Patty Griffin Making Pies

[cmsesteras]

Awesome Job. The photos were perfect.....super.

[Griffindor1955]

Angeladorian: I think you miss the point a little. She is making the correct choice with her life: to "cry or die, or just make pies all day." She does her small thing to give people pleasure.

We all have choices, just not the same choices...

[Angeladorian]

This song is so sad. I just sit and cry and listen to it. Im so scared that will be my life when I get older. Just making pies all day...

[WhisperCrayon]

I love her!!!!!!!!! Probably my favorite female vocalist. :)

[Babyspicebites]

0:30 - what's the name of the painting?

[emgrovemusic]

This is so beautiful! I cover this song in shows, and this video is so moving.



[jackson75067]

Nice upload Howie, well done

[Daiana21happy]

Fabulosa

[VanityKillsABC]

I had never heard of Patty Griffin until I bought one of her albums recently. This is one of the songs that is on the album ('1000 Kisses). This song is perhaps my favourite on the album and I think that this song is one of the beautiful songs that I have ever heard. An absolute classic. The sort of song that has been equalled, but perhaps never bettered. I also love her voice and have ordered more of her albums. Incidentally, It was also a pleasure to enjoy the album's beautiful artwork.

[johnnroach58]

Patty Griffin Is A National Treasure !! <3 <3  <3

[boscoreli55david]

I cannot get enough of this song. It is absolutely perfect

[JustBecauseICan1000]

I dedicated this song to my mother. When I was younger, my cousin (her nephew) was killed in a car accident when he was only 17. My father was away in Iraq at the time. She listened to this song non-stop every day until my dad came home. I can't thank Patty Griffin enough for helping my mom though that tough time with this song.

[maszlagma]

I just can't stop watching this. Everything about this song and video is just so well put together. While watching I make my little stories: Did her lover die in the war? Is she lonely?

[ForeverLlamas47]

3 people missed the fucking Like button

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[funbev]

@ForeverLlamas47

Now 4 people missed the f'in button?

[ForeverLlamas47]

@funbev precisely :)

[weirdgrl8]

This song is so sad. Every time I hear it I think of a young woman talking to a kid as she babysits him, rambling on and on, because finally she gets someone to talk to. That poor woman.

[SingularityFuture]

This is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[mwwillis1yt]

What an awesome job on putting images to this wistful, soulful song. Thanks.



[lazyburger]

i usualy hate reading these comments but... 3 people realy have no hearts.

[mscongeniality1966]

This song reminds me of my Grandma because she made the best pies and I miss them now that she is gone. She passes in 2007and not a day goes buy that I don't miss her.

[Dro8900]

This song breaks my heart

I'm a 17 year old guy and I would give anything to get back the simpler times.

I didn't get to enjoy those times...

[clareisphit]

She sounds like lissie so much!

[spacedogpie]

3 people above do not have hearts...This song always makes me cry. She's a great storyteller...Congrats Patty on winning a Grammy!

[julietavalon]

whoa,this totally made me cry!

[MOX1M]

Ellie Goulding & Lissie did a fabulous cover of this :O

[lydd57]

Listen Ellie goulding and lissie cover, does it justice i think

[lydd57]

Amazing

[smoogirl]

2:02. Girls who made mini-skirts classy... Nowadays women who wear them just look like tramps, whores, or prostitues. It hurts to see girls my age in highschool, looking like something you would find in Alexander Mcqueens 'Highland rape' cat walk... I wanna go back to the days when showing your knee was astonishing. People say the shorter the skirt, the more freedom a woman has. We're stripped of our secrets just going out of the house in the morning. What life have we got now ? I can't see one.

[Psychonautify]

@smoogirl-Your comment was/is very refreshing...and this is coming from a 42yr. old guy. Sure, I find all women, all shapes and sizes great, and oh yeah, a mini-skirt can be very sexy indeed!! The thing is I think that the idea of a woman being 'More Free' because of the shortness of her skirt is B.S. It's certainly nice on a certain occasion or the right setting, but to wear as some type of statement or sign of 'Independence' seems more bondage like than modesty would bring.

[smoogirl]

@Psychonautify ^^ thanks :)

[mariadpinto]

Very nice, great vocals and images!

[LaurentziuRo]

Wonderful !

[flamerick]

Just wondering whether there is like some poetic pun. "I'm making pies' might be "I'm making peace"? I dunno really. Haha.

[melodel2]

@flamerick I think "I'm makin' pies" symbolizes the grieving process.

[roosterwood]

Wow one of my favorite Patty G songs and you nailed it with these images. Thanks it is so cool!

[mrcc05]

I love this song =) Ellie Goulding and lissie have done a cover of it =)

Its an amazing song =) Nice Lyrics =)

Here's the cover... youtube.com/watch?v=_Nuu52bpG3­0

[wonglethe3rd]

MMM, Pies !

[bar7k]

Thank you ,,, the pictures are perfect.

[paulamcmath]

One of my favorite Patty Griffin songs.

[VBJ3]

this is my all time favorite patty song!

[richardwilson1234]

So please tell me who painted the images.

Lovely song about nothing and everything. xx

[orfeocookie]

Brilliant effort at matching images to the music. One of the best I've seen at doing that.

[andrewleibs]

Great images! You really added something that enhanced my enjoyment of the song.

[richardwilson1234]

thanks. I don't usually watch the whole of the homemade videos but this was good. Which artists feature- winslow homer? Andrew wyeth? beautiful song.

[lyriclover810]

Such a sad song really....but so beautiful.

[singermonica]

she is amazing. I saw her live in Nashville. PLease come to Los Angeles Again!

[ahllin1812]

Really love it :)

[bunnyknows1]

Beautifully done.

[rstanton3]

4rainbowed,

The old woman is actually working at Table Talk a pie factory in Worcester, MA. The memories of the past and her volunteer work is what sustains her throught the drudgery of the job. Patty is from New England and visited the factory herself.  At least that's how I remember her explaining it.

[koolchloe]

Beautiful voice and storytelling BUT if Jesus existed He was much more likely to have dark skin and hair. We as Americans have been conditioned to believe that Jesus appeared more white and fair of skin. I know,.........the old woman's vision is what's important here.

[darkmoon005]

seriously you just ruined it, and she's not old...

[applemoon237]

this song is not really about historical facts or anything..it's much more emotional and fluid than that...that is kind of pointless in this instance..no offense.

[applemoon237]

and patty did not mean any offense in saying that Jesus had "big blue eyes and honey brown hair"...it is just a song from the point of view of an old American woman, so it would make sense that this fictional (or not) woman who sit in a chair and look up at an actual depiction of Jesus with blue eyes...it's yeah, that all has nothing to do whatsoever with this particular song.

[ayshaface13]

@koolchloe I find it funny that you say he wasn't white because of Americanized issues, even though a.) That concept is European, and b.) Since when can you say how he would look? xD

[AskingTransit]

Patty the Poetess breaks my heart.

[ammasbabi]

this song is my favorite song from patty.

it just is so beautifully , haunting and lonely sounding, but full of a life all it's own. Patty you are amazing. Thank you for sharing your gift of music with the world!

[4rainbowed]

OH. Now I GET IT. This old woman is mentally walking down the street to where she made pies during the war effort. It explains how she can be doing this at 5 AM -you could cry or die, or just make pies all day. She mixes in her recent memories with the horror of the war- which only reminds her she is alone and childless. Powerful, even if I am wrong. Patty is always hard to decipher, even for the Dixie Chicks.

I LOVE the images picked for this song, too. Thank you!

[trinick41]

Great visual interpretation - THANKS

[VBJ3]

i love this song thanks to you! thank you so much for creating this!

[lefthooklyrics]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Margritte2]

An amazing song, and a very sensitive video treatment of it. Howie, you done good!

[melodel2]

Patty Griffin is amazing, purely amazing.

She is one of the best songwriters..

[vballboy60]

Gorgeoua song. The lyrics are haunting. I imagined an old woman, childless herself, husband killed in the war but she lives on, one day at a time even though his death broke her heart. Sometimes itr is so sad I cry, but Patti does sing it with something hopeful in her voice...but still...."I could cry or die or just make pies all day. I'm makin' pies." Wow.

[MrDantyson]

Little mushy on the previous comment but nevertheless, its a bittersweet and beautiful song coupled with appropriate images. Good show. -DanTyson

[bluenitepoet]

Tragic....... What a horrible fate. Pieces of light and the rest an eternal life of solitude and darkness. Poor woman............... GREAT VIDEO I love the lonely warehouse and bridge out in nothingness... Just like the nothingess this woman has become.....

[4rainbowed]

FABULOUS IMAGES FOR THIS SONG!! THANKS.. Looks like it should be official, with Griffin singing to it. Wonderful.

[howie235]

Thanks so much x

[paintingangels]

Patty Griffin breaks my heart.  I can't thank her enough.

[fifine1983]

JUST AMAZING....good video, nice work!!!

[tamarasteele]

My favorite Patty Griffin tune of all time...brilliant!

[jpwbrown17]

Patty Griffin is a genious!

[rkane99us]

WOW, heard this  on the radio today for the 1st time. Her lyrics are on par with Joni....THis song hit me immediately.

[flowers8258]

Joni is amazing!

[deoboed]

I'm not sure I've ever made it through this song without tearing up. It's a beautiful testament to the dignity of work, and the quiet desperation that you don't need to dwell upon to feel so keenly. I'm not even sure if i'm explaining it right, why I love it so much, and hate it too, the same way I hated the time in my life when I worked in a factory like that, and yet i'm nostalgic for it, in a way. Very nicely done video, thank you.

[revanlost19]

its really a shame...you seem so angry...there is more to life....dont waste your time explaining things that dont matter...."you could cry or die or just make pies all day"

[RandaldGreenwalt]

It took me two seconds to add this video to my favorites. Already love the song.

What makes it significant for me is how much this reminds me of my grandmothers, one born in the German Ukraine, the other in Indiana, of deep American-German descent. One supported the KKK. The other supported the Wobblies.

Both were deeply pacifist, though divided by left and right. One felt herself to be a kind of an aristocrat, and the other working class.

Both made pies.

I miss them, both.

[chainface]

beautiful song!!

[cuzinkevin]

Just fantastic

[54spiritedwill54]

haunting indeed. Such a beautiful song.

[aceofspades842]

haha, You said it. Good job.

[2003fxstbi]

This is a great tune!

[shoppingblondes]

who the hell writes a song about making pies?

at christmas dinner my family was making fun of this song. lol

[llama0lover]

wow i had this song stuck in my head forever--for like 3 months i would be humming it on and off- and then finally i figured out what it was haha

[itwitchwheniwalk]

This is the song we're doing to our colorguard show!! I'd never heard it before my coach showed it to us, but it's such a nice song :)

[Hekerui]

Favourited! Love how you put the images to the words.

[ntnfoxworth1]

omg could u do any better than what you did to capture the beautiful melancholy of this song? i think not. kudos to you for manifesting one of my favorite songs

[howie235]

i am glad you like it & thank you, such a nice compliment.

[andrewleibs]

Great song, great images.

[lucasboden]

this is brilliant songwriting on so many levels.

[QueenOfThe40Thieves]

This makes me think that this whole song is about her being with the man she loved and then he dies in a war. She's only got one thing shes good at and thats makin pies. So her life wont be completely miserable she hooks up with father mike and the whole jesus refrence to me says that he's looking down on her for what she's doing. I dunno. Thats my GUESS. Just cuz of whut i felt when I listened. The end is well, she'd rather be doing something then being miserable with her situation.

[llama0lover]

i think that she just goes to church to go out, and jesus is looking at her while she's at church...i think you're right on everything else tho excpet that cuz why would she hook up with someone (especially a church person) when she is just so miserable that the guys she loved died...just a guess tho haha

[jweyek]

she doesn't hook up with father mike. she types for father mike. she's a lonely old woman. it gets her out of the house.

it's not a hookup. it's typing.

[jinkoy13]

i love this song! Especially when she discribed jesus(big blue eyes and the honey brown hair) i dont know why but from 1:29-2:10thats my favorite part?? but anyway love the song and love the video=D

[stam0102]

beautiful! This is one of my favorite Patty songs, and you captured it well. Thank you.

[rkymtnroy]

Interpretation is an individual indulgence, I see an acceptance of life circumstances, of a life wasted (engulfed) in the efforts of survival, of appreciation and dedication to family, of confining ones perspective to the immediate and doubting the existence of a deity of salvation.

[InterimDirector]

Well and elegantly said in a forum where such responses are all too rare. Thank you.

[tquinn554]

I'd love to hear the backstory on this. Table Talk Pies in Worcester, MA was always manned primarily by Greek immigrants--makes sense with her lyrics. My dad was the union business agents; brothers worked summers there. I wonder if Patty knew someone in her extended New England family who worked there?

[UNTOLDGUITAR]

What a great song. She sings from her soul. Saw her with John Prine and the mountain song brought me to tears...as did this one...just a little...:-P

[booface1]

this is soo good.keeping making them.

[HGrave3]

Nice job on this video interpreting a great song.

[Hunkydorrie]

I LOVE this song...one of my favorite Patty songs...

Nice job on the video!

[spaceba]

Really a fantastic video. This is an excellent interpretation of the song.

[wettelander]

I love Patty and this song. Your video almost brought tears. Well done.

[1harold4]

Great song and video

[GuanoLad]

That would be a good song if she never mentioned bombs. I think that doesn't really fit in with the rest, and seems very clumsily handled.

[straykat23]

GuanoLad: No, it was totally appropriate. She made pies as an outlet to distance herself from the hurt of losing her young husband/lover to war. Beautifully done.

[pouchmouth]

How could you have actually listened to the song and then posted that comment? Very clumsily interpreted.

[piratica2000]

are you kidding me? the bombs part is the whole substance of the song. without it, the whole thing would be about making pies and walking to tabletalk.

[marshallq27]

yeah, haunting indeed. Such a beautiful song.

[booface1]

cry or die or just make pies.

just this moment-

chef nick could learn something here.

[Snowman999]

Excellent video. I love this song. I used to call it making cakes, and Patty would give me a look.

[jjarnoldcasey]

I Love this video! It Is a tribute to Dufour! I am sending it on to all Dufour-ites!

[David1126]

I love this song and video! I like how you used both paintings and photos to capture the spirit of the song.

[ruth24564]

Never heard the song either - HOW do you find such apt imagery???  Is this Dufour's new anthem???

Well done!

[NewYorkGardener]

Great song, the first time I've ever heard it.

Nicely done video !