Patty Griffin is the most talented person who ever lived

We had planned to go to the Main Street Arts Festival in Fort Worth on Saturday anyway, but that morning I looked up the lineup and saw that Patty Griffin would be playing that day. Score! How could I have missed this tour stop?! I look up her schedule every so often so I can stalk her if she gets close, but somehow this date slipped past me. The Main Street Arts Festival was fun, and we thoroughly enjoyed meandering past the artisan booths with thousands of other people like we were all a big herd of cattle, but Patty was definitely the icing on the funnel cake.

This cell phone reproduction isn't the greatest, but at least it was able to capture her sassy red hair and angelic glow. And you can kind of make out her fivehead. The fact that she and I have a large forehead in common makes me love her even more.

I first learned about Patty Griffin when we lived in Austin. Living with Ghosts was the only CD she had out and it seemed like Austin was the only city in the world that knew about her. I saw her one time in a tiny club on the UT campus that only seated a few hundred people and it was so intimate and electric it's still my favorite Patty Griffin performance ever. I love her so. She's the only artist who conjers up nervousness in me before she goes on, and the only one that can get me to sacrifice two or three hours to camp out for good seats by the stage. She gives me warm fuzzies inside.

I'm not a concert heckler, but my love for Patty made me scream for "Tony" several times. She never played that one, but she did play "Mary" and if she had to play only one first-name song that was a good choice. She did a bunch of new songs too and if they're any indication of what the new album is going to sound like it's going to make my third rib from the bottom tingle just like Josh Groban's "Closer." Mmm mmm good.

Kidd just said Kelly Clarkson was at the show! I didn't see her. Too focused on Patty I guess. Oh she was awesome.