Patty’s Cassette – Her very first “official release”

Photo courtesy of Robert Hack

From one of the earliest Patty Griffin sites (click here to visit the site), a site put together by John Higgins who is the compiler of the wonderful Love From My Lips series of disks:

“The opening six songs of [the first disk of Love From My Lips] cover Patty’s very first official release – a cassette that was sold at her early gigs in and around Boston, Massachusetts. The tracks were recorded in 1991 at a small garage-studio behind the suburban Arlington house she lived in with her then-husband, Nick.  The first few lines of “Under These Clouds” refer to Patty’s frustration with her job, at the time of the song’s writing, as a waitress at the Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA) Pizzeria Uno restaurant.  When Patty was given a recording contract, and began cutting tracks with producer Nile Rogers in 1994 (for an album that was never released (PattyCentral notes – The first of the three never-released Patty albums)), the tape was made unavailable.

So, here are those six tracks: