Country Music Legends

Country and Folk Legend Nanci Griffith

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The Country Universe points out:

The eighties brought a mini-folk revival to Music Row, with coffeehouse artists scoring major label deals. Of this group, only Mary Chapin Carpenter went on to mainstream country success, but one of the earliest of the wave made inroads into the Americana scene before it even had that name.

Nanci Griffith called her unique fusion of country and folk music “folkabilly.” Even when she was still teaching kindergarten in the seventies, she was playing Texas honky-tonks at night. She often quipped that controlling a group of kindergarten students and drunken hillbillies required the same skills. Pure folkie that she was, she soon signed a record deal with a local label.

You can listen to Nanci Griffith music at Last.FM

Nanci Griffith “Across the Great Divide” video

Nancy Griffith and the Chieftans covering “Red is the Rose”

Video of Nanci Griffith covering John Prine’s “Speed of the Sound of Lonliness”