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Iconic singer-songwriter PATTY GRIFFIN has announced her highly anticipated return to Australia. Last here in 2008 for sold-out shows, the Texan performer has attracted a cult-following with her intimately passionate performance style, telling heartfelt stories with her vivid, powerful vocal.
“Patty Griffin is an absolute inspiration to every songwriter who’s fortunate enough to come across her music.” - Missy Higgins
“I would go anywhere, anytime to hear Patty Griffin sing her extraordinary songs.” - Emmylou Harris
Over the course of two decades, the GRAMMY Award-winner – and seven-time nominee – has crafted nine classic studio albums and two live collections, a remarkable body of work that prompted the New York Times to hail her for “[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people…(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.”
Widely regarded among the best singer-songwriters of her era, this year’s self-titled album, PATTY GRIFFIN collects songs written during her battle with cancer.
Chronicling love and death, heartache and joy, connection and detachment, Patty Griffin continues with her uncanny perception, and ever-increasing ingenuity. A starkly beautiful live show, the return of this pillar of Americana is not to be missed.
Patty Griffin keeps getting better and better. She covers several old or traditional gospel pieces in her powerful way. Her choice of having Buddy Miller open and join her made for one long, perfect set. Loved it. One of the best I have seen. Gotta get the CD.
Took my family to see the Buddy Miller/Patty Griffin show. The sound was amazing and the band was great. Very tight, minimalist playing without a lot of wasted notes or "overplaying" which is a sign of great musicianship. I was a little disappointed at Patty sitting in on all of Buddy's opening set since in my mind he was the headliner. (I became a fan the first time I heard "Universal House of Prayer" and only became more so when I heard "Written in Chalk") Though their voices blended well and Patty is amazing - I missed hearing Buddy's plaintive tenor flying solo on a few of his songs. Overall a great show - highly recommended - regularly attend shows all around town at big and small venues and the Pageant is by far my favorite. If Buddy had done a couple more songs and Patty had played another 20 minutes it would have been the show of the year... the craftsmanship was that good.
This was a great show - start to finish! I've never seen the first stop on a tour before, so it was fun to see them kinda getting used to one another - it almost felt like the audience was a part of their rehearsal process. I enjoyed hearing Buddy sing Mark Heard's "Worry Too Much" first, and I also thought the whole show (pre- & post-intermission) was positive & upbeat w/o being saccharine. Patty's gutsy, funny "I Smell a Rat" knocked all our socks off. The Pageant crew did a great job, too - kudos, all!
Highly recommended. It really doesn't get any better than Buddy and Patty. Both sounded great and the show was tremendous. In the age of America Idol it's great to see musicians with some depth and the only way to get that is putting in the time. Enough of the soapbox, if you're a fan of this music go support it. Worth every cent! (Great band also.)
I liked Buddy Miller! He was excellent. I have been a fan of Patty Griffin for years and Uptown Church is definitely my lease favorite album. I was happy to see her live, although I'm sure that this would have been my least favorite time to see her. I'm looking forward to seeing her on a different tour. Her voice is powerfully amazing. So much so that I enjoyed the concert even while I didn't care for most of the song choices.
Patty wanted to push her new album and sing lots of gospel songs. The audience wanted to hear Patty Griffin songs. A mis-match.
