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词条 Nanci Griffith
释义

  1. Career

  2. Awards

  3. Band (The Blue Moon Orchestra)

  4. Personal life

  5. Discography

      Studio albums    Compilation albums    Singles  

  6. Videography

      Music videos  

  7. See also

  8. References

  9. External links

{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Nanci Griffith
| image = Nancicarolinegriffith.jpg
| caption = Griffith in 2004
| image_size =
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Nanci Caroline Griffith
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|7|6}}
| birth_place = Seguin, Texas, U.S.
| death_date =
| origin =
| instrument = Vocalist, acoustic guitar
| genre = Folk, country folk
| occupation =
| years_active = 1978–present
| label = B.F. Deal, Featherbed, Philo, MCA, Elektra, Rounder, New Door
| associated_acts = The Blue Moon Orchestra
The Crickets
Darius Rucker
The Kennedys
James McMurtry
| website = {{URL|www.nancigriffith.com}}
| current_members =
| past_members =
}}

Nanci Caroline Griffith (born July 6, 1953) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, raised in Austin, Texas, who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Griffith appeared many times on the PBS music program Austin City Limits starting in 1985 (season 10).

Career

Griffith was born in Seguin, Texas,[1] and her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms. This album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who are her major influences. One of her better-known songs is "From a Distance," which was written and composed by Julie Gold, although Bette Midler's version achieved greater commercial success. Similarly, other artists have occasionally achieved greater success than Griffith herself with songs that she wrote or co-wrote. For example, Kathy Mattea had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover of Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" and Suzy Bogguss had one of her largest hits with Griffith's and Tom Russell's "Outbound Plane".

In 1994, Griffith teamed up with Jimmy Webb to contribute the song "If These Old Walls Could Speak" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.[1]

Singer-songwriter Christine Lavin remembers the first time she saw Griffith perform:

I was struck by how perfect everything was about her singing, her playing, her talking. I realized from the get-go that this was someone who was a complete professional. Obviously she had worked a long time to get to be that good.[2]

In recent years, Griffith has toured with various other artists, including Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets; John Prine; Iris DeMent; Suzy Bogguss; and Judy Collins. Griffith has recorded duets with many artists, among them Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, John Prine, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Dolores Keane, Willie Nelson, Adam Duritz (singer of Counting Crows), The Chieftains, John Stewart; and Darius Rucker (lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish). She has also contributed background vocals on many other recordings.[3]

Griffith suffered from severe writer's block for a number of years after 2004, lasting until the 2009 release of her The Loving Kind album, which contained nine selections that she had written and composed either entirely by herself or as collaborations.{{cn|date=October 2017}}

After several months of limited touring in 2011, Griffith's bandmates The Kennedys (Pete & Maura Kennedy) packed up their professional Manhattan recording studio and relocated it to Nashville, where they installed it in Nanci's home. There, Griffith and her backing team, including Pete & Maura Kennedy and Pat McInerney, co-produced her album Intersections over the course of the summer. The album included several new original songs and was released in April 2012.{{cn|date=October 2017}}

Awards

Griffith won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms. In 2008, the Americana Music Association awarded her its Americana Trailblazer Award. Lyle Lovett, who contributed backing vocals to some of "The Blue Moon Orchestra's" recordings,{{Which|date=October 2012}} had won it before her.

Band (The Blue Moon Orchestra)

Griffith refers to her backing band as "The Blue Moon Orchestra." This reference is believed to have been drawn from both the title of one of her earliest albums, Once in a Very Blue Moon, and its title selection, which reached {{Abbr|No.|Number}} 85 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1986.

Current members
  • Nanci Griffith — lead vocals, guitar
  • Pat McInerney — percussion
  • Maura Kennedy — vocals, guitar
  • Pete Kennedy — guitar, vocals
Previous band members
  • J.T. Thomas — bass; vocals
  • Thomm Jutz — guitar, vocals
  • James Hooker — piano, B-3, keyboards, vocals
  • Le Ann Etheridge — vocals, bass guitar, rhythm guitar
  • Lee Satterfield — vocals, rhythm guitar, mandolin
  • Clive Gregson — guitar, vocals
  • Doug Lancio — electric guitar
  • Ron De La Vega — bass, cello
  • Fran Breen — drums
  • Steve Smith — drums
  • Philip Donnelly — guitar

Guest backing vocalists:

  • Emmylou Harris
  • Iris Dement
  • Lyle Lovett — backing vocals

Personal life

Griffith's high school boyfriend, John, died in a motorcycle accident after taking her to the senior prom, and subsequently inspired many of her songs.[4] She was married to singer-songwriter Eric Taylor from 1976 to 1982. In the early 1990s, she was engaged to singer-songwriter Tom Kimmel, but the couple never married.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}

Discography

Studio albums

YearAlbumPeak chart positionsLabel
US Country
[5]
US
[6]
UK
[7]
1978There's a Light Beyond These WoodsB.F. Deal
1982Poet in My WindowFeatherbed
1984Once in a Very Blue MoonPhilo
1986The Last of the True Believers
1987Lone Star State of Mind 23MCA
1988Little Love Affairs 27 78
One Fair Summer Evening 43
1989Storms 42 99 38
1991Late Night Grande Hotel 185 40
1993Other Voices, Other Rooms 54 18Elektra
1994Flyer 48 20
1997Blue Roses from the Moons 119 64
1998Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) 85
1999The Dust Bowl Symphony
2001Clock Without Hands 149 61
2002Winter Marquee 45Rounder
2004Hearts in MindNew Door
2006Ruby's TorchRounder
2009The Loving Kind
2012IntersectionHell No
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

YearAlbum Peak positionsLabel
UK[7]
1993A RetrospectiveMCA
The Best of Nanci Griffith 27
1997Country Gold
2000Wings to Fly and a Place To Be:
An Introduction to Nanci Griffith
200120th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection:
The Best of Nanci Griffith
2002The Very Best of Nanci Griffith
2003The Complete MCA Studio Recordings
2015Ghost In The Music ---VOX ROX
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[8]
CAN Country
[9]
Irish Singles Chart
[10]
1986"Once in a Very Blue Moon" 85Once in a Very Blue Moon
1987"Lone Star State of Mind" 36Lone Star State of Mind
"Trouble in the Fields" 57 43
"Cold Hearts/Closed Minds" 64
"Never Mind" 58Little Love Affairs
1988"From A Distance" 9Lone Star State of Mind
"I Knew Love" 37 20Little Love Affairs
"Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool" 64
1989"It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go"Storms
"I Don't Wanna Talk About Love"
1991"Late Night Grande Hotel"Late Night Grande Hotel
1993"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"Other Voices, Other Rooms
1994"This Heart"Flyer
1995"Well...All Right" (with The Crickets) 87Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly)
1997"Maybe Tomorrow"Blue Roses from the Moons
"Gulf Coast Highway"
1999"These Days in an Open Book"The Dust Bowl Symphony
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Videography

  • Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration Sony VHS (1993)
  • Other Voices, Other Rooms Elektra Video VHS (1993)
  • Winter Marquee Rounder/Universal DVD, Widescreen, (2002)
  • One Fair Summer Evening...Plus! Universal Music & VI DVD, Fullscreen, (2005)

Music videos

Year Video Director
1988 "I Knew Love" Michael Salomon
1989 "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go"[11] Willy Smax
1991 "Late Night Grande Hotel"[12] Sophie Muller
1993 "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (with John Prine)[13] Rocky Schenck
1996 "Well...All Right" (with The Crickets)

See also

  • Music of Austin

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nancigriffith.com/biography.php |title=Biography |accessdate=2007-01-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113061945/http://www.nancigriffith.com/biography.php |archivedate=January 13, 2007 |df= }} originating from nancigriffith.com Retrieved January 31, 2013
2. ^Deitz, Roger. "Home at Last." Acoustic Guitar. May/June 1995, No. 30, p. 52.
3. ^Guest Appearances on Other Artists' Albums
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://popdose.com/the-popdose-guide-to-nanci-griffith/ |title=The Popdose Guide to Nanci Griffith |publisher=Popdose |date=2008-01-08 |accessdate=2012-05-21}}
5. ^{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=nanci griffith|chart=Country Albums C}}|title=Nanci Griffith Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums|work=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media}}
6. ^{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=nanci griffith|chart=Billboard 200}}|title=Nanci Griffith Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200|work=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media}}
7. ^{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited| location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| page= 236}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|year=2008|isbn=0-89820-177-2}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/list.aspx?OCRText=Nanci+Griffith&ChartEn=Country+Singles&|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles|work=RPM}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement&|title=Irish charts - search the charts|work=IRMA}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/nanci-griffith/739605/its-a-hard-life-wherever-you-go.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Nanci Griffith : It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/nanci-griffith/739606/late-night-grande-hotel.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Nanci Griffith : Late Night Grande Hotel|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/nanci-griffith/47134/speed-of-the-sound-of-loneliness.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Nanci Griffith : Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.nancigriffith.com/}}
  • Comprehensive Nanci Griffith discography
  • 2012 Interview with Nanci Griffith
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