The Dust Bowl Symphony

The Dust bowl Symphony
Studio album by Nanci Griffith
Released	September 14, 1999
Genre	Folk / country
Length	53:29
Label	Elektra
Producer	Peter Collins
Nanci Griffith chronology
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (1998) The Dust Bowl Symphony (1999) "Wings To Fly And A Place To Be" An Introduction To Nanci Griffith (2000)

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Entertainment Weekly	C+ link
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The Dust Bowl Symphony is an album released by Nanci Griffith in 1999. It consists of songs Griffith had previously released on other albums, but re-recorded with an orchestral backing. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra. Darius Rucker duets with Griffith on "Love At The Five And Dime", and the album also has contributions from Sonny Curtis and Glen Hardin, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Griffith's own band, The Blue Moon Orchestra. The song "Waiting for Love", written by Griffiths, from Blue Roses from the Moons was picked out by Griffiths as giving the singer a "brief moment of being Edith Piaf".^[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nanci Griffith except where indicated.

1. "Trouble In The Fields" 4:36
2. "The Wing And the Wheel" 4:56
3. "These Days In An Open Book" 3:30
4. "Love At The Five And Dime" 4:53
5. "It's A Hard Life (Wherever You Go)" 4:20
6. "Late Night Grande Hotel" 2:48
7. "Tell Me How" (Buddy Holly, J.I.Allison) 3:02
8. "Not My Way Home" 4:27
9. "1937 Pre-War Kimball" 4:10
10. "Waiting For Love" 3:35
11. "Nobody's Angel" 3:50
12. "Always Will" 2:52
13. "Drops From The Faucet" (Frank Christian) 3:51
14. "Dust Bowl Reprise" (James Hooker, Michael Hanna) 2:48

References

1. Billboard - 28 Aug 1999 - Page 23 "It was my chance, along with my song 'Waiting For Love,' to have this brief moment of being Edith Piaf."