From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V7 #159 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.pattygriffin.net/PattyInConcertDB.php * OR * go to http://www.atorecords.com * . * 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 V7 #___ gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. * Also, PLEASE do not quote an entire digest when you reply to the * list. Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Tuesday, June 17 2003 Volume 07 : Number 159 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Parallels with Patty ["Don Henn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:19:44 -0400 From: "Don Henn" Subject: MM: Parallels with Patty MMers , Saw this on a S/S site , & it struck a chord. The 2nd paragraph could have easily been written about Patty. Love the lines ; "Sit down with my guitar and sing the f--king thing. Straight into the mike. That's what makes the song". Some get so caught up in the trappings of production that they foget that. Don June 23 issue - In the mid-'90s, in Dublin, Damien Rice's band Juniper released a hit single, causing the record company to demand another hit single, causing Damien Rice to bristle, quit the band, leave the country and travel around Europe playing guitar for coins on the street. "I'm a total pain in the a- when somebody (a) wants to change me or (b) doesn't get what it is I do," he says. "I'm a moody f-ker." NO ARGUMENT THERE. Rice's debut, "O," is an out-and-out gorgeous CD, so full of undiluted, unfalsified emotions that it verges on open-heart surgery. In the British Isles, where the album is already a hit, Rice is routinely compared to David Gray. But Gray uses so many loops, keyboards and drum machines that his lesser songs can seem chintzy. Rice's production is spare as a swept floor: "I just have to sit down with my guitar and sing the f-king thing. Straight into the mike. That's what makes the song." You'll hear a little percussion, a few strings threading in and out and some lovely backing vocals by Lisa Hannigan, but not much else. And what are the songs about? "It'd take hours to summarize," says Rice, 29. (A little grandiose, but endearing, no?) "There's hate, there's desperation, lust, love. There's infatuation, serious obsession. It's kind of a mix." Rice has a wonderfully changeable voice: he whispers, rages, veers into falsetto. Sometimes he's so quiet you don't even know if he's going to keep singing. You get the feeling he doesn't know either. ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V7 #159 *********************************