The ‘Stories Behind the Songs’ – Patty with John Oates and Scott Miller, Aspen, CO

Photo by Nichole Wagner (All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission)

As reported by Nichole at uncommonmusic.org:

“The first of a three-concert series, hosted by Aspenite John Oates at the historic Wheeler Opera House, the show began with a young local songwriter named Riley Skinner started off the night by playing her contest-winning song.

“The next hour and ten minutes were filled with music and banter between the three headliners – Patty Griffin, John Oates and Scott Miller.

“John Oates introduced the series as ‘This is the “Stories Behind the Songs,” the idea came to me a few years back. I started doing a one man show with all the Hall and Oates hits that are so familiar to people and it occurred to me that a lot of people didn’t really understand the back story and where the songs came from and I thought it’d be cool to just sit there with my guitar and talk about songwriting and talk about where the songs came from.’” Click here for the full story.

For those of you who might not know/be too young too know/be too old to know, John Oates is the “Oates” of the duo Hall & Oates.

Here are a couple of videos from the show posted on MySpace by TheStoriesBehindTheSongs.

[myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=55389520[/myspace] [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55385549[/myspace]

Patty’s set:

• I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone (new Patty song)
• I Flew Over Our House Last Night (Tom T. Hall cover)
• Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way) (cover to appear on Downtown Church)
• Rain

For more of Nichole Wagner’s photos of the show, click here.