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Patty Griffin - A Kiss in Time Audio CD

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Patty Griffin Band: Patty Griffin
Title: A Kiss in Time
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Release Date: 2003-10-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Long Ride Home 2: Goodbye 3: Christina 4: Peter Pan 5: Rain 6: Mad Mission 7: Be Careful 8: Tony 9: Mary 10: Fly 11: Nobody's Cryin' 12: 10 Million Miles

Patty Griffin I love you!
With the advent of the MP3 player, listeners now can invent their own playlists, and rarely will anyone load up a single set of songs from just one artist. The idea of listening to entire albums is a lost art, more or less, these days.

"A Kiss In Time" is a live album by Patty Griffin was recorded in 2003. It's a compilation of a dozen songs from various points in her career. Haunting, melodious, and simple, Griffin's voice isn't only overwhelming, it cuts right to the heart in way that only a woman with a guitar and something to sing about can.

NSFW is usually a designation reserved for some photo or video that might cause some sort of embarrassment or trouble if seen or heard by the wrong person, or people, but "A Kiss In Time" isn't safe to listen to anywhere that you cannot stop long enough to be amazed. It is one of the very few pieces of music that stops my heart, and brings back in my life lost loves, and loves yet to be lost.

"Long Ride Home" drives home the idea that in a lifetime, no matter how long we have with someone when they're gone we wish for more kindness, not more time.
"Goodbye" drops me. Always.
"Christina" is a song summoned to Griffin by a dream of Christina Onassis.
"Peter Pan" is, of course, about lost love.
"Rain" whips rain and heartbreak into the same song.
"Mad Mission" is a fun tune that melds old movies with new love.
"Be Careful" is a whimsical plea, for love and mercy.
"Tony" is a plaintive song against injustice.
"Mary" a spiritual view of motherhood.
"Fly" is a goodbye song, sung well.
"Nobody's Crying" isn't true at all. May the dream you are dreaming in a warm soft bed, may the voices inside that fill you with dread,make the sounds of a thousand angels instead, tonight where you might be laying your head, I wish you well. . .
"10 Million Miles" is sing about understanding life.

I do understand that Griffin may jangle a bit too much for some, and the Nashville roots of her music may twang some a little too much. I do understand that this sort of music won't move other as it does me.

But I love this woman's voice, and I love her vision, and her art.

Patty Griffin, ever you might be, I wish you well, and I love you.

Take Care,
Mike Firesmith
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Time After Time After Time
If you like amazing, strong yet feminine vocals with a twangy edge, buy it. This album is pure Patty, and if you're a fan you won't be disappointed.


Excellent Work
Many of the songs played live sound so much better esp the instruments backing her up. Patty's voice is wonderful live, so this is a great collection of her intelligent writing and beautiful vocals. Hearing live drums verses drum kits on songs from Flaming Red, like Mary, Tony, etc makes them so much more rich and enjoyable to listen to. Highly recomend.


Excellent CD
Songs from "Flaming Red" and "Living with Ghosts" are also included. This CD was recorded on the tour for the "1,000 Kisses" album. I am a huge fan of her work and I am normally wary of "live" recordings. "A Kiss in Time" is solid, start to finish. If you are a fan of her work, I highly recommend this CD. If you are unfamiliar with her work, this would be an excellent place to start appreciating her amazing talent.


Patty Griffin live - A Kiss In Time
Why I don't hear her on my radio is confounding. Why Patti Griffin is not known to every adult in america is a mystery. She is the Dylan of this age (her voice a delicate directed whisper one moment, and pealing the paint off the walls in another). Her devastating honesty and intensity confirm faith in the capacity for human expression to attain ethereal majesty. She exposes that inalienable connection we have to a universal truth in speaking directly to the soul. Her songs sear images into my being with a paintbrush of my own experience.
Buy this as an introduction to her other five cd's. You will very likely buy them all.


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