Nanci Griffith

Nanci Griffith est une texane, née en 1953. Sa carrière évolue entre country et folk et garde un profond respect des grands songwriters texans, Townes Van Zandt en tête ...







Voici justement une superbe reprise de TOWNES VAN ZANDT :


NANCI GRIFFITH & TOWNES VAN ZANDT - Tecumseh Valley ( Live TV 1993 )



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ALBUMS :  

1978 - There's a Light Beyond These Woods    
1982 - Poet in My Window    
1984 - Once in a Very Blue Moon    
1986 - The Last of the True Believers    
1987 - Lone Star State of Mind
1988 - Little Love Affairs
1988 - One Fair Summer Evening  
1989 - Storms
1991 - Late Night Grande Hotel  
1993 - Other Voices, Other Rooms  
1994 - Flyer
1997 - Blue Roses from the Moons  
1998 - Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful)    
1999 - The Dust Bowl Symphony    
2001 - Clock Without Hands  
2002 - Winter Marquee
2004 - Hearts in Mind    
2006 - Ruby's Torch
2009 - The Loving Kind
2012 - Intersection


PRINCIPALES COMPILATIONS :

1993 - The MCA Years: A Retrospective
1993 - The Best of Nanci Griffith
1997 - Country Gold  
2000 - Wings to Fly and a Place To Be: An Introduction to Nanci Griffith  
2001 - 20th Century Masters - The Best of Nanci Griffith  
2002 - From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith  
2003 - The Complete MCA Studio Recordings

DVD :

2002 - Winter Marquee

Coincidence, au moment ou je fais un sujet sur elle, j'apprends la sortie prochaine d'un nouvel album  


Label Rounder !

Je me suis acheté cet album de 1998 la semaine dernière, qui est en fait un albums à plusieurs voix, faisant suite à celui sorti en 1994 je crois :



Y'a de très belles choses dessus !

Pour son nouvel album, voici une présentation de la dame et de sa dernière sortie :

Son dernier album sorti en 2012 est très beau une fois de plus.

Nanci Griffith, 63 ans, est en mauvaise santé apparement.






Avec Emmylou


Reprise de la célèbre chanson de Woodie Guthrie dans une superbe version

Toujours un plaisir d'écouter Nanci, surtout quand elle reprend Townes Van Zandt. Ici en très bonne compagnie :

Décès de la texane NANCI GRIFFITH à l'âge de 68 ans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/arts/music/nanci-griffith-dead.html

NEW YORK TIMES: "Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68
Her best-loved songs were closely observed tales of small-town life, sometimes with painful details in the lyrics, but typically sung with a deceptive prettiness."


Grande amie d'Emmylou Harris, elle a fait partie de toute une génération dorée d'auteurs de chansons du Texas. 20 albums de 1977 à 2012 puis 9 ans de silence radio total qui laissait présager rien de bon.


1989


Album de duos de 1993



1993/1994 - Duo avec Emmylou Harris

I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago

It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

Now, I hear the owl a-callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline

It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away

It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide


1993 - Reprise d'une chanson de Townes Van Zandt ( concert Norvège )


2000 - même chanson 2 ans après la mort de Townes Van Zandt


1998 - reprise de Woody Guthrie avec les voix de Emmylou, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Odetta, Tish Hinojosa ...


2009

My family grew cotton
Cotton was all we knew
Butter came from butterbeans
And it all went in a stew
We lived off our victory garden
And the neighbours did so too
Some years the dust was so ruthless
The cotton was all we grew

When there's no more cane on the grasses
And the oil is gone in the gulf
When the wells are dry on the flatlands
Cotton's all we got

In the days before the powerlines
when LBJ taught school
We dreamed of a fairer nation
And promised to change the rules
To build a great society
And all the folks in the same room
Fighting a war on poverty
And taking us to the moon

When there's no more cane on the grasses
And the oil is gone in the gulf
When the wells are dry on the flatlands
Cotton's all we got

Then the wind will feed the powerlines
Where once it was dust that blew
All along the Chisholm trail
Cotton's all we knew

When there's no more cane on the grasses
And the oil is gone in the gulf
When the wells are dry on the flatlands
Cotton's all we got


2012 - elle avait écrit en chanson qu'elle ne reviendrait plus.  
Elle a respecté ça à la lettre en se retirant définitivement après ce 20e et dernier album.

( assez politique ses 2 petits badges sur la veste )