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Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Monday, April 23 2007 Volume 11 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: N.Y. Times Review ["rockerpgh _" ] MM: Patty Calendar ["Becca Jarry" ] MM: Patty Griffin at the Loft ["Harry McFarland" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:38:12 -0400 From: "rockerpgh _" Subject: MM: N.Y. Times Review Good News for Sad Songs: Hits Don't Need Happiness By JON PARELES Published: April 21, 2007 Patty Griffin cheerfully admitted during her set at the Beacon Theater on Thursday night that she doesn't write many happy songs. Hardly any, in fact. Her folk-rock strummers and countryish waltzes are full of lonely travels and painful separations, of forebodings and sad memories. Patti Griffin performs at The Beacon Theater. She has had startling commercial luck. The Dixie Chicks regularly include Ms. Griffin's songs - like "Top of the World," a man's thoughts before death, and the defiant "Truth No. 2" - on million-selling albums, singing them without oversweetening and drawing attention to the superb albums Ms. Griffin has been making for more than a decade. Some of Ms. Griffin's songs tell stories about characters, like the female aerialist in "Trapeze" who knows "what it feels like to fly" before the song warns, "One of these nights the old girl's going down." Some set out their woes in language that's almost biblical: "There's a war and a plague, smoke and disaster/Lions in the coliseum, screams of laughter," she sang in "Love Throw a Line." That song has a relatively happy ending; others don't. Yet sooner or later tribulation turned into something else: determination, resolution, a kind of melancholy redemption. It happened in the lyrics, as it became clear that she was not so much complaining as speaking forthrightly: "You never get what you want/ And I don't think it's my fault." And it happened even more strongly in the music. Ms. Griffin's voice is high and reedy, akin to Emmylou Harris's in the way it flutters or rushes a line at the beginning of a phrase, and in the way it holds reserves of strength behind frailty. (Her voice doesn't have to be bound to folksy Americana; early in the set she sang a slow, torchy version of the Sam Cooke song "Get Yourself Another Fool.") As she moved through each song, her voice firmed up; Doug Lancio led the band into crescendos behind reverberating guitar lines; a cello or piano eased in to buttress the melody; and somehow the songs became peals: encompassing, reverberating, uplifting. There's a touch of gospel in that transformation, one Ms. Griffin makes explicit in songs like "Up to the Mountains" (based on a speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) or "Heavenly Day." In "Mary" she sang about Jesus' mother as an archetype of loss: "You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes/You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains." But the solace and renewal in her songs aren't a reward for worship. They are earned privately, by facing up to sorrows and insisting, despite them, on the possibility of hope, the way a major chord can chime through tears. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:32:59 -0400 From: "Becca Jarry" Subject: MM: Patty Calendar I found this info while searching for Patty tour merchandise. This is the cutest thing ever! 2007 Music and Mutts Calendar The 2007 Blue Dog Rescue calendar is here! Be one of the first to get the new 2007 Texas Howlers calendar. This 12 month calendar features 12 Texas musicians and the mutts that love them. The calendar is a celebration of 2 of the things that Central Texas loves the most - music and mutts! Bob Schneider, Lyle Lovett, Michael Fracasso, Susan Gibson, Ginger Leigh, Abra Moore, Will Sexton, Bukka Allen, Natalie Maines, Elana James, Terri Hendrix, Slaid Cleaves and Patty Griffin all donated their time and images to the dogs of Blue Dog Rescue. $15.00 http://www.lonestarmusic.com/merch.asp?aid=351&mid=1022 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:43:17 -0700 From: "Harry McFarland" Subject: MM: Patty Griffin at the Loft A friend this a.m. gave me a Feb. 19, 2007, issue of Business Week magazine. In the Executive Life column, a Mike Marrone RAVES about Patty. Marrone is the program director for XM's The Loft. For those have never seen it: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_08/b4022091.htm Harry ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:06:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Linda Neylon Subject: MM: Northampton show I saw Patty last night in Northampton MA. It was just about sold out and I have NEVER seen a better performance from her. She rocked the house totally and seemed so happy. I really think this album is much better than ID. I think it gives her more diversity with her performance. I thought her set was very generous, too. Lindee "I must have walked ten million miles Must have walked ten million miles Wore some shoes that weren't my style Fell into the rank and file So just say I was here a while A fool in search of your sweet smile Ten million miles" ~Patty Griffin~ ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V11 #117 **********************************