Patty Griffin – Mary (Live)

Patty Griffin – Top Of The World

I wished I was smarter I wished I was stronger I wished I loved Jesus the way the my wife does I wished it had been easier Instead of any longer I wished I could have stood where you would have been proud But that won’t happen now, that won’t happen now There’s a whole lot of singing that’s never gonna be heard Disappearing every day without so much as a word somehow I think I broke the wings off that little songbird She’s never gonna fly to the top of the world now To the top of the world I don’t have to answer any of these questions Don’t have no god to teach me no lessons I’d come home in the evening Sit in my chair One night they called me for supper But I never got up I stayed right there In my chair There’s a whole lot of singing that’s never gonna be heard Disappearing every day without so much as a word somehow I think I broke the wings off that little songbird She’s never gonna fly to the top of the world now To the top of the world I wish I’d have known you I wish I’d have shown you All of the things I was on the inside But I’d pretend to be sleeping When you’d come in in the morning To whisper goodbye and Go to work in the rain Now I don’t know why I don’t know why Cause everyone’s singing, we just wanna be heard Disappearing every day without so much as a word somehow I wanna grab a hold of that little songbird Take her for a ride to the top of the world right now To the top of the world To the top of the world…..

Patty Griffin – ‘If I Had My Way’ (with Regina & Ann McCrary

Dorothy Love Coates-Strange Man

Patty Griffin – Prayer in Open D (Live)

Patty Griffin – Long Ride Home (Live)

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Patty Griffin “Making Pies” live

Another song from the Landmine-Free concert at Stanford University on 21/1/99.

Bruce Springsteen: STOLEN CAR

Live at Oakland Stadium in Oakland, CA on September 18, 1985.

When it don’t come easy – Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin – Nobody’s Crying

Music
SONG
Nobody’s Crying
ARTIST
Patty Griffin
ALBUM
1000 Kisses
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Charlie Sexton Interview

1 Degree of separation between Patty Griffin and Charlie Sexton = Michael Fracasso 

Working-Class Hero
In search of Michael Fracasso, his audience, and his niche
BY DAVE MARSH, FRI., APRIL 23, 2004
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Michael Fracasso’s SXSW 04 showcase took place at 1 am Friday at the Lounge, West Fourth Street, which is not a club, but more a wine bar with a stage tucked in the corner—a small stage, barely big enough for Fracasso and his three bandmates to turn around.

A small crowd, too. These are hardcore fans, almost everyone who has seen Fracasso numerous times. Even for them, such a weird place at such an inconvenient hour makes the experience a little awkward. If it fazes the performer, he doesn’t show it. He gives the same kind of intense performance he always gives. The only kind he knows how to give.

Nobody knows quite what to expect. Even though Fracasso has a new album on Austin’s Texas Music Group, A Pocketful of Rain, there’s no guarantee he’ll play those songs. He might sing anything. He might come off as a particularly insightful singer-songwriter; he might make rock & roll noise. Someone once said, “He’s like Buddy Holly if he went to college.”

He plays many new songs, but the evening’s surprise is the emphasis on guitar interplay between Fracasso and Mac McNabb. It’s pure music-making on the spot, and it’s quietly fierce. Not jam band stuff: There’s nothing hit-or-miss about how Fracasso makes music. But it’s still not the kind of singer-songwriter stuff with which he’s most strongly identified.

If he’s identified at all.

Fracasso has spent 15 years in Austin, and he’s worked with some of its icons. Charlie Sexton has been a band member and produced several Fracasso albums. Patty Griffin, who’s all over Pocket, regularly sings duets with Fracasso. Alongside Alejandro Escovedo and a classroom of local third-graders, he wrote the “The Big 1-0.” He’s an irregular part of the Woody Guthrie road show Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway, with Jimmy LaFave and Eliza Gilkyson, among others. After all that, Michael Fracasso remains Austin’s best kept musical secret.

YETI Drifting Podcast: Charlie Sexton