More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith

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  Mark Harrison

  • Genre: Americana, folk, country folk, folk rock.

  • Influenced by: Nanci Griffith (obviously). Influences on Nanci Griffith: You're in luck. Nanci actually recorded not one, but two, full-length cover albums of her influences and I'm going to do you the greatest favor anyone has ever done for you in your life and link you to the Grammy-winning Other Voices I Other Rooms and it's follow up, Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful). Did I mention that many of Nanci's influences actually also feature on these albums? Did I mention they happen to be people like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris? These are easily amongst the greatest albums ever recorded in the history of time. Fight me outside. Here is the first album being performed live. Here is a rare taping of the second album being performed live. And, just because I love you, here is a link to Nanci and a whole bunch of her contemporaries performing on an Austin City Limits tribute show to Townes Van Zandt shortly after his death in 1997.

  • Similar artists: (To Nanci Griffith) Roseanne Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark.

  • About this album: A compilation album featuring various artists covering songs that were written or recorded by Griffith, who died in 2021. Work on the tribute album started prior to Nanci's death. Nanci was a fixture in the Texas country music scene, who helped pioneer a form of music she called "Folkabilly." Radio promoters and music industry outsiders took note of this style of music, of Nanci, and of a group of likewise traditionally minded singer-songwriters who were making waves in the early to mid-90s and revived some old-timey terminology to use as a label for a resurgent musical roots genre: Americana. Artists appearing on More Than A Whisper include Brandy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle, The War and Treaty, and Mary Gauthier. Proceeds from this album were donated to Cumberland Heights, a non-profit treatment facility in Nashville, Tennessee that specializes in assistance of individuals and their immediate families who are affected by drug addiction and alcoholism. It was one of two albums that were released in 2023 to honor Griffith's legacy, the first being the box set Working in Corners.

  • Metacritic Score: N/A.

  • Grammy Nominations: None.

  • Song To Sample: Love At The Five & Dime by John Prine and Kelsey Waldron, and Listen To The Radio by Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle.