Nanci Griffith

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Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Comin' Down In The Rain Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
From Clare To Here Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Going Back To Georgia Nanci Griffith Flyer
This Old Town Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Clock Without Hands Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Traveling Through This Part Of You Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Where Would I Be Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Midnight In Missoula Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Lost Him In The Sun Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
The Ghost Inside Of Me Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Truly Something Fine Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Cotton Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Pearl's Eye View (The Life Of Dickey Chapelle) Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Shaking Out The Snow Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Armstrong Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
Last Song For Mother Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
In The Wee Small Hours Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands
The Flyer Nanci Griffith Flyer
Nobody's Angel Nanci Griffith Flyer
Say it Isn't So Nanci Griffith Flyer
Southbound Train Nanci Griffith Flyer
These Days In An Open Book Nanci Griffith Flyer
Time Of Inconvenience Nanci Griffith Flyer
Don't Forget About Me Nanci Griffith Flyer
Always Will Nanci Griffith Flyer
Talk To Me While I'm Listening Nanci Griffith Flyer
Fragile Nanci Griffith Flyer
On Grafton Street Nanci Griffith Flyer
Anything You Need But Me Nanci Griffith Flyer
Goodnight To Mother's Dream Nanci Griffith Flyer
This Heart Nanci Griffith Flyer
Woman of the Phoenix Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Three Flights Up Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Do Re Mi Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Ten Degrees and Getting Colder Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Night Rider's Lament Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Are You Tired Of Me Darling Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Turn Around Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms
Wimoweh Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms

Nanci Caroline Griffith, born July 6, 1953, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas, United States. Her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country and folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." She won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms, an album of Griffith covering the songs of artists who influenced her. Her best-known song is From a Distance, by Julie Gold, although the version that achieved greater commercial success was not Griffith's but Bette Midler's (From a Distance). Similarly, other artists have occasionally achieved greater success with Griffith's songs than Griffith herself: for example, Kathy Mattea, who had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover (Love at the Five and Dime) of Love at the Five and Dime. ADDITIONALLY In 1994, Griffith teamed up with Jimmy Webb to contribute the song "If These Old Walls Could Speak" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.[2] Singer-songwriter Christine Lavin remembers the first time she saw Griffith perform: I was struck by how perfect everything was about her singing, her playing, her talking. I realized from the get-go that this was someone who was a complete professional. Obviously she had worked a long time to get to be that good. In recent years, Griffith has toured with various other artists, including Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets; John Prine; Iris DeMent; Suzy Bogguss; and Judy Collins. Griffith has recorded duets with many artists, among them Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, John Prine, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Dolores Keane, Willie Nelson, Adam Duritz (singer of Counting Crows), The Chieftains, and Darius Rucker (lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish). She has also contributed background vocals on many other recordings. Griffith suffered from severe 'writers block' for a number of years after 2004, lasting until the 2009 release of her The Loving Kind album, which contained nine selections that she had written and composed either entirely by herself or as collaborations. After several months of limited touring in 2011, Griffith's bandmates The Kennedys (Pete & Maura Kennedy) packed up their professional Manhattan recording studio and relocated it to Nashville, where they installed it in Nanci's home. There, Griffith and her backing team, including Pete & Maura Kennedy and Pat McInerney, co-produced her album, Intersections over the course of the summer. The album includes several new original songs and was released in April 2012. In addition to her own songs, Griffith is well known for her versions of other people's material, usually by contemporary singer-songwriters. Awards Griffith won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms. In 2008, the Americana Music Association awarded her its Americana Trailblazer Award; Lyle Lovett, who contributed backing vocals to some of "The Blue Moon Orchestra's" recordings,[which?] had won it before her. Band (The Blue Moon Orchestra) Nanci refers to her backing band as "The Blue Moon Orchestra." This reference is believed to have been drawn from both the title of one of her earliest albums, Once in a Very Blue Moon, and its title selection, which reached #85 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1986. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.