From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V2 #339 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 Friday, November 6 1998 Volume 02 : Number 339 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Changing direction ["Gould, Rachel L." ] Re: MM: Changing direction [VWoolf2@aol.com] Dar/Re: MM: Changing direction [Peter Jones ] Re: MM: Changing direction ["Gould, Rachel L." ] Re: MM: Changing direction [caroline bonnivier ] Re: MM: Changing direction ["Gould, Rachel L." ] Re[2]: MM: Changing direction [cdaignea@bakerbotts.com] Re: Re[2]: MM: Changing direction [VWoolf2@aol.com] Re: Dar/Re: MM: Changing direction [Bill Wynn ] MM: Patty in Nashville [Mark Cicero ] MM: Patty/Ellis/Dar [Lisa Gallo ] Re: MM: Patty/Ellis/Dar [caroline bonnivier ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:34:00 -0500 From: "Gould, Rachel L." Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction okay, i've heard the name dar williams, but i don't think i've heard her music before. what is she like. you all have gotten me interested and i'm thinking about going and getting her cd to have a listen. is her music similar to anyone? thanks ---------- From: Pretty Silver Grrrl To: PerlmanJ@UJAFEDNY.ORG; mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 6:56PM ---"Perlman, Judith" wrote: >>Here's a question I've wanted to ask the list for a long time, and now seems a very appropriate time to do so: do you have any particular lines from songs that make you laugh? Ok this is a pretty cool story and I'm going to give ya'll the condenced version! You probably wouldn't guess it about me but I'm the type of person that cries, like at songs, movies, hallmark commercials... Anyhow..I had just gotten this mix tape of Dar Williams from my then girlfriend, and I listened to "You're Aging Well" and made the mistake of listening to the words, and started crying...and I rewound this tape over and over torturing myself..until I got so upset that I couldn't rewind it! It just so happened that the next song she had put on that tape was "The Pointless, Yet Poignant Crisis of a Coed" which the whole thing is a really great funny song that shows what a great sense of humor Dar really has...but I always giggle outloud on the last line: "and my exboyfriend can't tell me I've sold out, because he's in a cult..and he's not allowed to talk to me!" she just sounds so perky..it loses something just typed out *L* Either that or "diamond mind" by rasputina which is a parody of a woman from brooklyn whining to her boyfriend/husband about how she wants a diamond, all to the tune of those De Beers commercials.. "what other way can you make 4 MONTHS OF YOUR MEASELY SALERY last a lifetime?? And what have I EVER ASKED YOU FOR..besides...the ability to READ MY MIND?? And I didn't get that either, YET.." Check out Dar and Rasputina if any of this sounds interesting to you! Very different, but both very great!! Sorry that I went a little overboard *L* *HUGS* Lamia == "I've got all these teletubbies in my dressing room, like Dipsy has all these peace ritual symbols on him. Before a show, we all get together and do 'doinged de de doing'... I spent 7 hours writing stuff for this and I'm reduced to Doinged de de doinged..." --Tori Amos, VH1 Storytellers http://members.tripod.com/~SqueekyFromme/enter.html _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:02:36 EST From: VWoolf2@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction In a message dated 11/6/98 9:38:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, GOULD@tht.com writes: << i've heard the name dar williams, but i don't think i've heard her music before. what is she like. you all have gotten me interested and i'm thinking about going and getting her cd to have a listen. is her music similar to anyone? >> I am not sure that I would know who exactly to compare Dar to. She is solidly in the singer/songwriter genre but with this huge dose of humor and sharp wit thrown in. She is a great storyteller (in the same way Ellis Paul is, if you are familiar with him) and she has a beautiful voice. She is not at all as passionate as Patty but she is wonderful in her own way. Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 10:13:44 -0500 From: Peter Jones Subject: Dar/Re: MM: Changing direction Dar Williams is phenomenal, and there's a little Patty history involved. Patty was performing in the Boston, MA area in the early 90's, when a friend asked if she'd consider letting a new singer who not yet played in public before open for her. Patty listened to the demo tape and immediately agreed. That singer of course was Dar Williams. She currently has three albums available, Honesty Room, Mortal City, and End of the Summer. In addition, Dar, Richard Shindell, and Lucy Kaplansky are releasing a cd of covers, titled Cry Cry Cry. For more info on Dar, visit http://www.panix.com/~tneff/dar/index.html. For more info on the Cry Cry Cry cd, visit http://crycrycry.com/. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:11:00 -0500 From: "Gould, Rachel L." Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction i know ellis paul. he used to come and sing at my college when i was there. i'm picturing sarcastic in the sense of liz phair but with a different type of voice, softer maybe??? ---------- From: VWoolf2@aol.com To: GOULD@tht.com; mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 10:02AM In a message dated 11/6/98 9:38:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, GOULD@tht.com writes: << i've heard the name dar williams, but i don't think i've heard her music before. what is she like. you all have gotten me interested and i'm thinking about going and getting her cd to have a listen. is her music similar to anyone? >> I am not sure that I would know who exactly to compare Dar to. She is solidly in the singer/songwriter genre but with this huge dose of humor and sharp wit thrown in. She is a great storyteller (in the same way Ellis Paul is, if you are familiar with him) and she has a beautiful voice. She is not at all as passionate as Patty but she is wonderful in her own way. Lisa ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are subject to attorney-client privilege and contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:31:05 -0500 From: caroline bonnivier Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction >i'm picturing sarcastic in the sense of liz phair but with a different type >of voice, softer maybe??? wow i love liz phair and i think that description does a pretty good job at hitting it. anyone else? well, though she is sincere and honest too. some of the quotes that have been posted here are mostly from her fun songs. she has some incredible tearjerkers too. all her songs are emotional in some way. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:39:00 -0500 From: "Gould, Rachel L." Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction speaking of liz phair have you checked out her new cd? very good. its called 'whitechocolatespaceegg'. and yes, it really is all one word. strange, in know, but then again it is liz phair... :) i'm definatley going to check out dar's music. i can't wait to hear it. ---------- From: caroline bonnivier To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 10:31AM >i'm picturing sarcastic in the sense of liz phair but with a different type >of voice, softer maybe??? wow i love liz phair and i think that description does a pretty good job at hitting it. anyone else? well, though she is sincere and honest too. some of the quotes that have been posted here are mostly from her fun songs. she has some incredible tearjerkers too. all her songs are emotional in some way. ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are subject to attorney-client privilege and contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 98 10:31:55 -0600 From: cdaignea@bakerbotts.com Subject: Re[2]: MM: Changing direction Patty does back-up for a couple of Paul Ellis's CD. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction Author: "Gould Rachel L." at internet Date: 11/6/98 10:11 AM i know ellis paul. he used to come and sing at my college when i was there. i'm picturing sarcastic in the sense of liz phair but with a different type of voice, softer maybe??? ---------- From: VWoolf2@aol.com To: GOULD@tht.com; mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: Changing direction Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 10:02AM In a message dated 11/6/98 9:38:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, GOULD@tht.com writes: << i've heard the name dar williams, but i don't think i've heard her music before. what is she like. you all have gotten me interested and i'm thinking about going and getting her cd to have a listen. is her music similar to anyone? >> I am not sure that I would know who exactly to compare Dar to. She is solidly in the singer/songwriter genre but with this huge dose of humor and sharp wit thrown in. She is a great storyteller (in the same way Ellis Paul is, if you are familiar with him) and she has a beautiful voice. She is not at all as passionate as Patty but she is wonderful in her own way. Lisa ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are subject to attorney-client privilege and contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:52:33 EST From: VWoolf2@aol.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: MM: Changing direction In a message dated 11/6/98 10:43:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, cdaignea@bakerbotts.com writes: << Patty does back-up for a couple of Paul Ellis's CD. >> Interestingly enough Patty has done back up vocals on Ellis Paul's first three CD's and Dar has done a beautiful back up vocal for his new CD, Translucent Soul. I recommend checking out Ellis' Say Something CD in particular - the Patty vocals are quite lovely. Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 10:07:01 +0000 From: Bill Wynn Subject: Re: Dar/Re: MM: Changing direction The "Cry Cry Cry" CD has been out for a few weeks now and it's wonderful. The one "original" song on the disc is "The Ballad of Mary Magdalen" by Richard Shindell. I had heard Richard and Dar sing this as a duet before, but the new three-part version is quite nice. I'm going to see Lucy Kaplansky tonight in OKC. :)))) Bill > In addition, Dar, Richard Shindell, and Lucy > Kaplansky are releasing a cd of covers, titled Cry Cry Cry. For more > info on Dar, visit http://www.panix.com/~tneff/dar/index.html. For more > info on the Cry Cry Cry cd, visit http://crycrycry.com/. > > Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:48:40 -0600 From: Mark Cicero Subject: MM: Patty in Nashville I had an opportunity to see Patty do an in store mini show at Tower Records here in Nashville last night. The store didn't advertise the appearence so it wasn't as crowded as it should have been. The format was sort of like MTV unplugged. All acoustic guitars and a small drum kit. She looked great and wore what appeared to be a black short sleeve Danskin top and shiney gold jeans. She was in great voice and did five songs: She opened with "Change", then she did "Tony", "Wiggly Fingers", "One Big Love" and ended with "Go Now". They gave away a few of those baby T's and a signed guitar. None of which I won. After the 30 minute set Patty hung around and signed autographs. I spoke with her briefly and asked her who "Big Daddy" was and she smiled (a mischievous smile) and said, "I ain't tellin, your gonna have to use your imagination". I had planned on seeing her later that evening at a small local dive but she wasn't going to take the stage till about 11pm. I I had to go into work the next day so I decided to do the responsible thing and get a good nights sleep instead of going to the show (see what happens to you when you get old. Twenty years ago I would have never been so practical). Anyway, she's playing again, here in Nashville, on Dec. 6th and that show will be broadcast live over a local radio station that has been very supportive of Patty's work. I plan to attend that show. So I guess I'm gonna have to wait a bit longer before I see Patty rock this town electric. If anyone on this list was at the Exit Inn show please post a review. Have a great weekend everyone. Best Regards, Mark Nashville,TN ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:15:09 -0800 (PST) From: Lisa Gallo Subject: MM: Patty/Ellis/Dar I saw Ellis Paul perform with Patty at the Somerville Theatre last year (small place, just outside of Boston). I'm a fan of both, have met both, worked in-store appearances with both. Ellis is an amazing lyricist with such a purity to his voice, and when he and Patty sang together, it was amazing. I strongly recommend Ellis' stuff - personally, I like "Carnival of Voices". As far as Dar Williams, you absolutely should listen to her. "Quirky" is the word I would use. And I believe she is from Northampton, MA - can anyone confirm that for me? Being a UMass Amherst alum, I enjoy having a tie to the area with her. I've met her as well (are we seeing the trend of the kind of perks involved with seeing someone on the way up?!) and she is just wonderful. I also encourage you to check out Martin Sexton and Barbara Kessler. I've met and worked in-stores with both of them, and they also have incredible music and lyrics. Barbara has a live album recorded at the Kendall Cafe in Somerville, MA, and The Story sings back-up for her. She's going to be performing at the Homegrown Coffeehouse in Needham (I think), MA later this month, if anyone's interested. So there's my two cents. Lisa _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:34:27 -0500 From: caroline bonnivier Subject: Re: MM: Patty/Ellis/Dar >I strongly recommend Ellis' stuff -personally, I like "Carnival of Voices". ellis is really incredible. and a great guy too. his new cd 'translucent soul' was just released in september and its awesome. while theyre all great, this one is my personal favorite. you can get buckloads more info about him on his site, at http://www.ellispaul.com >As far as Dar Williams, you absolutely should listen to her. "Quirky" >is the word I would use. And I believe she is from Northampton, MA - >can anyone confirm that for me? i think she grew up on long island or something but lives in hadley MA (right hear northampton) now i think. or so ive heard...as i said in a previous post, god i love her. how can you not? ive only met one person who didnt like her and that changed once he actually LISTENED to her. and now hes addicted. >I also encourage you to check out Martin Sexton me too. wow talk about extremely talented. all these people are, but he is just really unique i guess would be a good word for him. really great, really entertaining to see live. he also has a new cd out. on atlantic records, called 'the american', which has a bunch of old songs on it and the sound is pretty different from 'black sheep'. but is still good nonetheless. while we are suggesting new artists to check out...you all should look out for jess klein. she is on 'boston not austin, volume 2' with the song 'paris', which is where i found out about her and now has her own cd out. she reminds me a lot of patty. she has a really strong voice and puts a LOT of emotion into singing her songs. her voice is very soothing and just incredible to listen to. plus she has wild curly hair like patty too. and you can check out her website at http://www.jessklein.com peace and stuff caroline http://www.guppy22.com/~caroline ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V2 #339 *********************************