Nanci Griffith - Last of the True Believers
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Artist: Nanci GriffithBrand: GRIFFITH,NANCI
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Philo / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- The Last Of The True Believers
- Love At The Five And Dime
- St. Olav's Gate
- More Than A Whisper
- Banks Of The Pontchartrain
- Lookin' For The Time (Workin' Girl)
- Goin' Gone
- One Of These Days
- Love's Found A Shoulder
- Fly By Night
- The Wing And The Wheel
Free Music Notes for Last of the True Believers
Free Music Review: Not "Best of the Best"... maybe just "Best"
Hit: 5 Stars
I, uhm, normally listen to Electronica. Really. No, really- Moby, Everything But The Girl, BT. Ska, too. Oh, uhm, ska- think of it as high-speed reggae might sound. So I'm having a little challenge with expressing myself here...
Superlatives like "Best Of The Best" don't fit this album or this artist; they don't seem to live up to the performance. I thought maybe "The Best's Best"- the difference is subtle, but too subtle, it's still too... superlative. No, perhaps just "Best".
Same problem with genres. Griffith isn't bluegrass, or country, or Americana even. She doesn't fit into any single genre, and yet the more genres listed to describe her the more limiting they become. "Newgrass" works, maybe, but implies bluegrass, and she easily (and unconsciously) transcends that.
I discovered Griffith in 92 or 93, and was immediately captivated by the stories she weaves (at BPMs that best some techno music); her voice irritated me for about half a minute before becoming charming and endearing. But most of all I was hooked by her sincerity, and that was new too. "Sincerity" is usually capitalized (if not italicized), tends to ooze forth (Mariah?), and always repels me like a line of "Home Sweet Home" cut-out ducks on the wall. Griffith introduced me to lower-case-s sincerity, the kind that's real, not cloying but simple, and honest. Little "s" sincerity provides the foundation that lets her spin these tales of real everyday life in anywhere USA without spinning into a pit of affectation.
It's the little things here, really. Little things, like walking through town 'cause there's nothing else to do, or going to Woolworth's cause that's where there is to go; little things like reminiscing about seeing your first ever real live in person prostitute when you went up to the city last year. And remembering her sympathetically.
That's the miracle here, amidst an album about small town America comes the simple, unaffected tale of a prostitute, and it fits - you totally buy it. That's a miracle! Of course, anyone who can sing a song with "Pontchartrain" in the title at 180 BPM is a bit of a miracle anyway...
Superlatives? How's this: this album remains the biggest miracle yet from a lady who is, in and of herself, a miracle.
(And yep, that's a lower-case "m".)
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No Description Available.Genre: Country & Western
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 25-APR-1994
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