Album Review: Crown Of Roses by Patty Griffin

“There’s secrets I don’t tell ever to myself / I just keep moving,” folk musician Patty Griffin sings to open her new album Crown of Roses. Some of those chambers eventually come unlocked, though, and her latest album lets some personal thoughts out. As always, her strength doesn’t lie in a simple confessionalism, but in connecting her meditations to broader ideas: family history, the world around her, and cultural concerns.

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