# Flaming Red > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flaming_Red > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flaming_Red.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Red > Source revision: 1353929878 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Flaming Red | type = studio | artist = [Patty Griffin](/source/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](/source/Rock_music), [folk](/source/Folk_music) | length = {{Duration|m=50|s=15}} | language = English | label = [A&M](/source/A%26M_Records) | producer = [Jay Joyce](/source/Jay_Joyce) | prev_title = [Living with Ghosts](/source/Living_with_Ghosts) | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = [1000 Kisses](/source/1000_Kisses_(album)) | next_year = 2002 }} '''''Flaming Red''''' is [Patty Griffin](/source/Patty_Griffin)'s second album. It was released on June 23, 1998, and reached number 12 on the [Top Heatseekers](/source/Top_Heatseekers) chart. According to ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'', the album has sold 122,000 copies in the U.S. up to May 2004.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](/source/Billboard_(magazine))''. May 5, 2004. ==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000037792|label=Review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|access-date=1 May 2021}} |rev2=''[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)'' |rev2Score= A−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](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)'', June 26, 1998. Retrieved July 31, 2006.| }} 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.'" Called "rock-centric", "incendiary" and "full-bodied", the album marked a shift to recording with a full band.{{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}}{{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}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.wmky.org/post/patty-griffin|journal=[WMKY](/source/WMKY)|title=Patty Griffin|last=Hitchcock|first=Paul|date=March 24, 2019}} [Stephen Thomas Erlewine](/source/Stephen_Thomas_Erlewine) of [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) writes, "''Flaming Red'' is evidence that Griffin is one [of] the more talented and ambitious singer/songwriters to emerge in the late '90s." [NPR](/source/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."{{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}} ==Legacy and Influence== In 2010, [Katy Perry](/source/Katy_Perry) described Griffin as one of her biggest influences and said ''Flaming Red'' was her favorite record during her teen years.{{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](/source/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.}} ==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](/source/Singing), [guitar](/source/guitar) *[Kenny Aronoff](/source/Kenny_Aronoff) – [drums](/source/Drum_kit) *John Catchings – [strings](/source/String_instrument) on "Peter Pan" *David Davidson – strings on "Peter Pan" *Chris Feinstein – [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar) *[Emmylou Harris](/source/Emmylou_Harris) – [backing vocals](/source/Backing_vocalist) *Jay Joyce – guitar, [keyboards](/source/Keyboard_instrument), [programming, producer](/source/Programming_(music)) *Mike Joyce – bass guitar *[Doug Lancio](/source/Doug_Lancio) – guitar *[Buddy Miller](/source/Buddy_Miller) – backing vocals *[Julie Miller](/source/Julie_Miller) – backing vocals *Brad Pemberton – drums *Kathryn Plummer – strings on "Peter Pan" *Michael Ramos – keyboards *[Giles Reaves](/source/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.{{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}} ==Charts== {|class="wikitable" |- ! Chart (1998) ! Peak
position |- {{album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|12|artist=Patty Griffin|refname=BB1|accessdate=May 1, 2021}} |- |} ==References== ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060819221809/http://lyrics.pattynet.net/#2 Lyrics to the album on PattyNet.net] {{Patty Griffin}} {{Authority control}} Category:1998 albums Category:A&M Records albums Category:Patty Griffin albums Category:Albums produced by Jay Joyce --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Flaming Red](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Red) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Red?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.