Patty Griffin (album)
Patty Griffin is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin. The album was released on March 8, 2019, and follows a four-year hiatus that Griffin took while battling breast cancer following her 2015 album Servant of Love, including briefly losing her voice.[1][2]
Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin won the Best Folk Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards and was nominated for the Libera Awards Best Folk/Bluegrass Album.
Promotion[edit]
"River" was released as the album's first single on January 11, 2019.[3] Of the song, Griffin explained "it's one of the last songs I wrote for this record. We recorded it over about a year's time. I had been spending a lot of time with this song that Leon Russell wrote and Donny Hathaway recorded in the Seventies called 'A Song for You.' I actually covered that song at a show, and I thought it would be great to have my own—which is kind of a high order. There's something about that particular song that made me feel like it's an aerial view of a moment in life. The emotion of that song inspired me. There isn't really much of a thought process beyond playing the notes, hopefully, in a fashion that can be understood," she says. "But when I sit back and I listen back to it and sing it now, I can feel this is sort of an expansive understanding of life. [...] You have this understanding of continuity that grows out of that feeling."[4]
"Where I Come From" was released as the second single on February 1, 2019.[5]
Griffin embarked on a US tour to promote the album beginning on February 28, 2019 in Los Angeles and concluding on April 20, 2019 in Houston which was followed by a tour of the UK and Ireland which began on May 3, 2019 in Cork and concluded in London on May 15, 2019.[6][7]