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Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Friday, June 22 2007 Volume 11 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: RE: 10 Million Miles show ["Chris Negrin" ] MM: Fwd: Set sail with Patty Griffin! [freckledangel@aol.com] MM: Lucy Kaplansky, Doug Lancio ["Luca, Joseph \(EHS\)" Subject: MM: RE: 10 Million Miles show I saw it opening night and I really enjoyed it, it's a musical not a play so don't be confused. Yes - it had some things that still needed to be worked out but that's typical of any show. I don't want to spoil the show but I will say that all of the music is Patty's and much of it will be familiar. It absolutely worth seeing and I though Mare Winningham was stunning. Shw was full of the heart and grace that makes patty's music so powerful, I'm sure patty is proud. Chris - -----Original Message----- From: owner-mad-mission@smoe.org [mailto:owner-mad-mission@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Golda Rademacher Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:39 PM To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: MM: 10 Million Miles show So has anyone seen the off-Broadway show 10 Million Miles yet? I've read a couple mixed reviews, so far, but if it's Patty's music, it can't be that bad. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:14:33 -0400 From: freckledangel@aol.com Subject: MM: Fwd: Set sail with Patty Griffin! Sounds like fun...a friend just sent me this. The lineup sounds great, I'm hankering for a cruise, I might just save my pennies... - -----Original Message----- From: Katie Fleissner To: freckledangel@aol.com Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 8:54 am Subject: Fwd: Set sail with Patty Griffin! Wow, if we could scrounge up $800 by next February, his would be a total blast! ote: forwarded message attached. _____________________________________________________________________________ ______ ooking for earth-friendly autos? rowse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. ttp://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ Attached Message From: PGteamPal To: flowingyoga@yahoo.com Subject: Set sail with Patty Griffin! Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:21:17 -0500 (CDT) If your email software mangled this message, view it online at [http://www.pattygriffin.com/scripts/viewemail.php?TR=MjQzMzQ2MywyNjMsNzc5Myw w] Join Patty along with many of todaybs most critically acclaimed artists on a truly unique music experience, Cayamo: A Journey Through Song, February 4-10, 2008. Cayamo is a 6-day Caribbean cruise featuring the crC(me de la crC(me of songwriters, including headliners and Grammy award winners, Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris, in addition to Patty Griffin, John Hiatt, Shawn Colvin, Buddy Miller, Brandi Carlile, Danny Flowers, The Duhks, Shawn Mullins, Ari Hest, Josh Rousse and more.B They will be joined by other great songwriters and emerging artists for the inaugural cruise, which stops in Cozumel, Mexico; Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Music aficionados will love the intimate setting onboard the luxurious Carnival Victory as they travel with like-minded fans for this one-of-a-kind, free-wheeling concert at sea.B Catch your favorite artists in nightclub-like settings and what is sure to be plenty of spontaneous moments that you will remember for a lifetime. Along the way webll visit beautiful destinations and enjoy a first-class cruise experience including a full-service spa, state-of-the-art gym facilities, fine dining, a casino, coffee bar, cigar bar and more. Cayamo sets sail from Miami FL on Monday, February 4 and returns Sunday, February 10, 2008.B Cruise fare starts at $799/pp (US$) based on double-occupancy. We hope youbll join Patty Griffin and friends next year for a magical vacation.B Full details can be found by visiting http://www.cayamo.com.B Visit today to subscribe to the Cayamo mailing list and, as a fan of Pattybs, register in advance to book a cabin during a priority pre-sale to get the best pick on cabins & seats to the main theater shows!B Remaining cabins will be released July 16th to the public. B This is an outbound e-mail only and replies will not be responded to or reviewed. This email was transmitted by echomusic on behalf of Patty Griffin: 1101 17th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:06:02 -0400 From: "Luca, Joseph \(EHS\)" Subject: MM: Lucy Kaplansky, Doug Lancio Howdy--- Since the topic of Lucy Kaplansky has arisen a bit lately, I thought I'd pass on a link to a Folkwax review of her new disc. In addition, they also review Gretchen Peters's new disk, produced by Doug Lancio. I'll paste in the reviews, but if you'd like to read more, or rate the discs, go to www.folkwax.com , and tell them that "darboy" sent you... Ciao, Joe Well Written, Beautifully Performed, (04/11/07) Burnt Toast & Offerings, Gretchen Peters' fourth studio outing and fifth album overall, finds her breaking new ground, while retaining a grip on familiar terra firma. The main element of "new ground" is guitar whiz and album co-producer Doug Lancio (Greencards, Matthew Ryan, Patty Griffin). Former husband Green Daniel produced her previous releases. With the exception of one cut that I'll highlight later most of the recording sessions took place in Nashville at new locations - mainly David Henry's TrueTone Studio, with overdubbing at Lancio's basement studio. Paul Hart, who worked on Peters' Halcyon [2004] and live recording Trio [2005], shares the engineering role with Henry (album producer for Rod Picott, David Mead, Slaid Cleaves). The latter reinforces this wedding of familiar and new. Henry's contributions on cello are simply stunning and he also plays euphonium and trumpet also. Pursuing further the familiar, Peters retains her established studio back line of John Gardner (drums, percussion) and Dave Francis (bass), plus recording/touring companion Barry Walsh (electric piano, organ, glockenspiel). A Nashville resident since 1988, during her first decade in the Country music capital, Peters established a second-to-none reputation as a talented songwriter, although her songs, like "On A Bus To St. Cloud," were far from typical Country music fare, and in 1996 Peters launched her solo recording career. While Peters' initial albums were filled with favourite songs drawn from her vast pool of original material, Burnt Toast & Offerings finds her thematic approach to making albums move on apace. Unlike the 1990 Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore movie (of the same name), Peters' "Ghost" is very much alive, although, sadly, the flame of love no longer burns strong and bright in her life. Rather, it has been extinguished by time, familiarity, and the progression of indifference - it happens! Launched by Henry's ghostly sounding cello, early on listen for the perceptible exhalation of breath as the narrator recalls one of life's remaining pleasures "soaking in the bath." The latter is Lancio's opening gambit in this marriage of musical and occasional, spot-on, ambient sounds. The narrator's words are resigned rather than bitter, that is until the closing "But would it have killed you to say my name? "Sunday Morning (Up And Down My Street)," set on the traditional day of rest, is pretty much a portrait of domestic bliss. Pursuing that vein there's mention of Sunday papers, a sleepy neighbour, a cat curled at your feet, breakfast frying, a baby crying, and more, although the lyric ends with the cautionary "And the day is comin'/When we won't be sad no more." The latter cloud apart, Peters' melody is as bright as a sunny summer day and her counterpoint vocal in verse three is one of this album's many musical delights. Remaining seasonal, the narrator in "Summer People" is a harassed holiday resort waitress with attitude, as evidence by "I've got a long list of reasons and a very short fuse." Peters' "Jezebel" is a fallen angel, while, for me, the lyric hinged on the line "your pride's your gift, and love your only sin." Peters employs a Jazz-inflected melody to underpin the five verses of "Thirsty." The opening verse is chock full of negatives: "What makes your heart so bitter" and in the next there's mention of the devil at the bottom of the whisky glass. Whereas the focus in the foregoing is "you," in the ensuing pair (of verses) it's "me," and in the final verse "we." The question arises, is the narrator's thirst actual or fantasy; is it a craving or an aspiration? Listen and decide! As I noted at the outset, Peters' recording career began just over a decade ago and in this new millennium she has regularly toured the U.K. Respected and loved here, "England Blues" is quite simply a personal thank you full of insider nods and geographic references wrapped up in a fun Rock 'n' Roll road song. If you were paying attention, you'll recall that I've already mentioned David Henry and David Mead. Henry produced Mead's 2004 album Indiana, a recording that Peters rates highly. Peters and Mead have co-written a number of songs including "The Lady Of The House." Mead contributes a harmony vocal to this fictional tale in which a door-to-door salesman calls on "The Lady Of The House." As the verses unfolded and I became familiar with the protagonists, the thought occurred that this lonely lady could be the "Ghost." Wary at the outset, by the close she (silently) reflects, "It's not unthinkable/That you might love me." While hardly a shoo-in, Peters has been known to cover songs by other writers. Having attended the West End (London) musical The Rat Pack, which included the 1943 Johnny Mercer/Howard Arlen composition "One For My Baby," Peters began including the song in her live shows. The version featured here was recorded at her song publisher Sony Tree's Nashville Studio A and was produced by Barry Walsh and Peters. "Summer People" and "The Way You Move Me" date from 2004 and are the oldest songs here. The theme of the latter is the indefinable spark that ignites love, while musically speaking the cut, their first production collaboration, only features Peters and Doug Lancio. "This Town" is Nashville and Peters' lyric acknowledges the changes she has witnessed/experienced while living there. Another Lancio production curve ball, John Mock's concertina and pennywhistle imbue "This Town" with a Celtic flavour. The lyric to the penultimate track, "Breakfast At Our House," references "burnt toast and offerings" and this bittersweet number reflects, for one couple, upon the fading of passion and the death of love. It happens! The track closes with a long instrumental break, a reflection, possibly upon the lyric? Track two, the words "bells" and "breakfast" feature in the "Sunday Morning (Up And Down My Street)" lyric. Both resurface in the penultimate cut, one via the song title, the other in the ambient sound of bells that follow the aforementioned instrumental break. Such symmetry! "To Say Goodbye," the closing cut, opens with a mom-pop-and-apple-pie-verse before taking a subjectively sharp and serious left turn. A paean to change and survival, further ambience lies in the tracks' ethereal time lapsed backing vocal, while Dave Henry's cello work is to die for. Referencing the past as well as the present? The closing verse begins "Ghosts and angels on my street now." Considering the title of the opening track this could be accidental symmetry or, simply the presence of an enchanting spirit in the music. Currently available in the U.K., Burnt Toast & Offerings will be released in the States during July. All told this is a memorable collection of well-written, beautifully performed songs. And that's more than enough. Memories And More, (04/11/07) The ten songs on Over The Hills are equally divided between covers and original songs penned by Lucy Kaplansky and husband Richard Litvin. Furthermore, this is the fourth consecutive album that Ben Wittman has produced for the Chicago-bred songbird. A comfort zone becomes inherent in such a long-term relationship and considering Over The Hills as a whole, that's certainly apparent by the close of Kaplansky's sixth studio recording. On her previous studio outing, The Red Thread [2004], the focus of the material penned by the Litvins was two-fold, bringing their adopted daughter from China to America and recollections and reflections on 9/11 - - the couple live in Manhattan. Kaplansky's fourth album, Every Single Day was released on 9/11! Family, as we shall see, continues to be the couple's focus on Over The Hills. "Manhattan Moon," the first track, is a lullaby for their daughter Molly in which Kaplansky maternally muses "I used to travel in a straight line/Now I'm walking on a road that winds/You take my hand we take our time/Oh, we take our time." Now that the kids are up and gone "Amelia" reflects on her long, joyless married life and befriending a young woman ensures that her new friend won't fall into the same trap. Concurrent with her late 2001 tour of the U.K., Zev Katz, Kaplansky's then bass player was also in the country working on the Brian Ferry album Frantic [2002]. Through a series of happy accidents Lucy ended up contributing backing vocals to Frantic, and on Over The Hills she covers Ferry's "More Than This." The song made its debut on the eighth Roxy Music album Avalon, released in June 1982. When released as a single "More Than This" reached #6 in the U.K., but it totally stalled in the States. While I've always found Ferry's vocal style irritating yet mannered, Kaplansky reads this quarter-century-old chestnut as a tender ballad. Two more cover songs follow. Midway through 1963 the June Carter/Merle Kilgore co-write "Ring Of Fire," performed by the late Johnny Cash, held the position of #1 U.S. Country single for a period of seven weeks, while "Swimming Song" opened Loudon Wainwright's 1973 album Attempted Moustache. Kaplansky's reading of the former is, as expected, very much driven by bass and drums, as for Wainwright's three-decades-old lyric, it still manages to amuse. Kaplansky's late father Irving [d. 2006] permeates many strands of Over The Hills and "Today's The Day" is a loving daughter's farewell - "It's the imprint of how you've lived/That shines so bright in me." If "Today's The Day" is by way of a closing chapter, Kaplansky anticipates a future reunion - "There's a place that we'll both know/I will meet you there" - then "Over The Hills," which follows, must be the epilogue - "There will always be/This one true thing/I'll be with you/When you remember me." Eliza Gilkyson delivers an impressive backing vocal here and Richard Shindell, Jonatha Brooke, and Buddy Miller contribute their voices to other cuts. In fact Miller sings on his wife Julie's "Somewhere Trouble Don't Go," a song he covered in 1999 on his Hightone Records release Cruel Moon. The fifth and final cover song, Ian Tyson's bronc bustin' love song "Someday Soon," made its public debut on the 1964 Ian & Sylvia album Northern Journey and Judy Collins' pretty much made the song her own when it appeared on Who Knows Where The Time Goes [1968]. At the outset of the previous paragraph I noted that Irving Kaplansky permeates many strands of this album. Over The Hills closes with "The Gift," wherein Kaplansky poignantly delves further into her ancestry with a recollection of her paternal grandfather who "came to Canada" but "Never saw his children grown" due to his passing while still relatively young. Thematically, Kaplansky again invokes genetic legacy - the gift - in the closing verse "My voice was passed down to me/Through the family line/The gifts that we are given/Are the gifts we leave behind." Expressing her thanks for the gift, the liner booklet includes dedications to the memory of the late Bob Feldman [d. 2006], Red House Records founder, as well as, obviously, her beloved father Irving. ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V11 #143 **********************************