Is anyone else here a Patty Griffin fan? I bought Living With Ghosts when it came out back in '96, and I've been a fan ever since. I've particularly been on a Patty kick since her live CD/DVD came out in October. I even re-bought Flaming Red, which I initially got rid of when I just didn't like it on first listen, and I've learned to love it. Anyway, just wondering if anybody else digs Patty...

I won't go so far as to call myself a fan yet, for I have not listened to her enough. However, I have liked everything I have ever heard from her (especially "One Big Love").

I really really love A Thousand Kisses. Really a lot. She is a great songwriter. And she has a great voice.

2 more cents' worth: I think what I like most about Patty is that she's just as much at home rocking as she is completely acoustic. Lately I can't seem to get "Blue Sky" from Flaming Red out of my head. And that voice!

I just got her new album, "impossible dream," last night. And ... it's just beautiful. Heartbreakingly so. I'm listening to it now for the second time, and some of the songs give me chills. It's wonderful. Stunning. Early times yet but--I might like this album best of all.

Has anyone else gotten it yet?

I actually found this disc on Sunday and I felt very lucky! I fell in love immediately and I continue to be in awe of Patty and what she can do. There are a few tracks that I am already familiar with but I feel as if I'm hearing those for the very first time, too. Lyrically I haven't found anyone who can touch her.

Oops. I posted a new topic about her new album before seeing this one!

I bought 'impossible dream' on a whim, without ever listening to her. Wow, I say! Rowing Song gives me chills, as does Standing. I'm an instant convert. I hope to see her in concert with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller in San Francisco this September. What a fantastic trio that should be!

OK, you all have talked me into it! My mission for tomorrow is to find this album and get it for myself.

: )

I just got Impossible Dream in the mail last night. It didn't have the immediate effect on me that 1000 Kisses did, but then, I got two other albums at the same time, both of which were great, and by album #3, I'm usually pretty music'd out for the day. I plan to listen to Impossible Dream again later today and see if I like it better. I'm sure it'll grow on me.

I picked up Impossible Dream last weekend. I sampled it at the store and by the time I was 30 seconds into "Kite Song" I knew it was all over. I had to bring it home with me. I also really like her version of "Top of the World" and I can't get "Rowing Song" out of my head. I just love this line:
"the further I go more letters from home never arrive."

I don't know, its just so beautiful.

And how about that fiddle player? killer.

Every album has its place, and I've decided Impossible Dream is one of those albums I have to listen to before I fall asleep at night while all the lights are off. I'm really loving Standing and When it Don't Come Easy lately, and Mother of God is just glorious. I'm a sucker for the epics.

Now Playing: Patty Griffin- Love Throw a Line

Other than "One Big Love", I hadn't heard any of her music until I saw her take part in the "Concert for a Landmine-Free World" series, along with Emmylou Harris, Nancy Griffith, Bruce Coburn, Steve Earle, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. I became a fan that night, and I've since seen her headline the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. I haven't bought her new album yet, but I will soon. I'm also looking forward to seeing her along with Emmylou Harris, Buddy & Julie Miller, and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings later this summer.

For anyone who can't get enough of her, she makes a nice contribution to the Chieftain's "Down the Old Plank Road".

you can count me among the ranks of Patty Griffin fans too. Rain brought me to tears, and I've been hooked ever since.
I had doubts about the new one at first, but by the time Kite Song had only half finished, I was gasping for air once again. simply beautiful.

though I have a fondness for Julie, I am NOT a fan of Buddy Miller's music (great producer though he be), and am NOT happy about him finding his way onto the otherwise fabulous double bill of Emmylou and Patty, and I fear that instead of getting a chance to see full concerts by both these beautiful songbirds, I'm gonna be stuck with a variety show, something akin to a night at the Grand Ole Opry.

well, i'm 'bout ready to join/start the cult of patty griffin. man, if it weren't for karin and linford, she'd probably be my number one.

i don't have "flaming red," but i can't get through a car ride without one of the others.

from the new cd, i'm digging the last-ish track about the virgin. i still haven't just sat down and listened intentionally. she's been in the car, in the background while i did chores. but i need to focus, read lyrics, stare for a long time.

i'm hoping to catch here in atlanta with emmylou and buddy too.

-jaem

Nice to hear someone vocalise these thoughts, as I've been thinking them rather regularly and with some guilt since I saw/heard/lost eardrums to Buddy's performance [over?] Julie when they opened for K&L at Taft.

Anybody have any idea where I can find a Patty album called "Silver Bell"?

Apparently it has a couple of songs on it that I'm really interested in hearing. The first is called 'One More Girl.' The other is 'Perfect White Girls.'

Patty's site concurs that these songs are on an album called "Silver Bell," but the only "Silver Bell" I can find on her site is a 5-track promo with none of those songs represented.

I've read the lyrics to these songs and I'm in love as always, but this album is a phantom!

Thanks in advance,
[jp/p].

yes, you can obtain Silver Bell by organizing a mission-imossible type operation and break into the vaults of her former(?) record company (who, after she recorded the whole glorious thing, decided it was in their best interests to lock it away in a vault and tell Patty "so sorry, too bad, buh-bye"). there is a recent issue of No Depression magazine that (I believe) has the whole story (Patty's on the cover).

hope this helps, sorry that it doesn't.

Oh Lord.

How disgusting.

Off to the peer-to-peers.

Yes. welcome to the high-tech, consumeristic world of "intellectual property" (oh, sorry, wrong message board).

Haha.

You win.

OR...you could just ask someone who has it to make a copy for you.

You don't!!

WHO HAS IT??? You don't have it, do you? do you know someone who does? SPEAK, WOMAN, SPEAK!!! (ahem...sorry)
I was under the impression this was locked away in an airtight vault, never ever having seen the light of day, even in a bootleg form. am I wrong??? please please please tell me I'm wrong!

Kimpossible can do the impossible.

Just leave it to her.

And take a number. I was here first.

Patty Griffin! Patty Griffin! She is even better live! She often does Perfect White
Girls live!

I am so much in love with Impossible Dream. Patty has created an amazing collection of songs that are inexpressibly heartfelt and tender. Even the new Cowboy Junkies album hasn't knocked it out of my #1 spot for the year to date (yet, anyway). To really hear her is to appreciate so much of what's worthwhile about being human.

Gosh, you guys are a little rough on Buddy aren't ya? He surely ain't the songwriter his wife is, but he's as tasteful as it gets on gittar IMO, and I love his voice as well. He wasn't at all overbearing when I saw him with Julie in NYC last year. I'm really looking forward to seeing him with Patty and Emmylou in August myself.

Keith, I am so glad to hear this! I'm glad you found it in your musical selection heart to give her another chance. By the way, I'm looking for a studio Eliza Gilkyson...any recommendations?

I think Eliza's Hard Times in Babylon is a great album. I was less thrilled with Lost and Found which came out last year, but I haven't heard her latest yet.

Patty Griffin on MBE - aired 6/17.04

She will be at Austin City Limits Fesival in Sept.

I am looking foward to see her again.

I've also become a big fan of Neko Case.

www.aclfestival.com

How did you discover Patty Griffin?
What was the 1st Patty Griffin song that you've heard?
What song convinced you that Patty was something special?
What album was your 1st Patty Griffin album that your bought?

I don't remember how I first heard of her, but I was living in Nashville--musta been '99?--and she was giving a free show outdoors ... and I was hooked. I bought Flaming Red first because it was her newest release, and fell in love with it. Picked up Living With Ghosts and everything else since.
I adore all her stuff, especially love the new album, but Flaming Red will always have a special place in my heart. And ears.

"Flaming Red" is so, so special.

I hated it at first, but only because I was so desperately in love with "Living With Ghosts" at the time (this was circa '99 also), but FR has since quickly climbed the charts of my heart, offering some of Patty's best work in such inseparable songs as "Tony," "Carry Me" and each of the last four ballads nestled at the end of that album.

Wish you were here, Mz. Glass.

A friend and fellow Lucinda Williams fan recommended Living with Ghosts to me a few years back, so I bought it. So I guess Moses was the first song I heard. I listened to the album two or three times and didn't much like it. I still like it a lot less than what I've heard on her later albums, actually.

Since then, a number of people I really respect (including Lucinda herself) have had great things to say about Patty. A few months ago, Kimpossible here on the forum was gracious enough to make me a compilation of her stuff (mostly from Flaming Red and 1000 Kisses) in an effort to make a believer out of me, and I liked most of those songs much better. Then I bought Impossible Dream, and I just can't get enough of it. I'll be seeing her this summer with Emmylou and Buddy Miller, I can't wait!

I discovered Patty through Paste, I'm afraid. Couldn't do it on my own. Her song Chief was on their first ever sampler CD (as Paste Magazine, anyhow) and that pretty much did it for me. I bought 1000 Kisses soon after. Chief would still be my favorite song of hers if there weren't six or seven others that I loved even more. I knew she was special from day one but Impossible Dream has convinced me that she's absolutely brilliant.

Impossible Dream is just amazing. Useless Desire is brutally gorgeous.

From pattygriffin.com

Patty will act in the 2005 release Elizabethown, a film by Cameron Crowe which also stars:

Orlando Bloom .... Drew Baylor
Kirsten Dunst .... Claire Colburn
Susan Sarandon .... Hollie Baylor
Jessica Biel .... Ellen
Alec Baldwin .... Phil

I am assuming it is a small cameo appearance, but this is cool 'cause Cameron Crowe and wife Nancy Wilson of Heart has been quoted as being Julie Miller fans as well.

I'm excited about two people I like in one project - Patty Griffin and Cameron Crowe, that is.

I am pretty sure I first heard Patty because she played Calvin and OTR was opening. I was so impressed I bought 1000 kisses. She had a cello player that time too. He was attractive AND talented.

"Impossible Dream" hasn't moved me yet - not at all. I'm hoping that will change. (There's no way I'll ever grow to like, or even tolerate, that dreadful snippet of the "title track".)

1) Depends what you mean by discover. I'd heard "One Big Love", and sometime later I saw her along with Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, Bruce Cockburn and Mary Chapin Carpenter during the "Concert for a Landmine Free World" tour.

2) See above

3) Making Pies

4) 1000 Kisses

I have to agree that the album as a whole is weak and it starts a bit sacchrine, but there are many individual gems that redeem it and make it worthy repeat listen....

Useless Desire and Florida fo example...

Wow, that's awesome! I was just reading an interview with Cameron Crowe about this movie the other day. He said it was more in the vein of 'Almost Famous' which makes me pretty excited to see it ... and now that I know about Patty I'm even more excited. Except--Jessica Biel? She can't act her way out of a paper bag...

At imdb.com it says Loudon Wainwright III is in it, too. He's way down at the bottom credit-wise, though.

Hmmmm...

I don't find the opening tracks of Impossible Dream saccharine myself, rather I think the album is hopeful in the tradition of John Lennon's Imagine. I can definitely live without the title track, but if Patty wants Mom & Dad to make a little guest appearance on her record I guess I can deal with it. As far as I'm concerned, every other track is a gem and it's still my favorite album of the year to date.

I thought Jessica Biel was great in Ulee's Gold.

12 days until Patty plays in Central Park. But who's counting...

I don't know why I even post when other people say it so well. I like Impossible Dream more the more I hear it.

Wait. Mom and Dad? I thought that was Buddy and Julie Miller. They're her parents?

no no no, silly...the song "impossible dream" (which is a prelude to I forget which song) is sung by her parents, not buddy and julie miller. Buddy and Julie are not her parents, although they may have made a guest appearance on the album also.

I need to buy some Patty Griffin's stuff.
I first heard her on a compalation cd from a listerve. The first song on the CD was "One Big Love." I have been in love with her ever since. I need to get more of her stuff. No, I need to get some of her stuff, PERIOD!!!

Hmm... I wonder how I missed that. I do remember thinking to myself, "I thought Buddy and Julie Miller would be better singers."

If anyone's still looking for Silver Bell. I've started a Vine.