By Associated Press
NASHVILLE: Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning people singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68.Her administration firm, Gold Mountain Entertainment, stated Griffith died Friday however didn’t present a explanation for loss of life. “It was Nanci’s wish that no further formal statement or press release happen for a week following her passing,” Gold Mountain Entertainment stated in an announcement.Griffith labored intently with different people singers, serving to the early careers of artists like Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris. She had a high-pitched voice, and her singing was effortlessly clean with a twangy Texas accent as she sang about Dust Bowl farmers and empty Woolworth normal shops. Griffith was additionally identified for her recording of “From a Distance,” which might later develop into a well known Bette Midler tune. The tune appeared on Griffith’s first main label launch, “Lone Star State of Mind” in 1987. Her 1993 album “Other Voices, Other Rooms,” earned a Grammy for greatest up to date people album. Named after a Truman Capote novel, the album options Griffith singing with Harris, John Prine, Arlo Guthrie and Guy Clark on traditional people songs. In 2008, Griffith gained the Lifetime Achievement Trailblazer Award from the Americana Music Association. Country singer Suzy Bogguss, who had a Top 10 hit with Griffith’s tune “Outbound Plane,” posted a remembrance to her buddy on Instagram. “I feel blessed to have many memories of our times together along with most everything she ever recorded. I’m going to spend the day reveling in the articulate masterful legacy she’s left us,” Bogguss wrote.Darius Rucker known as Griffith considered one of his idols and why he moved to Nashville. “Singing with her was my favorite thing to do,” he wrote on Twitter.Keeping in keeping with the custom of people music, Griffith typically wrote social commentary into her songs, such because the anti-racist ode “It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go,” and the financial influence on rural farmers within the Nineteen Eighties on “Trouble in the Fields.””I wrote it because my family were farmers in West Texas during the Great Depression,” Griffith advised the Los Angeles Times in a 1990 interview. “It was written basically as a show of support for my generation of farmers.”Griffith gained many followers in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the place she would typically tour.
