Janice Griffith Snaps

One of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of her generation, Nanci Griffith had a gift for writing songs that were literate and emotionally complex while also sounding thoroughly universal, even when they most often reflected small-town Texas life. A proud daughter of the Lone Star State, Griffith liked to call her music "folkabilly," reflecting her influences in folk, country, early rock & roll, and the Texas songwriting community that for her was both an inspiration and a home base. Though her music was steeped in tales of ordinary lives, she wasn't afraid to speak her mind about social and political matters, and injected a progressive sound and feeling into music that embraced traditionalism. 1984's Once in a Very Blue Moon, her third album, was the creative breakthrough where she hit her stride as a songwriter and performer, 1993's Other Voices, Other Rooms was a celebration of her influences and was a critical and commercial success, and 2004's Hearts in Mind was an ambitious collection of politically oriented songs. Collection includes: There's A Light Beyond These Woods (1978), Poet In My Window (1982), The Last of the True Believers (1986), Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993), Flyer (1994).

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A remake of a 1914 D.W. Griffith potboiler, The Battle of the Sexes is a highly entertaining, if cautionary, tale of a middle-aged family man, J.C. Judson (Jean Hersholt), who despite his devotion to wife and offspring falls for what is obviously a gold digger, Marie Skinner (Phyllis Haver). When Mrs. Judson (Belle Bennett) and her grown children, Ruth (Sally O'Neil) and Billy (William Bakewell), confront him with the awful truth, Judson refuses to give up his inamorata and instead moves out of the home..

Nanci's folk-country sound can't neatly be classified (she calls it "folkabilly"), but her deeply confessional songs have earned acclaim for decades. This 22-track collection draws from her prime 1987-1991 MCA period with her hits Lone Star State of Mind; I Knew Love; Trouble in the Fields; Cold Hearts/Closed Minds ; her original recording of Outbound Plane ; four live cuts, and more!

The timing is of course well chosen to bring Brazilian sounds to the people. From Rio comes, lives in Switzerland Janice Andrade. With the Hanoverian keyboardist Christoph Isermann the dancer and singer has now released an album that moves in the Latin jazz classic long-range. Lots of samba and bossa nova get softer flushing space on the "Janice" (Girafe / Intergroove) referred debut album. Janice Andrade's voice follows the trail of Astrud Gilberto, the accompaniment is understated, is easily upgraded with electronic sounds (and drums)? decided to proceed in this way, might be worth and give the project profile.