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  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: ATO Records Catalog: Music Release date: 2007-02-06 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0880882157425 Upc: 880882157425  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (12) |
 You'll Remember Stay On The Ride Trapeze Getting Ready | Burgundy Shoes Heavenly Day No Bad News Railroad Wings | Up To The Mountains (MLK Song) I Don't Ever Give Up Someone Else's Tomorrow Crying Over |
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On her fifth studio CD, folk-rocker Patty Griffin employs three timeless themes--childhood, flight, and death--to craft her most musically diverse and accessible album yet. But while moving through jazz, beatnik, classic and modern folk, gospel R&B, Americana, and moody piano ballad, Griffin keeps her backing quiet and spare, all the more to showcase the power of her deft storytelling and the bell clarity of her unadorned soprano. On song after song, the characters who waft through her experience are on the move, chasing one thing and fleeing another--on trains, ships, buses, in cars, even on the aerialist's bar--ultimately trading an ending of one kind for a new beginning and transference. Sometimes--as on the Rickie Lee Jones-ish "Stay on the Ride," where an old man with no name answers an existential urge for going--they don't even know what it is. "Trapeze," the most resonant offering, follows an aging circus performer who'd rather work without a net than take her chances in love. Here, Emmylou Harris adds one of her most aching harmony lines to Griffin's exquisite, ethereal lead, while in the next track, "Getting Ready," the singer turns a 180, laying a sneering Dylanesque vocal over a fiercely scrubbed acoustic guitar and an occasional dissonant kiss-off. "Baby, baby, you were my drug/And I was just your cigarette," she drones knowingly. One suspects that particular object of her affections will soon regret it. --Alanna Nash More from Patty Griffin
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 Written on July 24, 2007 Summary: excellent cd!!!!!!!!! after purchasing my first patti g. cd(1000 kisses) a few months ago, i had to have another. after receiving this cd, i wondered where patti had been all of my life. trapeze and burgandy shoes give me chills from head to toe. i love to hold my baby girl and dance in the kitchen to heavenly day....makes me cry. can't stop listening to this cd!!!  Written on July 23, 2007 Summary: Not up to her standard First off, I have always liked Griffin's music, the haunting melodies, the piercing lyrics, the purity of her voice, all fantanstic. Sadly, this cd is not up to her best. She seems to be trying to make a more 'upbeat' and accessible cd, but I feel that this approach has led her astray. Too often the lyrics are trite and obvious, and the melodies are lost in guitars being banged. Her wonderful voice is still strong, but too often she adopts the modern 'warbling' which cames across as unauthentic. Maybe she's trying to reach out to a wider audience and I guess from all the positive reviews she has succeeded to some extent. But if you're a fan of her previous work, you're likely to be a little dissappointed here. Not once in listening to this cd did I get those rushes of emotion that I always get from her. The album sounds rushed to me, or maybe she didn't get proper help from a good producer. Eitherway, this is Griffin 'lite.' Sounds like her, but the punch just ain't there. Written on July 10, 2007 Summary: Her Finest Hour I've always been a sorta-kinda fan of Patty Griffin, but each of her prior albums has suffered from a few (or more) dud songs, and moments where her voice struggles against notes that she just can't hit very well. Finally an album where these problems are nearly absent! It's amazing how gracefully she's aging; her voice has never sounded so good. A couple tracks took some time to grow on me, but now I can honestly say it's a pleasure for me to listen to this album from beginning to end without skipping a single track. And as for the standout tracks...I would name them, but there are about seven of them. (Though "No Bad News" and "Up to the Mountain" are among the best songs she's ever recorded.) I can't wait to hear her next album, but if Children Running Through ends up being her masterpiece, that's good enough for me. Written on July 9, 2007 Summary: My Best Friend I wish I could square the 5 star rating. I was familiar with Patty Griffin's songs long before I heard her beautiful voice. She is a marvel. I normally need to warm up to new music before I start to enjoy it. This lovely collection was my current favorite the first time I heard it. Heavenly Day is now my "happy place" when I need one. I'd give Patty a hug if I could reach far enough. Thanks for the good times! Written on July 8, 2007 Summary: move, inspire and entertain Patty Griffin is a storyteller. Rarely confessional or self-indulgent, she tells tales, assumes personas and takes the listener deep into the lives of her characters. Each persona has her or his own musical interpretation, deepening and strengthening the voice. In "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)," Griffin assumes the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and puts herself into to the head and heart of a man working for a vision and a dream. Hope seems to be a theme on this latest effort, as is travel. "Stay on the Ride" has a man riding the bus day in and day out because "it's gonna take me somewhere." Griffin takes some musical risks and periodically diverges from her comfortable style, as in the jazzier tones of the opening track, "You'll Remember," and the gospel-infused strains of "Heavenly Day" and "Up to the Mountain." "Trapeze" showcases a gorgeous duet with the master of harmonies, Emmylou Harris. Patty Griffin is an artist who has hit her stride and stayed there for years. This album proves her staying power and continued ability to move, inspire and entertain. |
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| List price | $15.98 | $13.98 | $18.98 | $9.98 | $17.98 | $17.98 |
| Lowest used price | $9.49 | $7.50 | $4.55 | $4.97 | $7.99 | $7.75 |
| Lowest new price | $10.55 | $8.49 | $6.47 | $5.43 | $11.97 | $11.48 |
| Collectible price | $39.99 | $58.14 | - | $10.00 | - | $17.95 |
| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2007-02-06 | 2007-02-13 | 2007-01-30 | 1996-05-21 | 2007-03-06 | 2002-04-09 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0880882157425 | 0602498583487 | 0094638251729 | 0731454049023 | 0601143111129 | 0791022150421 |
| Upc | 880882157425 | 602498583487 | 094637451625 | 731454049023 | 601143111129 | 791022150421 |
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