From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V11 #40 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 * Also, PLEASE do not quote an entire digest when you reply to the * list.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 Wednesday, February 7 2007 Volume 11 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: NYC Show 2/06/07 ["Lisa Zwick" ] MM: lukewarm CRT review in Austin Chronicle ["Lawrence Israelson" Subject: MM: NYC Show 2/06/07 I can't write much now b/c I need to try to catch a couple of hrs of sleep before I get up at 3:30 am. Not even sure that's possible b/c I'm on sucha high niw. This was quite possibly the best Patty concert I've been to, making it the best show I've been to, period. There were about 4 or 5 of us who got there over an hr before they opened the doors, and had to stand outside in the bitter cold to keep our spots. Took some shifts to run to Dunkin Donuts, but it didn't help much - couldn't feel my fingers or toes. But it was SOOOO worth it. I got to sit front row and Patty was just so incredible. They must really go out of their way to make sure everything goes right when it's being recorded, b/c the sound was amazing throughout. The music never drowned her out except in the last song, one I hadn't heard before, where they were rocking so hard you could barely hear her words. She played Top of the World near the end, and IMO, it would have been worth going just for that one song. My friend thanked me, after the first or second song, for making her come. She's gonna check out more of her music now. The venue was gorgeous, perfect atmosphere for Patty. It really could not have been better. I was thinking, as she played Standing, my least favorite of her songs, that even her songs that I'm not so fond of, are more enjoyable that some other artists' best songs. Oh and (sorry this is so rambling) she played Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home, but had to restrt three times...it was the only song she messed up, but it came out perfectly the third time. If I think of anything else I'll write more tomorrow. I meant to ask for a copy of the setlist, but I forgot. Hopefully someone else got one or wrote it down. Anyway, g'night...gonna see if I can sleep after this (yeah right!). - -Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:09:41 -0800 From: "Lawrence Israelson" Subject: MM: lukewarm CRT review in Austin Chronicle Tough crowd in Patty's adoptive hometown... http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A441511 BY MELANIE HAUPT Patty Griffin Children Running Through (ATO) As brushed snares and upright bass usher in "You'll Remember," the torch song opening Patty Griffin's fifth album, Children Running Through, fans of the Austin singer-songwriter will feel that familiar thrill of letting her new material seep into their persons. From the start, Griffin's demonstrated a preternatural ability to craft songs that bring folks to their knees, songs like "Making Pies" and "Long Ride Home" on 2002's 1000 Kisses, and follow-up Impossible Dream's "Useless Desires." These songs lend a powerful feminine (and even feminist) voice to those who are too broken to speak for themselves. While the tracks on Children Running Through that should be emotional ringers, "Trapeze," a duet with Emmylou Harris featuring the two steel magnolias weaving their voices together in a breathtaking aural tapestry, and "Burgundy Shoes," are both lovingly written and performed, they lack the resonance of material from Griffin's previous two albums. By now, these songs that writhe under the weight of life's tragedies and unfulfilled dreams are starting to feel a bit . done. Has Griffin lost touch with the incandescent anger that fueled her previous work? It's hard to tell. Meanwhile, Children's growth feels stunted. * * .5 Affordable Dental Insurance Reliable dental insurance for self employed & families . Free quotes.

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