GRAMMY-winning folk artist Patty Griffin has faced some major challenges since she put out her last GRAMMY-nominated album, 2015’s Servant Of Love, including a breast cancer diagnosis in 2017.
After taking some time off to recover she released a new single, "River," in Jan. and announced plans to release a self-titled album, due out March 8. Today, Griffin revealed the dates for her North American tour in support of the new album, beginning on Feb. 28 in Los Angeles.
The tour dates will take Griffin across the U.S. and to Toronto on April 11. Her stops include historic music venues such as The Town Hall in New York on April 6 and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. on April 17. A press release notes that more North American shows, along with European dates, will be added soon, and tickets for most of the already-announced performances will go live on Friday, Jan. 18.
In a recent interview with People, where she debuted "River," Griffin shared the story behind the song and how it was inspired by GRAMMY-winning soul singer Donny Hathaway's "A Song For You."
"It's one of the last songs I wrote for this record. We recorded it over about a year's time. I had been spending a lot of time with this song that Leon Russell wrote and Donny Hathaway recorded in the '70s called 'A Song For You,'" Griffin said. "I actually covered that song at a show, and I thought it would be great to have my own—which is kind of a high order. There's something about that particular song that made me feel like it's an aerial view of a moment in life. The emotion of that song inspired me."
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You can listen to the powerful "River" above, or on your favorite music platform now. Patty Griffin will be available to hear in its entirety on March 8 and will be released on the artist's own PGM Recordings, on which she also released Servant Of Love.
More info and tickets for her tour are available on her website.
