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...later years, Odetta collaborated on a dozen or more albums (dueting with Nanci Griffith, for instance, on Other Voices, Too). She recorded a collection of Christmas spirituals and did tribute albums to Ella Fitzgerald, Leadbelly and blues thrushes of the 1930s. In her 60s and 70s, she still could sing the hide off a traditional number. Evidence: this rendition of "Midnight Special" (see below...
...chance in the straightforward Best Country Album category. Like all genre crossers, she uses whatever works--an R&B horn section, the crisp guitar of Heartbreaker Mike Campbell--to create an effortlessly seductive record that swings from the cool influence of Dusty Springfield to the complicated warmth of Nanci Griffith...
...eventually left Vietnam in 1981, and found themselves in an entirely new world, speaking little English, but relieved to be free of the Communist regime in Vietnam. When the Lus got off a plane for the first time in the United States, in Seattle, the eldest sister, Nanci, then just a girl, remembers charity workers giving the entire family warm winter coats to ward off the unfamiliar chill of the Pacific Northwest. "I was only 7, but that's something I'll never forget." The Lu family had finally left the war behind...
...attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman, Tow Waits, Suzanne Vega, Nanci Griffith and Tom Rush all started out across the street from the Coop. So much for geography as destiny...
...Nanci Griffith, prom princess of the country-folk school, dares to suggest that life is something we can get through--and get through more easily with a rousing or sweet-souled tune. Griffith, 42, might be doomed to good humor, with her chipmunk-cute face and perky soprano. In her new CD, Blue Roses from the Moons, she aims for direct emotion and musical simplicity. The bass-heavy Wall of Sound from her 1994 Flyer has crumbled; this is a live-in-the-studio set with a country feel and, among the sidemen, songwriter Sonny Curtis and the three survivors...