I am getting worried, I think I agree with just about all of your music favorites, and we are not talking about mainstream singers either. I don’t know too many people that have heard of Nanci Griffith, much less enjoyed her music.
Her CD, Flyer, is one of the best albums I have. In the song Southbound Train, written by Julie Gold (wind beneath my wings), if you can’t feel the loneliness and emotion, I don’t want will.
I also wish that Nanci Griffith had had a more successful career, but those of us who have ever listened to her know that she was one of the finer folk and/or country singers of her era.
Her most recent non-compilation album was Intersections from 2012. She is now 64, and there may not be another. (I have been listening to the CD in my car as I drive around doing my errands for the day.)
“Love at the Five and Dime” appeared on the album The Last of the True Believers, which was released in 1986.
I actually had the opportunity to see and hear her live in Phila probably sometime in the 1990’s. She certainly has had a long career, but don’t know that I have ever heard any of her music on the radio, unless it was on a folk show. I think her music wasn’t “country” enough to get on country stations.
As a musician it is difficult to get played on the radio unless you fall into a few well-specified categories. Nanci Griffith certainly does not, not even alt-country, I don’t believe. Luckily a local college radio stations has weekly morning folk shows that have very wide boundaries (actually none) as to what the hosts can decide to play, and I listen to them all the time.
Our local college station (WXPN – University Of Pennsylvania) used to be that way back in the 70’s, but now they are nationwide. Still do a great job with playing non-top 40 music, and playing artists other stations don’t play, but a little bit more formatted now.
April 22nd, 2018 at 10:26 am
Steve,
I am getting worried, I think I agree with just about all of your music favorites, and we are not talking about mainstream singers either. I don’t know too many people that have heard of Nanci Griffith, much less enjoyed her music.
Her CD, Flyer, is one of the best albums I have. In the song Southbound Train, written by Julie Gold (wind beneath my wings), if you can’t feel the loneliness and emotion, I don’t want will.
April 22nd, 2018 at 11:19 am
I also wish that Nanci Griffith had had a more successful career, but those of us who have ever listened to her know that she was one of the finer folk and/or country singers of her era.
Her most recent non-compilation album was Intersections from 2012. She is now 64, and there may not be another. (I have been listening to the CD in my car as I drive around doing my errands for the day.)
“Love at the Five and Dime” appeared on the album The Last of the True Believers, which was released in 1986.
April 22nd, 2018 at 11:36 am
I actually had the opportunity to see and hear her live in Phila probably sometime in the 1990’s. She certainly has had a long career, but don’t know that I have ever heard any of her music on the radio, unless it was on a folk show. I think her music wasn’t “country” enough to get on country stations.
April 22nd, 2018 at 11:56 am
As a musician it is difficult to get played on the radio unless you fall into a few well-specified categories. Nanci Griffith certainly does not, not even alt-country, I don’t believe. Luckily a local college radio stations has weekly morning folk shows that have very wide boundaries (actually none) as to what the hosts can decide to play, and I listen to them all the time.
April 22nd, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Our local college station (WXPN – University Of Pennsylvania) used to be that way back in the 70’s, but now they are nationwide. Still do a great job with playing non-top 40 music, and playing artists other stations don’t play, but a little bit more formatted now.