Bernie Griffen was a late bloomer. His first album, Everything So Far, didn’t come until he was 60. Griffen, who died at 72 earlier this month, might have been late to recording but music was the pulse of his life.
He brought hard-won experiences, fragility or gravitas to his small but respected catalogue of sometimes appealingly unpolished folk and altcountry songs for his bands the Grifters and Thin Men.
