8 — and PEOPLE is exclusively premiering the first song off of the new project called, “River.”“It’s one of the last songs I wrote for this record,” Griffin, 54, tells PEOPLE.
Patty Griffin Debuts New Single 'River' from Latest Album — Her First Since Battling Breast Cancer Two years ago, Patty Griffin took time off from music after being diagnosed with breast cancer … Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. People is on Community!
It’s so true that it moved right over to Donny Hathaway’s voice and became his song. I think for a woman, there’s some deep, deep, deep, deep sadness that would happen from that. So, I’ve made friends with it. “Fortunately, I don’t want to do all that crap. It depleted the strength of my voice quite substantially, and then you know, you’ve got the diagnosis. The U.S. surpassed Italy in number of confirmed deaths on April 11 Just the feeling of that made me want to try to write “River.” Like, what’s down in there that I want to say, and that makes me want to sing I think that’s fair to say, but in my mind it goes between me, as a part of nature, and what nature does. And how do you make a song happen and not depend on somebody else?’ (laughs) I got a Hohner guitar for $55, which was really the entirety of my savings account when I was about 14 years old. Your body’s amazing. With encouragement from close friends and her own determination to carry on, Griffin spent a year writing and recording at home in Austin, Texas, ultimately regaining the strength to create her new, self-titled album, perhaps her most stripped-down work since her stunning 1996 debut, Speaking by phone in the middle of her American tour, Griffin offered insight into new songs like “River” and “Had a Good Reason,” and shared her love for her dogs, her guitar, and her dedicated fans.Griffin: I had been spending time with Donny Hathaway’s version of Leon Russell’s song, “A Song for You.” I actually covered that song for a little gig where I decided to do all covers. “Around the same time, I had a friend who had been diagnosed with very serious stage 4 [cancer] in several different places so [my diagnosis] just never seemed extremely serious.”Griffin says she “wasn’t afraid of passing away” thanks to having a great team of doctors and that the most difficult part of what she went through was being “physically impaired” for a while.“It was having to reset the way I thought about everything and even my identity about myself,” she says. We did that with Mike a couple of times, and then the rest of the time throughout the year — it took about a year to do it — Craig and I worked on it, in the house mostly.Yeah, the dining room table, the living room, and the kitchen.I feel like I can hear my house in it, for sure, and I like that. You can see in his eyes that he was protecting me from Michael Rosen, the photographer. You know, [thinking] I’ll just have to figure this out — keep writing and figure this out as I go, what I can do next.Most of it was done in my house in Austin, Texas, with Craig Ross. 130,794 people like this. Log In. “I always thought of myself as somebody who could sing really well, and to lose all of that is quite something. So, things like that, and other moments like that that I thought about as I was going along. Get push notifications with news, features and more. You know, my old friend Robert Plant talked to me a little bit about that, just how he doesn’t sing those high notes anymore. Let’s start and see what we got.”I just thought it would be a great tool to write with. The sadness in those voices — both of them at a certain point had that sort of [tumultuous] relationship with their mother. But also it took the heat off me. People.com We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. I think that would happen anyway with getting old, and that was sort of my transition into that point in my life.”In this new phase of life, Griffin describes herself as “pretty boring” — which she’s totally okay with! People’s voices change all the time and they keep going. Two years ago, Patty Griffin took time off from music after being diagnosed with breast cancer — now she's back to announce a new album and new tour Courtney Marie Andrews Blossoms Within the Solitude of 'Old Flowers'Jake Blount Looks Deeper into the Black Traditions of Old-Time MusicStephen Malkmus of Pavement Ventures Down an Acoustic Road on New AlbumAoife O'Donovan Finds Her Heart in the Verse of OthersThis website uses cookies to improve your experience. Reflecting the fortitude shown by the characters she’s written about for the last two decades, Patty Griffin made the decision to keep on working when her singing voice disappeared, the result of a battle with breast cancer in 2016. It’s got all these little warts on it that have grown over the years and it’s probably over 100 years old, but there’s a lot of beauty in it.
National Museum Of Ireland Shop, Ideal Career Test, Cognizant Softvision Wikipedia, Ersan Ilyasova Number, Cheap Nike Tracksuit, Salesforce Configuration Best Practices, Armitage Iii Cast, S&p 500 Index Historical Returns, Jeremy Clarkson Newspaper, Mid Day Owner, Cnn 10 Quiz Answers, Few Sentences About Exhibition, The Yasai Yelp, Wolf River Wisconsin Kayaking, Rocket Mortgage Squares, Daiwa Tournament Bass Rod, Paige Atypical Actress, Lion Store Publicis, Best Bass Lakes In Vilas County Wisconsin, Lee County Lake Fishing Tips, Mary Brock Atlanta Dream, Jhummandi Naadam Spb, Lake Norman Fishing, Modem Bridge Mode, Durga Jasraj Wiki, Hook Size For Amberjack, She's A Lady Lyrics Pulp, En Flique Definition, Oanda Login Problem, Netsuite Vs Salesforce, Easton Bloodline 330 Inserts, Futurama: Benders Game Dailymotion, Theon Name Popularity, Unskilled Jobs With Visa Sponsorship, Newspaper Serif Font, Directional Hypothesis Example, Tom Jones New Album, Tradingview Charting Library Wiki, Soul Singer Died In Plane Crash, How Many Devices Can Connect To Telus Wifi, Chardee Macdennis 3, Fidelis Care Phone Number, All Roads Lead To Rome Saying, Beena Patel Height, Charlie Rose Net Worth 2019, Sheffield England Knives Antique, + 18moreMoviesLakshmi Theatre, Abhinaya Theatre, And More, Fiddler Clay Theatre, Epicor Reviews Glassdoor, Shohola Marsh Reservoir, Best Musky Rod For The Money, Aaron Jackson Writer, James Blackmon Jr Net Worth, Weizmann Institute Of Science Acceptance Rate, Aig Logo Svg,