From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V6 #26 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, January 28 2002 Volume 06 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Patty recommended on another list [LMYERS2HOU@aol.com] Re: MM: Patty recommended on another list [Tricia9999@aol.com] MM: Patty article in Billboard [Underwoodskee@aol.com] MM: Re: Patty article in Billboard ["folkyboy" ] Re: MM: Patty article in Billboard (full text of article) [Mike Connell] Re: MM: Patty article in Billboard [Tricia9999@aol.com] MM: Lyrics Archive? ["Chris" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:38:08 EST From: LMYERS2HOU@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty recommended on another list The other day someone on the Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer list mentioned Patty and recommended her. I would like to return the favor and recommend Dave and Tracy. Their CD Drum Hat Buddha is just fantastic. The songs just keep running through my mind all the time. They have a couple of other CDs, but I don't have them as I just found out about Dave and Tracy a few weeks ago. Dave is an incredible songwriter, and Tracy is a wonderful violinist and vocalist. Loretta ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:40:10 EST From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty recommended on another list In a message dated 01/27/2002 6:39:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, LMYERS2HOU@aol.com writes: > . I would like to return the favor and recommend > Dave and Tracy. Their CD Drum Hat Buddha is just fantastic. Good recommendation, but I like Tanglewood Tree better than DHB. Many may like DHB better, but just thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:40:56 EST From: Underwoodskee@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty article in Billboard I thought you all would be interested in reading this. Billboard.com -- Music To My Ears Stephen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:51:23 -0600 From: "folkyboy" Subject: MM: Re: Patty article in Billboard wow! thanks so much for that article! :) its SO thorough! damn! i'm very excited for the new release. even more so now! sheesh! i'm jumping out of my chair! ~tim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:14:50 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: MM: Patty article in Billboard (full text of article) Just to ensure the full text is in the lists' archives at www.smoe.org/lists after that Billboard web page comes down, I decided to post the full text of the article. Mike 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:21:21 EST From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty article in Billboard In a message dated 01/27/2002 5:43:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, Underwoodskee@aol.com writes: > I thought you all would be interested in reading this. > > Billboard.com -- Music To My Ears > > Stephen > Great article. Thanks. Looking forward to April. Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:08:25 -0800 From: "Chris" Subject: MM: Lyrics Archive? Hey. Does anyone know what's going on with the Patty Griffin Lyrics Archive site? I've sent numerous emails, lyrics, and whatnot to the email address listed there, with no response. ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V6 #26 ********************************