Flaming Red

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Amazon.com Griffin's follow-up to the acoustic, lyric-based material of Living with Ghosts shifts gears so dramatically, it hardly seems like the work of the same artist. In an electric wonderland of dense percussion tracks (played by Kenny Aronoff) and tricky guitar attacks (handled by producer Jay Joyce), Griffin reveals herself as a muscular rock & roll singer as well as an emotionally vulnerable balladeer. If the Ramones-loud title track seems to be trying too hard to rock and other cuts just sound busy, overwhelming the song with production--the chaotic rant of "Wiggley Fingers," for one--the anthemic pulse of "Tony" and the modern soul of "Christina" are gorgeous and convincing. They're the work of an imagination set free, if not fully grown. --Roy Kasten Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Review Flaming Red is a rockabilly rave-up so removed from the easygoing immediacy of Living with Ghosts that it's impossible to read it as anything other than a radical statement of newfound purpose. -- No Depression While some of the new tunes rock--the brief but fervid title track, for instance, or the sinuous, darkly sexy Wiggley Fingers--many just meander along, awash in the sort of pristine atmospherics that weigh down too much contemporary roots-pop. -- The Los Angeles Times [T]his album ... has made an abrupt about-face from her 1996 acoustic CD Living with Ghosts. Even when Griffin rocks her hardest, however, her crystal voice commands the high ground. -- People
ASIN: B000007QDI
VSKU: COV.B000007QDI.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Patty Griffin
Binding: Audio CD