I’d been a on a tour prior to that, but that was the biggest I’d been on and we went everywhere. I think it was an 8-week tour and I really got to see the country for the first time. “Sean took me under her wing and really put me out (there) on a very, very big tour she had a No. “It was a really special tour with that group of people, Sean and Freedy and his band,” said Griffin, who performed here in 2011 at Copley Symphony Hall with her then-boyfriend, former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Seventeen years later, she still vividly recalls that show and her entire tour with Johnson and Colvin. Griffin made her San Diego in 1997 at downtown’s now dormant 4th & B, opening for The Freedy Johnson Band and Sean Colvin. So, if I want to sing for audiences, this is where it is - at this show (tonight) - and that’s how it works.” “My work life has been set up in such a way where it’s (based) out here in America, and certain parts of Europe, and not in my hometown, specifically.

“We really need to just play and sing,” Griffin said, speaking from a tour stop in Seattle. Griffin has made eight albums since her 1996 debut, “Living with Ghosts.” Yet, while many musicians time their tours to promote their latest releases - even in an era when albums sales have plummeted - she’s not one of them. I had moments of it and glimpses where it kind of clicked in, but not in a major way until I was in my thirties.” “Actually, it was off and on throughout my twenties. “I think the first time I felt like I had written from that place was in 1990,” she replied. There has to be some kind of confidence within you that is driven by something.”Īnd when did Griffin, an Austin resident who recently celebrated her 50th birthday, first feel that sense of confidence? But I think there’s a balance that has to happen within yourself, between those two (the positive and negative). And, in large part, that’s what life is we’re not getting out of here alive. Asked to comment on her creative impetus as a songwriter, and whether she is more inspired by uplifting or emotionally wrenching events, Griffin said: “Certainly, there is a lot of fodder in suffering.

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