Singer-Songwriter: Contemporary American Acoustic-Folk-Pop

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Acoustic, FOLK: Folk Pop



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âPatti's new record is beautiful, her voice is so radiant, and the writing is better than ever.â
â Rosanne Cash

âIt is all about the songwriting. Patti is one of the finest independent songwriters writing today and 'Tell The Wind' is a natural follow up to her previous efforts. While many songwriters sing about losing a love, Patti sings about the emotions and feelings that run through you. This is one of those CDs where you are glad there are written lyrics to enjoy as you listen. Go buy all of Pattiâs CDs.â
â Bruce Greenburg, The Promise Live

About Tell The Wind
Produced by Rich DePaolo (Donna The Buffalo, The Burns Sisters, The Samples). Songs by Patti Witten except "Dandelion" (M. Jagger/K. Richard) and "Perfect Blue" (P. Witten/R. DePaolo). Performed by Patti Witten and Rich DePaolo, with Bill King (drums on 1,2,3,4,6, and 7), Robby Aceto (guitar on 10) and Robert Powell (pedal steel guitar on 5).

This is Patti's 4th album and the follow-up to 2003âs Sycamore Tryst, which earned several awards including Best Contemporary Folk CD (Ithaca Journal), ROCKRGRL Magazine Discoveries 2004, 3rd Place Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Song Contest, and Top 5 Finalist for Best Female Singer-Songwriter Album (Indie Acoustic Project). The theme linking many of the songs is love lost or gone awry, and itâs symbol is the wind â from the crows wheeling overhead on the CDâs cover art to the up-tempo, Joni Mitchell-infused "Encircled," and from the breezy, Beatlesque cover of "Dandelion" to the folk gospel of the title track. DePaoloâs layered arrangements feature Pattiâs Colvinesque voice and acoustic guitar plus his own acoustic and electric guitar, bass, organ, trumpet, even toy piano, with economical use of drums played by Bill King and guest appearances from Robby Aceto (Tom Tom Club) on guitar and Robert Powell (Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne) on pedal steel guitar. Patti also did the graphic design for the CDâs unique plastic-free packaging.

About Patti
Patti Witten is no stranger to twists of fate. A self-taught guitarist with a background in classical music, she played as a sideman on alto flute and rhythm guitar in local bands through the 1980s. But Patti quit the bands and bars in 1990 after the untimely death of her husband and music partner. Patti then worked as a graphic artist and book illustrator for nearly a decade while her guitar gathered dust. But the hiatus ended when, searching for solace during the collapse of her second marriage and the aftermath of her father's sudden death, she picked up her guitar and began to write. Fate stepped in once more â on the merits of a homemade audition tape she was invited to join in a songwriting workshop led by Rosanne Cash. Patti had finally found her voice as a songwriter. Over the next few years Pattiâs accomplishments grew quickly. She released three independent CDs, won songwriting contest awards like Grand Prize in the Great American Song Contest, played gigs from Seattle to NYC, saw TV and film placements, and had radio play nationwide and in Europe. But fate was not through with her. Disillusioned with the life of a touring musician and the "not-just-another-folk-singer" moniker, Patti would nearly call it quits in 2005. Ironically, once freed from the expectations of performing Patti began work on the songs that would become her new album, Tell the Wind.