Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over two decades, the 2x GRAMMY® Award winner ? and 7x nominee ? and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement award winner, has crafted a remarkable body of work in progress that prompted the New York Times to hail her for ?[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people?[her] songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.?