{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Flaming Red | type = studio | artist = Patty Griffin | cover = Pattygriffinflamingred2.jpg | released = {{Start date|1998|6|23}} | recorded = | studio = East Iris Studios, Nashville; Tragedy/Tragedy; Woodland Studios, East Nashville; October Studio, Nashville | genre = Rock, folk | length = {{Duration|m=50|s=15}} | language = English | label = A&M | producer = Jay Joyce | prev_title = Living with Ghosts | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = 1000 Kisses | next_year = 2002 }}
'''''Flaming Red''''' is Patty Griffin's second album. It was released on June 23, 1998, and reached number 12 on the Top Heatseekers chart.<ref Name=BB1/> According to ''Billboard'', the album has sold 122,000 copies in the U.S. up to May 2004.<ref>Caulfield, Keith. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080621030142/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000503346 "Ask Billboard - Griffin's 'Impossible Dream'"]. ''Billboard''. May 5, 2004.</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref Name=AM1>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000037792|label=Review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|access-date=1 May 2021}}</ref> |rev2=''Entertainment Weekly'' |rev2Score= A−<ref>Hermes, Will. [https://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/music/0,6115,283747_4|13867||0_0_,00.html Music Review: Flaming Red]. ''Entertainment Weekly'', June 26, 1998. Retrieved July 31, 2006.</ref>| }}
Of the album, Griffin herself commented, "I always felt like I was a rock singer. It was all I listened to. I felt like, 'Don't call me a folksinger.'" <ref name=NPR/> Called "rock-centric", "incendiary" and "full-bodied", the album marked a shift to recording with a full band.<ref>{{cite news|title=Patty Griffin – "Rider Of Days"|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1819100/patty-griffin-rider-of-days/news/|journal=Stereogum|date=July 27, 2015|last=White|first=Caitlin}}</ref><ref name=popmatters>{{cite journal|url=https://www.popmatters.com/175739-patty-griffin-silver-bell-2495718830.html|title=PATTY GRIFFIN: SILVER BELL|journal=Pop Matters|last=Lathan|first=Ryan|date=October 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.wmky.org/post/patty-griffin|journal=WMKY|title=Patty Griffin|last=Hitchcock|first=Paul|date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "''Flaming Red'' is evidence that Griffin is one [of] the more talented and ambitious singer/songwriters to emerge in the late '90s."<ref Name=AM1/>
NPR named the album to their list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women calling it "electrifying" and a "testament to the fire simmering under all of [Griffin's] work preceding this album, and what came after it."<ref name=NPR>{{cite news|title=150 Greatest Albums Made By Women|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women|first=Katie|last=Presley|date=July 24, 2017|access-date=May 13, 2026}}</ref>
==Legacy and Influence== In 2010, Katy Perry described Griffin as one of her biggest influences and said ''Flaming Red'' was her favorite record during her teen years.<ref>{{cite av media |people=Mason, Anthony |date=October 3, 2010 |title=Katy Perry Sings Her First Song |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6oaXe2lw1Q |language=en |publisher=CBS News |access-date=May 13, 2026 |time=02:10 |quote=There were two girls that really influenced me growing up about 17 or 18. That was Patty Griffin and Jonatha Brooke... Flaming Red was my favorite record.}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | all_writing = Patty Griffin | total_length = 50:15 | title1 = Flaming Red | length1 = 2:13 | title2 = One Big Love | length2 = 4:14 | title3 = Tony | length3 = 4:10 | title4 = Change | length4 = 4:14 | title5 = Goodbye | length5 = 4:15 | title6 = Carry Me | length6 = 3:29 | title7 = Christina | length7 = 4:34 | title8 = Wiggley Fingers | length8 = 4:07 | title9 = Blue Sky | length9 = 3:41 | title10 = Big Daddy | length10 = 3:07 | title11 = Go Now | length11 = 2:41 | title12 = Mary | length12 = 5:16 | title13 = Peter Pan | length13 = 4:14 }}
==Personnel== *Patty Griffin – vocals, guitar *Kenny Aronoff – drums *John Catchings – strings on "Peter Pan" *David Davidson – strings on "Peter Pan" *Chris Feinstein – bass guitar *Emmylou Harris – backing vocals *Jay Joyce – guitar, keyboards, programming, producer *Mike Joyce – bass guitar *Doug Lancio – guitar *Buddy Miller – backing vocals *Julie Miller – backing vocals *Brad Pemberton – drums *Kathryn Plummer – strings on "Peter Pan" *Michael Ramos – keyboards *Giles Reaves – keyboards, programming *Frank Sass – drums *Daniel Tashian – guitar *Ty Tyler – guitar *Kristin Wilkinson – strings on "Peter Pan" *Angelo Petraglia - producer on "One Big Love"
Track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Flaming Red |others=Patty Griffin |type=liner notes |access-date= |year=1998 |publisher=A&M Records |id=31454 0907 2}}</ref>
==Charts==
{|class="wikitable" |- ! Chart (1998) ! Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|12|artist=Patty Griffin|refname=BB1|accessdate=May 1, 2021}} |- |}
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060819221809/http://lyrics.pattynet.net/#2 Lyrics to the album on PattyNet.net]
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