“‘Burgundy Shoes’ was really trying to find a moment in my memory that I could really feel joy in and I went back to one of my earliest memories of waiting for the bus in the town that I grew up in. It was a big, exciting trip to the big city that was Bangor, Maine (laughs) with my mom on a really beautiful spring day. When you grow up in the Northeast, you have to wear big boots for the whole winter and then suddenly your mom says it’s OK to take your boots off and you feel like you’re walking on air ‘cause your feet are in these shoes. And they’re pretty shoes, not ugly boots. It was just that simple moment - having that time with my mom and thinking about I used to think she was the most beautiful woman in the world. When you start digging back into being really little, you find all these memories that are very pure and aren’t crowded by anxiety or anything like that. I was trying to write that song from the point of view of who I was then.”
-Patty Griffin
That's exactly the image I got when I ran across this track on her latest release. I played it like 5 times in a row. What a great song...
Dcroker-thanks! Where did you get that quote from Patty? Are there more things like that? I’ve always wondered where the inspiration for all of her amazing story telling songs come from.
Dcroker-thanks! Where did you get that quote from Patty? Are there more things like that? I’ve always wondered where the inspiration for all of her amazing story telling songs come from.
“‘Burgundy Shoes’ was really trying to find a moment in my memory that I could really feel joy in and I went back to one of my earliest memories of waiting for the bus in the town that I grew up in. It was a big, exciting trip to the big city that was Bangor, Maine (laughs) with my mom on a really beautiful spring day. When you grow up in the Northeast, you have to wear big boots for the whole winter and then suddenly your mom says it’s OK to take your boots off and you feel like you’re walking on air ‘cause your feet are in these shoes. And they’re pretty shoes, not ugly boots. It was just that simple moment - having that time with my mom and thinking about I used to think she was the most beautiful woman in the world. When you start digging back into being really little, you find all these memories that are very pure and aren’t crowded by anxiety or anything like that. I was trying to write that song from the point of view of who I was then.” -Patty Griffin
That's exactly the image I got when I ran across this track on her latest release. I played it like 5 times in a row. What a great song...
Dcroker-thanks! Where did you get that quote from Patty? Are there more things like that? I’ve always wondered where the inspiration for all of her amazing story telling songs come from.
Dcroker-thanks! Where did you get that quote from Patty? Are there more things like that? I’ve always wondered where the inspiration for all of her amazing story telling songs come from.