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Patti Witten
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Out of 45 votes
Out of 45 votes
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- Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
- Genre: Folk » Folk-Pop
Editor's review
If her dreamy country-pop sound seems perpetually about to slide into a cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game," can you really complain? Anyway, if Isaak wants a monopoly on warm slide licks and shuffly drums, he'll have to fight Witten for it, and her gorgeously gloomy, almost Waits-ian song structures promise a pitched battle.
Biography
From Grand Prize in the Great American Song Contest to compilations alongside the likes of Steve Earle and Tom Waits, Patti Witten's poetic folk-pop has the intimacy and imagery pioneered by the second wave generation of singer-songwriters. "A through-line from Guthrie to Dylan to Joni Mitchell and on to writers like Greg Brown," says Performing Songwriter. Like the love child of Aimee Mann and Chris Isaak, Witten pens "tasteful country-tinged acoustic folk-pop," says StarPolish. Her latest is Sycamore Tryst, produced by Rich DePaolo, on I-Town Records. Tracks have been heard nationwide on community and college radio, in Europe, on satellite radio, and they have appeared in films and TV. The haunting "Black Butterfly" took honorable mention in the Billboard Song Contest.
WEBSITE: http://pattiwitten.com/
