Re: Fetch Me the Pongmaster!

[Ysobelle@aol.com]

On 1/16/04 7:55 AM, quoth the effervescent dtemmesfeld@eim-inc.com at 
dtemmesfeld@eim-inc.com:

>1) Peter Mulvey's new album _Kitchen Radio_ comes out
>(on the internet) on February 9th... regular retail
>(or at least music shops "in the know") on March 9th.
>He's got an mp3 sample at:
>
>http://www.petermulvey.com/music.html



I just saw the man himself a few hours ago at The Point in Bryn Mawr. He 
was amazing. Absofuckinglutely astonishing, not just for the torrents of 
lush, spare, understated, overwhelming brilliance that came off the 
stage, but for the smack upside the head that's almost humbling, and 
which comes from seeing someone so bound to their work, so passionate 
about it, that it makes you think-- okay, it makes ME think-- what the 
hell am I doing with my life?

He's also funny as hell, and can throw a snippet of story into a song 
introduction so fast that you're still laughing while he's halfway to the 
chorus. And he wishes Kucinich stood a snowball's chance. I mentioned I'd 
first seen him at the Emery in '96, and he lit up. "You know, my wife and 
I were in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of fame, and we walked in, and there was 
ther poster for that show! And there was my name!" He was quite well 
chuffed.

Guitarist David Goodrich-- Goody-- is with him again/still, and he's a 
class unto himself. As astonished as I was with Paul Moak, that's how 
astonished I am with Goody, and I've seen him several times. A friend of 
mine compared him to Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Goody won. They're doing 
songs from all of Peter's albums, as well as unreleased stuff, and 
covers. His next album is out in three weeks, then he's got a DVD coming 
out, then maybe another album and another DVD. We talked for a few 
minutes about how he thinks the emphasis in the music business is all 
wrong-- that you do one album, promote the hell out of it, then do 
another, promote the hell out of that, etc. But the big artists-- he 
mentioned Dolly Parton and several others-- just put out albums when 
they're ready, and can play things from anywhere in their catalogue. If 
you follow the links from his site, there's a great little clip from The 
Buzz, and he talks about how he sees the business, and his place in it. I 
don't know if I've ever seen anyone so fully following their bliss.

Bottom line: if this show's gonna be anywhere near you, just go.








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