Big O have posted links to a nice late eighties set from Nanci Griffith today which goes some way towards ensuring we don't forget her. As I have said repeatedly Nanci seems to have disappeared and is believed to be somewhere in the South perhaps running a bookshop it has been said. After a blistering angry letter to many Texan newspapers and reviewers claiming abuse and lack of appreciation in some instances to journals that hadn't covered her work (sic) she then seemed to lay low and fans were extremely worried for her. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998. We always wish her well
Enjoy this a crystal clear soundboard recording . . . . . this is from around the time she wrote Anybody Can Be Somebody's Fool which frankly should be and is a classic of folk country music. She has that rare gift of making most songs her own and her writing often sounds like songs you always thought existed! These are some of them . . . . . .
Nanci Griffith - Santa Cruz 1986 - Big O
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