![Hearts in Mind [Bonus Track]](http://shop0nline.com/image/B00074CBO2.M.jpg) [Larger view] | Nanci Griffith - Hearts in Mind [Bonus Track]
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 Her Best In YEARS | |
| After several years of tinkering with the style of music that put her on the map (with usually decent, but mixed results) Nanci Griffith returns with her best album of mostly original material in more than 15 years. Yes, this album is her best of original material since "Little Lover Affairs" back in 1988.
Kicking off with the song "Simple Life," co-written and sung with up and comer Elizabeth Cook," the album finds Nancy touching on many of the same themes that she has explored over the years. Her interest in Vietnam continues with "The Heart of Indochine" and "Old Hanoi". Long term Nanci fans will delight in the literally reference that later song makes to the great writer Graham Greene as well as to the Sylvia Plath inspired "Back When Ted Loved Sylvia." Wonderful produced by Griffith and pat McInerney HEARTS IN MIND has a host of guest artists including Jennifer Kimball, Jimmy Buffett, Clive Gregson, Mac McAnally and the aforementioned Elizabeth Cook. That a gorgeous jazz flavored track like the appropriately titled "Beautiful" can find a home on this album without seeming out of place rings as a real testament to the fact that Nanci's muse is well on target. | |
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| nanci needs to get back to her roots. I would just like to hear some new work from the "old" nanci. This cd is terrible | |
| Beautiful! | |
| This may be Nanci's best album/CD ever. I love it. I have tried to choose a favorite song from the CD, but there isn't one song that stands above the rest. It is complete as a collection of songs. And although many of the songs deal with war, after I listen to this CD (while commuting in my car) I feel calm and content and joyful. Even the sad songs are sprinkled with hope. |
