Children Running Through
{{Infobox album
| name = Children Running Through
| type = studio
| artist = Patty Griffin
| cover = Children Running Through.jpg
| alt = Patty Griffin sitting on the bumper of an old rusted truck in a field. Her hair blows in the wind.
| released = {{Start date|2007|2|6}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk, Americana, Country Folk
| length = 47:12
| label = ATO
| producer = Patty Griffin, Mike McCarthy
| prev_title = Impossible Dream
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = Patty Griffin: Live from the Artist's Den
| next_year = 2007
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Children Running Through
| type = studio
| single1 = Heavenly Day
| single1date = 2007
}}
}}
Children Running Through is Patty Griffin's sixth commercially released album, and fifth studio album.
The album debuted at number 34 on the Billboard 200 in mid-February, the highest chart position achieved by Griffin in her career. It sold about 27,000 copies in its first week.{{cite web|first=Katie |last=Hasty |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1054981/fall-out-boy-hits-high-note-with-no-1-debut |title=Fall Out Boy Hits 'High' Note With No. 1 Debut |work=Billboard.com |date=2007-02-14 |accessdate=2008-03-15}} As of January 2010, the album had sold over 168,000 copies in the United States.{{cite news|last=Ayers|first=Michael D.|title=Patty Griffin ventures into gospel with new album|work=Billboard|publisher=Reuters|date=January 8, 2010|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6070VJ20100108|accessdate=January 9, 2010}}
Kelly Clarkson performed a live cover version of "Up To The Mountain (MLK Song)" with Jeff Beck on the "Idol Gives Back" special edition of American Idol on April 25, 2007. Griffin is regarded as one of Clarkson's musical inspirations{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} and Clarkson also covered "No Bad News" during the Nashville concert on her My December Tour. Bonus track "Moon Song" was covered by Griffin's close friend Emmylou Harris on her 2008 album All I Intended to Be.
Reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = About.com
|rev2 = Allmusic
|rev2score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r948793|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
|rev3 = The A.V. Club
|rev4 = Blender
|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=4378 Blender review]
|rev5 = The Music Box
|rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[http://www.musicbox-online.com/reviews-2007/pattygriffin-childrenrunningthrough.html The Music Box review]
|rev6 = Paste
|rev7 = PopMatters
|rev7score = {{Rating|7|10}}[http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/11537/patty-griffin-children-running-through PopMatters review]
|rev8 = Rolling Stone
|rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20080103003241/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pattygriffin/albums/album/13145025/review/13151522/children_running_through Rolling Stone review]
|rev9 = Slant Magazine
|rev9score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1069 Slant Magazine review] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181147/http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1069 |date=September 30, 2007 }}
}}
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the song "Heavenly Day" gives "Griffin a chance to let that fine voice soar."Mervis, Scott (8 February 2007), [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07039/760263-42.stm "For the Record: 2/8/07"]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Accessed 2008-07-24 According to Entertainment Weekly Griffin "effortlessly slow-burns her way through an evocation of good times."Collis, Clark, Dombal, Ryan, Endelman, Michael, Greenblatt, Leah, Vozick-Levinson, Simon (19 January 2007), "Swinging Singles". Entertainment Weekly (916):78-79
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.Zuel, Bernard. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/gig-reviews/patty-griffin/2008/02/15/1202760570414.html "Patty Griffin"]. The Sydney Morning Herald. February 16, 2008.
Griffin won Album of the Year and Artist of the Year award at the 2007 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony and is one of only three female artists to win the latter (with Griffin being the second after Loretta Lynn in 2005 and Gillian Welch following in 2012).
Track listing
All songs written by Patty Griffin.
{{Track listing
| headline = Children Running Through {{nobold|– Standard edition}}{{cite web |title=Spotify - Children Running Through |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/7pqVvNMgwqay4lDgLdD0R7?si=Fbq_ZOwvSXmeYwxekXPN3w |website=Spotify |access-date=29 May 2022}}
| total_length = 47:12
| title1 = You'll Remember
| length1 = 2:07
| title2 = Stay on the Ride
| length2 = 5:17
| title3 = Trapeze
| length3 = 4:23
| note3 = featuring Emmylou Harris
| title4 = Getting Ready
| length4 = 3:15
| title5 = Burgundy Shoes
| length5 = 3:26
| title6 = Heavenly Day
| length6 = 3:45
| title7 = No Bad News
| length7 = 4:02
| title8 = Railroad Wings
| length8 = 3:59
| title9 = Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)
| length9 = 4:08
| title10 = I Don't Ever Give Up
| length10 = 4:00
| title11 = Someone Else's Tomorrow
| length11 = 4:06
| title12 = Crying Over
| length12 = 4:37
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Children Running Through {{nobold|– Barnes & Noble edition (bonus tracks)}}
| total_length = 54:56
| title13 = Free
| length13 = 3:54
| title14 = Only Up or Down
| length14 = 3:50
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Children Running Through {{nobold|– iTunes Store edition (bonus track)}}
| total_length = ?:??
| title13 = Moon Song
| length13 = ?:??
}}
Personnel
- David Angell – Violin
- Kristen Cassel – Cello
- David Davidson – Violin
- Christopher Farrell – Viola
- Traci Goudie – Art Direction, Design
- Patty Griffin – Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Producer, Vox Organ, Drawing
- Emmylou Harris – Background Vocals on "Trapeze"
- Jim Hoke – Baritone & Tenor Saxophone, Bass Harmonica
- Anthony LaMarchina – Cello
- Doug Lancio – Guitar, Autoharp
- JD Foster - Bass
- Michael Longoria – Percussion, Drums
- Mike McCarthy – Producer
- Ian McLagan – Grand Piano
- John Mark Painter – Horn, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
- Leslie Richter – Engineer
- Jane Scarpantoni – Cello, Soloist
- Pamela Sixfin – Violin
- Steve Squire – Second Engineer
- Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – Violin
- Jim Vollentine – Engineer
- Kathi Whitley – Production Coordination
- Kristin Wilkinson – Viola
- Glenn Worf – Bass, Tic Tac