(It’s Patty Griffin week. She will be in concert at the Alys Stephens Center this Friday.)
A couple years after purchasing Patty Griffin’s first album, a new one was released.
It was friday night and I had a softball game. We only had one car in Seminary so I picked Bethany up from work and we went to a place called Crazy Bowls and Wraps for the first time. Next to it was a music store local to St. Louis. After eating we went over there to kill some time before I had to turn double plays at Short and then hit home runs.
And that is when I saw 1000 Kisses. We had been listening to lot of peers lately – Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Alison Krauss, Gilian Welch – so we picked it up, paid for it and got in the car. From the first song – “Rain” – we were hooked.
I can remember sitting in our Honda Accord listening to her sing and being moved by the power of her voice. I can remember being anxious to hear more after the game. And I can remember listening to that album so often we had to make the decision to listen to something else for awhile.
A few months later I acted as the head of her street team to get the word out about her show in St. Louis. She played almost the whole album that night.
It’s a flawless album. Below is the first tune that filled our car on that friday night nine years ago.
Echoes and Stars 