From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V5 #277 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 Tuesday, December 11 2001 Volume 05 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Keswick Show ["Karla Frisco" ] MM: Patty on new album ["Jennifer Caputo" ] MM: Philadelphia Inquire review, LFW Concert [Gary Jacques Subject: Re: MM: Keswick Show Oh boy Dave. Emmylou wasn't staring at you, she was looking over at me to figure out who Bruce was staring at!;-) And Gary you should talk, you were on a date with your wife's friend! Thanks for pointing out that my "dates" know how to dress. I can't wait for Don's concert reviews. They should be here in the next day or two. He needs to recover from the drive, but first he needs to recover from our evening out! My review; seeing Patty and hearing her incredible voice is always a treat. Enjoyed every minute of it. Peace, Karla - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:53:11 -0600 From: "Jennifer Caputo" Subject: MM: Patty on new album Well... unfortunately, this is all I know..... but: NICK LOWE, RODNEY CROWELL, PATTY GRIFFIN and others will be featured on "Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music" Interesting, eh? Jen :-) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jcaputo AIM: traDMB The night and I go hand in hand Breast to breast Woman to woman The night and I go quietly We go softly Screaming all the way... - Patty Griffin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:10:59 -0500 From: Gary Jacques Subject: MM: Philadelphia Inquire review, LFW Concert Sleepy night at Keswick, despite the bright lineup By Dan DeLuca INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC Too many singer-songwriters sitting around strumming, and nobody goes home satisfied. That was the unfortunate result when the third annual Concert for a Landmine Free World tour came to the Keswick Theatre on Thursday. The cause was righteous. "You don't find too many people who are for land mines," Steve Earle observed dryly. According to Khmer Rouge survivor Loung Ung, the Cambodian American author of First They Killed My Father, who addressed the sold-out crowd, hockey-puck-size explosive devices kill or maim 150 innocents a month in countries such as Angola and Afghanistan. Proceeds went to the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's fund to remove mines and aid war victims. The lineup was formidable. In addition to Earle and organizer Emmylou Harris, politically agitating Canadian Bruce Cockburn, country-tinged storytellers Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin Carpenter, and surprise standout Patty Griffin all took seats on the stage, flanked by sidemen James Hooker on piano and John Jennings on guitar and bass. The show was sleepy, though dotted with luminous moments. The all-hands-on-stage, one-song-and-move-along acoustic format was frustrating. For instance, after Griffin slayed with the heartrending "Mary" and Earle followed (with an assist from Harris) with the equally devastating "Goodbye," the audience was subjected to Griffith's grandiose rendering of Julie Gold's ponderous "From a Distance" and Carpenter's equally leaden take on John Gorka's "Flying Red Horse." Harris offered angelic harmony support wherever possible, but because the artists were often unfamiliar with their colleagues' material, most songs were performed solo, with everybody else looking on appreciatively but doing nothing. Over the course of 21/2 hours (including a 30-minute intermission) each artist performed only three songs. In the case of Carpenter, whose other tunes were the self-serious "I Am a Town" and "Someone Else's Prayer," delivered in a solemn low register, that was a relief. As for Griffith and Cockburn, it was a mixed blessing. Griffith played to her narrative strength with "There's a Light Beyond These Woods, Mary Margaret" and "Listen to the Radio," then got heavy-handed on the "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go" encore. Cockburn's driving guitar was welcome, but his rage-fueled though awkward poetry in "Mines of Mozambique" was not. As for Harris, Griffin and Earle, it was a shame. The silver-haired Harris concentrated on mournful material from last year's Red Dirt Girl. As the 54-year-old beauty's voice roughens, she grows ever more effective as a singer. Griffin's broken romances, such as "Truth Number 2," dealt in hard-earned lessons short on sentiment. And Earle's shaggy-dog intros and cliche-busting country-bluegrass sagas provided the vitality that the rest of the evening sorely lacked. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:28:32 -0500 From: Gary Jacques Subject: MM: Always good to praise the reporter Just received this response from the guy that wrote the Philly review. - -----Original Message----- From: DeLuca, Dan [mailto:ddeluca@phillynews.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:25 PM To: Gary Jacques Subject: RE: Landmine Free Concert yeah, she impressed me. thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Jacques [SMTP:jacques@colorite-resins.com] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:17 PM > To: 'ddeluca@phillynews.com' > Subject: Landmine Free Concert > > Man you nailed that review. Patty Griffin is the best singer songwriter > around today. Made those Grammy winners wonder what they were doing on > stage > with her. LOL > Gary E. Jacques ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:22:00 EST From: Robfouch@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty review Hi, everybody. Just thought I'd pass along this review from Newsday, the Long Island newspaper where I work as a features editor. Glenn, our music critic, is a fan of Patty's and says great things about her performance at the Beacon Friday night. I included the entire review in case any of you are interested in what he thought of the other performers. Rob A Message Delivered With Music By Glenn Gamboa STAFF WRITER December 10, 2001 MUSIC REVIEW CONCERT FOR A LANDMINE FREE WORLD. Bait and switch, in a good way. Featuring Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin and Bruce Cockburn. At the Beacon Theatre on Friday night. EMMYLOU HARRIS is no dummy. The Grammy-winning folk music heroine knows she and her friends Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many others could read the Manhattan phone book and still hold an audience's attention. So why not use their collective star power to inform the public about the horrors of land mines? On the surface, it's a trade-off: Great music in exchange for a broader audience for Bobby Muller, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, who has campaigned to get land mine use outlawed through an international treaty. Of course, the audience gets the best of both deals since Muller's passionate explanation of why land mines - indiscriminate weapons designed to maim, not kill - should be banned is compelling on its own. "I've worked for a lot of causes," said Earle. "This one's good because no one's ever for land mines." The evening plays out as a songwriters' circle, with Harris, Earle, Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, Patty Griffin and Bruce Cockburn taking turns delivering their songs. Aside from Cockburn, known for his no-holds-barred style (which worked, aside from the clunky "Mines of Mozambique"), the rest of Emmylou's crew is a subtle bunch, whose songs more often work their way under your skin rather than hit you over the head. Crow broke ranks a bit, playing "Amanda," a gritty new song that she co-wrote with Earle for her forthcoming album, and delivering a sweet tribute to George Harrison with her lovely version of "Here Comes the Sun," enhanced by the harmonies of Harris and Carpenter. Harris focused on duets with her songs, including a lovely version of Gram Parsons' "Juanita" with Crow and "Goodbye" with Earle. Carpenter added her own understated, yet gripping songs, "King of Love" and "Late for Your Life" from her recent "Time, Sex, Love" album. "If you're wondering," said Griffin, after Earle and Harris traded vocals on the poignant "Goodbye," "it's even more amazing up here." She then broke into her own amazing song, "Top of the World." Though Griffin was the relative newcomer onstage, she more than held her own. On "Mary," from her excellent "Flaming Red" album, her performance was met with rousing applause both on and off the stage. However, the evening belonged to Earle, who discussed his songs at length and displayed how artists can be political while remaining true to their art. Though Nanci Griffith's surprise appearance to do "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go," was the musical climax, the most stirring song of the night was Earle's "Christmas in Washington," where his holiday wish is the plea "Come back, Woody Guthrie." He's trying to keep his own faith in the face of adversity. Luckily, he comes up with good answers like the Concert for a Landmine Free World to get his point across. Copyright ) 2001, Newsday, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:47:49 -0500 From: "Eugene Wendland" Subject: MM: Landmine Free World Concert Reviews Hi All Maria Montenegro, one of the organizers for the Concerts for a Landmine Free World Tour, graciously sent me a compilation of concert reviews she has collected. If anyone would like to read them, they're posted at http://home.cogeco.ca/~pl2/reviews.html Thanks again Maria ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V5 #277 *********************************