NANCI GRIFFITH AND THE BLUE MOON ORCHESTRA
This remastered recording from Big O today and as you will see the trolls come out if you even post a 'Thank You' but hey occasionally the work there is really worth it, as is this
Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; October 11, 1994. Very good BBC broadcast.
Big O says:
Thanks to PsyKies for sharing the complete show at Dime.
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PsyKies noted:
BBC Radio 2 recently rebroadcast the 1994 Royal Albert Hall performance by Nanci Griffith. However, a comparison to the original BBC Radio 1 broadcast from November 1994 as posted here by Soledriver showed that the rebroadcast was in fact a re-edit which removed around 20 minutes of the show and replaced it with 18 minutes of previously unbroadcast material.
I have compiled the two broadcasts by patching the missing FM sourced material from a speed corrected version of Soledrivers upload and another unknown FM recording into the recent digital broadcast.
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A regular visitor to the UK, Nanci Griffith performed for three nights, along with her ‘Blue Moon Orchestra’, at the Royal Albert Hall in October 1994, in support of her most recent album ‘The Flyer’. Dubbed by Rolling Stone magazine as ‘Queen of Folkabilly’, Nanci Griffith released her first two albums in 1978 and 1982 on a local Austin, Texas label. Her breakthrough came in 1986 with the album Last of the True Believers, which earned her a Grammy nomination and led to her being signed by MCA. She went on to release Lone Star State of Mind, which included the hugely acclaimed Julie Gold composition ‘From a Distance’.
Her 1989 album Storms, and 1991’s Late Night Grand Hotel moved her music further into the pop mainstream, before she returned to her country folk roots with the Grammy winning Other Voices, Other Rooms, an album celebrating folk songwriters including Bob Dylan, Ralph McTell and Tom Paxton. Her 1994 Royal Albert Hall set includes Across The Great Divide, Don’t Forget About Me, Tecumseh Valley, and Nobody’s Angel. - bbc.co.uk
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dbeamer407, Dime:
This has a heart breaking introduction to It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go.
“I hope that like most of the members of my family, that I live to have a long and healthy life and live well into my 90s. And continue to write songs and be outstanding in my field. And if I do live that long, I hope that I shall always remember that this next song was the most important piece of work that I’ve ever written. And I hope that by the time that I reach that age that it will no longer be relevant.”
Heartbreaking because Nanci didn’t get to live the long and healthy life into her 90s that she hoped for and especially because It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go is still relevant 27 years after she made that introduction and that she never got to see it no longer be relevant. Let’s hope that day will come. [Nanci Griffith passed away on August 13, 2021. She was 68.]
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First broadcast by BBC Radio 1 on October 29, 1994, the main source for this is captured from a BBC Radio 2 broadcast on May 5, 2022. This featured a modified tracklist from the original broadcast with 5 tracks missing and 4 added as well as some edited introductions. The missing parts have been patched in from the original broadcast using Soledriver’s FM capture and an unknown lineage FM recording.
Soledriver’s source ran a little slow in comparison to both the digital broadcast and the unknown FM source (which had a little more low level noise) so it was speed and level corrected to match the digital source. It provides Time Of Inconvenience, Are You Tired Of Me My Darling?, Going Back To Georgia, This Heart and the majority of It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go as well as the introduction to Across The Great Divide and 8.5 seconds of the introduction to Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness. The last 1:30 of It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go was missing on Soledrivers source and is patched from the unknown FM source.
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