How pleased I was that you picked up her gentle sweet heart and the inspiring lyrics and music. Hope you've enriched your life and explored the rest of her music.... Shes sing of hookers and hitchhikers and a total collection of people you'll come to know as friends you'll never meet.
aww thanks Don - glad you liked it - I kinda knew you would anyway! I would chance it by sayin there is steel and banjo on it but difficult for me to tell as so many other instruments i dont know - Nancy G has some other great songs from the day and I reckon you would enjoy too - thanks for playing it from your pal C_Mac xxxxx another good one is Speed of the Sound of Lonleness and I think John Prine had a hand in writing it xx
Don, I identify with your immediate reaction, ie falling in love with her. The first thing I heard from her was ca. 1986? Song called "I don't want to talk about love now". So, maybe SHE didn't but I sure did! That era was a vast wasteland of lost opportunity for Texas singer songwriters, and the radio was playing some very "commercial" country. I nearly blew out the speakers in my Dodge Polara when it came on the radio. I drove from San Antonio to Austin just to get the cassette tape (😱). I always credit Nanci with restoring my faith Country.
Absolutely great song! This has been a favorite of mine for decades..remember it so well.Great times indeed..production is top on this! The individual here appears to not know or understand what he is commenting on.Apparently he is not very familiar with this genre at all. This is not "Old time" by any stretch. Production is very contemporary, post Kris K Nashville.By 1987 old time Nashville production was out for sometime.Nancy does not sound like Dolly at all,most definitely Emmylou,not my opinion just fact.The imagery in not Nebraska or anything of the like.It is pure TEXAS. I know well,I am from TEXAS.YES,there is a banjo in the instrumentation.It is very high in the mix..That sound that baffles him is a guitar..Very common in this style of music..most likely a Telecaster by sound of output. Hope I cleared some things up!! Rest in peace Miss Nanci, We miss you so much!!!!
Yup...you heard it. When you said "almost like she on her way . " She can make every part of you feel the story. Was real please when you said you loved her already. I raised my daughters on her music and her people where our people through the beauty of her song.
What is that instrument? That, my friend, is the late great Philip Donnelly. The guitar in his hands always had a different sound. You can also hear him backing John Prine in the 80s.
John Prine wrote it, BTW. That’s why she included it on “Different Voices, Other Room’s” (Side B, Track 1). Nancy is a Craft Writer, a Woman who works HArd to make her style of music. She made most of her money being covered by other more mainstream artists. She graduated College with a degree in Education and took a job as a kindergarten teacher. Like most of her generation of Folk Artists, they were based in Houston and dug in deeply with the elder established, Texas singer-song writers. There’s plenty more to be discussed about her songs, career and legend, but for now, I just need to make two points about Lonestar State of Mind. It’s written from the feminine perspective. She wasn’t heading back there, she had left someone behind there. Someone who wanted her back, but she was content with her choice. And the instrument you are struggling to identify through out the track, is a Stratocaster! Played by an Irishman who recorded on most of her first dozen albums. It was recorded with effects (small delay, compression, and chorus) to make it chimney and ringy!
@Riesterer Ya, he missed to context of the melancholy yearning tenderly wrapped in Nanci’s vocals. The sad is prine, the upbeat is Nanci’s art, the emotion is Nanci’s heart. Not homesick really.
If this is your first Nanci song you are in for a treat. She’s just wonderful! Have a listen to the albums Last of the True Believers and One Fair Summer Evening. Also, check out Nanci singing Lone Star State of Mind - should help with some of questions re the instruments th-cam.com/video/UQahN0YXDAc/w-d-xo.html
What is that instrument ,he says. Why it's Phillip Donnely on his strat an Irish man went to Nashville to show how its done. You have a lot to learn about country music but I'm sure that you will get there.
Love her and this tune but I think you are just a little off base, hopefully you have re-listened hundreds of times since this posting. Lol. It's not the state of Texas that she is missing I don't believe since I doubt it could call her on the phone. Not trying to be a knob I promise, thanks for posting this review. She is super under appreciated in my opinion.
Also, I'm pretty sure the part that you aren't sure about instrumentally is actually a Fender Telecaster with effects and skill applied. Back in the day she had all the A list guys playing on her stuff.
As I review my commentary I really think I come off sounding like a tool. Sorry, not my intent. Your observations were spot on. I've just heard this song thousands of times so it's a different perspective from where I sit and I'm trying to understand more about this TH-cam environment.
LOL!!! Your comments made you sound like you know your stuff, so definitely not anywhere near being a tool. Seriously. I read your comments and I was like, "Well, I can learn something from this guy." #truthiness
@@RockN2Country I hope you expanded your nanci griffith listening catalogue. She’s been critiqued sometimes as ‘flaunting precocious art’ but in a 30 year span she has just delivered the same consistency and professionalism. So it ain’t no affectation or presumptuousness- it’s just what others wished THEY had imho. She does have a Dolly quality but certainly not ‘like’ Dolly. And not a female John Prine either !! She’s her own sound with an interpretive delivery that is above compare. Few singers had/have that: Haggard, Joel, Krause, Cline, Reeves, Hank...
A lot of reverb on the opening notes. Her voice is pretty grating and will get old fast. I liked the banjo acoustic and lap steel/dobro. The lyrics were pretty strong very 70's sounding which i enjoyed. The problem is she sounded like a country accented Joan Baez who had been hitting balloons with nitrous and balloons with helium. 80,1 out of 100
It’s ok you don’t prefer her voice but seriously? Do you realize how FEW artists have the vocal power and emotional communication live in person on stage to leave one awestruck and not sound any less effective a singer on an album? By your assessment criteria evanescence and the lead singer of Disturbed are mediocre to poor singers, and (though not my taste) Springsteen should never have had a record deal. (You probably wouldn’t enjoy Amanda Shires)
How pleased I was that you picked up her gentle sweet heart and the inspiring lyrics and music. Hope you've enriched your life and explored the rest of her music....
Shes sing of hookers and hitchhikers and a total collection of people you'll come to know as friends you'll never meet.
New subscriber here! Nancy Griffith, Love her music. July 6, 1953- August 13, 2021. May she rest in Peace.
@Kim W Welcome aboard the channel!
@@RockN2Country Thank you!
aww thanks Don - glad you liked it - I kinda knew you would anyway! I would chance it by sayin there is steel and banjo on it but difficult for me to tell as so many other instruments i dont know - Nancy G has some other great songs from the day and I reckon you would enjoy too - thanks for playing it from your pal C_Mac xxxxx another good one is Speed of the Sound of Lonleness and I think John Prine had a hand in writing it xx
Thank you for posting this! I'm such a fan of Nanci
You're welcome, Jan!
Nancy is a treasure.
I'm discovering that. I love this journey.
Nanci Griffiths - Late Night Grande Hotel. My favourite album ever ♥️
Also by Nanci Griffith Love at the Five and Dime That's a steel guitar (aka dobro) Country Small town kind of innocence
Don, I identify with your immediate reaction, ie falling in love with her. The first thing I heard from her was ca. 1986?
Song called "I don't want to talk about love now".
So, maybe SHE didn't but I sure did!
That era was a vast wasteland of lost opportunity for Texas singer songwriters, and the radio was playing some very "commercial" country. I nearly blew out the speakers in my Dodge Polara when it came on the radio. I drove from San Antonio to Austin just to get the cassette tape (😱).
I always credit Nanci with restoring my faith Country.
Absolutely great song! This has been a favorite of mine for decades..remember it so well.Great times indeed..production is top on this! The individual here appears to not know or understand what he is commenting on.Apparently he is not very familiar with this genre at all. This is not "Old time" by any stretch. Production is very contemporary, post Kris K Nashville.By 1987 old time Nashville production was out for sometime.Nancy does not sound like Dolly at all,most definitely Emmylou,not my opinion just fact.The imagery in not Nebraska or anything of the like.It is pure TEXAS. I know well,I am from TEXAS.YES,there is a banjo in the instrumentation.It is very high in the mix..That sound that baffles him is a guitar..Very common in this style of music..most likely a Telecaster by sound of output.
Hope I cleared some things up!! Rest in peace Miss Nanci,
We miss you so much!!!!
I love it.
"That instrument" at 4 :19 is Phillip Donnelly's unique lead guitar sound. Brilliant . Yes there is a banjo in there and a dobro.
Dolly ? No, not Dolly, more of a female John Prine. Her vocal quality is unique and mesmerizing.
RIP Nanci - 8-13-2021
She sure could tell a story
Great album. Trouble in the Fields, Ford Econoline, Etc.
You're hearing a dobro, steel guitar, understated piano and mandolin, and banjo (Bela Fleck)
Wow, thanks for that insight. Such a fine line for me between them right now, but I'm learning. Thanks again!
@Casey Jones not exactly- earlier comment mentioned Stratocaster and I believe that’s correct. I don’t play but I know when my ears are happy.
Yup...you heard it. When you said "almost like she on her way . "
She can make every part of you feel the story. Was real please when you said you loved her already.
I raised my daughters on her music and her people where our people through the beauty of her song.
Just heard this recently but Don Williams version. One of the best I've heard
What is that instrument? That, my friend, is the late great Philip Donnelly. The guitar in his hands always had a different sound. You can also hear him backing John Prine in the 80s.
John Prine wrote it, BTW. That’s why she included it on “Different Voices, Other Room’s” (Side B, Track 1). Nancy is a Craft Writer, a Woman who works HArd to make her style of music. She made most of her money being covered by other more mainstream artists. She graduated College with a degree in Education and took a job as a kindergarten teacher. Like most of her generation of Folk Artists, they were based in Houston and dug in deeply with the elder established, Texas singer-song writers. There’s plenty more to be discussed about her songs, career and legend, but for now, I just need to make two points about Lonestar State of Mind. It’s written from the feminine perspective. She wasn’t heading back there, she had left someone behind there. Someone who wanted her back, but she was content with her choice. And the instrument you are struggling to identify through out the track, is a Stratocaster! Played by an Irishman who recorded on most of her first dozen albums. It was recorded with effects (small delay, compression, and chorus) to make it chimney and ringy!
@Riesterer
Ya, he missed to context of the melancholy yearning tenderly wrapped in Nanci’s vocals. The sad is prine, the upbeat is Nanci’s art, the emotion is Nanci’s heart. Not homesick really.
Once in a very blue moon Is her best I think. But I love most of her stuff
If this is your first Nanci song you are in for a treat. She’s just wonderful! Have a listen to the albums Last of the True Believers and One Fair Summer Evening. Also, check out Nanci singing Lone Star State of Mind - should help with some of questions re the instruments th-cam.com/video/UQahN0YXDAc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the education--I love that stuff!!
Check out the video.. it’s her Loretta Lynn
Sir if you’ve never heard it you should check out “Meet me in Montana” by Dan Seals and Marie Osmond
What is that instrument ,he says. Why it's Phillip Donnely on his strat an Irish man went to Nashville to show how its done. You have a lot to learn about country music but I'm sure that you will get there.
Knew Nancy years ago, worked with her.
@Jerbear P In that case you’re the leader in the clubhouse when it comes to all things Nanci!! Congratulations, and welcome to the channel!
Solo: dobro then guitar (tele)
Dobro and guitar
On 2 fb hypeman out
That's awesome--thanks! I didn't know if you liked her music or not, and I'm glad it looks like you do.
Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris and John Prine Magnolia Wind
Love her and this tune but I think you are just a little off base, hopefully you have re-listened hundreds of times since this posting. Lol. It's not the state of Texas that she is missing I don't believe since I doubt it could call her on the phone. Not trying to be a knob I promise, thanks for posting this review. She is super under appreciated in my opinion.
Also, I'm pretty sure the part that you aren't sure about instrumentally is actually a Fender Telecaster with effects and skill applied. Back in the day she had all the A list guys playing on her stuff.
As I review my commentary I really think I come off sounding like a tool. Sorry, not my intent. Your observations were spot on. I've just heard this song thousands of times so it's a different perspective from where I sit and I'm trying to understand more about this TH-cam environment.
LOL!!! Your comments made you sound like you know your stuff, so definitely not anywhere near being a tool. Seriously. I read your comments and I was like, "Well, I can learn something from this guy." #truthiness
Not!
@@RockN2Country
I hope you expanded your nanci griffith listening catalogue.
She’s been critiqued sometimes as ‘flaunting precocious art’ but in a 30 year span she has just delivered the same consistency and professionalism. So it ain’t no affectation or presumptuousness- it’s just what others wished THEY had imho.
She does have a Dolly quality but certainly not ‘like’ Dolly. And not a female John Prine either !!
She’s her own sound with an interpretive delivery that is above compare. Few singers had/have that: Haggard, Joel, Krause, Cline, Reeves, Hank...
A lot of reverb on the opening notes. Her voice is pretty grating and will get old fast. I liked the banjo acoustic and lap steel/dobro. The lyrics were pretty strong very 70's sounding which i enjoyed. The problem is she sounded like a country accented Joan Baez who had been hitting balloons with nitrous and balloons with helium. 80,1 out of 100
It’s ok you don’t prefer her voice but seriously? Do you realize how FEW artists have the vocal power and emotional communication live in person on stage to leave one awestruck and not sound any less effective a singer on an album? By your assessment criteria evanescence and the lead singer of Disturbed are mediocre to poor singers, and (though not my taste) Springsteen should never have had a record deal.
(You probably wouldn’t enjoy Amanda Shires)