Warm Music for a Cold Week

(New Release Feb 6) excellent "On her fifth studio CD, folk rocker Patty Griffin employs three timeless themes childhood, flight, and death to craft her most musically diverse and accessible album yet. But while moving through jazz, beatnik, classic and modern folk, gospel R&B, Americana, and moody piano ballad, Griffin keeps her backing quiet and spare, all the more to showcase the power of her deft storytelling and the bell clarity of her unadorned soprano. On song after song, the characters who waft through her experience are on the move, chasing one thing and fleeing another--on trains, ships, buses, in cars, even on the aerialist's bar ultimately trading an ending of one kind for a new beginning and transference." continued - Amazonand an even better review at AMG, read it here.Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)originally I went up to the mountainBecause you asked me toUp over the cloudsTo where the sky was blueI could see all around meEverywhereI could see all around meEverywhereSometimes I feel likeI never been nothing but tiredAnd I'll be workingTill the day I expireSometimes I lay downNo more can I doBut then I go on againBecause you ask me toSome days I look downAfraid I will fallAnd though the sun shinesI see nothing at allThen I hear your sweet voiceCome and then goTelling me softlyYou love me soThe peaceful valleyJust over the mountainThe peaceful valleyFew come to knowI may never get thereEver in this lifetimeBut sooner or laterIt's there I will goSooner or laterIt's there I will go*Patty Griffin - Rain**Patty Griffin "Trapeze" Shuba's Chicago 1-28-07*Patty and Solomon Burkeartist's site - http://www.pattygriffin.comand the new Keller Williams release Dream is out, I'm Lovin' it.