Patty Griffin

Children Running Through (2007)



Children Running Through is Patty Griffin's sixth officially released album. It was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

Album Review
by Rob O'Connor, Paste magazine, February 2007

"I think being human's a pretty lonely experience for a lot of us," Patty Griffin said in a recent interview. "No matter how busy we keep ourselves, you're kind of out there on your own."

Patty Griffin's best songs are among the loneliest sounding recordings I've ever heard.

Her career has been a rollercoaster. The breakup of her marriage led her to write the songs for her 1996 debut Living with Ghosts, that was released on A&M. Label chaos left her without proper promotion for her follow-up, 1998's Flaming Red, and then an album, Silver Bell, never made it out of the can and left Griffin temporarily without a record deal. In the meantime, other well-established musicians from Emmylou Harris to Bette Midler to the Dixie Chicks recorded her songs. And she's since been hooked up with Dave Matthews' artist-friendly ATO Records, where she's recorded several albums that sound like the work of an unforced artist. Every cloud, it seems, has a silver lining. But why so many clouds?

Griffin isn't one to draw attention to herself. Her best material has always been her gently unfolding wallflower portraits. She can wail with the best of them and usually finds a few choice spots on each album to air out this talent. Children Running Through is no exception. "Stay on the Ride" sports a funky backdrop with uptown horns for her to kick up her cowboy boots to, while "Getting Ready" delivers a kiss-off ("I'm getting ready to let you go") to a demanding railroad rhythm. But they are diversions we accept as the necessary setup for her natural forte as a singer of quiet, desperate songs.

She begins Children with "You'll Remember," a modern spiritual constructed in near silence, her voice echoing off the cathedral walls as gently brushed drums and a standup bass provide the backdrop with an organ barely puncturing the ghostly aura. She breaks the spell with the aforementioned "Stay on the Ride" before settling back in with "Trapeze," a loose duet with Emmylou Harris that's an emotional tug of war — people are drawn to the daring adventures of the risk-taker only to find solace when, "one of these nights the old girl's going down." Griffin's characters may never completely trust love but they'll always understand conflict.

The album's most dramatic moments, however, come courtesy of string arranger John Mark Painter, who conducts a collection of violin, viola and cello players to breathtaking effect. "Burgundy Shoes" is a snapshot of childhood recollected with simple piano notes that are suddenly joined by his orchestral sweep, adding a cinematic score to this modest bus ride to Bangor, while "I Don't Ever Give Up" manages a quiet loudness that never overpowers Griffin's fragile delivery. It's the way she sings (listen to her delivery of the line, "And these sorrows I'm crying over" on the album's final track) that defines her greatness, as lonely as it might be.


Track List

01 You'll Remember
02 Stay on the Ride
03 Trapeze
04 Getting Ready
05 Burgundy Shoes
06 Heavenly Day
07 No Bad News
08 Railroad Wings
09 Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)
10 I Don't Ever Give Up
11 Someone Else's Tomorrow
12 Crying Over

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Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts (1996)



Living With Ghosts is a raw work of bare and powerful songs, just a lone
voice and an acoustic guitar. Patty would say of the songs, "They're pretty
honest, pretty close to what I really am." After the release of the album,
Patty went on tour, joined the Lilith Fair tour for several shows, moved to
Nashville and began work on her next album.


Tracklisting

01. Moses
02. Let Him Fly
03. Every Little Bit
04. Time Will Do the Talking
05. Mad Mission
06. Poor Man's House
07. Forgiveness
08. You Never Get What You Want
09. Sweet Lorraine
10. Not Alone

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Patty Griffin - A Kiss in Time (Live 2003)



This live album documents a love affair, one between a singer-songwriter who attracted a whole new following with the release of 2002’s 1000 Kisses and the devoted fans who flocked to her subsequent tour. The rapturous response at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, long the hallowed home of the Grand Ole Opry, makes it plain that Griffin is among friends for this concert recording, with kindred spirits Emmylou Harris and Julie and Buddy Miller joining her onstage to lend vocal support. Despite the setting,
Griffin’s music resists categorization as country (or folk or rock), with acoustic guitar,accordion, and piano providing exquisite settings for her expressively edgy vocals on a range of striking material--from the suicide of a tormented gay boy in "Tony" to the plight of an unhappy heiress in "Christina" (which Griffin explains to the crowd came to her in a dream about Christina Onassis) to the hint of ragtime in
"Mad Mission."


Tracklisting

01. Long Ride Home
02. Goodbye
03. Christina
04. Peter Pan
05. Rain
06. Mad Mission
07. Be Careful
08. Tony
09. Mary
10. Fly
11. Nobody's Cryin'
12. 10 Million Miles

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