The Story
Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over the course of two decades, the GRAMMY Award winner â and seven-time nominee â has crafted nine classic studio albums and two live collections, a remarkable body of work in progress that prompted the New York Times to hail her for â[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific peopleâŠ(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.â
The acclaimed singer-songwriterâs 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 Griffinâs 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 LPâs âWhat Nowâ and âCoins.â
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Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over the course of two decades, the GRAMMY Award winner â and seven-time nominee â has crafted nine classic studio albums and two live collections, a remarkable body of work in progress that prompted the New York Times to hail her for â[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific peopleâŠ(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.â
The acclaimed singer-songwriterâs 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 Griffinâs 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 LPâs âWhat Nowâ and âCoins.â












