The Last of the True Believers [Enhanced]

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The album cover shows Nanci Griffith standing outside a Woolworth's, holding a book of poetry--a recurring motif in her album art--while lovers dance behind her. That combination of the most quotidian, small-town details and the most committed but rarely pretentious poetic ambition is the key to Griffith's art. Her fourth and final album for Philo, a quiet masterpiece of the Texas singer-songwriter's style, weaves together a spunky, newgrass sound (courtesy of Bela Fleck and Mark O'Connor) and songs of leaving home and leaving lovers. --Roy Kasten

Tracks:

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

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The album cover shows Nanci Griffith standing outside a Woolworth's, holding a book of poetry--a recurring motif in her album art--while lovers dance behind her. That combination of the most quotidian, small-town details and the most committed but rarely pretentious poetic ambition is the key to Griffith's art. Her fourth and final album for Philo, a quiet masterpiece of the Texas singer-songwriter's style, weaves together a spunky, newgrass sound (courtesy of Bela Fleck and Mark O'Connor) and songs of leaving home and leaving lovers. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Sweet Sweet Songs.......2005-09-26

I really enjoy listening to this singer. On this CD there are some exceptionally sentimental, sweet songs like "Love At The Five And Dime" and "More Than A Whisper." The latter is my favorite track on the CD: I hear feminine strength pushing through the sentimentality. Very charming. Some of the tracks are straight forward country and western music, like "Lookin' For The Time" which are not special to me. But I like these tracks too, they are mostly excellent for what they are.

A Must Own Nanci Griffith Album! - Beautiful Sounds.......2005-03-08

Never did I ever think I'd be listening to a female vocalists that has the sound in her voice I'd been looking for the past 2 decades...
20 years too early
this sounds like today but it was yesterday.

One of her best works
every song is a jewel

after buying it once - I'd buy it again
A definite must have!

GREAT CD.......2003-06-27

NANCY IN THIS CD HITS HER TOP, THE MUSIC AND THE SONICS ARE JUST PERFECT.
WARMING LYRICS.
AGAIN THIS A "MUST"

songwriting at its very best.......2003-04-26

I second all the other reviewers. To me, I find that this album puts Nancy Griffith in an exclusive class among the very finest of songwriters of our time. "Ponchartrain" does something few writers can do: write eloquently about the love of place, and to do it with melody that carries the words as freely as the spirit in those words. I WANT to see Lake Ponchartrain someday because of this song. There is so much going on in these lyrics... setting the scene with that other French-American locale, Montreal, and, like a lover who finds absence makes the heart grow fonder, realizes she must go back. In short, a simple sounding tune that is layered with a lot more than meets the ear initially. "Love's Found A Shoulder", is like diamond-cutting-- so exact in word choice that that the reult is so beautiful you cant really see the effort that went into it. Some day, as others have said, I really hope this writer gets a wider respect. Those of us who have found Nancy Griffith's songs know already that we have a found a true musical artist. I simply don't know of a better songwriter, regardless of genre or gender.

One of those 'must have' albums.......2002-05-26

Every song on this album is a story that invites the listener in to become a part of it. The songs are well-written, well-sung and well-produced. But the most important part of this album is Nanci's heart. Her voice seems to echo what she feels in her heart when she sings..and this album is one of the best she's ever done.

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