Posted on 08/13/2021 8:23:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" celebrated the South, has died. She was 68.
Her management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, said Griffith died Friday but did not provide a cause of death.
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Griffith worked closely with other folk singers, helping the early careers of artists like Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris. She had a high-pitched voice, and her singing was effortlessly smooth with a twangy Texas accent as she sang about Dust Bowl farmers and empty Woolworth general stores.
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Rest in Peace! Hubby is going to be very sad. He saw her at someplace back in the day, and bought her album that night and everything.
From A Distance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzORgC1NpM
I know her from this sweet, live performance of Love at the Five and Dime.
So sad. I really like “Across the Great Divide” and “Boots of Spanish Leather” (1993, “Other Voices, Other Rooms”).
RIP.
I played that song and this one at my husband’s wake.
Little Love Affairs
I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
That tell a story I used to know
It was one that happened so long ago
It's gone away yesterday
Now I find myself on a moutainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
What a perfect metaphor -- she's gone across the Great Divide.
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And when she dies she says she'll catch some blackbird's wing
And she will fly away to heaven
Come some sweet blue bonnet spring
RIP
Her greatest hits album and other voices, other room album are excellent. She did not write “From a distance” but I loved her version much more than Bette Midlers’
I especially enjoyed her song “I wish it would rain”
Very sad news.
Other Voices, Other Rooms was my first exposure to Nanci. Tecumseh Valley holds a special place in the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you Nancy. Red is the Rose one of my favorites. RIP
The quick, high pitched note, that she plays in that song, is the sound of the Woolworth’s elevator ‘ding’.
I just learned that, from watching her vid.
RIP
Ping.
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RIP.
“Across the Great Divide” was written by Kate Wolf, a wonderful singer-songwriter. If you are not familiar with her you’re in for a treat. I was fortunate enough to see her several times before she died of leukemia in ‘86. She was only 44 and had been performing for just 10 years.
Red Molly covered that, too. Kathy Mattea had a hit with “Love at the Five and Dime.”
I knew the song was written by Kate Wolf, but I’ve never really looker her up. Thanks for the tip.
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