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Patty Griffin: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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TitlePatty Griffin: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
AuthorNPR Music
Duration14:56
File FormatMP3 / MP4
Original URL https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1gPVKJ7msI

Description

Patty Griffin has always had a gift for locating a song's nerve endings; for surveying her subject matter and identifying the most efficient possible pathways to listeners' emotions. Her warm, wise voice is comforting, inviting and relatable, even — perhaps especially — as she tackles weighty subjects like middle age and the death of a parent.

The memory of Griffin's father hangs over her recent seventh album, American Kid, but the singer remains far too resourceful to make it a collection of navel-gazing dirges about mortality. In sampling a few of the record's many highlights at the NPR Music offices, she takes care to balance the exquisite mourning of "Faithful Son" — and the sweetly somber "That Kind of Lonely," which Griffin describes as "a song about finally letting go of your delayed adolescence" — by closing her set with the playfully bawdy, kindly celebratory "Get Ready Marie." Inspired by a favorite photo of her grandparents, the song finds Griffin viewing two complicated lives with the generous, hopeful eye she's been casting on her subjects for three fruitful decades now. --STEPHEN THOMPSON

Set List
"Faithful Son"
"That Kind Of Lonely"
"Get Ready Marie"

Personnel
John Deaderick, accordion
Patty Griffin, guitar
Dave Pulkingham, guitar
Craig Ross, baritone guitar

Credits
Producer: Bob Boilen; Editor: Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Kainaz Amaria, Denise DeBelius, Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; photo by Denise DeBelius/NPR

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