From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V12 #10 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 * Also, PLEASE do not quote an entire digest when you reply to the * list.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 Friday, February 27 2009 Volume 12 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Other Voices [Geoff Davis ] MM: Dumpster Tapes [Geoff Davis ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:17:55 -0500 From: Geoff Davis Subject: MM: Other Voices I'm glad you like her, Janet! Shannon is an incredible and (sadly) largely unknown artist. I would have to say she's my favorite find of the last few years. I saw a show a year ago with her and an accompanying guitarist and it was a sublime performance. Geronimo is an amazing record. North American Ghost Music, her live release, is also very good. And she made a record with Charlie Sexton (Southside Sessions ) that's also fantastic and one with Neal Casal (Ran On Pure Lightning) that's really good, too. Jukebox Sparrows, her first release, is okay--she was kind of manipulated by her record company into heading for slightly poppier territory and the results don't quite electrify in the way that Geronimo does. Still, if you fall in love with her as I did, it's worth checking out just to hear more from her. Hopefully her unreleased record will some day see the light of day. I'm not sure what else you've been missing (it's a question I'm always asking myself!), but other favorite singer-songstresses in my house include Neko Case (ahhh, that voice!), Tift Merritt (a singer as sweet as her songs), Kathleen Edwards (she who writes like no one else), Cindy Bullens (a bit of a rocker, but powerfully so), Carrie Rodriquez (her new record was produced by (!) Malcolm Burn), and Susan Cowsill (yes, she of the once famous singing Cowsills but oh man what songs and what soul)). Each of these artists write wonderful songs and sing the hell out of them. I can recommend them all without reservation. They're all different from one another and from Patty, but all fall into a similar kind of alt county/roots rock/Americana vein that is the one I love to mine. Have fun! > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:57:40 -0600 (Central Standard Time) > From: "JJ" > Subject: Re: MM: Record Company Insanity > > WOW..............Shannon McNally is awesome! I'm purchasing Geronimo off i-tunes as we speak. What else have I been missing? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:57 -0500 From: Geoff Davis Subject: MM: Dumpster Tapes Wow. That's totally crazy. If you ever get that stuff transferred to a format the rest of the world (i.e. me) can play, I'd love to hear it. You may have the rarest of the rare. I know there are places and studios that will take obscure formats and transfer their contents to CD, etc. It would be fascinating to give it a spin. Let us know if you ever are able to extract the sounds within. That said, I dig that Patty is in a different place now and doesn't want to rehash old struggles and ancient sounds. I can understand her perspective. But I also have to think that as a fan herself (she's told, for example, stories about her Springsteen idolatry), she could understand how her fans might want to hear what's gone missing and find what value in that stuff that they can for themselves. To play and enjoy what was doesn't diminish what is. It's just another part of the story, a chapter that got lost along the way. I know artists move and change and often look back and wonder what they were thinking and doing back when, but creation is long process in which the place one is today is dependent on where one has been before. You can argue quite strongly, I think, the point that without ELWG, we don't get Children Running Through because it's all one chain with each link leading to the other. Lose the first link and the path would have been different, not worse or bad, just different. So in this sense, ELWG is as vital a part of Patty's evolution as Flaming Red or 1000 Kisses. Its the ultimate root of all we know today. For a real fan, which we all are, that's a treasure for which no price can be named. > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:43:15 -0500 > From: zelly72@aol.com > Subject: MM: Re: Electric LWG? > > Many moons ago, I actually purchased off of ebay some tapes of old Patty stuff.? They are the actual recordings - ok, I'm terrible at music terminology, but they are the actual tape they were recorded on so you need a special tape player to play them on.? Anyways, I'd have to look back to see which songs are on there, but I think it is pretty much all of the ELWG but with no vocals - so just the music that was going to be used.? There was also a regular cassette tape in there with some additional stuff, one being a song (with vocals)?I had never heard before, of course I can't remember the name of it right now.? No idea if these are the actual music they were going to use for ELWG or not.? The guy I bought them from said he found them in a dumpster by some music studio (along with a ton of other stuff from other musicians). ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V12 #10 *********************************