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Ruby's Torch
Nanci Griffith
Ruby's Torch
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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Folk/country singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith shifts into chanteuse mode on this lovely outing. The sumptuous string-drenched arrangements are a change from Griffith's typically stark recordings featuring acoustic guitar a...  more »

     
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All Artists: Nanci Griffith
Title: Ruby's Torch
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/14/2006
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Outlaw Country, Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Easy Listening, Singer-Songwriters, Vocal Pop, Cabaret
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 011661326521, 011661326521

Synopsis

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Folk/country singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith shifts into chanteuse mode on this lovely outing. The sumptuous string-drenched arrangements are a change from Griffith's typically stark recordings featuring acoustic guitar and skeletal backing, but it's a natural progression in her nearly three-decade career. She has previously worked with an orchestra, on 1999's The Dust Bowl Symphony, but those results were mixed, due to the instruments' nearly overwhelming presence. On Ruby's Torch, the accompaniment is more organically integrated, and the sound supports Griffith instead of vice versa. No stranger to covers, Griffith taps Tom Waits for three of his older ballads, Jimmy Webb for one, and a few less famous tunesmiths: Donagh Long, Frank Christian, and Charles Goodrum, whose "Bluer than Blue" is a highlight. The durable "Late Night Grande Hotel," one of Griffith's most enduring originals, also makes an appearance in what could be its defining version. This is beautiful music for somber, but not depressing, moods, and closing-time last calls. The chestnut "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," best known in its classic rendition by Frank Sinatra, fits perfectly in this company, and the opening "When I Dream," written by Sandy Mason, sets the tone of regret and longing, both in life and love, that dominates the album. This lush, reflective work is a wonderful vehicle for Griffth's yearning, supple voice. It shows her to be as commanding a torch-song interpreter as a guitar-strumming roots veteran, and points the way for future projects in this vein. --Hal Horowitz

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