Nanci Griffith
Nanci Caroline Griffith (born July 6, 1953) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, reared in Austin, Texas, who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Career
Griffith was born in Seguin, Texas, 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".
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ALBUMS
- Intersection released: 2012
- The Loving Kind released: 2009
- Ruby's Torch released: 2006
- Hearts in Mind released: 2005
- The Complete MCA Studio Recordings released: 2003
- Poet in my Window released: 2002
- From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith released: 2002
- Winter Marquee released: 2002
- Clock Without Hands released: 2001
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Nanci Griffith released: 2001
- The Dust Bowl Symphony released: 1999
- Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) released: 1998
- Country Gold released: 1997
- Blue Roses From the Moons released: 1997
- Sound of Loneliness released: 1995
- Flyer released: 1994
- The Best of Nanci Griffith released: 1993
- The MCA Years: A Retrospective released: 1993
- Other Voices - Other Rooms released: 1993
- Lone Star State of Mind released: 1992
- Late Night Grande Hotel released: 1991
- Storms released: 1989
- Little Love Affairs released: 1988
- One Fair Summer Evening released: 1988
- The Last of the True Believers released: 1986
- Poet in My Window released: 1985
- Once in a Very Blue Moon released: 1984
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods released: 1978
The Complete MCA Studio Recordings
Released 2003- Tumble and Fall
- Lone Star State of Mind
- Cold Hearts/Closed Minds
- From a Distance
- Beacon Street
- Nickel Dreams
- Sing One for Sister
- Ford Econoline
- Trouble in the Fields
- Love in a Memory
- Let It Shine on Me
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool
- I Knew Love
- Never Mind
- Love Wore a Halo (Back Before the War)
- So Long Ago
- Gulf Coast Highway (Duet With Mac McAnally)
- Little Love Affairs
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Outbound Plane
- I Would Change My Life
- Sweet Dreams Will Come
- Wooden Heart
From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith
Released 2002- Lone Star State of Mind
- Cold Hearts/Closed Minds
- From a Distance
- Ford Econoline
- Trouble in the Fields
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- Looking for the Time (Workin' Girl) (live)
- I Don't Want to Talk About Love
- Drive-In Movies and Dashboard Lights
- It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go
- If Wishes Were Changes
- Once in a Very Blue Moon (live)
- Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool
- I Knew Love
- Gulf Coast Highway (With Mac McAnally)
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Outbound Plane
- Love at the Five and Dime (live)
- It's Just Another Morning Here
- Late Night Grande Hotel
- Hometown Streets
- The Wing and the Wheel (live)
Winter Marquee
Released 2002- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Boots of Spanish Leather
- Two for the Road
- Listen to the Radio
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- Gulf Coast Highway
- The Flyer
- Good Night, New York
- Traveling Through This Part of You
- Last Train Home
- I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring the Prose to the Wheel)
- What's That I Hear
- White Freight Liner
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful)
Released 1998- Wall of Death
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
- You Were on My Mind
- Walk Right Back
- Canadian Whiskey
- Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
- Wings of a Dove
- Dress of Laces
- Summer Wages
- He Was a Friend of Mine
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Wasn't That a Mighty Storm?
- Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
- Yarrington Town
- I Still Miss Someone
- Try the Love
- The Streets of Baltimore
- Darcy Farrow
- If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
The Best of Nanci Griffith
Released 1993- Trouble in the Fields
- From a Distance
- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
- Love at the Five and Dime
- Listen to the Radio
- Gulf Coast Highway
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Ford Econoline
- If Wishes Were Changes
- The Wing and the Wheel
- Late Night Grand Hotel
- From Clare to Here
- It's Just Another Morning Here
- Tumble and Fall
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- Outbound Plane
- Lone Star State of Mind
- It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go
- The Road to Aberdeen
The MCA Years: A Retrospective
Released 1993- Trouble in the Fields
- From a Distance
- I Don't Wanna Talk About Love
- Deadwood, South Dakota
- Love at the Five and Dime
- Listen to the Radio
- Gulf Coast Highway
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Ford Econoline
- So Long Ago
- If Wishes Were Changes
- The Wing and the Wheel
- Late Night Grande Hotel
- It's Just Another Morning Here
- Drive-In Movies and Dashboard Lights
- There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- Outbound Plane
- It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go
Other Voices - Other Rooms
Released 1993- Across the Great Divide
- Woman of the Phoenix
- Tecumseh Valley
- Three Flights Up
- Boots of Spanish Leather
- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
- From Clare to Here
- Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
- Do Re Mi
- This Old Town
- Comin' Down in the Rain
- Ten Degrees and Getting Colder
- Morning Song for Sally
- Night Rider's Lament
- Are You Tired of Me Darling
- Turn Around
- Wimoweh
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Party Girl
by: Nanci GriffithShe was a party girl, now the party's over
She was a beauty and that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl, now the party's over
Now her husband watches TV
After working hard all day
And she's crying into her pillow
'Cause it's night time and she wants to play
She was a party girl, now the party's over
She was a beauty and that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl but the party's over
Oh, she can't cry to mamma
She can't go home to daddy anymore
Oh, they both tried to warn her
She was throwing away her sweet young life
When she walked out that door
She was a party girl, now the party's over
She was a beauty and that's changing too
Now she's barefoot and having babies
She was a party girl, now the party's over
She was a party girl, now the party's over
Oh, it's over, party's over, the party's over
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