Nanci Griffith

Singer-songwriter BORN JULY 6, 1953 - DIED AUGUST 13, 2021, AGED 68

TEXAS-born Nanci Griffith’s sound straddled country and folk and borrowed heavily from hillbilly and rockabilly, earning her the moniker “the queen of folkabilly”.

Best known for songs Love At The Five And Dime and Outward Plane, she won the 1994 Best Contemporary Folk Album Grammy for Other Voices, Other Rooms.

She released her first album in 1978, the year she won the Kerrville folk festival New Folk Competition.

Her last independent album was released in 1985 and was nominated for a Grammy. She had success with a more mainstream sound after moving to Nashville.

The cancer survivor died of undisclosed causes.