What a great concert that was we saw...and just the guy to interview her so insightfully.
jack
· 5 months ago
Saw her solo three of four times in the early '90s. Amazing. And her versions of "Naive Melody" and "Wichita Skyline" are my in my top 20 list of covers of any song by any artist.
kshane
· 5 months ago
Great get Jon, and a great job done with it.
DwDunphy
· 5 months ago
She's a great writer, great voice and not hard on the eyes either, I might add.
EightE1
· 5 months ago
Great interview. Wish she thought more of Live '88, though. I love that record.
I caught the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour when it stopped in Harrisburg, PA, and was happy to revel in all that great music and interplay and fun. Can't wait for the Patty and Buddy album.
Again, Jon, VERY good job.
JonCummings
· 5 months ago
I was surprised at Shawn's answer re: Live '88 as well, but we probably shouldn't be. On her website the "Live Tape" is mentioned prominently -- as it should be, because it was a key part of building a pretty rabid fan base before she even got signed to Columbia. But by the time it was expanded and released as "Live '88," she had long since moved on. She was three albums into her career, and had done "Cover Girl," for which she recorded those shows at the Bottom Line. And since "Live '88" wasn't part of her Columbia catalog and wasn't the basis for heavy promotion on her part, it's easy to understand how it would just be an afterthought for her.
All that said, it IS a great album, and one that brings back a lot of memories for anyone who was at one of her early gigs and played his copy of "Live Tape" into absolute dust in a series of crappy Walkman-like devices.
EightE1
· 5 months ago
My memory involves a long drive from San Francisco to Mendocino in the fall of '97 with that record and Dylan's then-new Time Out of Mind playing in the rental car, one after the other. Lots of highway miles and terrific scenery. I prefer the 1988 live take of "I Don't Know Why" to the version on Fat City, and her cover of S&G's "Kathy's Song" was terrific, too.
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I caught the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour when it stopped in Harrisburg, PA, and was happy to revel in all that great music and interplay and fun. Can't wait for the Patty and Buddy album.
Again, Jon, VERY good job.
All that said, it IS a great album, and one that brings back a lot of memories for anyone who was at one of her early gigs and played his copy of "Live Tape" into absolute dust in a series of crappy Walkman-like devices.
[sigh] Haven't been back out there since.