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Patty’s Bio
No need to re-write here what’s already been written well-enough already. Ignore the inaccurate wikipedia entry and go with these:
PATTY GRIFFIN: The Midlife Crisis Revisited
“It’s hard to imagine anyone easing into their fourth decade of life with greater grace and moxie than Patty Griffin. She has a bewitching way of slipping right past the social conventions of age, defying anyone who says that rock music is the sole province of angsty male adolescents-or that mellowness is the proper aim of a woman nearing middle-age.”
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Of Sad Songs and Social Conscience
Eliza Gilkyson and Patty Griffin are good friends, sisters in song. They have toured together, recorded together, shared a creative kinship through their music. Both released landmark albums in 2004 _ Gilkyson’s “Land of Milk and Honey” and Griffin’s “Impossible Dream.” And as fate would have it, both have been nominated for a Grammy Award … in the same category.
Patty Griffin: Profile of a Performing Artist (Video)
Part of Royal Stewart Entertainment’s Profile of a Performing Artist Series (see here). Directed by Tracie Goudie. As noted at the RSE site:
Grammy nominated and NPR favorite singer/songwriter Patty Griffin is featured in this Profile. Her lyrics speak of life’s hopes and dreams and her fans need include some of industry superstars such as [...]
Songwriter Savant: Where do Patty Griffin’s songs come from?
“Songwriters often say that they don’t know where their works come from, that they seem to come from outside themselves. . . . Last week I talked to the accomplished and idiosyncratic country/pop/folk/whatever singer/songwriter Patty Griffin—on the day before the release of her third CD, 1000 Kisses (ATO Records)—and she was insistent on this very point: that there is something bigger than just herself involved in writing her songs.”