Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts
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Free Music Review: Living with Ghosts of my Father
Hit: 5 Stars
The cliche is, some sons and fathers communicate through sports, with relevant metaphors a kind of language of love and attending a game together the ultimate in childhood bonding memories. My Father and I communicate through music.
My father introduced me to this album, playing me "Poor Man's House" for me. I can still see us sitting there on the couch in silence as the sparse and staggered rhythm of the hard guitar angst gave way to Patty's heartfelt, ragged twang. My jaw dropped. I asked for, and borrowed, the album -- a first, since usually in my childhood years I would instead stay up all night on my belly by the stereo cabinet, mixing tapes in secret with the headphones on to take dad's music -- and less than one month later purchased a copy for myself, since I knew otherwise I'd never return the favor by returning the music.
I listen to this album more than any other piece in my collection. Every track is a gem. I love it like I love my father, in secret and sometimes in pain, but also when I just need comfort. Thanks, dad. Thanks, Patty.
Free Music Review: Don't Miss This!
Hit: 5 Stars
It isn't like the other stuff you may have heard from Patty Griffin, but the first time I ever heard her music was when KGSR in Austin played "Every Little Bit" off this CD. It is hard to believe a major label like A&M would produce a CD consisting entirely of one skinny redhead with an acoustic guitar and a voice so raw with emotion it can knock you over with its power. But they did, and this is it.
The album seems to be filled with songs about relationships both with lovers and with family and all the aspects of those relationships, the joy and the pain, are laid out naked here for the listener to experience in Patty Griffin's voice. "Let Him Fly" is beautiful. "Every Little Bit" may be the most haunting acoustic ballad I ever heard. "Poor Man's House" is deeply moving to me in the visuals it evokes.
For those who found Patty Griffin behind the hits she penned for Emmylou Harris and the Dixie Chicks, you owe it to yourself to check out this CD. It may be the most powerful solo recording I have ever encountered.
Free Music Review: I cannot say enough about this CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Normally I wouldn't take the time to write a CD review but for this one, it's worth it. Thank goodness I bought the Lilith Fair CD which features Patty singing "Cain" or I would not know her music today. I am a musician, and "Living With Ghosts" is probably in my top five favorite CDs. Patty's voice is ethereal and her songwriting is worthy of endless praise. I had the pleasure of seeing her in concert with Emmylou Harris and she is as good live as she is on the recording. I'd have to say that I am in love with most of the songs on this CD but most notable are "Moses", "Every Little Bit", "Sweet Lorraine", "Mad Mission" and "You are Not Alone". To hear her sing is like looking into my own soul. It is as if I wrote the songs myself. I highly recommend "Living With Ghosts" to anyone who appreciates high quality, solid, sincere songwriting and multi-faceted female folk singers. Patty is a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. Run, do not walk, to buy this CD.Free Music Review: Upon further review
Hit: 5 Stars
After having recently bought several CD's by female artisits, at least in part because they were likened to Patty Griffin, I felt compelled to write a review of one of her discs to sing her praise because her voice is beyond compare. I initially chose to write about "1000 Kisses" because I remembered it as my favorite of hers. I love that CD and gave it 5 stars. Listening to "1000 Kisses" to write a review left me craving for more Patty Griffin and so I turned to "Living with Ghosts," which is another one of my favorites of hers. Well, upon further reveiw, I think that I like "Living with Ghosts" even more than "1000 Kisses," which is to say that I like a lot. On both of these discs her powerful yet hauntingly beautiful voice is brought to the fore by the sparse musical arrangements and extremely personal, heartfelt songs. If you like the singer-songwriter genre, you will love "Living with Ghosts"-get it, and "1000 Kisses" as well. Thanks to WYEP for introducing me to this incredibly talented artist.Free Music Review: One of the best, most unique albums you'll ever listen to
Hit: 5 Stars
If you know and love the Replacements, and think that mainstream society has no taste because this band never made it big (even though they've been named as the muse for dozens of great and not-so-great bands that came after them), then you will understand what I mean when I say that Patty Griffin's Living With Ghosts album is destined to be perhaps one of the best female vocalist/songwriter/guitar player records to be released since Tapestry that the whole world will never hear of, unfortunately for them. Unlike many of today's female performers, who tend to be a bit too airy-voiced and subdued for my taste, Patty is all chest -- she belts out her songs and rocks on the guitar -- her talented singing (beautiful timbre, amazing abilities) and mastery of the guitar (so unique, in the same way that the replacements' sublime guitar music can be). Get this. You WON'T be disappointed. And get THIS album - her second one was a disappointment (slightly cheesy songs, horrible band.)