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Lyle Lovett, who contributed backing vocals to her third album, Once in a Very Blue Moon, had won it before her. In 2010, Griffith received a Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Aug 16, 2021 · Griffith didn’t write the title song from “Once In A Very Blue Moon,” but she made the Pat Alger tune her own – so much so that the band she formed in the late 1980s, and toured with for 20 years, was called the Blue Moon Orchestra. It happened again with “From A Distance,” the Julie Gold-written song that Griffith was first to record.
The Last of the True Believers is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, released in 1986 by Philo Records. The acclaim accorded her from her previous album, Once in a Very Blue Moon, and this album earned her a contract with a major recording company.
Aug 3, 2017 · On her third album, 1984’s “Once in a Very Blue Moon,” Griffith, whom Lovett had interviewed a few years earlier for his college paper, recorded his song “If I Were the Woman You...
Nov 30, 2023 · Blue Moon was recorded with a band that included pedal-steel player Lloyd Green, bassist Roy Huskey Jr., a very young Bela Fleck on banjo, and background vocalist Lyle Lovett, who would become a lifelong friend and ally.
The following year Nanci Griffith, whom Lovett had interviewed for a school paper while he was in college, recorded his “If I Were the Woman You Wanted” on her Once in a Very Blue Moon album. He, too, sang on that album as well as on Griffith’s 1985 album The Last of the True Believers.
Lyle Lovett is the 1986 debut album by American singer Lyle Lovett. By the mid-1980s, Lovett had already distinguished himself in the burgeoning Texas singer-songwriter scene. He had performed in the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1980 and returned to win in 1982. In 1984, he recorded a four-song demo with the help of the Phoenix band J. David Sloan and the Rogues and ...
