:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.200.13 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 964329231 24.147.200.13 (Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:13:51 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:13:51 EDT Organization: Road Runner Saw an interesting band in concert tonight -- the Dixie Chicks. I really like their two albums -- nice bluegrassy stuff. I've also enjoyed seeing them on TV in live performances in small settings. This was a large arena show and I'd only give it about a "B". It had some high points, but overall I don't think they come off all that great in that setting. The arena setting is too big and too loud to do justice to vocal harmonies. On the other hand, I don't think they featured the band enough (or have a good enough band) to really pull off "arena rock". Their best songs were in a quieter sort of acoustic section of the show and the few times they stretched out a bit with "bluegrassy" ensemble playing. Otherwise, I thought their show drove home just how terrific the Shania Twain show was in a similar setting and how difficult it is to pull off a truly outstanding arena show. Here's a tip, though. The opening act was a singer/songwriter named Patty Griffith who was OUTSTANDING. Great voice and very hypnotic, powerful songs. Wonderful layering of sounds with her voice washing over the arena in waves. Huge dynamics in the songs. She also sang with the Dixie Chicks on the title song from their latest album, "Fly", which I believe she wrote. She smoked 'em with her singing. Excellent. Not sure what genre I'd put her in. She gets country airplay, but really seemed more in the modern female vocalist/rock genre. - --------------- On a totally unrelated note: I just got tickets for what I am sure will be a guitar virtuoso performance next month: the Steve Morse Band opening for the Dixie Dregs. Nothing acoustic about it (except for Jerry Goodman's violin, I guess), but seeing Steve Morse play is really something. Seeing him play in both bands on the same night should be awesome. Only problem is that he broke his left wrist last week (teaching his kid a skateboard trick). According to his website, he was off to Switzerland to do a Deep Purple show at the Montreaux Jazz [sic] Festival this weekend, cast and all. Said he couldn't play above the 15th fret and couldn't play anything with the thumb over the neck. Talk about suckin' it up -- that has to hurt like hell. I guess I'll be seeing the world's best one-handed guitar player next month! I heard snippets from his new album "Major Influences". It features original Steve Morse Band songs, each in the style of one the guitar players who influenced his playing: Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Duane Allman, Leslie West, George Harrison, Keith Richards, Steve Howe, John McLaughlin, and others.The MP3 excerpts sounded very interesting...unmistakably Steve Morse, but with each song exposing an aspect of his "roots". I'm looking forward to finding the CD. It'll be a blast from the past for me. I routinely heard Morse play starting when he was 14 in high-school garage band doing covers of all these guys. - --WebTV-Mail-12516-24-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:01:32 -0400 (EDT) From: AloanStar@webtv.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=F1e_Pugh?=) Subject: MM: Patty in Austin I have loved Patty's music since the first time I heard LWG many moons ago and have seen her as often as I can, which is quite a few times since I moved to Boston........BUT I would never knock Joan Armatrading who I discovered way back in 1979. Joan has a following in the US, but in Europe she is legendary. I don't know why she has remained some what of an underground performer in the states, because her songwriting is brilliant. I think if you asked most singer/songwriters what they thought of Joan they would credit her with being an influence to their music. She has been around many years before I found her, with Pam Nester before going solo. I guess her music might not be for everyone, but it kills me to hear someone say she is "boring". Her music got me past several bad phases in my life and turned my musical passion up in a whole new direction. In other words, I doubt that I would have seeked out Patty's music as quickly, or many others throughout the years between the two, had I not made that turn. IMHO Joan has kept her foot in the door, holding it open for many behind her to get through. Anyway, that's all I needed to say so I will go back to being quiet again....just had to get it off my chest. Thanks! Jean=F1e ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:15:54 -0400 From: "Sherie" Subject: MM: Joan Armatrading Thanks for the comments on Joan Armatrading Jeanne! I am also a HUGE fan, and would have killed to see her in concert. In fact, the very idea of seeing Patty and Joan in one night sounds like a dream come true. She is an incredible song writer, who like Patty is hard to categorize. She does folk, and blues and rock-n-roll and even a few that can only be classified as "Joan's." A lot of people have compared Joan to Tracy Chapman, whom I also love, but IMHO Joan's music is a lot more textured, and her lyrics are not as politically motivated as Tracy's -- they are messages straight from her heart. She has also been called "Jimmy Hendrix on Nylon Strings," which seems only fitting given her ability with the guitar. Anyhow, I guess each to his own, but if anyone wants to give her another try I'd suggest getting a copy of Joan's greatest hits and sitting down with "The Weakness in Me," "Love and Affection" "Willow" and "Drop the Pilot." Some really incredible songs! Sherie On 23 Jul 00, at 10:01, Jeanñe Pugh wrote: > I have loved Patty's music since the first time I heard LWG many moons > ago and have seen her as often as I can, which is quite a few times > since I moved to Boston........BUT I would never knock Joan Armatrading > who I discovered way back in 1979. Joan has a following in the US, but > in Europe she is legendary. I don't know why she has remained some what > of an underground performer in the states, because her songwriting is > brilliant. I think if you asked most singer/songwriters what they > thought of Joan they would credit her with being an influence to their > music. She has been around many years before I found her, with Pam > Nester before going solo. I guess her music might not be for everyone, > but it kills me to hear someone say she is "boring". Her music got me > past several bad phases in my life and turned my musical passion up in a > whole new direction. In other words, I doubt that I would have seeked > out Patty's music as quickly, or many others throughout the years > between the two, had I not made that turn. IMHO Joan has kept her foot > in the door, holding it open for many behind her to get through. > Anyway, that's all I needed to say so I will go back to being quiet > again....just had to get it off my chest. Thanks! > Jean=F1e > "We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for who we are - that is the fact." - --Sartre ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:14:22 -0500 From: "amber bass-patterson" Subject: MM: Re: Patty in Austin It was not my intention to offend. In fact, a few days ago, I even mentioned the I used to really love to listen to Joan. However, this particular night, I found her boring Local paper seemed to agree. Even she admitted to feeling a bit lethargic due to the heat ( it did reach 107 that day, and on such days, remains in the 100s till after dark). Maybe if you had been there, you might have agreed. After all, even our fav artists have their off days. Nonetheless, I am happy for you that you like her so much. Maybe she will visit Boston soon. Amber - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeanñe Pugh To: Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: MM: Patty in Austin > I have loved Patty's music since the first time I heard LWG many moons > ago and have seen her as often as I can, which is quite a few times > since I moved to Boston........BUT I would never knock Joan Armatrading > who I discovered way back in 1979. Joan has a following in the US, but > in Europe she is legendary. I don't know why she has remained some what > of an underground performer in the states, because her songwriting is > brilliant. I think if you asked most singer/songwriters what they > thought of Joan they would credit her with being an influence to their > music. She has been around many years before I found her, with Pam > Nester before going solo. I guess her music might not be for everyone, > but it kills me to hear someone say she is "boring". Her music got me > past several bad phases in my life and turned my musical passion up in a > whole new direction. In other words, I doubt that I would have seeked > out Patty's music as quickly, or many others throughout the years > between the two, had I not made that turn. IMHO Joan has kept her foot > in the door, holding it open for many behind her to get through. > Anyway, that's all I needed to say so I will go back to being quiet > again....just had to get it off my chest. Thanks! > Jean=F1e > > ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V4 #214 *********************************