原文：http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7122567 网址有个listen按键可以听interview~~ Happiness Amid Melancholy: Songs of Patty Griffin by Melissa Block 创作歌手Patty Griffin为了爱情搬到德州Austin。虽然失去了爱情，但她却找到音乐 的归宿。 Griffin新专辑名称为『Children Running Through』。从小在Maine长大，她是家中 七位小孩中最年轻的（七个小孩在七年内陆续旦生!!）。十二岁时，唱歌成为她的兴 趣，不可自拔的沈溺音乐里。 为了不打扰家人，她回忆着说：『我一开始是在房间里唱歌，後来跑到衣橱里对着衣服 唱歌。』 Griffin创作歌曲时，词、曲都是同一时间创作出来。 她解释：『如同雕刻和石头，要雕塑就得切刻石头，不要想太多，继续下去就对了。』 Griffin所写的歌曲大多都是直击人心的忧郁曲调，所以她朋友就要她挑战快乐的歌曲， 因此，"Burgundy Shoes"就这样诞生。 Griffin说她回想了一些快乐的记忆，第一个想到的便是小时候搭巴士要到"大城市"， Bangor, Maine. 她说：『当你还是小孩时，因为长得可爱，所以每个人会都对你微笑，也因为这样， 你会认为这世界是非常美好的。』『所有事情都是美好的。你不会被忧虑缠身，也不会 惦记着事情。你看到的是晴朗阳光、妈妈的口红和漂亮的妈妈。』 Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin moved to Austin, Texas, for love. She lost the love, but found a musical home. Griffin, whose new CD is called Children Running Through, grew up in Maine — the youngest of seven children, all born within seven years. When she was about 12, she realized she liked to sing more than anything, and that she could get lost in music. "I just started going into my room and literally going into my closet and singing into the clothes" so she wouldn't bother her family, she recalls. When Griffin composes, she says the music and lyrics come at the same time. "It's like sculpture and the rock: You have to chip away at it and not think too much and just keep going," she explains. Griffin's songs are often shot through with a big streak of melancholy — so much so that a friend challenged her to write a "happier song." That challenge resulted in "Burgundy Shoes," a song on her new CD. Griffin says she went back to a happy memory, and one of the first was waiting for the bus to the "big city" of her youth, Bangor, Maine. "When you're little, everyone smiles at you because you're cute, so you think the world's great," she says. "Everything's so vivid. You're not clouded out by anxiety and you don't miss things.You see the sun, and you see your mom's lipstick and how beautiful she is." -- 好久没翻文章...真累 -- (C)lass 【 分组讨论区 】 7 视听剧场 偶像, 音乐, 广电 10 Music_World 音乐 Σ音乐世界游乐园 15 CountryMusic 音乐 ◎乡村音乐 欢迎光临 --

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