More Patty Griffin!

This is a great Patty Griffin song. And we were talking about her, right? Right?

It starts with a short interview with a woman who appears to be quite sweet and humble, but it ends with a strong and assured performance of one of my favorite songs.

(The audio of the interview is poor, but I think that's owing to the fact that they wanted to segue into the better audio of the performance -- trust me, it's worth it!)

Surprise!

I had a fantastic weekend!

First, I got up on Saturday and worked out, then I went and had a fabulous mani/pedi that bk got for me as a thanks for working in the yard, then bk and I jumped in the car for our trip to Cincinnati and my surprise that he's been not telling me about for two months.

I had once said something about loving Patty Griffin, so I had a funny feeling it would be her, but I had checked her website and there were no tour dates so I didn't think so. I really didn't know.

But it was. PATTY GRIFFIN! Not only that, but Patty Griffin playing with Shawn Colvin (!), Emmylou Harris (!), and Buddy Miller (?). The show was called Three Girls and Their Buddy and it was amazing. The artists each sang a song (accompanied almost always by Buddy on guitar and Patty singing backup and playing a little drum), and then passed it on to the next person. I think there were five rounds plus encores, so we heard a lot of music.

(bk took this picture with his cell phone, that's why it's so small. That's a tiny joke. Heh. You can click on it to see the bluriness larger.)

Shawn Colvin's voice is like velvet and she is strikingly beautiful in a way that does not come through in pictures or video. She's a goddess. She sang some of her own stuff, but she also sang a Beatles cover that was really nice ("I'll Be Back" -- you would know it you heard it, it starts out "You know, if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back..."). Buddy Miller was awesome as hell -- he's one of those guys that just plays the hell out of a guitar and sings the hell out of a song. I know it's not quite accurate, but imagine the Blues Brothers and throw in a bit of a country flavor. Emmylou Harris forgot the words to a song she was singing and she started over and I was really kind of afraid for her, but then she got going and she OWNED the song. It was probably one of the best performances of the night. All of that said, Patty Griffin was amazing and moving and I enjoyed it. Her first and last songs were my favorites of the night. She just has that pure voice and she seemed invested in all of the performances (which wasn't the case for Emmylou or Shawn), and her songs are so great. She sang, among others, Heavenly Day (which I had heard before, but did not know is about her dog - heh), and then they closed the show with Mary. I had tears pouring down my face it was so wonderful. (Thanks bk.)

I found this video of Mary, and this performance is similar to the show we saw. Enjoy.



Local review

Exhaustion

I am so tired. I can't keep up with anything.

I'm exhausted. I don't sleep well, I don't eat right, I can't do enough fast enough, I can't not be miserable and fat. I am annoyed with everything.

I keep running up that road, keep running up that hill.

This is kind of an amazing (but slightly awful) cover, and it captures how I felt about the original. If I only could.



Go ahead, tell me to shake it off. You may lose a toe (but I promise it will be a small one).

p.s. Is it time to reset the dang layoff/slash/resignation clock yet? I am dizzy.