Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful)

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Other Voices, Too
(A Trip Back to Bountiful)
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 21, 1998
RecordedDecember 1997 – April 1998
Genre Country folk
Length72:33
Label Elektra
Producer Jim Rooney [1]
Nanci Griffith
Don Gehman
Nanci Griffith chronology
Blue Roses from the Moons
(1997)
Other Voices, Too
(A Trip Back to Bountiful)

(1998)
The Dust Bowl Symphony
(1999)
Professional ratings
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Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) is a 1998 album by Nanci Griffith. It is her thirteenth studio album. [5] [1] Following the Grammy Award-winning album Other Voices, Other Rooms , Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) is a second album of cover songs written by a wide variety of singer-songwriters. [6]

Contents

The album includes many guest musicians, including Guy Clark, The Crickets, Odetta, Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Tom Rush, and Richard Thompson.

Critical reception

People wrote that "not only does this album benefit from the sweet growl of Griffith’s sensuous voice, it also reflects her wondrous curiosity and eclectic tastes in music." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Wall of Death" (Richard Thompson) 3:09
  2. "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" (Sandy Denny) 5:34
  3. "You Were on My Mind" (Sylvia Fricker) 2:46
  4. "Walk Right Back" (Sonny Curtis) 2:33
  5. "Canadian Whiskey" (Tom Russell) 2:59
  6. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark) 4:16
  7. "Wings of a Dove" (Bob Ferguson) 2:51
  8. "Dress of Laces" (John Grimaudo, Saylor White) 4:55
  9. "Summer Wages" (Ian Tyson) 4:02
  10. "He Was a Friend of Mine" (Traditional) 3:11
  11. "Hard Times Come Again No More" (Stephen Collins Foster) 5:43
  12. "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" (Traditional) 5:01
  13. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman) 5:21
  14. "Yarrington Town" (Mickie Merkens) 4:23
  15. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash Jr) 3:38
  16. "Try The Love" (Pat McLaughlin) 3:45
  17. "The Streets of Baltimore" (Harlan Howard, Tompall Glaser) 2:35
  18. "Darcy Farrow" (Tom Campbell, Steve Gillette) 2:33
  19. "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays) 2:48

Personnel

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