Country Gold
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Released on March 11, 1997, Country Gold is a 10 track compilation CD featuring songs taken from the Nanci Griffith
MCA albums Lone Star State of Mind
, Little Love Affairs
, One Fair Summer Evening
and Storms.
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
MCA albums Lone Star State of Mind
Lone Star State of Mind
Lone Star State of Mind is Nanci Griffith's fifth album, and her first with a major recording label. Griffith's music had seen a turn from her original folk music base into more commercially viable country music in her previous two albums. On the current album she enlists the hit-making talents of...
, Little Love Affairs
Little Love Affairs
Little Love Affairs is Nanci Griffith's sixth album, and it had similar success to her preceding Lone Star State of Mind on the Billboard charts. The album topped out at #27 on the Country Albums chart and one of its tracks entered into the Top 40 of the Hot Country Singles chart: "I Knew Love"...
, One Fair Summer Evening
One Fair Summer Evening
One Fair Summer Evening is Nanci Griffith's seventh album, and her first one recorded in a live setting. It was recorded on August 19 and August 20, 1988 at Anderson Fair, a Houston, Texas club long known for featuring folk artists in an intimate setting...
and Storms.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Nanci Griffith; except where indicated- "Trouble in the Fields" 3:18
- "Cold Hearts/Closed Minds" 2:40
- "I Knew Love" (Roger Brown) 3:17
- "Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool" 2:39
- "From a Distance" (Julie GoldJulie GoldJulie Gold is a New York singer-songwriter. She is best known for Bette Midler's version of her song "From a Distance" which won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1991....
) 4:10 - "Never Mind" (Harlan HowardHarlan HowardHarlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
) 3:42 - "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (live) (Patrick Alger, Eugene Levine) 2:16
- "I Wish It Would Rain" 2:38
- "Listen to the Radio" 3:45
- "Drive-In Movies and Dashboard Lights" 3:14