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- From a Distance
- I Remember Joe
- Time Alone
- 1937 Pre-War Kimball
- Across America
- Across The Great Divide
- Alabama Soft Spoken Blues
- Always Will
- Angels
- Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool
- Anything You Need But Me
- Are You Tired Of Me Darling
- Armstrong
- Back When Ted Loved Sylvia
- Bad Seed
- Ballad Of Robin Winter-smith
- Banks Of The Pontchartrain
- Battlefield
- Beautiful
- Before
- Bethlehem Steel
- Big Blue Ball Of War
- Bluer Than Blue
- Boots Of Spanish Leather
- Brave Companion Of The Road
- Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
- Canadian Whiskey
- Clock Without Hands
- Cold Hearts, Closed Minds
- Comin' Down In The Rain
- Cotton
- Daddy Said
- Darcy Farrow
- Deadwood, South Dakota
- Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
- Desperadoes Waiting For A Train
- Do Re Mi
- Dollar Matinee
- Don't Forget About Me
- Down'n'Outer
- Dress Of Laces
- Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights
- Drops From The Faucet
- Dust Bowl Reprise
- Everything's Comin' Up Roses
- Fields Of Summer
- Fly By Night
- Ford Econoline
- Fragile
- Friend Out In The Madness
- From Clare To Here
- Ghost In The Music
- Goin' Gone
- Going Back To Georgia (With Adam Duritz)
- Goodnight To A Mother's Dream
- Grapefruit Moon
- Gulf Coast Highway
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- Heart Of a Miner
- Heart Of Indochine
- Heaven
- Hell No (I'm Not Alright)
- Hometown Streets
- I Don't Wanna Talk About Love
- I Fought The Law
- I Knew Love
- I Love This Town
- I Still Miss Someone
- I Wish It Would Rain
- I Would Bring You Ireland
- I Would Change My Life
- I'll Move Along
- I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels
- If I Could Only Fly
- If I Had A Hammer
- If These Walls Could Speak
- If Wishes Were Changes
- In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
- Intersection
- Is This All There Is
- It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go
- It's Just Another Morning Here
- It's Too Late
- John Philip Griffith
- Julie Anne
- Last Song For Mother
- Last Train Home
- Late Night Grande Hotel
- Leaving The Harbor
- Let It Shine On Me
- Listen To The Radio
- Little Love Affairs
- Lone Star State Of Mind
- Lookin' For The Time (Workin' Girl)
- Lost Him In The Sun
- Love At The Five And Dime
- Love Conquers All
- Love In a Memory
- Love Is a Hard Waltz
- Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War)
- Love's Found a Shoulder
- Marilyn Monroe/Neon and Waltzes
- Mary And Omie
- Maybe Tomorrow
- Michael's Song
- Midnight In Missoula
- Money Changes Everything
- Montana Backroads
- More Than A Whisper
- Morning Song For Sally
- Morning Train
- Mountain Of Sorrow
- Never Be The Sun
- Never Going Back
- Never Mind
- Nickel Dreams
- Night Rider's Lament
- Nobody's Angel
- Not Innocent Enough
- Not My Way Home
- October Reasons
- Old Hanoi
- On Grafton Street
- Once In a Very Blue Moon
- One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge
- One Of These Days
- Our Very Own
- Outbound Plane
- Party Girl
- Pearl's Eye View (The Life Of Dickey Chapelle)
- Please Call Me, Baby
- Poet In My Window
- Pour Me a Drink
- Radio Fragile
- Rise To The Occasion
- Roses On The 4th Of July
- Roseville Fair
- Ruby's Arms
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
- San Diego Serenade
- Say It Isn't So
- Shaking Out The Snow
- She Ain't Goin' Nowhere
- Simple Life
- Sing
- Sing One For Sister
- So Long Ago
- Song For Remembered Heroes
- Southbound Train
- Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
- Spin on a Red Brick Floor
- St. Olav's Gate
- Still Life
- Storms
- Summer Wages
- Sweet Dreams Will Come
- Talk To Me While I'm Listening
- Tecumseh Valley
- Tell Me How
- Ten Degrees And Getting Colder
- Tequila After Midnight
- The Flyer
- The Ghost Inside Of Me
- The Last Of The True Believers
- The Loving Kind
- The Power Lines
- The Streets Of Baltimore
- The Sun, Moon, And Stars
- The Wing And The Wheel
- There's A Light Beyond These Woods
- These Days In An Open Book
- Things I Don't Need
- This Heart
- This Old Town
- Three Flights Up
- Time Of Inconvenience
- Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
- Traveling Through This Part Of You
- Trouble In The Fields
- Trouble With Roses
- Truly Something Fine
- Try The Love
- Turn Around
- Two For The Road
- Up Against The Rain
- Waiting For Love
- Waiting On a Dark Eyed Gal
- Walk Right Back
- Wall Of Death
- Waltzing With The Angels
- Wasn't That A Mighty Storm
- West Texas Sun
- Wheels
- When I Dream
- Where Would I Be
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes
- Wings Of A Dove
- Woman Of The Phoenix
- Workin' In Corners
- Wouldn't That Be Nice
- Yarrington Town
- Year Down In New Orleans
- You Can't Go Home Again
- You Made This Love A Teardrop
- You Were On My Mind
Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She often appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits, starting in 1985 during Season 10. In 1990, Griffith appeared on the Channel 4 programme Town & Country with John Prine in a segment entitled "White Pants", where she wore white pants at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tennessee, along with Buddy Mondlock, Barry "Byrd" Burton, and Robert Earl Keen. In 1994, Griffith won a Grammy Award for the album Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Griffith toured with various other artists including Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets; John Prine, Iris DeMent, Suzy Bogguss, Judy Collins, and The Everly Brothers. Griffith recorded duets with many artists, among them Prine, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Dolores Keane, Willie Nelson, Adam Duritz (of Counting Crows), the Chieftains, John Stewart, and Darius Rucker. Griffith referred to her backing band as the Blue Moon Orchestra.
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