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It's the half-surprised vulnerability in Patty Griffin's voice and songs which startles you and implores you to listen to her writing again and again. There are singers, great singers, who you love because of the sounds of their voice and the emotions they impart to other people's lyrics. And there are writers who know how to sing, how to take a song and bless it - a writer with a voice can impart just that much more, can convey a personal intimacy to a track, and, though you know a million others have heard it, the message sounds as if it's delivered only to you. I shall end this analogymore… now, before I start sounding like a stalker."Impossible Dream" is Patty Griffin's fourth album to see the inside of a CD player - she's recorded a couple of others which have never been released. It's a contemplative piece, the variety of styles unified by the quality of her voice and worth of her words. Griffin is a singer-songwriter who knows how to deliver a narrative poem.Her most political work - it picks up on the theme of censorship, after her friends the Dixie Chicks had suffered a backlash, and she offers a commentary on what it means to be rejected and downtrodden. Griffin is no overnight success - she's worked at her craft, so she can write about human pain with authority and insight.Griffin creates a real sense of intimacy, a sense that she is communicating directly to your own experience and emotion. This is artistry, not commercialism. The personal is the political and everyday emotions and experience have political relevance, especially when they are the product of abuses of power. Griffin's songs demonstrate the power of communication, demonstrate that well crafted words will rivet your attention and grip your emotions in precisely the way a mechanical beat cannot. Individual, intimate, and inimical, and a lesson in the art and artistry of the songwriter.

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Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream (2005) Retail CD

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