Flaming Red, Patty Griffin, 1998, :50
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
The early rock singer album by Patty Griffin. I think this album may be known mostly due to the country-folk direction Griffin took afterwards, and not for the quality of its rock performance. She's a great singer, but the songs themselves make up a mixed bag, quality-wise. The catchy "One Big Love" is justly well-known, while "Peter Pan" is a snoozefest. And, well, at almost an hour in length, with longish tracks, I guess on the whole I lean more toward "mediocre" than "decently ordinary" — and yet, it don't dislike it. It doesn't feel like a two-star album. At the moment of this writing, anyway. Favorites: "One Big Love," "Change," "Blue Sky."
