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Patches and Gretchen
12+ albums
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“Music From Little Big Pink” is the debut release from Patches and Gretchen, which is Minneapolis musician/songwriter, Gretchen Seichrist. This, her first release, coincided with the release of Aimee Mann’s new album, Smilers, which featured the song Medicine Wheel, co-written by Gretchen and Aimee. Local songwriter/musician Devin Hill, describes her as “a cross between Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Big Star’s Sister Lovers, and good old-fashioned Gestalt therapy!” Devin recalls that Seichrist “had a wild, unconventional approach to guitar playing and singing, but very engaging. Then I saw her lyrics and was extremely impressed. I ‘helped’ her with songwriting and playing. Turns out she had tons of demos and had been writing lyrics in relative isolation for years. She put together a batch of demos and, Captain Beefheart-style, went to Sparta Sound Studio in northern Minnesota, and in 36 hours recorded a 16-song album with Rich Mattson, and other talented musicians that Rich had rounded up.” When she returned, she sent her album to Chris Roberts, host of The Current radio station, and within a month was playing live on The Current’s Local Show with musicians John Eller, and Dave Boquist. (Son Volt) Seichrist is not naïve. She sings with a husky, wise voice with the unguarded, private quality of a girl with a hairbrush microphone in her bedroom mirror. She admits she’s pretending to be a rock star but knows her songs are offkilter. She sounds like a cigar-smoking bulldog sin
