Nanci Griffith
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"Nanci Caroline Griffith" is an United States/American singing/singer, guitarist, and songwriter, reared in Austin, Texas, who currently lives in Nashville.

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I was six years old when I learned to play the guitar, and only because I had been trying to learn to play the French horn. I came home one day, and my parents had taken the horn away because they said it was too painful. I highly recommend Taylor guitars. They practically play themselves.

I am a student of nonviolence and a pacifist, ... It's been 30 years since Vietnam. I hope it will not be 30 more years before we can have a bit of peace and reconciliation.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Personally speaking, I think that being a folk song writer, which I am, comes with a responsibility to reflect on the social times you are living in, ... That's just what I did in my latest release, Hearts in Mind.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most travelled path. And it's unfortunate.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.