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10 Unforgettable Moments From Cayamo 2011

A week aboard the Cayamo cruise may be the single coolest thing about my job. Seven days in the Caribbean with the likes of Patty Griffin, Steve Earle, John Prine, Buddy Miller, the Indigo Girls and Brandi Carlile is as much fun as you might imagine....  read more

Margaret Cho Talks New Album, Working With Jon Brion and Andrew Bird

Margaret Cho didn’t really pick up a guitar and start playing music until about a year and a half ago, when she decided it would be a good idea to record an album...  read more

Watch Margaret Cho's Music Video With Andrew Bird

Bits and pieces of Margaret Cho’s upcoming musical comedy album, Cho Dependent, have oozed out into the interwebs over the last couple of months as we approach the Aug. 24 release date and whirlwind fall tour. Among the most recent and the most promising are a new music video for her collaboration with Andrew Bird and a streaming track she co-wrote with Patty Griffin and sang with Fiona Apple....  read more

50 New State Songs For the 21st Century

I live in a state blessed with one of the greatest official state songs in our venerable republic—"Georgia On My Mind." But most states are stuck with outdated, cheesy themes. We thought it was time to see what the official state songs might look like if we limited ourselves to those written in the 21st century.  read more

Catching Up With... Patty Griffin

"It’d be fun to give the people something to dance to..."  read more

Old Settler's Music Fest - Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller & a Gram Parsons experience

Stopping in for a bit of music at the Old Settler's Music Festival is like slipping into the '60s, like hanging at a mini-Woodstock. Proper attire is hippie authentic (as opposed to hippie chic found mostly in southern California). The waft of ganga occasionally drifts through. They even have the requisite rain storm with accompanying mud. But it don't mean a thing if it ain't got the music, something OSMF has plenty of. The weekend even extended into an interesting connection to Gram Parsons and Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley....  read more

Robert Plant Recruits Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin and More for Album and Tour

They're calling themselves Robert Plant and the Band of Joy...  read more

Watch Paste's Patty Griffin Webcast

Click through to watch the performance live from Griffin's Nashville studio at 8 p.m. EST tonight...  read more

Patty Griffin Announces Tour, Paste Webcast

Patty Griffin’s seventh album, the gospel-steeped Downtown Church, is out today on EMI/Credential. To help one of our favorite living songwriters celebrate her new release, tomorrow Paste will host a live webcast with Griffin from her studio at 7 p.m. CST. Watch an invitation to view the webcast from Patty herself....  read more

Patty Griffin: Downtown Church

Folk songstress offers Sunday-morning spirituals The details behind Patty Griffin’s seventh release are intriguing enough without listening to a single song: The entire record was cut in a 160-year-old Presbyterian church that once welcomed Andrew Jackson and survived the Civil War as a hospital for Union soldiers. There’s something about Griffin’s trilling pipes ricocheting through this vast and timeworn sanctuary that paints the album in an otherworldly, eternal hue as she dips deeply into gospel traditions....  read more