American Kid

Patty Griffin releases her new album, 'American Kid' via Columbia. The album, co-produced by Griffin and Craig Ross, is her seventh. It is her first album of mainly new material since the acclaimed 'Children Running Through' in 2007. In between then and now, she made the Grammy Award-winning 'Downtown Church' in 2010 and became a member of Band of Joy alongside Robert Plant. Most of the 12 songs on the album are about her father, a World War II veteran who returned home to live for a time in a Trappist monastery before becoming a high school science teacher and raising seven children. The album features guitarist Doug Lanico and husband Robert Plant performs vocals on three tracks.