原文：http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7122567 網址有個listen按鍵可以聽interview~~ Happiness Amid Melancholy: Songs of Patty Griffin by Melissa Block 創作歌手Patty Griffin為了愛情搬到德州Austin。雖然失去了愛情，但她卻找到音樂 的歸宿。 Griffin新專輯名稱為『Children Running Through』。從小在Maine長大，她是家中 七位小孩中最年輕的（七個小孩在七年內陸續旦生!!）。十二歲時，唱歌成為她的興 趣，不可自拔的沈溺音樂裡。 為了不打擾家人，她回憶著說：『我一開始是在房間裡唱歌，後來跑到衣櫥裡對著衣服 唱歌。』 Griffin創作歌曲時，詞、曲都是同一時間創作出來。 她解釋：『如同雕刻和石頭，要雕塑就得切刻石頭，不要想太多，繼續下去就對了。』 Griffin所寫的歌曲大多都是直擊人心的憂鬱曲調，所以她朋友就要她挑戰快樂的歌曲， 因此，"Burgundy Shoes"就這樣誕生。 Griffin說她回想了一些快樂的記憶，第一個想到的便是小時候搭巴士要到"大城市"， Bangor, Maine. 她說：『當你還是小孩時，因為長得可愛，所以每個人會都對你微笑，也因為這樣， 你會認為這世界是非常美好的。』『所有事情都是美好的。你不會被憂慮纏身，也不會 惦記著事情。你看到的是晴朗陽光、媽媽的口紅和漂亮的媽媽。』 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." -- 好久沒翻文章...真累 -- (C)lass 【 分組討論區 】 7 視聽劇場 偶像, 音樂, 廣電 10 Music_World 音樂 Σ音樂世界遊樂園 15 CountryMusic 音樂 ◎鄉村音樂 歡迎光臨 --

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