You Were On My Mind - Music

Nanci Griffith Born Nanci Caroline Griffith In Seguin TX On 6 July 1953 Died 13 August 2021 Was An American Singer Guitarist And Songwriter Who Was Raised In Austin TX And Later Resided In Nashville TN. Her Career Spanned A Variety Of Musical Genres Predominantly Country And Folk And What She Terms "folkabilly." She Won A 1994 Grammy Award For Best Contemporary Folk Album For Other Voices Other Rooms An Album Of Griffith Covering The Songs Of Artists Who Influenced Her. She Is Best-Remembered For From A Distance By Julie Gold Although The Version That Achieved Greater Commercial Success Was Not Griffith's But Bette Midler's From A Distance . Similarly Other Artists Have Occasionally Achieved Greater Success With Griffith's Songs Than Did Griffith Herself For Example Kathy Mattea Who Had A Country Music Top Five Hit With A 1986 Cover Love At The Five And Dime Of Love At The Five And Dime. ADDITIONALLY
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. 2 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. During Her Career Griffith Toured With Many 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 And Darius Rucker Lead Singer Of Hootie & The Blowfish . She Also Contributed Background Vocals On Many Other Recordings. Griffith Suffered From Severe 'writers 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. 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 Griffith'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 Includes Several New Original Songs And Was Released In April 2012. In Addition To Her Own Songs Griffith Is Well Known For Her Versions Of Other People's Material Usually By Contemporary Singer-Songwriters. 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? 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 #85 On The Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart In 1986. read less