American Kid

Patty Griffin - American Kid
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2013 Ratings: #15 / 1115
User Score
Based on 55 ratings
2013 Rank: #115
Liked by 1 person
May 7, 2013 / Release Date
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
musicOMH

Six years ago, folk singer-songwriter Patty Griffin released her best album to date, Children Running Through. Her new one, American Kid, might top that stunning achievement.

90
PopMatters

American Kid successfully recaptures Griffin’s acoustic roots in haunting and moving fashion.

90
AllMusic

With its immediacy, economy, cagey strength, and vulnerability, Griffin delivers these 12 songs not as gifts or statements, but as her own evidence of what is, what was, and what yet may come.

90
Paste

Evocation is something Griffin has always had a black belt in. Strength in vulnerability, dignity in devastation, she is as Dust Bowl in her elegance as she is electric in the unfiltered emotions she serves. 

ocrakraut
90

I can´t count the goose bumps these songs give me.
A classic of soul searching stripped down Americana.
For me as perfect as Lucinda Williams´ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
Try Ohio for a start and never mind the genre this is music in it´s best sense

CheapandLethal
75

Decent

FinalLifeline
82

Patty Griffin continues her streak of releasing some of the best Americana in existence by hitting all the right spots to induce nostalgia, hope, hurt, and a million other emotions. The instrumentation is classic, the lyrics are certainly Patty, and the final product is fascinatingly good. Sweet, but with a world-wise edge.

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Track List

  1. Go Wherever You Wanna Go 
  2. Don't Let Me Die In Florida 
  3. Ohio 
  4. Wild Old Dog 
  5. Mom & Dad's Waltz 
  6. Faithful Son 
  7. Highway Song 
  8. That Kind Of Lonely
  9. Irish Boy
  10. Get Ready Marie
  11. Not A Bad Man
  12. Gonna Miss You When You're Gone

Year End Lists

#2/American Songwriter
#33/Rough Trade
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Added on: May 13, 2013