From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V8 #62 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 V8 #___ 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 * Also, PLEASE do not quote an entire digest when you reply to the * list.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 Thursday, March 18 2004 Volume 08 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Useless Desires - tabs ["Gillian Reynolds" ] MM: Re: NPC: Grey DeLisle ["hugues" ] Re: MM: EG on: American artists generally play in America [Kaycee973@aol.] MM: found on ATO site [Kaycee973@aol.com] MM: Re: American artists generally play in America [Steve Berry ] MM: Patty's Birthday ["Don Henn" ] Re: MM: patty at sxsw news [Rach2414@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:55:02 -0600 From: "Gillian Reynolds" Subject: MM: Useless Desires - tabs Anyone have a chance to figure out the tabs for Useless Desires yet? I have been totally loving this song in the last week. Gillian - ---------- ~Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! ~~Live the life you've imagined. - -Thoreau _________________________________________________________________ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage. Multiple plans available. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:57:13 -0800 From: Ellen Shapiro Subject: MM: NPC: Grey DeLisle I'm de-lurking for a second to pass on a wee recommendation to y'all. I saw the Old 97's here in LA Sunday, and they were great, but I'm writing about Grey DeLisle. She opened their show (she's the 97's bass player's wife), and she reminded me a lot of Patty, so I thought I ought to let you folks know about her. I believe she's going to be at SXSW if any of y'all are gonna be there, and she's got an album coming out shortly before the festival. She puts on a great show. Anyway, back to lurking in the shadows :) - -Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:50:16 +0100 From: "hugues" Subject: MM: Re: NPC: Grey DeLisle That's extraordinary, I just listened to her CD "The Graceful Ghost" yesterday for the first time! Had never heard her before, and she's amazing! She reminds me of a folky Dolly Parton, and this is a huge compliment! Think also Gillian Welch, the Be Good Tanyas, June Carter and Patty. Grey Delisle is without any doubt a great new artist to listen to! Cheers, Hugues - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Shapiro" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:57 AM Subject: MM: NPC: Grey DeLisle > I'm de-lurking for a second to pass on a wee recommendation to y'all. I > saw the Old 97's here in LA Sunday, and they were great, but I'm > writing about Grey DeLisle. She opened their show (she's the 97's bass > player's wife), and she reminded me a lot of Patty, so I thought I > ought to let you folks know about her. I believe she's going to be at > SXSW if any of y'all are gonna be there, and she's got an album coming > out shortly before the festival. She puts on a great show. Anyway, back > to lurking in the shadows :) > -Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:23:15 EST From: Kaycee973@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: EG on: American artists generally play in America EVIL GARY FOR PRESIDENT! (but i have suggested this before!) HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY TO ALL! I wish you could see me when I am flying in my dreams.. the way I laugh there way up high.. they way I look, when I fly.... THE WAY I LAUGH ...THE WAY I FLY.... *patty griffin, chief ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:25:23 EST From: Kaycee973@aol.com Subject: MM: found on ATO site Patty Griffin's Impossible Dream comes with a word of caution from the artist. "There's no ear candy this time," she says. A veteran listener could be forgiven for wondering what in the world she's talking about. Every Patty Griffin album offers, often simultaneously, beauty and challenge. The depth of her lyric writing and the intensity of her singing have never relented, and if her last studio album, 1000 Kisses, ended on the exultant note of the Mexican ballad, "Mil Besos," every second of that exultation felt honestly earned for both singer and audience. But Impossible Dream does return her to a world of even greater emotional and social turmoil, the world in which her "Truth #2" became, for her friends the Dixie Chicks, the song that spoke most clearly about what it's like to be censored. Griffin doesn't write protest music but songs like "Don't Come Easy" and "Cold As It Gets" come straight out of a way of seeing the world with politicized eyes. At times here, Griffin sounds like one of her great influences, James Baldwin, nevermoreso than on the opening track, "Love Throws a Line," where the point is that either we catch on to the value of loving one another or we're all sunk. "There really has to be a time of awakening in our civilization," she says, "or we're gonna lose some things we take for granted. Most of all, we have to start paying attention to each other and the planet." Like Baldwin, Griffin makes it hard to see where the personal and the political separate-or perhaps, shows us how they really don't. For Impossible Dream probably ranks as her most personal album. From the beginning, Patty Griffin songs have spoken in the voices of others-older people, particularly, which happens again here in "Top of the World" (which also has been done by the Dixie Chicks) and "Mother of God." But many more of the songs this time speak straight from the singer. At times, she speaks so directly, it's as if she's peering into the listener's face to measure whether she's getting through. In part, that's because she decided on this album she would "edit less and return to some basic things where I started." Prominent among these: black gospel music. Seeing Mavis Staples live for the first time not long before the sessions began cinched the deal. "I really love the music," Patty says. "Its messages are heavy and painful but at the end of Mavis singing something like 'God's Not Sleeping,' you feel happy." She'd moved away from that influence because "at some point, I made a conscious decision not to sing that music-nothing worse than bad white blues." But tracks like "Love Throws a Line," clearly modeled on the jaunty rhythms of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and "Standing," with its portentous beat, knife-edge guitar licks and testifying dynamic evoking classic pre-pop Staples Singers, reflect the best kind of white adaptation of black religious music. But that's only one flavor on the record. She uses many of the same musicians who made the quiet music on 1000 Kisses to rock on tracks like "Cold As It Gets" and "Useless Desires." The backing vocals of Emmylou Harris, producer Craig Ross, and Buddy and Julie Miller add Americana flavor. Impossible Dream is personal in another way, too. The title song, or an abbreviated version of it, is sung by her parents, dedicated amateur singers who, Patty remembered, loved the Man of LaMancha original cast album when she was a kid. That track stands dead center on a record where home is a place lost, found, fled, and longed for. For Patty, "The Impossible Dream" speaks "from a time when people thought about nobility, when they were trying to be above greed." Clearly, that's not this time, but then another of Patty Griffin's great subjects is feeling out of place. In the same lyric where she wonders if she's ever going to make it home, she makes a promise, the promise that lies at the heart of this record, the heart of her art: If you break down, I'll drive out and find you If you forget my love, I'll try to remind you I'll stay by you when it don't come easy When it don't come easy That's not ear candy. It's soul food. I wish you could see me when I am flying in my dreams.. the way I laugh there way up high.. they way I look, when I fly.... THE WAY I LAUGH ...THE WAY I FLY.... *patty griffin, chief ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Berry Subject: MM: Re: American artists generally play in America Ha! I have been smiling while reading this thread because sometimes I feel that those of us on the West Coast in the U.S. are missing out, too! Many of my favorite artists toured this winter and spring, and didn't make it out to the Seattle area. The gifted singer/songwriter Allison Moorer was a member of a list I belong to several years ago, and I got an insight into the high costs of touring with a band. So I think it is amazing that these artists can tour with a band at all, much less straggle out here to the West coast or overseas. I think it is a gift, too, that when Patty next appears in Seattle I'll be able to see her (relatively) close-up, for a (relatively) small cost. I'll whine about the infrequency of appearances, but I still think that a live appearance is a gift to us, her fans. - -- SteveB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:02:54 -0000 From: "Matthew Smith" Subject: FW: MM: EG on: American artists generally play in America NPC thread Not if Arnie gets there first! EM - -----Original Message----- From: owner-mad-mission@smoe.org [mailto:owner-mad-mission@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Kaycee973@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: EG on: American artists generally play in America EVIL GARY FOR PRESIDENT! (but i have suggested this before!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:01:31 +0000 From: "kevin combs" Subject: MM: patty at sxsw news greetings from sxsw. i'm working in the belly of the beast and i have what may be good news for all you fellow mad missionaries. sxsw.com will be doing live webcasts during the festival...although the responsible parties are playing it cool and close to the vest there is a good chance patty's saturday night performance may be only a few keystrokes away for all of you with broadband connections. note that this stream will not be archived...it's a one-time deal. live. 10 pm saturday night cst. this is not a 100% sure thing, they won't tell me. but i'd check it out if i were you. also remember patty's slot on kgsr friday will be online at kgsr.com. i don't have an exact time yet...i'll post that tomorrow. regards, kevin - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out MSN PC Safety & Security to help ensure your PC is protected and safe. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:32:53 -0500 From: "Don Henn" Subject: MM: Patty's Birthday - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- For Patty's birthday , I'd like to tell a little story.I recently moved after 16 years in the same building. I liked it there , & didn't want to move. Since the latest landlord took over 6 years ago , my winter heating problems had gotten progressively worse. Last winter , I completely lost thermostat control , & had to open or close windows to control the temp , occasionally in the middle of my sleep when it got too hot or too cold. Somewhere around the middle of last winter , he suggested that he might replace the thermostat. That was the last I heard from him , & subsequently found out it wasn't the problem , b/c the tenant across the hall had the same situation. When the situation was the same this winter , I told him if it wasn't fixed , I wouldn't be there next winter. - no response. Over the next few months I told him I was looking for a house , then told him I had found one , then told him when I was moving - no response to any of these. I left my forwarding address when I moved , & waited for my security deposit. - no response. After 5 weeks , I found out where he lived , & showed up at his front door. His wife answered the door , & was very upset about me being there. I got a check 2 days later for less than half of my security deposit , with some bogus charges deducted. I filed in small claims court yesterday , for my full deposit plus interest & penalties. As I dug thru yet unpacked bags & boxes for old obscure documents , & drove around the city looking for more documentation , I was in a highly agitated state. Haven't got my sound system hooked up yet , but fortunately , I have only Patty CDs in my car , & I have her music on my computer. Her beautiful music , & her gentle , charming banter have a great calming influence on me. It's been most pronounced when I got back in my car , where it was immediate , & I could actually perceive the change as it happened. If I didn't have Patty's music , & this " landlord " didn't have a family , I'd rather not think about where this anger might have taken me. So , thank you Patty , for a gift that precious few actually have to share. Happy Birthday & Happy SAINT PATTY'S Day ! Music hath charm To sooth the savage breast William Congreve ( 1670 - 1729 ) English Dramatist Don ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:33:40 EST From: Rach2414@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: patty at sxsw news they're also broadcasting it on XM satellite radio if any of you have that thing... - -rachel ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V8 #62 ********************************