You can help make the pie we are all going to eat.
I need help to get it pressed and you can pre- order the album and/or donate to this and I’ll send you the signed cd with something special – oh no here comes the school bus! gotta go!
Donate to the making of Sugar Head Pie!
Alright, let’s cut the crap. I’m poor and have an anxiety disorder. But I’m straight and that’s a hard road.
No pills to smooth the edges! No, no, no just songs If you want to donate to getting sugar head pie made,do it here. I’ll send you a nutshell and a cd when it’s done. Or I can sing you a song about medical bills, panic attacks, people on your back, lovers in the cracks, the never ending urge to flee, the sadness that you can’t sell, the self eating up the self, but then i digress -here it is in a coffee filter….
either way I’m going do it, and it’s all for you.
How was the show review of Patches and Gretchen
9/16/2009 Gretchen Seichrist of Patches and Gretchen
The Mad Ripple Hootenanny is on hiatus after last Friday’s hoot at its most recent home, The Music Box Theater on Nicollet in Minneapolis.
But it ended its latest season with a bang in an extended five-hour show featuring Twin Cities guitar hero, Slim Dunlap and full length sets from Patches and Gretchen and Venus DeMars.
Patches and Gretchen plays infrequently,( not really) so it was a treat to see them Friday at The Music Box, where singer/songwriter Gretchen Seichrist and her band performed songs from their 2008 album Music from Little Big Pink as well as new songs due to appear on a soon-to-be-released disc (Sugar Head Pie) Seichrist is currently gathering resources to press. Music from Little Big Pink got great reviews, called one of the best Minnesota albums of 2008 by one music authority (former Local Show host Chris Roberts). Music writer Jim Walsh dubbed Seichrist “Artist of the Year” that same year.
Seichrist’s songs are brutally honest and refreshingly so, sometimes resembling music you might expect to hear at a circus in Hell. Her Facebook profile is littered with dozens of additional songs recorded at impromptu late night sessions with her many musician friends. Whatever your personal taste might lead you to think about Seichrist’s low-fi dark folk contributions to the musical canon (listen to some of her songs here), it’s difficult to argue that it’s not at a bare minimum interesting, fresh, and probably even important.
Seichrist tossed off songs with the same determined flippancy with which she tossed printed cards to the floor from an open suitcase she had on stage with her Friday night. But even from the back row I couldn’t look away.
Lisa Stoltz Uhlig took this photo of Seichrist at the show, and Debbie Donovan got this great video of her performing “Crying States” with her band which at this show included Terry Eason, David Loy, Tommy Tousey, Al Schroeter and Jaime Paul Lamb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp77E7Y7Sog
Photo by: Lisa Stoltz Uhlig
Text by: David de Young
I caught your show at the Music Box last week…I’ve been kind of bored with the music scene lately–thanks for waking me up! You guys are great-hope the rest of this town figures it out soon..
all the best,
Rebecca Graham
ORANGE, STRAWBERRY AND BANANA………Oh hi, I’m Patches and Gretchen, and so is my band, and I am also Gretchen Seichrist, the founder and ruler of Patches and Gretchen. It’s a complicated thing, you don’t need to worry about it.
Anyway,
Here is my band: Terry Eason, David Loy, Tommy Tousey, and Jaime Paul Lamb
