Nanci Griffith

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风格: #前卫乡村　#当代乡村　#乡村民谣　#当代民谣
地区: United States of America 美国

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1954年出生于德州奥斯汀，南西．葛瑞芬从14岁开始在家乡的俱乐部演唱，七○年代晚期将她自称的“山地民谣”（Folkabilly）风格带入乡村音乐之都—纳许维尔，成为乡村/民谣/流行混合乐风的新生代之一，同类型歌手还包括Lyle Lovette（影星茱莉亚．罗伯兹的前夫）、Dwight Yoakam、Steve Earle等人。被滚石杂志称为“山地民谣女王”、电报杂志誉为“美国民谣薪传者”的南西．葛瑞芬除演唱外，作曲也得到各方肯定：乡村歌手威利．尼尔逊、爱美萝．哈里斯、Kathy Mattea都灌录过南西的歌，连民谣摇滚之父巴布．狄伦都邀请她参加狄伦30周年的演唱会；更是1993年度葛莱美最佳流行民谣演唱奖得主。从露天的巡回表演、小酒馆到挪威国家音乐厅、英国皇家亚伯厅、美国卡内基音乐厅都可以听到南西．葛瑞芬的演唱，她的歌曲已为数百万乐迷所接受。

by John Bush

Straddling the fine line between folk and country music, Nanci Griffith has become as well-known for her brilliant confessional songwriting as her beautiful voice. A self-styled folkabilly singer, Griffith began as a kindergarten teacher and occasional folksinger. The country scene took her to heart in the mid-80s, giving her a reputation as a quality songwriter through hit covers of Griffiths songs by Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss. Finding no luck with commercial country radio however, Griffith recorded several pop-oriented albums and then returned to her folk roots by the mid-90s.

Griffith was the daughter of musical parents, and she spent her childhood involved with theater and literature as well as music. She began playing clubs around Austin at the tender age of 14 and continued to perform during her college years at the University of Texas and even while she taught kindergarten in the mid-70s. Griffith finally decided to make music her full-time ambition in 1977. Her songwriting won an award at the Kerrville Folk Festival, prompting the local label BF Deal to record Griffith for a compilation and later for her debut album, Theres a Light Beyond These Woods (1978). Griffiths hectic touring schedule took her all over North America, playing festivals and TV shows in addition to the small clubs in which she had begun. Meanwhile, she recorded albums in 1982 (Poet in My Window) and 1985 (Once in a Very Blue Moon).

Finally, in 1986, Griffith got her big break after moving to Nashville. The title song from Once in a Very Blue Moon placed modestly on the country charts, she released the acclaimed Last of the True Believers on Philo (the label that later reissued her first three albums), and — most importantly — Matteas cover of Love at the Five & Dime reached number three in the country charts. Though Last of the True Believers was nominated for a Grammy as Best Contemporary Folk Recording — perhaps because of the fact — commercial country radio still found it difficult to accept Griffith.

Griffith signed with MCA and released her major-label debut, Lone Star State of Mind, in 1987. With it, she popularized the Julie Gold song From a Distance — later covered by Bette Midler — but also gave Griffith her first country Top 40 hit, the title song. Two other singles from the album, Trouble in the Fields and Cold Hearts/Closed Minds, also grazed the country charts. Little Love Affairs and the live album One Fair Summer Evening (both 1988) were slight disappointments, though I Knew Love became Griffiths second country Top 40 hit.

Disappointed by lack of support from the country music scene, Griffith moved from Nashville to MCAs pop division in Los Angeles and paired with noted rock producer Glyn Johns for 1989s Storms. The album included guest stars Phil Everly, Albert Lee, and former Eagle Bernie Leadon and became her best-seller, though it featured no successful singles. A move from rock to pop — helped by producers Rod Argent and Peter Van Hook — characterized Late Night Grande Hotel (1991); it was clear by then that Griffiths move away from Nashville was also compromising her folk and country roots.

A move to Elektra in 1992 marked a return to form for Griffith; her 1993 LP Other Voices, Other Rooms was a tribute to her influences, and several of them — including Emmylou Harris, Chet Atkins, and John Prine — made appearances. A compilation release of her best from the MCA years also appeared in 1993. The following year, Griffiths tenth studio album, Flyer, continued her dedication to folk. In March of 1997, Griffith released Blue Roses From the Moons; Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) followed a year later, trailed in 1999 by Dust Bowl Symphony.

Griffith traveled the world over the next few years, flying to Cambodia and Vietnam in 2000 in order to retrace the steps of her ex-husband, Vietnam War vet Eric Taylor, and visiting Angola and Kosovo the following year. After four years of travel and activist work for organizations like VVAF, Griffith released a new full-length, Clock Without Hands. A live album, Winter Marquee, followed in 2002, along with a dual-disc retrospective piece, The Complete MCA Studio Recordings. The following year was a larndmark for Griffiths; she performed at the Grand Ole Opry for the very first time in 2003. Hearts in Mind was released the following year.

Nanci Griffith　南西·葛瑞芬

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Nanci Griffith　南西·葛瑞芬