Perishable Fruit

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Perishable Fruit | type = studio | artist = Patty Larkin | cover = PL_PerishableFruit.jpg | alt = | released = 1997 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk | length = {{Duration|m=49|s=54}} | label = High Street Records<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patty-larkin-mn0000747627/biography|title=Patty Larkin Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref> | producer = Patty Larkin | prev_title = Strangers World | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = à gogo: Live on Tour | next_year = 1999 }} {{music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/perishable-fruit-mw0000025395|title=Perishable Fruit - Patty Larkin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> }} '''''Perishable Fruit''''' is an album by the singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, released in 1997.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kM_Unp53QI8C&pg=PA6|title=Songwriting and the Guitar|date=January 6, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-1-890490-28-7 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/1122570/dream-a-little-dream/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106164607/https://www.mtv.com/news/1122570/dream-a-little-dream/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 6, 2022|title=Dream A Little Dream|website=MTV News}}</ref> It was produced by Larkin, and recorded at her home studio on Cape Cod.<ref>{{cite news |title=PATTY LARKIN 'PERISHABLE FRUIT' HIGH STREET |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/11/07/patty-larkin-perishable-fruit-high-street/2fe50343-4ef3-4d4e-9231-b867921332d9/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Evans Price |first1=Deborah |title=Patty Larkin Delivers 'Perishable Fruit' |magazine=Billboard |date=Aug 16, 1997 |volume=109 |issue=33 |page=11}}</ref>

==Critical reception== AllMusic wrote that "the love songs were idealized at best and vague at worst, and the singer rarely seemed involved in any case."<ref name="auto"/>

==Track listing==

# "The Road" # "The Book I'm Not Reading" # "Coming Up for Air" # "Angels Wings" # "You and Me" # "Pablo Neruda" # "Wolf at the Door" # "Brazil" # "Rear View Mirror" # "Heart" # "Red Accordion"

All songs were written by Patty Larkin.

==Album personnel== * Patty Larkin - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, and various other guitars * Jennifer Kimball - backing vocals * Ben Wittman - lap steel percussion * Richard Gates - fretless and fretted bass * Marc Shulman - tiple, electric guitar, wolf electric * Ben Wisch - backing vocals * Jane Siberry - backing vocals * Bette Warner - "song sculpting" and spoken word backing vocal * Michael Manring - fretless and fretted bass, E-bow, and 10-string bass * Gideon Freudmann - cello * Alan Williams - Wolf-man * Bruce Cockburn - backing vocals and acoustic guitar

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Category:Patty Larkin albums Category:1997 albums