Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)

Tracklist

01. Trouble in the Fields (LP Version)
02. The Wing and the Wheel (LP Version)
03. These Days in an Open Book (LP Version)
04. Love at the Five and Dime (LP Version)
05. It's a Hard Life (Wherever You Go) (LP Version)
06. Late Night Grande Hotel (LP Version)
07. Tell Me How (LP Version)
08. Not My Way Home (LP Version)
09. 1937 Pre-War Kimball (LP Version)
10. Waiting for Love (LP Version)
11. Nobody's Angel (LP Version)
12. Always Will (LP Version)
13. Drops from My Faucet (LP Version)
14. Dust Bowl Reprise (LP Version)

Important artists have grand ambitions, but the best of them recognize the importance of not letting their majestic aspirations get the better of them. A couple of decades into an illustrious career that's seen her successfully stray from her folk roots into country and pop, Nanci Griffith tries to scale symphonic heights with The Dust Bowl Symphony, only to take an awkward tumble. The Dust Bowl Symphony finds the Lone Star soprano renovating some of her most popular tunes with backing by her regular unit, the Blue Moon Orchestra, as well as the London Symphony Orchestra. But extravagant arrangements smother these songs; it's hard not to listen to the likes of "It's a Hard Life (Wherever You Go)" and "Late Night Grande Hotel" and not long to hear the life-sized originals.

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