Name: Once In A Very Blue Moon
Brand: Rounder Select
SKU: 20131
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Once In A Very Blue Moon

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Album: Once In A Very Blue Moon
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ghost In The Music	More Info...	2:49
2)	Love Is A Hard Waltz	More Info...	3:10
3)	Roseville Fair	More Info...	2:59
4)	Mary & Omie	More Info...	4:31
5)	Friend Out In The Madness	More Info...	2:41
6)	I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring The Prose To The Wheel)	More Info...	3:17
7)	Time Alone	More Info...	2:01
8)	The Ballad Of Robin Winter-Smith	More Info...	3:14
9)	Daddy Said	More Info...	2:35
10)	Once In A Very Blue Moon	More Info...	2:33
11)	If I Were The Woman You Wanted	More Info...	3:56
12)	Year Down In New Orleans	More Info...	2:29
13)	Spin On A Red Brick Floor	More Info...	2:49

Album: Once In A Very Blue Moon
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ghost In The Music	More Info...	2:49
2)	Love Is A Hard Waltz	More Info...	3:10
3)	Roseville Fair	More Info...	2:59
4)	Mary & Omie	More Info...	4:31
5)	Friend Out In The Madness	More Info...	2:41
6)	I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring The Prose To The Wheel)	More Info...	3:17
7)	Time Alone	More Info...	2:01
8)	The Ballad Of Robin Winter-Smith	More Info...	3:14
9)	Daddy Said	More Info...	2:35
10)	Once In A Very Blue Moon	More Info...	2:33
11)	If I Were The Woman You Wanted	More Info...	3:56
12)	Year Down In New Orleans	More Info...	2:29
13)	Spin On A Red Brick Floor	More Info...	2:49

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Nanci Griffith (vocals, acoustic guitar); Stephen Doster (acoustic & electric guitars); Pat Alger, Mark Howard (acoustic guitar); Phillip Donnelly (electric guitar); Lloyd Green (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Bela Fleck (banjo); Mark O'Connor (mandolin, mandola, violin, fiddle); John Catchings (cello); Terry McMillan (harmonica); Ralph Vitello (piano, synthesizer); Roy Huskey, Jr. (upright bass); Kenny Malone (percussion);
Lyle Lovett (background vocals).
Recorded at Jack Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee between June 26 and July 2, 1984. Originally released on Philo (1096).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Griffith's third album marks the spot where her story, as they say, began to get really interesting; it's chock full of first-rate folk- and country-tinged songs (mostly her own, although she gets a lot of mileage out of folk veteran Bill Staine's "Roseville Fair"), superb musicianship by the cream of Nashville sessioneers, and utterly confident singing. Highlights include the wry story-song "Mary and Omie," which, despite being the most hardcore country tune on the album, is about a woman who can't wait to get the hell out of the South; and the delicately gorgeous folkie title track, featuring lapidary banjo work by then up-and-coming virtuoso Bela Fleck and heartbreaking high-lonesome backing vocals by the similarly up-and-coming Lyle Lovett.