Flaming Red
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{{Infobox album
| name = Flaming Red
| type = studio
| artist = Patty Griffin
| cover = Pattygriffinflamingred2.jpg
| released = {{Start date|1998|6|23}}
| recorded =
| studio = East Iris Studios, Nashville; Tragedy/Tragedy; Woodland Studios, East Nashville; October Studio, Nashville
| length = {{Duration|m=50|s=15}}
| language = English
| label = A&M
| producer = Jay Joyce
| prev_title = Living with Ghosts
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = 1000 Kisses
| next_year = 2002
}}
Flaming Red is Patty Griffin's second album. It was released on June 23, 1998, and reached number 12 on the Top Heatseekers chart. According to Billboard, the album has sold 122,000 copies in the U.S. up to May 2004.Caulfield, Keith. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080621030142/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000503346 "Ask Billboard - Griffin's 'Impossible Dream'"]. Billboard. May 5, 2004.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000037792 |label=Review |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |accessdate=1 May 2021 }}
|rev2=Entertainment Weekly
}}
Of the album, Griffin herself commented, "I always felt like I was a rock singer. It was all I listened to. I felt like, 'Don't call me a folksinger.'" Called "rock-centric", "incendiary" and "full-bodied", the album marked a shift to recording with a full band.{{cite news|title=Patty Griffin – "Rider Of Days"|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1819100/patty-griffin-rider-of-days/news/|journal=Stereogum|date=July 27, 2015|first=CAITLIN|last=WHITE}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.popmatters.com/175739-patty-griffin-silver-bell-2495718830.html|title=PATTY GRIFFIN: SILVER BELL|journal=Pop Matters|first=Ryan|last=Lathan|date=11 October 2013}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.wmky.org/post/patty-griffin|journal=WMKY|title=Patty Griffin|first=PAUL|last=HITCHCOCK|date=March 24, 2019}} Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "Flaming Red is evidence that Griffin is one [of] the more talented and ambitious singer/songwriters to emerge in the late '90s."
NPR named the album to their list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women calling it "electrifying" and a "testament to the fire simmering under all of [Griffin's] work preceding this album, and what came after it."{{cite news|title=150 Greatest Albums Made By Women|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women|first=Katie|last=Presley|date=July 24, 2017}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| all_writing = Patty Griffin
| total_length = 50:15
| title1 = Flaming Red
| length1 = 2:13
| title2 = One Big Love
| length2 = 4:14
| title3 = Tony
| length3 = 4:10
| title4 = Change
| length4 = 4:14
| title5 = Goodbye
| length5 = 4:15
| title6 = Carry Me
| length6 = 3:29
| title7 = Christina
| length7 = 4:34
| title8 = Wiggley Fingers
| length8 = 4:07
| title9 = Blue Sky
| length9 = 3:41
| title10 = Big Daddy
| length10 = 3:07
| title11 = Go Now
| length11 = 2:41
| title12 = Mary
| length12 = 5:16
| title13 = Peter Pan
| length13 = 4:14
}}
Personnel
- Patty Griffin – vocals, guitar
- Kenny Aronoff – drums
- John Catchings – strings on "Peter Pan"
- David Davidson – strings on "Peter Pan"
- Chris Feinstein – bass guitar
- Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
- Jay Joyce – guitar, keyboards, programming, producer
- Mike Joyce – bass guitar
- Doug Lancio – guitar
- Buddy Miller – backing vocals
- Julie Miller – backing vocals
- Brad Pemberton – drums
- Kathryn Plummer – strings on "Peter Pan"
- Michael Ramos – keyboards
- Giles Reaves – keyboards, programming
- Frank Sass – drums
- Daniel Tashian – guitar
- Ty Tyler – guitar
- Kristin Wilkinson – strings on "Peter Pan"
- Angelo Petraglia - producer on "One Big Love"
Track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Flaming Red |others=Patty Griffin |type=liner notes |access-date= |year=1998 |publisher=A&M Records |id=31454 0907 2}}
Charts
| class="wikitable" |
| Chart (1998)
! Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|12|artist=Patty Griffin|refname=BB1|accessdate=May 1, 2021}} |
References
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060819221809/http://lyrics.pattynet.net/#2 Lyrics to the album on PattyNet.net]
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