GRAMMY® Award winner Patty Griffin has announced the release of her long-awaited new album. The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s 10th studio recording and first-ever eponymous LP, PATTY GRIFFIN arrives Friday, March 8 on her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The album was recorded predominantly at Griffin’s home in Austin, TX, with Griffin and longtime collaborator Craig Ross co-producing, while the band is made up of a number of friends and frequent accompanists, including Ross, guitarist David Pulkingham, drummer/percussionist Conrad Choucroun, cellist Lindsey Verrill, pianist Stephen Barber, and Robert Plant, who contributes backing vocals to the LP’s “What Now” and “Coins.”
PATTY GRIFFIN is heralded by the powerful first track, “River.” The track premiered today exclusively via People Magazine. “‘Isn’t she a river?’ just kind of came out and the rest sort of followed,” said Griffin. “Sometimes songs are like that. I wasn’t really reaching for anything intentionally – just playing some chords with a feeling inside and there you go.”
PATTY GRIFFIN represents an extraordinary new chapter for this incomparable singer-songwriter and immediately stands among the most deeply personal recordings of her remarkable two-decade career. The album – which follows 2015’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated Servant of Love – collects songs written during and in the aftermath of profound personal crisis, several years in which she battled – and ultimately defeated – cancer just as a similar and equally insidious disease metastasized into the American body politic. Yet as always, like very few others, Griffin’s power lies in how, as Holly Gleason in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette observed, “her songs seem to freeze life and truth in amber.” It’s in how Griffin can express the strikingly intimate while never making it about herself, all wrapped in sparse arrangements that breathe an incomparable force and import into her songcraft.
Griffin will celebrate the new album with a much anticipated world tour, with headline dates across the U.S. and Canada beginning February 28 in Los Angeles, CA. Tickets for all announced shows go on sale next Friday, January 18. European dates and further North American touring will be announced soon. Full details, tour updates and much more can be found at www.pattygriffin.com/tour.
Tracklisting:
Mama’s Worried
River
Where I Come From
Hourglass
Had a Good Reason
Bluebeard
What Now
Luminous Places
Coins
Boys From Tralee
The Wheel
What I Remember
Just The Same
PATTY GRIFFIN ON TOUR 2019
FEBRUARY
28 – Los Angeles, CA
MARCH
26 – New Orleans, LA
27 – Birmingham, AL
29 – Atlanta, GA
30 – Knoxville, TN
31 – Saxapahaw, NC
APRIL
2 – Charlottesville, VA
3 – Washington, DC
4 – Philadelphia, PA
6 – New York, NY
7 – Portsmouth, NH
9 – Cambridge, MA
11 – Toronto, ON
12 – Ann Arbor, MI
13 – Nelsonville, OH
14 – Indianapolis, IN
16 – Chicago, IL
17 – Nashville, TN
19 – Little Rock, AR
20 – Houston, TX
Photo credit: Michael Wilson
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Finally got the cd in and listened entirely to it. They say you can never go back, but it does, to a near “Living With Ghosts” spareness and guts. But her guitarist on this one takes this to places she couldn’t alone, and man, is this a beautiful piece of art. I try listening to all different kinds of music, give stuff a chance, but when you hear her, everything else fails to impress. And though this cd is essentially classic Griffin, it seems somewhat different, even more mature and profound, than by her previous standards. I’m so glad she’s healthy, again. I think I’m just one of many fans that don’t get excited about music in general, until she releases something. I’m stoked again. Hope she takes care of herself and takes it easy for a while to stay healthy. Found this cd to be retrospective and still trying to move forward. Surprising me in both ways while it utilized an angelic, atmospheric guitar, the voice that’s a national treasure, and lyrics that make your jaw drop and your heart awaken.That’s why it’s called Patty Griffin I guess. Coulda called it awesome and I wouldn’t argue. It’s Patty Griffin!