The Texan singer / songwriter Nanci Griffith has mainly presented herself in recent years as a singer of a repertoire that has not been written himself. Such as with the unsurpassed album Ruby's Torch on which she sings material from Tom Waits, among others. 'I'd lost something in my heart for writing songs,' she writes in the booklet of her nineteenth album The Loving Kind. She now found inspiration
… again, among other things by (she continues) by contacting her mentor Dee Moeller. Moeller is represented on the album with two songs (such as the ironic Party Girl) but it is mainly Griffith who has rediscovered her old form with nine new songs that she often wrote together with her guitarist Thomm Jutz. In her narrative songs Griffith mainly shows social concern. For example, the title track tells about the banned first interracial marriage in America in the 1950s and in Not Innocent Enough she criticizes the death penalty. Accompanied by acoustic guitars, piano, pedal steel and other traditional instruments, The Loving Kind became an equally penetrating and pleasant folk and country album, with a leading role for Griffith's warm voice and urgent narratives. (MR)more
