I've really been enjoying some of the tracks off 'Little Peppermints'... Streets of Soho, Anna, Merry-Go-Round (despite is humerous though slightly disappointing ending). What *great* performances...

Then I listen to tracks on 'Big Dream Boulevard'. which tend towards (in comparison) a much more slick production which I think is not a good thing in this case. 'Helpless Kiss' is a great song... but it sounds like 10,000 maniacs pop and does a good job of completely covering what I consider her strengths. Its almost the same thing on "Dandilion' and 'Diamond on your Hand'...

I hope she doesnt continue to 'refine' her music further into overproduced pop that sounds just like all the other soft-rock junk out there.

Little Peppermints was recorded live.

I love the production on Big Dream Boulevard, I think it complements her vocals very well!

yes... obviously live. :-)

have you given SOLAS a listen... I guess she was opening for them?

-Steve

She is my newfound obsession. I just ordered all three albums.
Listening to her music on her website sucked me in bigtime.
She sounds a bit like a young Natalie Merchant, no?
The lyrics are astounding. Also on this website they include guitar tabs for her songs. How awesome is that?
I see where the site is managed by Pattynet people. Cool.
Need to listen to SOLAS.
T xo

Obvious to you Steve, but possibly not to the general forumship reading along at home.

No, I haven't heard Solas actually. If you're not aware, Antje has an earlier studio album called Boys, Flowers, Miles. I didn't buy it myself because it has a lot of the same songs as BDB, but based on your comments you might enjoy it more -- I think the production is pretty bare bones.

And now we can look forward to a review from Trudes!

Yes, my pal Gillian who invented and maintains the PattyNet forum also designed the websites for Antje and Anais Mitchell (among others) and she badgered me until I listened to both of them. She has wonderful taste in music.

Steve,
I just listened to Solas music on their website. Very nice.
And lo and behold...they played Boulder a month ago.
Late again. This has been my story.

And Sue and I get to see her at The Gingko Coffehouse in St. Paul a week from today, 3/22.
A nice little intimate place, that has just started hosting concerts.
If we get there early enough we should be able to grab the closest couch to the stage
I plan on buying what I don't have yet of hers there.

Good for you Kent.
Grab some pictures if that's allowed. Does she usually stay for a meet and greet or signing?

don't worry camera will be in tow for sure.
it sounds like (from what keith has said) that she is very accessible, so am planning on it.

I've talked to her after all three shows I've gone to, and she even came over to say hi to me at the Lizard Lounge when Patty Griffin played there. She's very friendly and enjoys talking to fans, and also doesn't mind posing for photos. Here's one I took of Anais and her, who are kinda like Mutt & Jeff only prettier:

I checked her tour schedule and she is not coming near me.
Kent..will you let her know someone is waiting for her in Boulder to get her CD signed?

I think she will be in Boston soon, I am going to have to try and see her...

Sue and I went to a wonderful show at the Gingko Coffeehouse in St. Paul tonight.
Antje was fun and very talkative in front of a almost full for a coffeehouse crowd.
I talked with her before and after the show, she told me I was so Minnesotan. Ha!
She played 2 sets, the first about an hour long, the second about 30 minutes. She played most of
Big Dream Boulevard, 3 new ones, a Leonard Cohen cover, and told some good stories in between.
She finished up her set with Opium, Dublin Boys and one of my faves- Sex Bandaid.
Very enjoyable evening. I told she needed to head your way Trudes.
And she said hi Keith!.

Thanks, Kent! So glad you had an opportunity to see her.

Kent,
Thanks for that review and the pictures. Sounds like a nice evening.
And thanks for putting Boulder in her ear.
I can always hope. I hoped hard enough and Kim Taylor came to Boulder, eh! Woo hoo!
I need her email addy.

Very nice clip of Antje doing Pearls, with a short interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PJhYflKps

From the cable TV show Mostly Rock 'n Roll. Some other clips at

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mostlyrocknroll

You can listen to a very nice recording of Antje's March 28, 2007 concert in Cleveland on Folk Alley's web site.

http://www.folkalley.com/music/livefrom/antje_duvekot/

I've also uploaded mp3s of the show, you can grab them for a limited time at

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...C40726C4156367C

01 intro
02 Dandelion
03 Coney Island
04 Christian Boys
05 Long Way
06 Sex Bandaid
07 Hero
08 Famous Blue Raincoat
09 Go Now
10 Pearls
11 South
12 Lost
13 Jerusalem
14 Love is Our Cross to Bear
15 Judas
16 Dead Horse Trampoline

Thanks Keith.

Nice. Thank you indeed. I love her stuff....

I saw her perform in NYC Thursday before she left for her European dates, she was wonderful! She said that she's in love for the first time in her life and the new song Coney Island was written about that relationship.

I think there were about 40 of us there at Mo Pitkin's for her show compared to 20 last year, so that's progress!

yay, Antje's coming back up here again on 12/6.
here's her upcoming schedule

Friday Nov 23
Sudbury, MA Fox Run Concerts

Saturday Nov 24
Jim Thorpe, PA Mauch Chunk Opera House

Wednesday Nov 28
Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom

Thursday Nov 29
Ann Arbor, MI Dani and Meghan's House Concert Series

Friday Nov 30
Grand Rapids, MI Schuler Books

Saturday Dec 1
Macomb, IL Tri-State Public Radio

Sunday Dec 2
Wilmette, IL Lilfest House Concert

Wednesday Dec 5
Ft. Atkinson, WI Cafe Carpe

Thursday Dec 6
St. Paul, MN Gingko Coffeehouse

Thursday Dec 13
Portland, ME One Longfellow Square

Sunday Dec 16
Saratoga Springs, NY Caffe Lena

Tuesday Dec 18
Larchmont, NY Watercolor Cafe

Friday Dec 21
Doylestown, PA Puck

My PattyPal® Gerry and I saw Antje tonight at the Uptown Coffeehouse in Riverside NY, a nice little venue where he and I had seen her play about a year ago. She played two sets, introduced us to her new Gibson Hummingbird guitar (which sounded great) and announced she would be recording a new album this Spring -- YAY!! She said the album will be "30% happier" than Big Dream Boulevard, since it will have three happy songs (out of ten) that she's written since she fell in love for the first time in her life about 10 months ago. Antje looked and sounded wonderful, I think her new beau and the $50K she received for the Bank of America TV ad that used her song Merry Go Round have both really lifted her spirits. She even did a great little upbeat Gershwin tune for her encore.

Gerry got some great photos & video and I got a soundboard + mics recording of the show, so stay tuned!

woo HOO!!

Here's the set list from Antje's show last night:

First Set
1 Pearls
2 Reasonland
3 Christian Boys
4 winter monologue
5 Long Way
6 Dandelion (for Jacob)
7 Coney Island

Second Set
1 Ballad of Penny Evans (a capella)
2 Alabama Fields
3 Hero
4 Famous Blue Raincoat
5 as yet untitled
6 Merry Go Round
7 Anna
8 They All Laughed

The new songs are killer and the recording turned out very nicely! You can download a zip file of hi-fi mp3s from http://kbergend.tripod.com/antje2008-02-10.zip

Or you can download the show in FLAC format via FTP:

address: ftp.tapers.org
login: ftp4all
password: ftp4all
directory: /drive1/antjeduvekot2008-02-10.matrix.flac16

nice. Grabbed a copy of this. Thank you.

-Steve

Thank you Keith. Txo

A few pics of Antje (and her new Gibson Hummingbird) from her show last Sunday, courtesy of Gerry on PattyNet:

I dig the song 'Reasonland' here. Not a bad version of 'Anna' either.