Nanci Griffith travels well. Her musical journey has taken her from folk and country roots, to her own brand of folkabilly; from Austin’s Hole In The Wall bar to New York’s Carnegie Hall, Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and London’s Royal Albert Hall; from an eight-year-old girl in Texas learning to play guitar from a television instructor to a woman of the world, visiting and performing in Vietnam, Cambodia and Kosovo in support of the abolition of landmines. Today, the journey of one of the most admired and acclaimed of singer-songwriters--a career marked by a beautiful voice, brilliant songwriting and uncommon emotional commitment--continues.
     
      The torchbearer of a music that brings together folk and country, the female sensibility of a new genre that embraced the likes of Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle, Griffith has penned such classics as Gulf Coast Highway (a notable duet by Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson), Love At The Five And Dime (a Grammy nominated hit for Kathy Mattea) and Outbound Plane (a hit for Suzy Bogguss). In turn, she was the first to record... (More NANCI GRIFFITH Biography)