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by: Patty Griffin
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Sales Rank: 9108
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Released: 2007-02-06
Media: Audio CD
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Title Tracks for Children Running Through
- 1. You'll Remember
- 2. Stay On The Ride
- 3. Trapeze
- 4. Getting Ready
- 5. Burgundy Shoes
- 6. Heavenly Day
- 7. No Bad News
- 8. Railroad Wings
- 9. Up To The Mountains (MLK Song)
- 10. I Don't Ever Give Up
- 11. Someone Else's Tomorrow
- 12. Crying Over
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Patty Giffin's latest offering, is co-produced by Griffin and Mike McCarthy (spoon) captures the voice and words of one of the most important singer songwriters of our time. Lush, dynamic, and provocative, the two time Grammy nominated artist resonates with time Grammy nominated artist resonates with songs that are both contemporary and timeless. The set includes 12 new Griffin penned tunes including a guest vocal appearance by Emmylou Harris on the enchanting 'Trapeze.' Patty's work has been and continues to be revered by a broad array of contemporaries, including, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Dave Mathews, Natalie Manes, Kelly Clarkson and Jessica Simpson, who's recent single is the Patty Classic, 'Let Him Fly' and Griffin appears as a guest vocalist on the new Solomon Burke effort.
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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 her deft storytelling and the bell clarity of her unadorned soprano. On song after song, the characters who waft through her experience are on the move, chasing one thing and fleeing another--on trains, ships, buses, in cars, even on the aerialist's bar--ultimately trading an ending of one kind for a new beginning and transference. Sometimes--as on the Rickie Lee Jones-ish "Stay on the Ride," where an old man with no name answers an existential urge for going--they don't even know what it is. "Trapeze," the most resonant offering, follows an aging circus performer who'd rather work without a net than take her chances in love. Here, Emmylou Harris adds one of her most aching harmony lines to Griffin's exquisite, ethereal lead, while in the next track, "Getting Ready," the singer turns a 180, laying a sneering Dylanesque vocal over a fiercely scrubbed acoustic guitar and an occasional dissonant kiss-off. "Baby, baby, you were my drug/And I was just your cigarette," she drones knowingly. One suspects that particular object of her affections will soon regret it. --Alanna Nash
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Product Details
Children Running Through
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2007-02-06)
- Publisher: ATO Records
- Label: ATO Records
- Studio: ATO Records
- Sales Rank in Music: #9108
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76 of 83 people found the following review helpful:  When the History of Her Career Is Written..., By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Children Running Through (Audio CD) Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," Young's "After the Goldrush," Browne's "Late for the Sky," U2's "Joshua Tree," McLachlan's "Surfacing"...and while some reading this might legitimately plug in different titles for these artists, my point is that every great artist has one (or perhaps two) works that immortalize their careers. Thankfully, Patty Griffin has a long way to go, but it's hard to imagine anything she'll do from here on overachieving this magnificent release. The purity and passion of her singing, the power and profundity of her lyrics, which can almost literally turn one's heart inside-out, the confidence, versatility and genius she demonstrates in moving from gospel to gorgeous strings to hard edged folk to Hispanic-tinged brass arrangements left me, an already dedicated fan, feeling that Patty Griffin has, with "Children Running Through," guaranteed herself a permanent place in the pantheon of the very greatest singer-songwriters of all time. Again, Griffin is still in the...Read more 24 of 26 people found the following review helpful: An Artist at Her Peak, By This review is from: Children Running Through (Audio CD) Patty Griffin is an incredible writer, singer and performer. I have been a fan of hers for about 6 years. My love of her music has been fairly consistent, although I have doubted for awhile whether she'd ever release a true classic record. I absolutely adored 1,000 Kisses, but maybe because it's got more of a consistently melancholy mood, it's always seemed to be more of a niche record for Patty. With Children Running Through, Patty's hit paydirt.
Much like Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the standard for Lucinda Williams, this record will always be the one that other Patty records are judged against. Sure, certain fans will always prefer Living With Ghosts. Some may prefer 1,000 Kisses or Flaming Red, but to the vast majority of music fans, Children Running Through will be the one great Patty record. Maybe it's the production. It all just sounds so great. Each song seems to have been a success in achieving what it set out to achieve. Patty's a jazzy...Read more 18 of 20 people found the following review helpful: Chill-invoking!, By docjake (Cape Coral, Florida) - See all my reviews This review is from: Children Running Through (Audio CD) On first listen I found this set of songs to be very soothing and highly enjoyable, but not moving or remarkable. Afterall, nothing can measure up to the jolt you feel the first time you hear Patty Griffin, and some of her earlier works are just so gut-wrenchingly raw and startlingly honest and sad. Oh, but then....then, I listened to it again, and again, and again. And with each turn, this album has swiftly and steadily pushed itself deeper into my soul and psyche until today, as I was listening, I found myself with chills, with tears, alternately crying and smiling. And I found myself in complete awe of how utterly moving and remarkable this piece of work is. I think that the very thing that put me and maybe others off at first is what, now, I find most relatable. And that is that Patty is aging and maturing, mellowing and coming to terms with life and its offerings. And her music is, of course, reflecting this. Some highlights for me include:
1)The warm and nostalgic...Read more |
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