Nanci Griffith, ‘Love at the Five and Dime’ singer, dead at 68

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American folk and country singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died. She was 68.Her death was confirmed by her management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment.

Holly Gleason She had a little girl’s voice, slightly chirping and ether-light, and the widest eyes when talked that punctuated her heart-shaped face. But listening to her songs, she wrote with an underlying wisdom and sense of detail about small things that made her more kin to Eudora Welty, Willa Cather or even Carson McCullers, all of whom she adored.Nanci Griffith was the ultimate contradiction: “aw shucks” presence with a gumption that took listeners by surprise.

Love at the Five and Dime and Gulf Coast Highway have become permanent fixtures in the folk-country canon (Griffith described her music as “folkabilly”), and the Grammy award she won for her album Other Voices, Other Rooms in 1994 seemed a long overdue reward for her carefully crafted body of work. While that album comprised versions of other people’s songs, other artists appreciated the quality of her own material.

Nanci Griffith was a folk and country music singer and songwriter known for songs including “Love at the Five and Dime” and “From a Distance.”Griffith grew up surrounded by the Austin, Texas music scene and began performing before her teens. She began recording music in the 1970s and moved to Nashville in the 1980s, signing with MCA Records and forming the Blue Moon Orchestra.

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AP. Griffith was a regular on “Austin City Limits” and performed with artists such as John Prine, with Buddy Holly’s band, Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett, among others, and she’s recorded duets with Willie Nelson, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Darius Rucker and Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows.