Artist: Patty Griffin
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Emmylou Harris / Patty Griffin / Shawn Colvin / Buddy Miller – Pabst Theater (Milwaukee, WI)
The aw-shucks modesty of this show’s title — “Three Girls And Their Buddy” — carried over into the coziness of the setup: four comfortably utilitarian chairs arrayed in a broad semicircle across the stage. When Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Buddy Miller came out to occupy those chairs, they had the relaxed, collective [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Patty Griffin – Children Running Through
Perhaps, even after a half-dozen well-regarded albums, a good handful of high-profile songwriting cuts, and regular reminders that Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller and countless others think well of her work…perhaps we haven’t properly been introduced to Patty Griffin yet. Children Running Through opens softly, muted bass strings plucked against brushed drums, and then she [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Patty Griffin – Gliding bird
It’s a mad mission Under difficult conditions Not everybody makes it To the loving cup It’s a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission Sign me up – “Mad Mission” On August 12, 2000, Patty Griffin stood in the wings of the cavernous Frank Erwin Center on the University of Texas campus [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Patty Griffin – The big kiss-off
Patty Griffin has a voice as true as a bell, explosive as a firecracker, broken as a heart. It could hold its own with Natalie Merchant’s, Alanis Morisette’s or Jewel’s, but it swells and ebbs and breaks subtly with the emotion of her lyrics; her delivery ratchets the comparisons into Bonnie Raitt territory. Griffin’s lyrics [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Patty Griffin – Flaming Red
On her first album, 1996′s Living With Ghosts, singer-songwriter Patty Griffin trod the trad-folk route, stripping her songs to the bone with only voice and acoustic guitar. It proved as satisfying a strategy as it was gutsy, setting in bold relief Griffin’s intimate vignettes of love and loss, and, more importantly, her striking vocals — [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Shawn Colvin / Patty Griffin / Freedy Johnson – Roseland Theater (Portland, OR)
It struck me during this fine three and a half hours of music by three compatible folk-rock artists how the connection between musician and audience can be made in very distinct manners. Shawn Colvin won the crowd over with her charm and beautiful singing. Freedy Johnston connected with his songs, which are among the most [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Patty Griffin – Living With Ghosts
Patty Griffin’s debut is in most ways a simple affair, 10 songs presented with only her voice and guitar for company. Her voice, however, travels an uncertain road, with stops to visit Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman. Left to her own, Griffin has a strong, sometimes breathy voice, with a tone [...]
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