NANCI GRIFFITH DEAD at 68

    So sad to read from Associated Press that a lifelong heroine of my wife and mine, the poetic Nanci Griffith, folk singer of deep Americana born in Seguin, Texas she was the real deal while being highly sensitive and often rather vulnerable, (her work introduced us to John Prine and Townes Van Zandt amongst others) has died aged 68

Something of a recluse in recent years and reported variously has having disappeared since her two bouts of cancer most recently in 1999 she was notably absent when tributes were given on the death of John Prine earlier in the COVID outbreak, no cause of death has been given her management has said according to her wishes.

One of the last live concerts we saw in Oxford that both of us enjoyed, she will be sorely missed.

An interpreter of the great alternative Folk Songbook her Grammy Award winning Other Songs, Other Rooms introduced us to numerous classic American folk song writers from Tom Paxton to Woody Guthrie and the Brit Ralph McTell and Other Rooms too which featured Richard Thompson songs and others by Guy Clark, Sandy Denny and Stephen Foster Collins

I will miss her . . . . . . .