Patty Griffin was the big winner at the sixth annual Americana Awards, taking home album of the year for Children Running Through and artist of the year.Patty Griffin, "Rain"The American Awards honor American roots music, including country, blues, rock, bluegrass and folk. Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby all performed at awards show held at Nashville's historic Ryman...
PATTY GRIFFIN – CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH (2007)There’s little doubt that Patty Griffin’s career has been an accumulation of false starts. Two unreleased albums at the back end of the last century, one of which was produced by Nile Rodgers, four lukewarm studio albums, ejection from her record label, it’s a wonder she’s had the spirit to go on. And yet, those who have covered her music, i
Hey y'all ... this show can be streamed! www.krfcfm.org ... it is also going to move soon to either Monday or Tuesday. My Colorado Sound program (www.myspace.com/thecoloradosound) is moving to Saturdays beginning April 7th.Here's this week's playlist.Local / ColoradoMother Folkers - Forty Something - Confluence - 1992Ash Ganley & the Lyons Rock Council - Elysian Fields - Dark Fuel - 2006Black...
Colorado/LocalStarlight Ramblers - Ain't It the Truth (1978)Tim O'Brien - E-Town Vol II, Live at the Boulder Theater (1992)Corey Harris - Downhome Sophisticate (2002)Acoustic Firefall - Come Together/single - Mountain Homegrown Vol IV (2005)Angie Stevens - Stand Up Girl 2 (2006)Blackthorn Project - The Bluing of the Sky (2006)George Inai - This Foolish Music (2007)Palmer Divide - Palmer Divide ...
(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 h...
Patty Griffin was the big winner at the sixth annual Americana Awards, taking home album of the year for Children Running Through and artist of the year.Patty Griffin, "Rain"The American Awards honor American roots music, including country, blues, rock, bluegrass and folk. Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby all performed at awards show held at Nashville's historic Ryman...
(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 h...
Patty Griffin has an acute way of turning a lyric around on you. "Long Ride Home" from 2002's 1000 Kisses kicks off with a gentle ride in a limousine. Four lines later, you find out that the limo is a hearse, and the long ride home is from a funeral.One of several songs Griffin has written from a male perspective, "Long Ride Home" contrasts wedding day idealism with a look back on "Forty years...
PATTY GRIFFIN – CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH (2007)There’s little doubt that Patty Griffin’s career has been an accumulation of false starts. Two unreleased albums at the back end of the last century, one of which was produced by Nile Rodgers, four lukewarm studio albums, ejection from her record label, it’s a wonder she’s had the spirit to go on. And yet, those who have covered her music, i
I watched Patty Griffin on Live from the Artists Den on public television last night. It was a wonderful performance.It also reminded me how much I like this song.(She said she wrote it for her dog!)