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Nanci Griffith (d. 2021)

Don't Meet Your Heros.  In the following essay, I met the other Nanci Griffith.  I was a huge fan starting with  1984 Once in a Very Blue Moon 1986 The Last of the True Believers     - "Love at the Five and Dime"     - "Banks of the Pontchartrain"  1987 Lone Star State of Mind     - "From a Distance"  1988 Little Love Affairs     - "Gulf Coast Highway"    1988 One Fair Summer Evening, live in Houston.   1989 Storms      - "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go"     - "Listen to the Radio" FROM THE JANUARY 1999 ISSUE Of The Texas Monthly  The Texas Monthly You Can’t Go Home Again Repeatedly abused (she says) in the Texas press, folksinger Nanci Griffith attacked the media in a blistering letter that has everyone in her native state talking—and wondering if she’s okay. By Michael Hall January 1999 0 SHE WAS BEYOND MAD. SHE WAS RIGHTEOUS. “IN RESPONSE TO the Years of Brutal Abusive Reviews in your Publication,” she wrote in sa