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Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Friday, August 6 2004 Volume 08 : Number 200 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Portland [rhonda n ] MM: Tracy on the radio/web at 1pm PST [Jessica Byers ] Re: MM: Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures [Jon45678@aol.com] Re: MM: Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures [Jon45678@aol.com] MM: Portland [rhonda n ] MM: new singer [TPar102961@aol.com] RE: MM: Off topic: Calexico ["- Deb -" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:58:10 -0500 From: rhonda n Subject: MM: Portland I still have 2 regulars and a digester to go. r ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:20:36 -0600 From: Jessica Byers Subject: MM: Tracy on the radio/web at 1pm PST I just saw this info about Tracy Grammer. For anyone not yet familiar with her, it might be a good time to check her out. Sorry for the last minute-ness of this. It's in 40 mins.... Jess >Tracy will visit with Robyn Shanti today on KBOO's "Dharma Wheel" >program at 1pm Pacific time. She'll talk about her new EP, "The >Verdant Mile," and about her two Portland appearances next weekend at The >Oregon Bite (Sat., August 14, 4pm) and the Dave Carter Memorial Round- >up (Sun., August 15, White Eagle). > >Listen to KBOO Community Radio at 90.7fm in Portland, 100.7 in >Corvallis, 91.1 in the Gorge, and online at >http://www.kboo.fm/listen.php. > >Visit Tracy online at http://www.tracygrammer.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:18:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Berry Subject: MM: Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures I just found details about this new box set coming out in the U.K., and I have to share them here. Sandy Denny has long been a favorite of mine. She wrote the song "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" made famous by Judy Collins. She was in Fairport Convention for a time with Richard Thompson. She had a great solo career where she mixed many types of music, including country and orchestral. She died all too soon. I think she had a huge influence on a number of artists, including Judy Collins and contemporaries such as Patty Griffin, who has sung at least one of Sandy's songs in concert. Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures to read online and get more details, go to: http://www.thebeesknees.com/ and click "Sandy Denny" in the menu at the left of the page. Fledg'ling NEST 5002 "She was the perfect British folk voice. Not a trace of vibrato. Pure and easy." Pete Townsend "We don't hear Sandy Denny on the radio these days. Her records, few that they are, don't fit the current formats, don't send the programmers into paroxysms, don't have listeners voting in. She couldn't be considered for sixties, seventies hit nostalgia; she never had hits. Rock album stations? Never sold enough albums. Even Nick Drake sneaks into the odd Easy Listening show, the music lulling and decieving, with its attractive surfaces hiding the pain within, something romantic for a cult to cling to. But where is Sandy's cult? Where are the graveside vigilants a la Jim Morrison? The colour supplemental cultural dissections? The South Bank Show eulogies, the bad TV and film biopics telling us who should be important in our lives? Somewhere the taste gurus have failed the flock, have failed to tell us, after twenty years of hindsight opportunity, that Sandy Denny was the greatest British female artist of her generation." from Richard Thompson's foreword to Pamela Murray Winter's unpublished Sandy Denny biography. Fledg'ling Records is approaching its tenth anniversary and fiftieth CD release. Ten years ago, when Fledg'ling records developed from the Richard Thompson newsletter Hokey Pokey and their collection of charity albums, I never imagined that the label would one day be issuing records by so many of our heroes. The label has grown from humble beginnings to a rich catalogue that includes some of the benchmark records of English folk-rock. Earlier this year we began working on our largest and most ambitious project yet - a complete overview of Sandy Denny's recording career. With the support of Universal Island Records, Tim Chacksfield and I have been able to search through hours of archive recordings to present the most comprehensive portrait of Sandy Denny's music yet attempted. A Boxful of Treasures is a mammoth 5CD set, from the earliest home recordings to Sandy's final studio recording in May 1977. Amongst the 88 tracks are 26 previously unreleased songs and many rare recordings. Among the many highlights are a stunning solo performance of 'No End'; the original demo of 'Autopsy'; Fotheringay's reading of 'Silver Threads And Golden Needles'; an alternate take of 'Next Time Around'; home demo versions of 'All Our Days', 'Rising For The Moon' and 'By The Time It Gets Dark'; and a remarkable duet with Jess Roden on 'Losing Game'. Imagine our excitement as reel after reel of multitrack tape was loaded unto the playback machine - would the tape, just marked "Sandy Denny", contain a hitherto unknown recording, an alternate set of lyrics or endless studio chat and false starts? Many days were spent searching for an elusive recording of Sandy singing 'Lord Bateman' - Ashley Hutchings recalled a memorable 1971 session with Steve Winwood playing organ. Careful searching eventually found five reels of tape, unfortunately they all contained rehearsal backing tracks, with no vocals at all. Months of careful research ensures that A Boxful of Treasures is a fitting tribute to the greatest British female artist of her generation. A Boxful of Treasures will be released at the end of September 2004. Included in the long-form box with the 5CDs is a 52 page full colour booklet - foreword by Richard Thompson, biographical essay by Jim Irvin, and coda by Dick Gaughan. Many of those musicians closest to Sandy have generously contributed short reminiscences and stories to the project. The booklet is lavishly illustrated with reproductions from Sandy's original lyric notebooks, plus rare and previously unpublished photographs. The booklet concludes with a full discographical track listing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:52:16 EDT From: Jon45678@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures Thanks, Steve, for sharing the info regarding the upcoming Sandy Denny box! This is great news, indeed! I've been a long-time fan of Denny and her music--I've probably got every available recording she ever made. I really didn't think there was anything left to release! She was certainly a superb artist--one of the very greatest singer/songwriters EVER. A question for Steve or anyone else who might know: did Sandy's daughter Georgia (who would be about 36 years old now) ever become a musical artist herself? Ciao for now, JON BRYANT ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:13:03 EDT From: Jon45678@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Sandy Denny: A Boxful of Treasures > A question for Steve or anyone else who might know: did Sandy's daughter > Georgia (who would be about 36 years old now) ever become a musical artist > herself? Oops, sorry...bad math on my part. Georgia would actually be 27 now... JON BRYANT ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:56:14 -0500 From: rhonda n Subject: MM: Portland Hey kids... I have my 5 lucky winners. Thanks for playing. r ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:51:01 EDT From: TPar102961@aol.com Subject: MM: new singer i found the greatest singer besides patty of course.. ruthie foster.. you can go to cdbaby.com and look for her.. she is out of texas.. what a voice.. travelling shoes is just wonderful. i have already ordered two of her cd's. check it out for some more great music.. looking forward to seeing patty at austin city limits in sept. later teresa from fort worth ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:03:45 -0400 From: "- Deb -" Subject: RE: MM: Off topic: Calexico Yeah, Calexico are great... "Feast of Wire" is *amazing*. I couldn't begin to describe their sound, but the AMG doesn't do too badly: "Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado; Afro-Peruvian music; and '50s and '60s jazz, country, and surf music all factored into Calexico's music...." - -- Deb - ----Original Message---- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:05:59 -0500 From: rhonda n Subject: MM: Off topic: Calexico I heard about Calexico on InSound, a couple of months ago. Recently I've been giving them a good listen and have found them to be one of the best, most original bands I've heard. Their sound is exceptionally unordinary, but if pressed I would have to say they are mariachi-meets-Gomez with a hint of Moody Blues. They have apparently been around since 1995. Why wasn't I informed!? From an Amazon.com review: Calexico's musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move at siesta speed, casually looping and loping along, never getting overheated. http://www.casadecalexico.com r ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V8 #200 *********************************