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Chanteuse Country US née le 6
Juillet 1953 à Seguin (Texas). Nanci Griffith est décédée le 13 Août 2021.
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 Griffith's
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, as well as during her stint as a
kindergarten teacher 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; they also issued her debut album, There's a Light Beyond These
Woods (1978). Griffith's hectic touring schedule took her all over North America,
where she played festivals and TV shows in addition to the small clubs that had
launched her career. Meanwhile, she recorded albums in 1982 (Poet in My Window)
and 1985 (Once in a Very Blue Moon).
In 1986, Griffith finally got her big break after moving to Nashville, and a
flurry of activity followed. The title song from Once in a Very Blue Moon fared
modestly on the country charts, Last of the True Believers was released on the
Philo label (which later reissued her first three albums as well) to noticeable
acclaim, and -- most importantly --
Mattea's cover of "Love at the Five & Dime" reached number three on the
country charts. Though Last of the True Believers was nominated for a Grammy
Award as Best Contemporary Folk Recording, 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 -- and scored her first country Top 40 hit with
the album's title track. Two additional singles, "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 released in 1988) were slight
disappointments, though "I Knew Love" became Griffith's second country Top 40
hit.
Disappointed by a lack of support from the country music scene, Griffith moved
from Nashville to MCA's "pop" division in Los Angeles, where she partnered with
noted rock producer Glyn Johns for 1989's Storms. The album included guest stars
Phil Everly, Albert Lee, and former Eagles
Bernie Leadon. Moreover, it became her best-selling work to date, though it
featured no successful singles. A move from rock music to pop characterized
1991's Late Night Grande Hotel, whose transitional sound was aided by producers
Rod Argent and Peter Van Hook. By this point, it had become clear that
Griffith's 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, whose 1993 LP
Other Voices, Other Rooms was a tribute to her influences (several of whom --
including
Emmylou Harris,
Chet Atkins, and
John Prine -- made appearances). A compilation of her best work from the MCA
years also appeared in 1993. The following year, Griffith's 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 visited Angola and Kosovo the following year. After four years
of travel and activist work for organizations like the Vietnam Veterans of
America Foundation, 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 landmark for Griffith, as she performed at the Grand Ole Opry for the very
first time in 2003. With thoughts of war weighing heavy on her mind, however,
she returned to the recording studio shortly thereafter to create Hearts in Mind,
which was released the following year. Ruby's Torch, a collection of sentimental
torch songs penned by the likes of Tom Waits, arrived in 2006. While only two of
Griffith's own songs appeared on the album, she wrote the bulk of the material
for her follow-up effort, 2009's The Loving Kind. Griffith cut 2012's
Intersection at her home studio in Nashville.
Nanci Griffith passed away on August 13, 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanci_Griffith
Talents : Vocals, Songwriter, Guitar
Style musical : Country-Folk, Contemporary Country
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
| 05/1986 | SP PHILO 1096 (US) | . | Once In A Very Blue Moon / ? |
| 12/1986 | SP MCA MCA-53008 (US) | . | Lone Star State Of Mind / There's A Light Beyond These Woods |
| 04/1987 | SP MCA MCA-53082 (US) | . | Trouble In The Fields / Love In A Memory |
| 07/1987 | SP MCA MCA-53147 (US) | . |
Cold Hearts Closed Minds / Ford Econoline |
| 07/1987 | SP MCA MCA1169 (UK) |
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From A Distance / Sing One For Sister |
| 11/1987 | SP MCA MCA-53184 (US) | . |
Never Mind / From A Distance |
| 11/1987 | SP MCA MCA 1221 (UK) |
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Cold Hearts - Closed Minds / Ford Econoline / Lone Star State Of Mind |
| 1988 | SP MCA MCA 1230 (UK) |
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Outbound Plane / So Long Ago |
| 03/1988 | SP MCA MCA-53306 (US) | . |
I Knew Love / So Long Ago |
| 04/1988 | SP MCA MCA 1240 (UK) |
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I Knew Love / Never Mind |
| 07/1988 | SP MCA MCA-53374 (US) | . |
Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool / Love Wore A Halo |
| 1988 | SP MCA MCA 1282 (UK) |
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From A Distance / Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) |
| 07/1989 |
SP MCA MCA-53700 (US) |
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It's A Hard Life Whenever You Go / From A Distance |
| 07/1989 | SP MCA MCA 1358 (UK) |
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It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / Gulf Coast Highway |
| 11/1989 | SP MCA MCA-53761 (US) | . |
I Don't Want To Talk About Love / Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights |
| 11/1989 | SP MCA MCA 1379 (UK) |
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You Made This Love A Teardrop / More Than A Whisper |
| 1991 | SP MCA MCS 1566 (UK) |
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Late Night Grande Hotel / It's Just Another Morning Here |
| 1991 | SP MCA MCS 1596 (UK) |
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Heaven / Down 'n' Outer |
| 1997 | CD Elektra Prcd 9878-2 (US) (promo) |
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Nanci Griffith with Darius Rucker - Gulf Coast Highway |
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Albums
| 1978 | LP 12" B.F. Deal 9 (US) |
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THERE'S A LIGHT BEYOND THESE WOODS - I Remember Joe / Alabama Soft Spoken Blues / Michael's Song / Song For Remembered Heroes / West Texas Sun / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / Dollar Matinee / Montana Backroads / John Philip Griffith | ||||
| 03/1982 | LP 12" Featherbed FB-902 (US) |
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Poet In My Window - Marilyn Monroe - Neon And Waltzes / Heart Of A Miner / Julie Anne / You Can't Go Home Again / October Reasons / Wheels / Workin' In Corners / Waltzing With The Angels / Trouble With Roses / Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / Poet In My Window | ||||
| 09/1985 | LP 12" PHILO PH-1096 (US) |
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ONCE IN A VERY BLUE MOON - Ghost In The Music / Love Is A Hard Waltz / Roseville Fair / Mary And Omie / Friend Out In A Madness / I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels / Time Alone / Ballad Of Robin Winter Smith / Daddy Said / Once In A Very Blue Moon / If I Were The Woman You Wanted / Year Down In New Orleans / Spin On A Red Brick Floor | ||||
| 10/1986 | LP 12" PHILO PH-1109 (US) |
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THE LAST OF THE TRUE BELIEVERS - Last Of The True Believers / Love At The Five And Dime / St Olav's Gate / More Than A Whisper / Banks Of The Ponchartrain / Looking For The Time / Goin' Gone / One Of These Days / Love's Found A Shoulder / Fly By Night / Wing And The Wheel | ||||
| 02/1987 | LP 12" MCA MCA-5927 (US) |
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LONE STAR STATE OF MIND - Lone Star State Of Mind / Cold Hearts Closed Minds / From A Distance / Beacon Street / Nickel Dreams / Sing One For Sister / Ford Econoline / Trouble In The Fields / Love In A Memory / Let It Shine On Me / There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret) | ||||
| 02/1988 | LP 12" MCA MCA-42102 (US) |
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LITTLE LOVE AFFAIRS - Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool / I Knew Love / Never Mind / Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) / So Long Ago / Gulf Coast Highway / Little Love Affairs / I Wish It Would Rain / Outbound Plane / I Would Change My Life / Sweet Dreams Will Come | ||||
| 10/1988 | CD MCA MCAD-42255 (US) |
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ONE FAIR SUMMER EVENING - Once In A Very Blue Moon / Looking For The Time (Workin' Girl) / Deadwood South Dakota / More Than A Whisper / I Would Bring You Ireland / Roseville Fair / Workin' In Corners / Trouble In The Fields / Wing And The Wheel / From A Distance / Love At The Five And Dime / Spin On A Red Brick Floor | ||||
| 07/1989 | CD MCA MCAD-6319 (US) |
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STORMS - I Don't Wanna Talk About Love / Drive In Movies And Dashboard Lights / You Made This Love A Teardrop / Brave Companion Of The Road / Storms / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / If Wishes Were Changes / Listen To The Radio / Leaving The Harbor / Radio Fragile | ||||
| 199? | CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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Live In London - May 1988 - Lone Star State Of Mind / The Banks Of The Pontchartrain / I Knew You / Looking For The Time / Once In A Very Blue Moon / The Ballad Of Robin / The Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness / Listen To The Radio / I Would Bring You Ireland / The Outbound Plane / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) / From A Distance / Ford Econoline | ||||
| 09/1991 | CD MCA MCAD-10306 (US) |
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LATE NIGHT AT THE GRAND HOTEL - It's Just Another Morning Here / Late Night Grande Hotel / It's Too Late / Fields Of Summer / Heaven / Power Lines / Hometown Streets / Down'n Outer / One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge / Sun Moon And The Stars / San Diego Serenade | ||||
| 1992 | CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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Live In Boston - 17/22-11-1992 - Across The Great Divide / Tecumseh Valley / Are You Tired Of Me Darling / Outbound Plane / Morning Song For Sally / Listen To The Radio / Boots Of Spanish Leather / Time Of Inconvenience / Once In A Very Blue Moon / Looking For The Time / Road To Aberdeen / From A Distance / Introductions / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / Ford Econoline | ||||
| 03/1993 | CD ELEKTRA 9 61464-2 (US) |
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OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS - Across The Great Divide / Woman Of The Phoenix / Tecumseh Valley / Three Flights Up / Boots Of Spanish Leather / Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness / From Clare To Here / Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound / Do Re M, This Old Town / Comin' Down In The Rain / Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / Morning Song For Sally / Night Rider's Lament / Are You Tired Of Me Darling / Turn Around / Wimoweh | ||||
| 10/1993 | CD MCA MCAD-10914 (US) |
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RETROSPECTIVE - Trouble In The Fields / From A Distance / I Don't Wanna Talk About Love / Deadwood South Dakota / Love At The Five And Dime / Listen To The Radio / Gulf Coast Highway / I Wish It Would Rain / Ford Econoline / So Long Ago / If Wishes Were Changes / Wing And The Wheel / Late Night Grande Hotel / It's Just Another Morning Here / Drive In Movies And Dashboard Lights / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / Outbound Plane / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go | ||||
| 09/1994 | CD ELEKTRA 9 61681-2 (US) |
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FLYER - Flyer / Nobody's Angel / Say It Isn't So / Southbound Train / These Days In An Open Book / Time Of Inconvenience / Don't Forget About Me / Always Will / Going Back To Georgia / Talk To Me While I'm Listening / Fragile / On Grafton Street / Anything You Need But Me / Goodnight To A Mother's Dream / This Heart | ||||
| 1995 | CD Kiss The Stone KTS-410 (US) |
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Sounds Of Loneliness - From A Distance / Say It Isn't So / Always Will / Across The Great Divide / Trouble In The Fields / Don't Forget About Me / Southbound Plane / Time Of Inconvience / Speed Of The Sound / Tecumseh Valley - Sound Of Loneliness / Are You Used To Me / Going Back To Georgia / This Heart;It's A Hard Life | ||||
| 03/1997 | CD ELEKTRA 9 62015-2 (US) |
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BLUE ROSES FROM THE MOONS - Everything's Comin' Up Roses / Two For The Road / Wouldn't That Be Fine / Battlefield / Saint Teresa Of Avila / Gulf Coast Highway / I Fought The Law / Not My Way Home / Is This All There Is / Maybe Tomorrow / Waiting For Love / I'll Move Along / Morning Train / She Ain't Goin' Nowhere | ||||
| 03/1997 | CD MCA MCAD-21000 (US) |
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COUNTRY GOLD - Trouble In The Fields / Cold Hearts Closed Minds / I Knew Love / Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool / From A Distance / Never Mind / Once In A Very Blue Moon / I Wish It Would Rain / Listen To The Radio / Drive In Movies And Dashboard Lights | ||||
| 07/1998 | CD ELEKTRA 62235-2 (US) |
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OTHER VOICES TOO (A TRIP TO BOUTIFUL) - Wall Of Death / Who Knows Where The Time Goes / You Were On My Mind / Walk Right Back / Canadian Whiskey / Desperados Waiting For A Train / Wings Of A Dove / Dress Of Laces / Summer Wages / He Was A Friend Of Mine / Hard Times Come Again No More / Wasn't That A Mighty Storm / Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) / Yarrington Town / I Still Miss Someone / Try The Love / Streets Of Baltimore / Darcy Farrow / If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) | ||||
| 09/1999 | CD ELEKTRA 62418-2 (US) |
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THE DUST BOWL SYMPHONY - Trouble In The Fields / Wing And The Wheel / These Days In An Open Book / Love At The Five And Dime / It's A Hard Life (Wherever You Go) / Late Night Grande Hotel / Tell Me How / Not My Way Home / 1937 Pre-War Kimball / Waiting For Love / Nobody's Angel / Always Will / Drops From The Faucet / Dust Bowl (reprise) | ||||
| 1999 | 2 CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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Live In San Diego, 1999 :
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| 1999 | CD BMG / DAMIAN 12223 (US) |
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REVISITED - Late Night Grande Hotel (original mix) / St Teresa (original mix) / Gulf Coast Highway (original mix) / Late Night Grande Hotel (gomi's Radio mix) / Roy Rede's (piano and bassoon mix] / St Teresa (cyphonox mix) / Gulf Coast Highway (baroque string mix) / Boy Wunder's (extended mix) / St Teresa (extended mix) / Boy Wunder's (radio edit) / Boy Wunder's (twilo dub mix) / Late Night Grande Hotel (gomi's extended arena mix) | ||||
| 1994 ? | 2 CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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Live In 1994 AT
THE GENE AUTRY MUSEUM :
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| 199? | CD ? GVP-001 (Bootleg) (?) |
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Come Spring In Norway - The Flyer / From A Distance / Say It Isn't So / Always Will / Across The Great Divide / Trouble In The Fields / Don't Forget About Me / Southbound Train / Time Of Inconvenience / Speed Of The Sound / Of Loneliness / Tecumseh Valley / Band Introductions / Are You Tired Of Me Darling? / It's A Hard Life / From a Distance / Tecumseh Valley / Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness | ||||
| 1998? | CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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The Barbican, London - Nov 1998 - Across The Great Divide / Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness / He Was A Friend Of Mine / Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound / Canadian Whiskey / Outbound Plane / Dress Of Laces / Wall Of Death / Who Knows Where The Time Goes? / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / The Hammer Song |
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| 200? | CD ? (Bootleg) (?) |
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Live On E-Town - Introduction / Everything's Coming Up Roses / Gulf Coast Highway / Across The Great Divide / Not My Way Home / Interview / Battlefield / Well ... All Right |
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| 02/2001 | CD MCA 088 170 191-2 (US) |
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MILLENNIUM COLLECTION - Once In A Very Blue Moon / Lone Star State Of Mind / Trouble In The Fields / From A Distance / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / I Knew Love / Outbound Plane / Late Night Grande Hotel / Love At The Five And Dime / Wing And The Wheel | ||||
| 04/2001 | CD MCA 088 112 169-2 (US) |
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WINGS TO FLY AND A PLACE TO BE - From A Distance / I Wish It Would Rain / Lone Star State Of Mind / Listen To The Radio / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / Trouble In The Fields / Outbound Plane / Ford Econoline / Gulf Coast Highway / Love At The Five And Dime / I Knew Love / Sweet Dreams Will Come / Spin On A Red Brick Floor / I Don't Want To Talk About Love | ||||
| 07/2001 | CD ELEKTRA 62660-2 (US) |
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CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS - Clock Without Hands / Traveling Through This Part Of You / Where Would I Be / Midnight In Missoula / Lost Him In The Sun / Ghost Inside Of Me / Truly Something Fine / Cotton / Pearl's Eye View (The Life Of Dickey Chapelle) / Roses On The 4th Of July / Shaking Out The Snow / Armstrong / Last Song For Mother / In The Wee Small Hours | ||||
| 09/2002 | CD ROUNDER 82161-3220-2 (US) |
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WINTER MARQUEE - Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness / I Wish It Would Rain / Boots Of Spanish Leather / Two For The Road / Listen To The Radio / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / Gulf Coast Highway / Flyer / Good Night New York / Traveling Through This Part Of You / Last Train Home / I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring The Prose To The Wheel) / What's That I Hear / White Freight Liner | ||||
| 06/2002 | CD MCA 088 170 301-2 (US) |
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FROM A DISTANCE - Lone Star State Of Mind / Cold Hearts - Closed Minds / From A Distance / Ford Econoline / Trouble In The Fields / There's A Light Beyond These Woods / Looking For The Time (Workin' Girl) / I Don't Want To Talk About Love / Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights / It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go / If Wishes Were Changes / Once In A Very Blue Moon / Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool / I Knew Love / Gulf Coast Highway / I Wish It Would Rain / Outbound Plane / Love At The Five And Dime / It's Just Another Morning Here / Late Night Grande Hotel / Hometown Streets / Wing And The Wheel | ||||
| 06/2003 | 2 CD MCA B000447-02 (US) |
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THE COMPLETE MCA STUDIO RECORDINGS :
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| 02/2005 | CD NEWDOOR 36690-2 (US) |
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HEARTS IN MIND - Single Life / Angels / Heart Of Indochine / Beautiful / Back When Ted Loved Sylvia / Mountain Of Sorrow / Old Hanoi / Before / I Love This Town / Rise To The Occasion / Love Conquers All / Last Train Home / Big Blue Ball Of War / Our Very Own | ||||
| 11/2006 | CD ROUNDER 82161-3265-2 (US) |
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RUBY'S TORCH - When I Dream / If These Walls Could Speak / Ruby's Arms / Never Be The Sun / Bluer Than Blue / Brave Companion Of The Road / Grapefruit Moon / Please Call Me, Baby / Late Night Grande Hotel / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning / Drops From The Faucet | ||||
| 06/2009 | CD ROUNDER 82161-3275-2 (US) |
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THE LOVING KIND - The Loving Kind / Money Changes Everything / One Of These Days / Up Against The Rain / Cotton's All We Got / Not Innocent Enough / Across America / Party Girl / Sing / Things I Don't Need / Still Life / Tequila After Midnight / Pour Me A Drink | ||||
| 02/2012 | CD PROPER PRPCD 096 (UK) |
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INTERSECTION - Bethlehem Steel / Never Going Back / Intersection / Waiting On A Dark Eyed Gal / Hell No (I'm Not Alright) / Stranded In The High Ground / If I Could Only Fly / Just Another Morning Here / Bad Seed / Davey's Last Picture / Come On Up Mississippi / High On A Mountain Top | ||||
| 09/2023 | 4 LP 12" Craft CR00639 (US) |
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Working In Corners :
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| 09/2023 | 4 CD Craft 00888072500976 (US) |
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Working In Corners :
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