Patty Griffin

BIOGRAPHY

“The older you get, you just get sick of yourself staying stuck where you’ve been stuck.”

Patty Griffin is talking about “Back at the Start,” the pulsating first track on her new album Crown of Roses. But in examining the idea of letting go of the stories we tell ourselves, she could be talking about the entire album and, indeed, her life.

From a focus on the trajectory of women in the 20th and 21st centuries to communion with nature, a meaningful reconnection with her late mother, and ruminating on the changing inner and outer world during the pandemic, Griffin had no shortage of topics to contemplate over the last few years. What she didn’t always have was certainty of purpose.

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