Nanci Griffith – I Wish It Would Rain(live 1988)
Oldies Songs A tender country waltz about pride, heartbreak, and the quiet longing for tears to fall In the late 1980s, during a live appearance that many still remember with misty eyes,…
Nanci Griffith – From Clare To Here
Oldies Songs A Lament for Leaving and a Love Letter to the Roads That Never Truly Let Us Go When “From Clare to Here” appeared on Nanci Griffith’s 1986 album The Last…
Nanci Griffith – Banks Of The Pontchartrain
A Song of Wandering and Quiet Devotion Along the Water’s Edge When Nanci Griffith recorded “Banks Of The Pontchartrain” for her 1988 album Little Love Affairs, she did more than…
Townes Van Zandt & Nanci Griffith – Pancho And Lefty
A Ballad of Betrayal, Brotherhood, and the Quiet Price of Survival When “Pancho and Lefty” was first released in 1972 on Townes Van Zandt’s album The Late Great Townes Van…
Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
“Love at the Five and Dime” – A Tender Chronicle of Ordinary Lives and Enduring Devotion Released in 1986 as the lead single from The Last of the True Believers,…
Townes Van Zandt & Nanci Griffith – Pancho And Lefty
Pancho and Lefty — a folk ballad where friendship, betrayal, and time quietly pass judgment When Townes Van Zandt and Nanci Griffith stepped onto the stage in 1993 to perform…
Nanci Griffith & Emmylou Harris • “It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go”
It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go — a soulful reflection on struggle, compassion, and the ties that bind us From the very first notes of “It’s A Hard Life…
Nanci Griffith – Boots of Spanish Leather
An Achingly Beautiful Dialogue of Farewell and Lingering Hope “Boots of Spanish Leather” by Nanci Griffith—though, of course, the original pen belongs to Bob Dylan—is a stark, poetic chronicle of…
Nanci Griffith – The Wing And The Wheel
The Poetry of Departure: A Meditation on Lost Friends and Unspent Dreams Nanci Griffith’s “The Wing and the Wheel” is a crystalline piece of poetic melancholy, a gentle-yet-profound reflection on…
Nanci Griffith – Lone Star State Of Mind
The embrace of a wide-open, heartfelt country sound, rooted in the unbreakable spirit of Texas. Ah, Nanci Griffith. Just the name itself conjures up the image of a bright, intelligent…