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Track List
01) House of Gold
02) Move Up
03) Little Fire
04) Death's Got a Warrant
05) If I Had My Way
06) Coming Home to Me
07) Wade in the Water
08) Never Grow Old
09) Virgen de Guadalupe
10) I Smell a Rat
11) Waiting for My Child
12) The Strange Man
13) We Shall All Be Reunited
14) All Creatures of Our God and King
01) House of Gold
02) Move Up
03) Little Fire
04) Death's Got a Warrant
05) If I Had My Way
06) Coming Home to Me
07) Wade in the Water
08) Never Grow Old
09) Virgen de Guadalupe
10) I Smell a Rat
11) Waiting for My Child
12) The Strange Man
13) We Shall All Be Reunited
14) All Creatures of Our God and King
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2010
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Downtown Church is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, released on January 26, 2010, by Credential Recordings, a Christian label distributed by EMI. The album was recorded in Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville and features different styles. Griffin has stated that she recorded the album to explore her feelings about religion. The album debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard Christian Albums and Folk Albums charts. The critical response was "generally favorable". On December 1, 2010, the album received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Gospel Album. On February 13, 2011, Downtown Church won the Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album. This was Patty Griffin's first Grammy award, after previously being nominated for Best Contemporary/Folk Americana Album for Children Running Through in 2007.
Patty Griffin – vocals
Buddy Miller – production, mixing, guitar, vocals
Dennis Crouch – bass
Jay Bellerose – drums
Doug Lancio – guitar
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
John Deaderick – piano
John Catchings – cello
Bryan Owings – percussion
Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
Emmylou Harris – vocals
Raul Malo – vocals
Jim Lauderdale – vocals
Shawn Colvin – vocals
Mike Farris – vocals
Julie Miller – vocals
Regina McCrary – vocals
Ann McCrary – vocals
User Album Review
Griffin and her cohorts deliver a collection of astonishing songs.
Nick Barraclough 2010
If an artist is to be judged by her friends, Patty Griffin is a superstar. Her songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Dixie Chicks; Buddy and Julie Miller are guests on this album, as is the gorgeous voice of former Maverick Raul Malo.
It doesn’t take much listening, though, to realise what qualifies her to call on such luminaries. Her reedy but soulful voice wraps itself round some classic gospel songs, but the surprise is that only one of these is written by herself, although she has a strong track record as a songwriter.
Her choice of material sounds like it bears the strong influence of producer Buddy Miller. He has always championed the gravelly side of what we might call Americana or alt-country; but this, simply, is honest country music. Buddy seems to have recognised in Patty’s voice and delivery an earthiness that hasn’t been fully exploited in the past.
Downtown Church is full of astonishing songs. It opens with Hank Williams’ House of Gold, and there’s a bit of Lieber and Stoller silliness with I Smell a Rat. As for Sullivan Pugh’s unsettling Waiting for My Child from 1963, where did they find that? Then, from the obscure to the obvious – Wade in the Water. There is some severe God-bothering going on, but don’t let that put you off, as the music’s what it is, regardless of whom it’s about.
The album was recorded in a Nashville church, and Griffin had plenty to choose from – there are over a thousand in the Tennessee capital, making it arguably the most churched settlement in the States. This particular building they got right, as the acoustics inside the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church sound wonderful. You can spend as much money as you want on digital manipulation, on echoes and reverbs pulled from the electronic shelf, but nothing sound as good as twanging strings moving the air and banging back and forth between hard walls.
The straight rendering of the hymn All Creatures of Our God and King may wear some down at the album’s end, but otherwise this is one destined for the iPod.
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Downtown Church is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, released on January 26, 2010, by Credential Recordings, a Christian label distributed by EMI. The album was recorded in Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville and features different styles. Griffin has stated that she recorded the album to explore her feelings about religion. The album debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard Christian Albums and Folk Albums charts. The critical response was "generally favorable". On December 1, 2010, the album received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Gospel Album. On February 13, 2011, Downtown Church won the Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album. This was Patty Griffin's first Grammy award, after previously being nominated for Best Contemporary/Folk Americana Album for Children Running Through in 2007.
Patty Griffin – vocals
Buddy Miller – production, mixing, guitar, vocals
Dennis Crouch – bass
Jay Bellerose – drums
Doug Lancio – guitar
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
John Deaderick – piano
John Catchings – cello
Bryan Owings – percussion
Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
Emmylou Harris – vocals
Raul Malo – vocals
Jim Lauderdale – vocals
Shawn Colvin – vocals
Mike Farris – vocals
Julie Miller – vocals
Regina McCrary – vocals
Ann McCrary – vocals
User Album Review
Griffin and her cohorts deliver a collection of astonishing songs.
Nick Barraclough 2010
If an artist is to be judged by her friends, Patty Griffin is a superstar. Her songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Dixie Chicks; Buddy and Julie Miller are guests on this album, as is the gorgeous voice of former Maverick Raul Malo.
It doesn’t take much listening, though, to realise what qualifies her to call on such luminaries. Her reedy but soulful voice wraps itself round some classic gospel songs, but the surprise is that only one of these is written by herself, although she has a strong track record as a songwriter.
Her choice of material sounds like it bears the strong influence of producer Buddy Miller. He has always championed the gravelly side of what we might call Americana or alt-country; but this, simply, is honest country music. Buddy seems to have recognised in Patty’s voice and delivery an earthiness that hasn’t been fully exploited in the past.
Downtown Church is full of astonishing songs. It opens with Hank Williams’ House of Gold, and there’s a bit of Lieber and Stoller silliness with I Smell a Rat. As for Sullivan Pugh’s unsettling Waiting for My Child from 1963, where did they find that? Then, from the obscure to the obvious – Wade in the Water. There is some severe God-bothering going on, but don’t let that put you off, as the music’s what it is, regardless of whom it’s about.
The album was recorded in a Nashville church, and Griffin had plenty to choose from – there are over a thousand in the Tennessee capital, making it arguably the most churched settlement in the States. This particular building they got right, as the acoustics inside the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church sound wonderful. You can spend as much money as you want on digital manipulation, on echoes and reverbs pulled from the electronic shelf, but nothing sound as good as twanging strings moving the air and banging back and forth between hard walls.
The straight rendering of the hymn All Creatures of Our God and King may wear some down at the album’s end, but otherwise this is one destined for the iPod.
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