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Track Listings
| 1. Rain |
| 2. Chief |
| 3. Stolen Car |
| 4. Making Pies |
| 5. Be Careful |
| 6. Long Ride Home |
| 7. Nobody's Crying |
| 8. Tomorrow Night |
| 9. Mil Besos |
| 10. Reprise |
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Blessed with a stunningly powerful and accurate voice and revered as one of the finest female singer songwriters around by such lumaries as Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Mary Chapin Carpenter, Griffin has produced a largely acoustic-based album, reminiscent of but far more refined than her debut 'Living With Ghosts'.
The artistic freedom of signing for a smaller label has resulted in this record having a looser, more instinctive feel than her two previous outings (not short on quality themselves), and the songs here have room to breathe in the uncluttered arrangements.
This new approach has also resulted in the inclusion of three cover versions, Springsteen's 'Stolen Car' the most notable, but it's on Griffin's own compositions 'Rain', 'Be Careful' and 'Making Pies' that '1000 Kisses' truly shines.....
The material is just outstanding. In the main her own songs - she offers a magnificent cover of Springstein's 'Stolen Car' and an emotive 'Mil Besos' - the melodic quality and poetry of Griffin's words deliver track after track which you simply want to listen to again and again. She creates an extraordinary mood of attentiveness. As a listener, you listen - this is not background music.
Patty Griffin is a storyteller. This album is exemplary in its ability to deliver stories - would-be songwriters should listen to Griffin, learn how she crafts words and phrases and builds them into a compelling narrative. Oh, of course, it would help to have as fine a voice as hers, or her sense of melody and skill in delivering an arrangement, but time and again you come back to the fact that Patty Griffin writes exceedingly good songs.
And they're songs with real meaning, not commercial pap. Griffin has an eye for the detail of emotion and a perception of the inconsequential and routine, recognising that they can tell you more about people than a glamorous façade or the apparently obvious. She can explore pain and sadness without ever becoming maudlin or depressing. Indeed, her songs always seem to elevate, to enable you to face the world with a greater sense of optimism and expectation of human worth.
Griffin's voice and words touch you in a way few other performers manage. The wonderful 'Be Careful' reminds you about the fragility and strength of human dignity and the need to respect others. Ultimately, that's the message which comes across on "1000 Kisses" - respect for Griffin, and a recognition of the respect we owe others. Absolutely superb!
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