From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V5 #180 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 30 2001 Volume 05 : Number 180 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Washington, DC show! ["Kiersten" ] MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere [dissident@mindspring.com] Re: MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere [Tricia9999@aol.com] Re: MM: No longer a Virgin! ["Corey Atkins" ] Re: MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere [Tricia9999@aol.com] RE: MM: No longer a Virgin! [Gary Jacques ] MM: NPC: Lyle Lovett and Lucinda Williams [ronni heggen Subject: MM: Washington, DC show! Well patty was amazing as always at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA to a sellout crowd. I went in expecting more like flaming red with the full band and brought some of those special music earplugs and got a more like the old boots and living with ghosts style with just the one accompanyist! It sounds like the new album is going to go back to her folkier roots maybe dissapointing you Flaming Red preferrers.... I'm one of those who love it all so i think it's great! Her voice is just so amazingly individual - so bluesy... with lots of control. No silver bell or anything from that album unfortunately... i was hoping that she would sing them since they aren't going to be released but no luck. Anyone know how the law works? is she not allowed to sing them? Or just avoiding them to try to move on with things? So I did a good thing for everyone, but I need help! I need a pattyphile to give me the setlist from tonight's show and then I'll record and separate out the taped boot I made! but I don't know all the song names, so whoever sends them to me can get the first copy of this boot if you wanna send me a cd or tape. :) For taped quality I think it's a good boot! Any takers? ;) - --Kiersten ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:44:36 -0400 From: dissident@mindspring.com Subject: MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere Did that get your attention? I wish it would get one of those inept record exec's attention from Interscope. Yes, last night's show at the Birchmere was indeed sickening. Why? Because it is SICKENING that a peerless artist like Patty Griffin can be having such a hard time releasing her music. It is sickening that someone of her amazing talent can continue to be generally overlooked by the music-buying public. But I guess that's the world we live in. From a fan perspective, though, the show was simply amazing. Patty came out in her big black boots, long black dress, hair pulled back and launched into a really haunting version of "Carry Me," with Doug Lancio, from the Flaming Red-era band (I think) providing really ethereal guitar work. Patty didn't play on this one, just sang. "Carry Me" is one of my least favorite songs on FR, but this version really made me look at the song in a different light. It was beautiful. After that, Patty strapped on the guitar for pretty much the rest of the evening. Her guitar playing was really strong and rough, full of attitude, and her voice was everything you would have hoped it would be live. She hit such huge notes with seemingly minimal effort. It was just awe-inspiring to watch. The set list consisted of a great mix of all her stuff, including some AMAZING new songs. The second song of the evening was a surprising "Love From My Lips," on which she broke a string. Doug changed it for her while she then played an incredible "Poor Man's House." Doug seemed to be guitarist AND guitar tech for the evening. At one point,Patty was playing the opening of a new song, but her guitar wasn't "on." She didn't seem to realize it, and Doug came over and calmly stepped on her volume pedal. She started laughing and began the song again, saying, "Thank God for professional musicians." A funny moment. As to the new stuff, here's what I remember. A song called "Florida" was inspired by her and a friend moving to Florida when she was 19 or 20, searching for adventure and ending up working at a Holiday Inn for a couple years. Her introduction to the song was humourous, but the song itself was achingly beautiful. Another new one (my personal favorite) was called "Chief." It was about a Native American vietnam vet from her town who came back from the war without all of his mental faculties intact. He would apparently march up and down the street and salute people at random. This song was uptempo, folky (with some cool mando-guitar) and had some really incredible lyrics. She did a song that was either called "All the Girls" or "Be Careful With Me" that I'm assuming was a new one, although she didn't introduce it. Both of the aforementioned two lines were repeated a lot throughout the song, which is why I'm assuming one or the other is the title. A slow, haunting, beautiful song. I remember the lines, "Be careful how you bend me / be careful where you send me / be careful how you end me / be careful with me." She did another called "Rain." Too many songs with that title, in my opinion, but this was certainly one of the best of 'em. More uptempo - should sound really great with a full band behind it. Finally, towards the end of the show, she did one that she claimed to have just written "last week." She warned that she might forget the lyrics, and, sure enough, she did, in the second verse, singing "Da-da-da-da" instead of the words and then continuing. Kind of funny. I think this one was probably called "A million miles" or something to that effect. As to the rest of the set, I can't remember the exact order, but, along with the 6 others already mentioned, she did "perfect white girls," "Top of the World," "Sweet Lorraine," "Tomorrow Night," "Flaming Red" (INCREDIBLE!!!), an unbelievable version of Springsteen's "Stolen Car," "Mad Mission," "Change" and, of course, "Mary." I'm sure there were some others that I'm missing, but they escape me at the moment. Kiersten, can we still work out a deal for that boot?? :-) The place was packed (500 people, maybe more?), and at times the applause just wouldn't stop between songs. Patty seemed really surprised and genuinely moved at this, at one point saying, "You guys are going to make me cry." She did talk about her "difficulty putting any records out," and said that her and Doug were working on the new album which should be out sometime "next year," called "A Thousand Kisses." I just really hope that whatever was on "Silver Bell" doesn't fall through the cracks. I had a feeling that was going to be an amazing album, and again, thinking of that album being totally ditched by the record company just absolutely sickened me. But, Patty seems to be moving on quite nicely, so I guess we should just enjoy the music and hope for the best regarding the next album. Anyway, sorry for the novel, but I thought some would be interested in a more in-depth review of a recent show. http://www.thedissidents.com ********* ************* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:06:08 EDT From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere In a message dated 07/30/2001 6:52:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dissident@mindspring.com writes: > with Doug > Lancio, from the Flaming Red-era band (I think) providing really > ethereal guitar work. Actually, although Doug may be in Flaming Red-era band (don't know), he is a member of Nanci Griffith's band ('Blue Moon Orchestra') Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:34:17 -0600 From: "Corey Atkins" Subject: Re: MM: No longer a Virgin! OK. So all you bitches who are fortunate enough to live in places where you can see Ms. G with (relatively) minimal drive time are makin' me jealous, but I do ahve a contribution - a special weekend experience - that I'd like to share. You see, I am no longer a Patty Virgin either. (applause and/or 'ooh'-ing here:______) You see, at a phenominally lame-ass "party" on Saturday, I was watching the modern miracle known as digital cable (actually, for as many channels as there were, there should have been A LOT more of interest on...), a channel I've never heard of called 'Trio', and I'll be greatgoddammed if they weren't re-broadcasting the Sessions @ W. 54th with Patty (and Wilco). As all of the oh-so-young in oh-so-many-ways "party"-goers chatted superficially behind me about nothing that anyone should ever waste any portion of their life chatting about, I sat - a la a 6 year old watching Saturday cartoons - a foot in front of the TV, glued and heedles of the shenanigans (Challenge to you all: use the word 'shenanigans' more often) around me. I'd never seen her perform, and it was wonderful. Seeing an artist perform, I think, gives you another insight into them as a person, which in turn gives you further insight into their art. I'd heard all of the songs before from a dub of the show, but seeing her actually perform them made them all-new. And seeing her fumble with the keys on 'Peter Pan' and keep going just made me feel great; the brilliant Patty Griffin has troubles, too! --It's like something warm/fuzzy/pep-talk-motivational-speaker-y that she says on another boot: [something like] "...I've just been playing the piano for a year or so...it's a real challenge, but just because something's a challenge shouldn't stop you from doing it." Amen, sweet sweet sister. Amen. So there. I'm still jealous of those of you who don't live in UTAH (for a whole damn lot of reasons, actually) and can see her live, but I'm feeling good about my experience for now... PS> If anyone puts the Alexandria show with all a them purty new songs into MP3 form, I'd love to hear 'em -- electronica can can be a blessing! - -CA ******* ******* ** "El teatro es la poesma que se levanta ** ** del libro y se hace humana." ** ** ** ** "Theatre is the poetry which rises ** ** from the page and is made human." ** ** ** ** --Federico Garcma Lorca ** ******* ******* _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:42:17 EDT From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: SICKENING Patty show at Birchmere In fact, you can probably catch him on Letterman tonight with Nanci. Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:53:53 -0400 From: Gary Jacques Subject: RE: MM: No longer a Virgin! Don't think you can learn anything about the person Patty Griffin by seeing her live, other than she is a great singer-songwriter. I've seen her some 10 times or more, including, sitting right behind the piano at the West 54th show and I can tell ya, I've never seen the same performer twice. I've seen her in boots, shoes and even knee stockings. Hair up, hair down and hair undone. I even saw her wear glasses at the Keswick, come to think about it, that was the knee high stockings night. With and without bands. Her moods at these shows were all really different as well.. I have not a clue who this Patty Griffin is. But I can tell ya, when you sit a couple of seats away from the stage in some tiny venue and hear her do somthing like Every Little Bit or Poor Mans House, you walk knowing you have seen what live music is all about. - -----Original Message----- From: Corey Atkins [mailto:billycollier@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:34 AM To: dbyrdhouse@mindspring.com; mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: No longer a Virgin! OK. So all you bitches who are fortunate enough to live in places where you can see Ms. G with (relatively) minimal drive time are makin' me jealous, but I do ahve a contribution - a special weekend experience - that I'd like to share. You see, I am no longer a Patty Virgin either. (applause and/or 'ooh'-ing here:______) You see, at a phenominally lame-ass "party" on Saturday, I was watching the modern miracle known as digital cable (actually, for as many channels as there were, there should have been A LOT more of interest on...), a channel I've never heard of called 'Trio', and I'll be greatgoddammed if they weren't re-broadcasting the Sessions @ W. 54th with Patty (and Wilco). As all of the oh-so-young in oh-so-many-ways "party"-goers chatted superficially behind me about nothing that anyone should ever waste any portion of their life chatting about, I sat - a la a 6 year old watching Saturday cartoons - a foot in front of the TV, glued and heedles of the shenanigans (Challenge to you all: use the word 'shenanigans' more often) around me. I'd never seen her perform, and it was wonderful. Seeing an artist perform, I think, gives you another insight into them as a person, which in turn gives you further insight into their art. I'd heard all of the songs before from a dub of the show, but seeing her actually perform them made them all-new. And seeing her fumble with the keys on 'Peter Pan' and keep going just made me feel great; the brilliant Patty Griffin has troubles, too! --It's like something warm/fuzzy/pep-talk-motivational-speaker-y that she says on another boot: [something like] "...I've just been playing the piano for a year or so...it's a real challenge, but just because something's a challenge shouldn't stop you from doing it." Amen, sweet sweet sister. Amen. So there. I'm still jealous of those of you who don't live in UTAH (for a whole damn lot of reasons, actually) and can see her live, but I'm feeling good about my experience for now... PS> If anyone puts the Alexandria show with all a them purty new songs into MP3 form, I'd love to hear 'em -- electronica can can be a blessing! - -CA ******* ******* ** "El teatro es la poesma que se levanta ** ** del libro y se hace humana." ** ** ** ** "Theatre is the poetry which rises ** ** from the page and is made human." ** ** ** ** --Federico Garcma Lorca ** ******* ******* _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: ronni heggen Subject: MM: NPC: Lyle Lovett and Lucinda Williams ok, i cant' say that I've seen Patty live lately because that doesn't happen in North Dakota or anywhere too close to here either so all I can do is talk about who I have seen. We went to Lucinda Williams at First Avenue in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and she was fabulous. When I first heard of her (from this list) I raced out and bought Car Wheels On a Gravel Road. I thought some of it was OK but some was waaaaay to twangy, country. I shelfed it until I saw her open for Tom Petty. Now I love all things Lucinda, twangy country and all. I almost own all of her cd's now and love every bit of them. She's one of those artists who is incredible herself and then she surrounds herself with great people too. Getting to see her do her own show was amazing. Bo Ramsey played guitar for her--what a combination those two are. I loved it. Last night we saw Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at the Orpheum in Minneapolis. OH MY FREAKING GOD was that amazing. I love this man and his large band. If you get a chance to see it--do it! I saw him a couple of years back with his small band and thought that was fabulous and this soo surpassed that. We even got to meet him and get autographs--his bus was behind the bar next to the Orhpeum (the Scottish bar with an American flavor) and we just happened to go there afterwards. We could see the bus when the back door was opened and soon enough we saw Lyle so we ran out there and he signed our tickets. I'm sure I said something unintelligable but he was very kind to me anyway. well, just thought I'd share. hope you all get to see these fabulous performers! Ronni Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:54:14 EDT From: NeuroticView@aol.com Subject: MM: Libby Kirkpatrick When I asked for female singer-songwriters a week ago, someone mentioned to me... Libby Kirkpatrick. They praised her in the email. I went to her website and ordered both cds. Today, when they came, I was amazed at what I heard. A music style similar to Patty Griffin and Stacey Board b/c of the acoustic guitar, and a voice that glimmers with hints of Patty Griffin, Rose Polenzani or Melissa Ferrick depending on the tone of the song. To have so many great singers wrapped up into this one woman is incredible. I wish I could remember who mentioned her, but since I can't.. I thank you now. Thanks for the excellent recommendation. matthew ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V5 #180 *********************************