Whether performing her own poetically evocative material or the compositions of her influences, friends, and peers, Nanci Griffith possesses a powerful gift for inhabiting the songs she sings – for communicating unspoken intimacy and heartache through her tender voice and lilting, delicate phrasing.
Rolling Stone magazine once described her as a unique form of ‘folkabilly’ music. Yet Griffith emerged as more than just a bright star in a new genre. In a career that has now spanned nearly three decades, numerous awards (including three GRAMMYS and the BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award) and twenty studio albums she continues to trail blaze that path into 2012.