Patty Griffin has announced details of her first studio album in more than 6 years. Dropping on July 25 via PGM Recordings/Thirty Tigers, Crown of Roses is introduced by tone-setting lead single "Back at the Start", which opens the eight-song LP.

Written during the pandemic, the song was originally left on the scrapheap for the record before being reclaimed by Griffin and her collaborators. "Back at the Start" explores the stories that we tell ourselves and when it's helpful to let them go.

"I came back to the song because I like that first line," says Griffin, referring to the lyric "There's secrets I don't tell ever to myself / I just keep moving," adding: “Part of it is about getting on with it, but part is also about staying stuck and going through the motions. It's really a constant thing to try to be alive while you're alive.”

Listen below:

Crown of Roses was produced by Griffin's longtime collaborator Craig Ross, and features a backing vocal cameo from Robert Plant on "Longtime".

Crown of Roses is out July 25. Pre-order here. Full tracklist:

1. Back At The Start
2. Born In A Cage
3. The End
4. Longtime
5. All The Way Home
6. Way Up To The Sky
7. I Know A Way
8. A Word

Griffin has several dates lined up for the fall with her musical "North Star" Rickie Lee Jones, plus a few headline shows and an Emmylou Harris tribute in San Francisco as part of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival's 25-year anniversary celebrations.

06/27 Nelsonville, OH @ Stuart's Opera House
06/28 Martinsville, OH @ The Barn At Nowhere Else *
07/12 Brevard, NC @ Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium **
07/29 New York, NY @ Sony Hall
10/02 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic ***
10/08 Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater
10/10 Philadelphia, MS @ The Ellis Theater **
10/11 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse **
10/12 Graham, NC @ Haw River Ballroom **
10/13 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium **
10/16 Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre **
10/17 Portland, ME @ State Theater **
10/18 Medford, MA @ Chevalier Theatre **
10/20 Lebanon, NH @ Lebanon Opera House **
10/21 Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center For the Performing Arts **
10/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall **
10/24 North Bethesda, MD @ Strathmore **
10/26 Cincinnati, OH @ Memorial Hall OTR **
10/28 Evanston, IL @ Cahn Auditorium **
10/29 St Louis, MO @ The Pageant **
10/30 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater **
11/01 Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Ballroom **

* with Over the Rhine
** with Rickie Lee Jones
*** Emmylou Harris tribute show

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