I know its a common name, but by any chance are you the beloved Bob Jones who ran the Newport Folk Fest for decades? I have no idea how many times I saw her live after that in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Boston, New York, Kerrville. The phone wires hadnt been connected yet to the little newly painted shack, but I had a radio. "Her songs were an extension of her literary interests she wrote long-form and short-form fiction that sometimes became songs, and vice versa and when songs wouldnt come (she suffered from songwriters block between 2004 and 2009), she would use prose to try and keep the words flowing." Her music has always helped me during troubled times and made me feel good in happy times. What a wonderful reply. She sounds positively exultant that the creative forces come from outside herself. His wife, Ruelen (nee Strawser), worked as an estate agent. But my guess is she would be delighted to know that Trouble in the Fields is being used in classrooms. I think she would be happy and humbled to know her legacy will live on forever in so many waysfrom the simple pleasure of incredible & lasting great folkabilly music to educating the next generations. I got to interview her for the Boston Herald many times, starting right before she signed with the locally based Philo/Rounder Records in 1984; I felt I knew Griffith as well as a Northern journalist could. I felt a bit tacky wanting to know, but I did.) Ive seen her around 15 times at least here in the UK. I am truly saddened by her struggles. [16], Griffith won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms. I guess that performing her songs is the best way of honoring her. Yet her first two albums didnt muck up the basic Griffith sound. The Grammy-award winning artist from Texas died Friday in. Her 1993 album, Other Voices, Other Rooms (named after Truman Capotes debut novel), comprised 17 versions of songs by her folk forebears, including Malvina Reynolds and Woody Guthrie. I first saw Nancy at Sanders Theater in the early eighties and fell in love immediately. After early albums on esteemed roots-music labels like Philo, Griffith moved to Nashville in 1985, where she found success during the 1980s and '90s on major labels like MCA and Elektra, and collaborated with artists like John Prine, Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett. Her father, Marlin, was a bookseller. I discovered a few years ago when my assistant decided she could take no more and had to re-alphabetize and index my music collections, that Nanci took up more shelf space than any other modern artist. Her next label, Elektra, brought about two triumphs: her Grammy-winning Other Voices, Other Rooms (named after the Truman Capote novel) and The Dust Bowl Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra. Just looking at all the albums I have all but 3. When Griffith was not behind the scenes, she was performing with the Blue Moon Orchestra and winning multiple awards. No insight. Her first performance was at the Red Lion club in Austin, when she was 12. Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died at age 68. This is exactly how I discovered her. Thankful I can share her with others, especially my children- appreciate her voice in my life and theirs! Songs such as Love at the Five and Dime and Gulf Coast Highway have become permanent fixtures in the folk-country canon (Griffith described her music as folkabilly), and the Grammy award she won for her album Other Voices, Other Rooms in 1994 seemed a long overdue reward for her carefully crafted body of work. I have been listening to her music ever since. She married fellow singer-songwriter Eric Taylor in 1976. I hope you are at peace. Iris Dement, John Prine . I dont think that her failure to achieve adulation from the country music audience was about Griffiths very high voice: it was about her lack of traditional sexiness, or even traditional womanliness. Nanci mightve been the darling of the blue state folk circuit, but on country radio she was a sad-voiced skinny girl without a whit of sex appeal. Darius Rucker also paid tribute to Griffith on Twitter. Im torn, and torn up. She also introduced me to some stunning songs on the two other voices albums and amazing artists as well. How needlessly negative of the journalist most of Rolling Stones readers hadnt heard of her, so it was imply an odd way to introduce her to its wide reading audience. I like many sadly learned of Nanci Griffith upon her passing. She died of undisclosed causes . in: "Doster played guitar on Griffiths first album in 1978, and joined her in Nashville for her third, Once In A Very Blue Moon, six years later. I would sing along in my bad voice. One of Texas' finest." She also contributed background vocals on many other recordings. I dont know, but it just blew my mind because it really was a crazy thing, but it looks so benign, at first. Her music has sustained me through many years and I am grateful for the generous feelings and stories she shared with us. I was aware that Nanci had a hard time in life revealing private history. A case of Dupuytrens contracture caused her to lose flexibility in her fingers. Ms. Griffith sometimes affected a folkie casualness toward mainstream success. I think of you and Mason every time I walk 3 blocks from my home and pass the corner of Magnolia St. and Robert Road, see the site of the former Moscatel Spa and remember your old song. Writing in The New York Times in 1987, Stephen Holden hailed her signing with MCA Nashville as a positive harbinger for the country-music industry, calling her among the most gifted writers to carry forward a Southern country variant of the confessional singer-songwriter mode that dominated Los Angeles rock in the early and mid-1970s., She assembled a band, the Blue Moon Orchestra, which would stay together for over a decade, and beefed up her finely wrought songs with country-pop muscle, a blend she called folkabilly.. They connect and touch deeply to my core. Thanks. In August 2005 I heard her in concert at the Fargo Theatre in Fargo, ND. Her first performance was at the Red Lion club in Austin, when she was 12. She did As a songwriter myself her influence has guided me in recent years. On a few later albums she vacillated between her natural balladic voice and an oddly pretentious vocal approach that sounded like a cloying little girl. I knew she hadnt recorded in a while but had no idea of the back story. [19] Lyle Lovett, who contributed backing vocals to her third album, Once in a Very Blue Moon,[20] had won it before her. Her management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, said Griffith died Friday but did not provide a cause of death. Grammy Award-winning folk and country singer-songwriter who played with the Blue Moon Orchestra. Her songs also proved successful for other singers: Kathy Mattea scored a country Top 5 hit with "Love at the Five and Dime," while Suzy Bogguss cracked the country Top 10 with "Outbound Plane," written by Griffith with Tom Russell. Originally from Seguin, Texas, Nanci Caroline Griffith was born on 6 July 1953 under the star sign Cancer. Her death was confirmed by management and her record label on Friday, without a cause of death being given. I feel blessed to have seen her at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH in the early 2000s. What a beautifully written tribute. She told Rolling Stone in 1993 that she didnt mind that Ms. Mattea had the hit version of Love at the Five and Dime: It feels great that Kathy has to sing that for the rest of her life and I dont., Nanci Caroline Griffith was born on July 6, 1953, in Seguin, Texas, about 35 miles northeast of San Antonio, to Marlin Griffith, a book publisher and singer in barbershop quartets, and Ruelen Strawser, a real estate agent and amateur actress. Although no official sources have clarified Nanci Griffith's cause of death at this time, some claim she recently had health problems, which led to her sudden death. My world felt a bit diminished when Nanci died. Ive never been this sad to lose someone I never knew. I always felt that she knew me and I knew her. I was watching on YouTube just yesterday the long video for her Other Voices, Other Rooms album and tour (also have it on VHS!). She was awarded a Grammy for the album Other Voices, Other Rooms in 1994. A piece of my heart gone with her leaving us. Keith. All of a sudden they were there and ready to come out.. Thanks for your thoughts and memories. Harris walks up to the mic with a grin as wide as it is authentic. She died on August 13, 2021. Thank you for this. She was such an amazing singer songwriter and I was so very sad to hear of her passing. Such praising words from Gerry Peary, fine journalist, made my day when I came home exhausted after a long drive last night. Dont we all wish someone would reissue her albums? She had incredible talent backing her and if she was struggling, she didnt show it. Of course many of her colleagues wrote nice things about her on social media. She survived bouts with breast cancer in 1996 and thyroid cancer in 1998, pursuing her career in earnest throughout most of the 2000s. Nanci was such a generous soul. One of the tracks on Intersection is Hell No (Im Not Alright) Nothings gonna change / No end in sight which speaks all too starkly of frustration, even outright embitterment. According to the Associated Press, Griffith's management group Gold Mountain Entertainment reported that she died on August 13, but they did not provide a cause of death. And her beautiful live album from 89.). Fellow country singer and songwriter, Suzy Bogguss, who previously worked with Nancy paid tribute to her friend in an emotional message on Facebook. I instantly fell in love with her voice and she will always be my favorite female singer/songwriter/song selecter of all-time. By 24 she had recorded her first LP for a tiny label, Featherbed. I absolutely love OFSE, it really captures the intimacy that Nanci could bring to her stage performances. Then when I started high school, Loretta Lynn came along. Well done. Covid? Very elegant and understated. I discovered her music in the late 80s and became an instant fan. Im struggling with the idea that she was bitter about her career too. One thing about her voice: once one got accustomed to it, one could denote the honesty of it. Griffith toured with various other artists, including Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets; John Prine; Iris DeMent; Suzy Bogguss; Judy Collins and The Everly Brothers. In 1993 she moved to the Elektra label where she would enjoy her highest profile successes. I discovered her one fall evening many years ago on NPR and saw her perform on both coasts. The influential jazz innovator died at the age of 89 on Thursday in Los Angeles. While that album comprised versions of other people's songs, other artists appreciated the quality of her own material. Like those in the limited pantheon of true artistes, she will be missed and never duplicated. But I can well imagine Tims comment on her precious voice and phrasing (both of which got more so in the 90s) wasnt authentically Texan enough whatever that might mean.
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