Patty Griffin Announces New Album; Shares First Song; Touring with Rickie Lee Jones

PATTY GRIFFIN UNVEILS CROWN OF ROSES    2X GRAMMY® AWARD-WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER ANNOUNCES FIRST ALL-NEW ALBUM IN OVER SIX YEARS   RHYTHMIC AND SOULFUL LEAD SINGLE, “BACK AT THE START,” PREMIERES TODAY – LISTEN   BUSY LIVE SCHEDULE INCLUDES HEADLINE SHOWS, AND A VERY SPECIAL TOUR WITH RICKIE LEE JONES   CROWN OF ROSES ARRIVES FRIDAY, JULY 25, ON GRIFFIN’S OWN PGM RECORDINGS VIA THIRTY TIGERS   PRE-ORDERS/PRE-SAVES AVAILABLE NOW

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“There's secrets I don't tell ever to myself/I just keep moving.” So begins “Back At The Start,” the first song released from 2x GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Patty Griffin’s new full-length opus, Crown Of Roses, her 11th studio album and first in over six years. Crown Of Roses will be out on Friday, July 25, via her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. With its purposeful position as song one on side one, “Back At The Start” sets the rich tone for the album, embodying a rhythmic and soulful shadowy shuffle written during the pandemic, junked, and then reclaimed. The murky yet pulsating track sees Griffin probing the idea of letting go of the stories we tell ourselves. “I came back to the song because I like that first line,” Patty Griffin says. “Part of it is about getting on with it, but part is also about staying stuck and going through the motions. It's really a constant thing to try to be alive while you're alive.”   LISTEN TO “BACK AT THE START” PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE CROWN OF ROSES   PATTY GRIFFIN CROWN OF ROSES (PGM Recordings Label/Thirty Tigers) Release Date: July 25, 2025

Tracklist: Back At The Start Born In A Cage The End Longtime All The Way Home Way Up To The Sky I Know A Way A Word # # # Crown Of Roses sees Patty Griffin once again forming a poetic tapestry woven from the threads of love, loss, grief, disillusionment, resilience, and hope, shifting fluidly between intimate confessions, philosophical musings, and symbolic storytelling – all grounded in intensely human feelings and emotion. Burrowing into the stories she had long been telling herself, the award-winning songwriter ruminates on a vast array of themes and deeply personal topics, spanning the trajectory of women in the 20th and 21st  centuries and communion with nature to the sound of her voice after cancer treatment made its mark to the relationship with her late mother, whose wedding day photo graces the album’s cover, set into artwork by Mishka Westell that captures many of her greatest loves, including the Maine woods of her – and Patty’s – childhood. Produced by longtime collaborator Craig Ross and featuring musical contributions from her trusted band members David Pulkingham (guitar) and Michael Longoria (drums), the album drifts from spare folk to gauzy Americana to sly gospel blues over the course of eight moody new songs that evoke the scrubby west of Griffin’s adopted Texas and the calming verdancy of her home state of Maine. From the atmospheric “Born In A Cage” and the spectral “Long Time” (which includes a backing vocal cameo from Robert Plant) to the sparse, emotional authenticity of “Way Up To The Sky,” Crown of Roses is among Patty Griffin’s most profound works to date, continuing her exceptional talent for translating thorny concepts and finely wrought character studies into songs that speak as much to her own experience as they do to the lives of those who have loved her music now for more than three decades.   “If I try to hit things on the nose, they don’t feel authentic to me,” Griffin says. “If I can emotionally dance around things, it feels like I can be more honest singing it.”   Griffin will celebrate Crown of Roses by joining forces with legendary 2x GRAMMY® Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones for a very special tour. Dates begin October 10 at Philadelphia, MS’s Ellis Theater and then continue through a November 1 finale at Dallas, TX’s historic Longhorn Ballroom. Tickets for all newly announced dates go on sale this Friday, June 6, at 10:00 am (local). For complete details and ticket information, please visit pattygriffin.com/tour. “Rickie Lee has been a North Star for me,” says Griffin. “Knowing how undeniably sublime she is as a songwriter and performer has kept me more grounded. I mean, with songs like hers, I’ve reminded myself over and over, women have voices that need to be heard and that have great value.”   In addition, Griffin has slated a number of headline shows over the coming months. Highlights include a special record release show at New York City’s Sony Hall (July 29) and a home state headline performance at Houston, TX’s Heights Theater (October 8).   # # #

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PATTY GRIFFIN - TOUR 2025   JUNE 27 – Nelsonville, OH – Stuart’s Opera House 28 – Martinsville, OH – The Barn at Nowhere Else (SOLD OUT)   JULY 12 – Brevard, NC – Brevard Music Center - Patty Griffin and Rickie Lee Jones 29 – New York, NY – Sony Hall - Special Record Release Show OCTOBER 2 - San Francisco, CA - Masonic Auditorium * # # # OCTOBER CO-BILL WITH RICKIE LEE JONES 8 – Houston, TX – Heights Theater 10 – Philadelphia, MS – The Ellis Theater  11 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse  12 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom  13 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium      16 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre  17 – Portland, ME – State Theatre  18 – Medford, MA – Chevalier Theatre       20 – Lebanon, NH – Lebanon Opera House  21 – Burlington, VT – Flynn Center   23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Music Hall   24 – North Bethesda, MD – Music Center at Strathmore   26 – Cincinnati, OH – Memorial Hall           28 – Evanston, IL – Cahn Auditorium           29 – St Louis, MO – The Pageant      30 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater    NOVEMBER 1 – Dallas, TX – Longhorn Ballroom *A Tribute to Emmylou Harris & 25 Years of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Feat. Emmylou Harris/ Steve Earle/Allison Russell/Buddy Miller/Rodney Crowell/Rosanne Cash/ Margo Price/ Shawn Colvin/ The War & Treaty Along with Special Guests (All proceeds to benefit Bonaparte’s Retreat)