Line up: Patricia Vonne (guitar-vocals-castanets) Robert LaRoche (guitar-vocals) Harmen de Bresser (bass-vocals) Ruud van Bree (drums).
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Texas hat eine vielseitige Musikszene zu bieten, die Texas
Outlaws der 70-er Jahre haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Das Land, das Legenden
hervorgebrachte wie ZZ-TOP, Bugs Henderson und Stevie Ray Vaughn, hat etwas
geboren, was sich zu einer weiteren entwickeln könnte. Mit einer Stimme, die
vom Texas Music Magazine als stark, sinnlich, geschmeidig und endlos hörbar
bejubelt wurde, vermischt Patricia Vonne ihre lebhaften musikalischen
Tex-Mex-Wurzeln mit Rock, Country und Blues ebenso, wie mit den Corridas und
Rancheras von ihrem mexikanischen Erbe. Mit ihrer Stimme, ihrem Einsatz von
mexikanischen und amerikanischen Stilelementen sowie einer Leidenschaft für
rockige Sounds, kreiert Patricia Vonne eine einzigartige Mischung. Geboren
wurde sie in San Antonio, Texas als Patricia Vonne Rodriguez, und zwar als
viertes von zehn Kindern, sie hat vier Schwestern und fünf Brüder. Bereits in
der Kindheit hörte Patricia spanische Folklore, gesungen von ihrer Mutter, sie
erlernte das Klavier. Texanische Musikhelden wie Joe Ely und Stevie Ray Vaughn,
sowie die “Cowpunk”-Band Lone Justice um Maria McKee aus Los Angeles entnahm
sie mit Begeisterung der Plattensammlung ihrer Brüder. Ihr Vater nahm sie mit
auf Konzerte, wo sie erkannte, wie wichtig eine gute Bühnenpräsenz ist. Patricia
Vonne ist eine Frau vieler Welten, die mal an eine Sheryll Crow, mal an eine
Melissa Etherigde erinnert, ohne ihre eigene Ausstrahlung und Intensität zu
verlieren. 1990 ging sie für 11 Jahre nach New York City. Dort traf sie Bobby
LaRoche, mit dem sie einige Lieder geschrieben hat. 1998 startete sie mit
einigen Texanern zusammen ihre eigene Band. Mit dieser trat sie 1999 auf dem
South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin auf und erkannte, dass die Zeit
reif war, um ihre Musik zurück nach Texas zu bringen. Sie lebt daher seit 2001
in Austin, Texas und hat 2003 die CD “Patricia Vonne” veröffentlicht, mit einer
Reihe von Eigenkompositionen. Daraufhin wurde sie in der musikalischen Welt
schnell mehr als ein Geheimtipp. Es kamen immer mehr Anfragen von gestandenen
Musikern wie Pat Green, Los Lobos, Joe Ely, Alejandro Escovedo, Raul Malo und
Charlie Robison, die darum baten das die Künstlerin in Ihrem Programm mitwirken
solle. Einige Auftritte mit TITO & TARANTULA, haben sie dann längst über
die Grenzen von Texas hinaus bekannt werden lassen. Der Titel "Traeme
Paz" wurde ein weiterer Höhepunkt in ihrer Karriere, dieser erschien im
Kinofilm "Once upon time in Mexico" mit Antonio Banderas, Selma Hayek
und Johnny Depp. In Quentin Tarantinos Film "Hellride" war
"Mudpies and Gasoline" zu hören. Ihr schauspielerisches Talent konnte
sie bisher in Filmen wie "Desperado", " Spy Kids" und "Sin City" beweisen.
Info english: Latin Roots Rocker & Troubadour Patricia Vonne
Over the eight years since her debut album, Patricia
Vonne has proven herself a truly ascendant and transcendent musical
artist. The lovely San Antonio, Texas born and bred Chicana “has
absorbed just about every indigenous musical style Texas has on offer,
and can summon any one in the flick of a castanet or guitar pick,” notes
the Houston Press. In the same fashion as her lyrically and
stylistically multilingual sound melds and soars above a rainbow of
genres and musical flavors, Vonne has also handily crossed geographic
borders, rising to popularity across Europe while also “quickly taking
her place among Texas’s musical treasures,” notes the Austin Chronicle.
And in the process Vonne has won the highest
praise and comparisons in the music media. "Imagine a young Chrissie
Hynde fronting the Mavericks with a little help from Calexico,” raves
England’s Word magazine. "Looking like a gypsy Polly Harvey and sounding
like Lucinda Williams with Nick Cave’s sense of doom,” observes Mojo.
It’s no wonder The New York Times praises her as "this Renaissance woman
of Austin, Texas," where Vonne now resides.
On her fourth release, Worth It, Vonne
continues to expand and enrich her creativity to compelling and stunning
effect, thanks to what The Sun praises as "talent to melt the coldest
heart." Already noted as "an excellent singer songwriter" (Uncut) and "a
beguiling storyteller" (Harp) with a "dramatic songwriting flair" (No
Depression) for her largely collaborative compositions on previous
discs, this time out she pens six of the album’s 10 songs all on her
own.
Her energetic and haunting title tale of empathy
for a dear plagued friend opens the set, which wraps up with a twangy
country-rock punch on the cheeky "Gin and Platonic." Vonne captures the
full-blooded passions of the many moods of love on the airy border
rocker "Truth Awakening," the simmering "Castle Walls" and the Texas
honky-tonk dancer "Love is a Bounty" (the first song she ever wrote).
And she makes the power of prayer mesmeric on the bilingual "La Lomita
de Santa Cruz," which pays tribute to the faith of her
great-great-grandfather.
The sound and spirit of San Antonio swirls
through "Cut From The Same Cloth," which was written with Rosie Flores
(who shares the city as a hometown with Vonne) and features backing
vocals on the chorus by Flores and Texas legend Joe Ely. Vonne’s
now-trademark flamenco rock’n’roll resonates through the Spanish
language "Fuente Vaqueros" and "El Marinero y La Sirena," both written
with longtime San Antonio music scene stalwart Michael Martin. The
outlaw Old West meets crackling modern electric rock on "Cowskulls and
Ghostowns," co-written with Shawn Sahm, son of the late Texas music icon
Doug Sahm and musical pivot of the continuing Texas Tornados. All told,
it’s an album of affirmations and an assertion of the power of
self-worth, at times in spite of the travails that are part and parcel
of life.
Worth It is the third album Vonne has
recorded with noted Austin producer Carl Thiel, who has proven a perfect
musical and spiritual recording guide thanks to his youth growing up in
Mexico City. It features her band Robert LaRoche, founding guitar
player and collaborator formerly of Virgin Recording artists "The
Sighs", "drummer Dony Wynn (who has toured and recorded with stars like
Robert Palmer and Brooks & Dunn, among many others) and bassist
Scott Garber (whose many credits include work with Giant Sand, The
Indigo Girls, Timbuk 3, Alejandro Escovedo, The Silos, The
Sidewinders/Sand Rubies and Ronnie Lane, to name some but hardly all).
Rick Del Castillo of Austin’s Del Castillo brings his wondrous
gut-string flamenco guitar playing to the mix, San Antonio’s Joe Reyes
burns on electric guitar, and Austin pop-rock maestro Darin Murphy wails
on harmonica. And Vonne’s original New York band shows their stuff on
the final track. Together they all create true Texas music for the
world.
The release of Worth It finds Vonne
embarking on her 18th tour of Europe (with yet another to follow in fall
2010), where her stage-scorching live shows have found favor throughout
the continent in clubs and concert halls as well as on major festivals.
"We came expecting some raucous Tex-Mex, and left exhilarated by a
Rabelaisian cocktail of the most sensual flamenco crisscrossed with a
heady brand of rock’n’roll that was pure Texas," reported Irish Times.
Similarly, Maverick raved how "nothing
could have prepared me for this extraordinary gig. You know how it is
when you’ve seen the best gig in your life? Well, for me it’s probably
still Led Zeppelin at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. But this one came
mighty close…." Back home in Texas, she has shared stages with Ely,
Alejandro Escovedo, Los Lobos, Chris Isaak,Raul Malo, Buddy Guy, Cyndi
Lauper, Johnny Lang,and Tito & Tarantula (with whom she also toured
Europe as a special guest musician in 2002), and enjoys stature as a
popular headliner in clubs throughout the state.
Vonne’s heartfelt and sure-footed artistry was
nurtured in a large, loving and creative family of 10 children —
including her acclaimed filmmaker brother Robert Rodriguez — in which
she was reared on "my mother’s music and my brothers’ record
collections," she explains. While living in New York City in the 1990s,
she began making music as a bassist and harmony singer and writing songs
before meeting and marrying LaRoche and stepping into the spotlight as
an artist in her own right.
Making her initial mark on the Manhattan club
scene, Vonne recorded her self-titled debut album in the Big Apple (with
Texpatriate guitar slinger Kirk Brewster of Dallas rock legends The
Werewolves in her band) before relocating to Austin in 2001 and
releasing it on her own Bandolera Records the following year. The
critical response in her home state was strong and immediate. The Austin
American-Statesman dubbed her "a Tex-Mex spitfire with a rock'n'roll
heart [who] plays a border-crossing bilingual mix of flamenco
flamboyance and down-in-the-mud exuberance that’s a Lone Star original,"
while the Austin Chronicle praised the disc as a "bilingual tour de
force [that] melds eclectic with electric and exudes an elegance seldom
associated with rock."
She followed with Guitars & Castanets,
which No Depression hailed as "a bold venture dripping with passion and
style" on which she celebrated her Lone Star State and borderland
roots. It included salutes in song to such inspirations as Ely ("Joe's
Gone Ridin’"), Alejandro Escovedo ("Guitarras y Castañuelas") and Johnny
Reno ("Sax Maniac"), and guests like noted Austin guitar stars and
singer-songwriters Charlie Sexton and Jon Dee Graham as well as Chris
Isaak band saxophonist Reno. The CD's bonus track, "Traeme Paz," was
featured in the film and on the soundtrack album for Once Upon A Time In
Mexico. "If her debut was flat out stunning, call this a knockout,"
effused Harp.
Album three, Firebird, garnered even further
praise as "her strongest yet," observed her hometown San Antonio Express
News. "Great stuff, passionately played, exquisitely arranged and
meticulously delivered," noted Newhouse News Service. The songs
reflected her time in Europe on the musical tour diary of "Dutch
Cigarette" and her tribute to famed poet Federico Garcia Lorca, "La
Huerta de San Vincente," inspired by a visit to his home in Granada,
Spain. The disc was bookended by the English and Spanish versions of her
song "Missing Women"("Mujeres Desaparecidas") for the hundreds of
young women murdered in Juarez, Mexico.
Along the way, Vonne made her mark on the silver
screen playing Dallas in Sin City as well as a part in Spy Kids. Next
year will see her in Machete alongside Robert DeNiro and Don Johnson.
She was the 2009 Grand Prize winner in the Latin category of the John
Lennon Songwriting Contest for "La Huerta de San Vincente," and "Mujeres
Desaparecidas" was featured as a free download on the Amnesty
International website. And since 2003, Vonne and her band have had their
Texas rock'n'roll roots affirmed by being asked every year to play the
Buddy Holly Center's Summer Showcase Concert Series in Lubbock.
For the young girl of yore who would have loved nothing more than to make music when she grew up, Vonne's career has been Worth It
indeed (one reason why the new album strives to give back to others
through lyrics and music from her great big warm heart). "It's been more
than a dream come true," marvels Vonne. "And it keeps getting better."
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