Word: nancy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feathery verses and send them next door to her sister-in-law, content to preserve her New England obscurity. Today a would-be Dickinson is more likely to grab a guitar, put together a backup band and hit the road. That was precisely the path taken by Nanci Griffith, a wide-eyed Texas waif who may just be one of America's best poets -- and for sure is one of its best songwriters...
...THOUGH NANCI GRIFFITH ever forsook her folk roots. She was just worried that others would forget, and that her younger fans might never know. So, with Other Voices, Other Rooms, she pays homage to her heroes, those folk stars who sang to her from her bedside radio when she was a Texas teenager. Some of her honorees even come to the party. Bob Dylan plays harmonica on his almost forgotten Boots of Spanish Leather. John Prine sings harmony on his Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. Arlo Guthrie sings on Tecumseh Valley, by Townes Van Zandt, though...
Folksinger Nanci Griffith, visited a Cambridge store operated by UNICEF this weekend to help bring attention to the condition of the world's women and children...