From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V2 #82 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 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/patttour.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com/road/index.html * 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, March 29 1998 Volume 02 : Number 082 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Re: Newton Boys - Sound track ["David Lee" ] MM: "Cain" Inspiration [Jerry Zigmont ] MM: Desperately Seeking Music.... ["rick sayre" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 01:32:07 -0800 From: "David Lee" Subject: MM: Re: Newton Boys - Sound track > I heard that Patty does a song on this sound track with a group called > "Bad Livers". Has anybody heard it? Any reviews? > There's a five page article about the Newton Boys soundtrack in the Austin Chronicle March 20, 98 edition written by Andy Langer. Apparently the director got an almost all Austin dream team, including Patty, to do the soundtrack for this movie. With the help of two members of the Bad Livers, their goal was to create 20's period music that would actually be used in the film. Here are the comments given by some of the artists concerning their songs. Note that their different spelling of Patty appeared as such in the article. ABRA MOORE "When I got there, I sat down with the music and had to learn it off a violin part. There was no existing track for me to imitate, which was both fun and challenging. It was more, 'Here's the melody and here's the words.' We had to build a tune, not something you get to do in session work a lot." (If you go see this movie keep an eye out for Abra, apparently she has a small part in it). PATTY GRIFFIN "Learning the melody right off the piano gave me a feel for what it must have been like for Judy Garland. But everybody in the studio was very composed with me. I never felt rushed. It's all twenties jazz and there was one line I kept hearing as Forties jazz. One line - literally one note - that I kept on knocking out to another place. I sang the line probably about 50 times. It's a subtle distinction that makes a huge difference, and vibe-wise, I was locked in to the wrong place." MARK RUBIN of the Bad Livers "In January, just 6 weeks or so ago, we were in LA and decided that one of the tunes we cut with Patti, 'After You're Gone', was more a film cue than standalone song for the soundtrack. We were behind, spending seven or eight hours a day mixing, but everyone was so in love with the song and the lyrics that we wanted to get another chance." (They eventually ended up asking Kris McKay, whose also a very talented singer-songwriter to sing "After You're Gone" instead of Patty) KEITH FLETCHER associate producer "Not only was it a hard song to sing anyway, but we found out Kris knew the song from having performed it with the 8.5 Souvenirs." KRIS MCKAY "That I'd sung that song before played against my better interests later on. They kept stopping me and saying, 'This is before blues, Kris, before lounge and cocktail.'I was holding notes or bending things in a way I thought was period, but in reality aren't even close. It was a little frustrating. Then they told me about Patti. It gave me some kind of sick satisfaction that Patti had as much trouble. You don't want to revel in your contemporary's suffering, but it really does help to know someone else was having an equally hard time." The article concludes with a review of the soundtrack. "The Newton Boys doesn't feel so much like a soundtrack as it does a Bad Livers jubilee. Whether the trio is backing Abra Moore on the wonderfully Betty Boop "Millenberg Joys", Patty Griffin on the playfully ragtime "Copenhagen" ... the Bad Livers make the period come alive like a Coney Island nickelodeon." Thanks for your patience on reading this, it's more information than you'd want to read for just one Patty song, but it was either type this in or scoop the cat box, hah! Anyway it might give some insight as to why some songs make it on a record and some don't... From the poor man's house, David ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:21:50 -0500 From: Jerry Zigmont Subject: MM: "Cain" Inspiration A little tidbit in regard to the "Cain" discussion- The genesis of "Cain" came from an article in Rolling Stone magazine perhaps in late 96'. The issue had John Travolta on the cover and was around the time that he starred in the movie "Get Shorty". The article which inspired "Cain" was about white teenage gang violence and a specific case "about some boys in Wisconsin". There ya go- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:19:05 -0500 From: "rick sayre" Subject: MM: Desperately Seeking Music.... Hey gang! This is a bit off-topic, my apologies- I'm just popping in to seek some help finding a cd by a group from San Antonio called The Blue Heelers. I've had zero luck looking for it thus far & thought maybe someone (Kenn!) might be able to suggest a place to find obscure cds? Any recommendations would be very welcome. Please let me know off-list. ;) Thanks a lot & again, sorry for the lack of relevance. ;) peace, rick *truth changes colors, depending on the light.* - -Kasi Lemmons http://members.aol.com/rbsayre/rick.html *there must be a divine point to it all. it's just over my head & when we die it'll all come clear & we'll say- so that was the damn point* -Aunt Mozelle ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V2 #82 ********************************