Artists:Patty Griffin
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Patty Griffin first became aware of music's capacity to communicate while growing up as the youngest of seven siblings, listening to her mother sing hymns, country songs and made-up ditties. The Maine native began singing during childhood, and wrote poems and songs as a teenager, but was too shy to make much of an effort to perform in public. After a stint living in Florida, she moved to the Boston area, where she waited tables and worked as a telephone switchboard operator at Harvard University. It wasn't until her guitar teacher coaxed her into joining him on stage in a tiny Cambridge club that Griffin mustered up the courage to begin performing her songs in public.
On the strength of a set of unadorned acoustic demo recordings, Griffin won a recording deal with A&M Records. When an attempt at cutting more elaborate studio versions of the same material proved unsatisfactory, the label agreed to release the artist's stripped-down original demos instead. The result was her 1996 debut release Living with Ghosts, which won widespread critical acclaim and won Griffin the beginnings of a passionate and devoted fan following. The following year, Griffin defied expectations by taking a radically different approach on her noisy sophomore effort, Flaming Red.
After an album she recorded in 2000 went unreleased due to corporate shuffles, Griffin found a more hospitable home when fan Dave Matthews signed her to his new, artist-friendly ATO Records. The change in labels coincided with Griffin's determination to scale her music back down to its essence, a direction that was reflected on 2002's sparse, mostly acoustic 1000 Kisses, which earned a Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. It was followed in 2003 by the live CD/DVD set A Kiss In Time. read more
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