RIP Nanci Griffith (1953-2021). The Grammy-winning folk singer/songwriter is dead at 68:
Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith died today at the age of 68, according to her label Gold Mountain Entertainment.
Griffith was also an outspoken activist and philanthropist, traveling to Vietnam and Laos with the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation before dedicating her 2004 albumto “the memory of every soldier and every civilian lost to the horrors of war.” She was affiliated with the international non-profit Mines Advisory Group, and never shied from speaking up about the injustices she saw in the world, from racism to economic hardship, both in her songs and her life.
“Nanci Griffith was a master songwriter who took every opportunity to champion kindred spirits, including Vince Bell, Elizabeth Cook, Iris DeMent, Julie Gold, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, Eric Taylor and Townes Van Zandt,” said Kyle Young, CEO, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. “Her voice was a clarion call, at once gentle and insistent. Her brilliant albumis a template for what is now called Americana music, and her Grammy-winningis a compelling guide to 20th-century folk songs.
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