Patty Griffin is “one of the rare ones . . who sounds like she’s drilling straight to those widespread, unspoken truths that we all recognize when we let our guards down. It’s not just the clarity of her voice, which at its most urgent sounds like it’s flowing unfiltered straight from the soul. It’s not her guitar playing, which retains an urgency even in its most delicate acoustic moments. And while her songwriting, which is pretty much flawless, plays a really big part of it, poetry alone isn’t enough. No, it’s all of those things together, along with some X-factor secret ingredient, that make Patty Griffin one of those artists who makes your vocabulary just shut down at the futility of properly describing her talents.
“Patty Griffin [is] one of those artists who makes your vocabulary just shut down at the futility of properly describing her talents.”
Impossible Dream reaches the heights it does because it completely ignores the conscious part of your brain and goes straight for the internal switch that lets you know when a song is speaking directly to you.” Andrew Gilstrap, PopMatters. For the complete review, click here.
Released April 20, 2004
Tracks:
1 Love Throw a Line 3:38
2 Cold as It Gets 2:38
3 Kite Song 3:09
4 Standing 4:04
5 Useless Desires 5:50
6 Top of the World 5:28
7 Rowing Song 3:26
8 When It Doesn’t Come Easy 4:52
9 Florida 5:01
10 Mother of God 7:14
11 Icicles 3:18
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