{"id":242,"date":"2007-09-10T19:12:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=242"},"modified":"2007-09-11T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T20:53:29","slug":"nanci-griffith-state-theater-ithaca-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Nanci Griffith, State Theater, Ithaca, 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’ll be the third time Elly and I have seen Nanci: Allentown, Pa., circa 1984 and Minneapolis, Minn., circa 1988 being the other two. (Opening act in the Twin Cities was a young James McMurtry<\/a> backed by a much older David Bromberg<\/a>.) Way too long since we’ve seen her and way too many YouTubes<\/a> to choose from.<\/p>\n

I’m goin’ back where my garden blooms all year
\nWhere the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin’ rain
\nI’m goin’ back to my green eyed lover there
\nand we will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed>Update: With this song going through my head the last couple days, I finally realized it’s allure: It may be the last of the great train songs. Who writes train songs any more? The rumble and roar, whistles and whine? Great expectations of where the tracks would take you? Beats the hell out of even my favorite car songs (Rocket 88.)<\/object>Across the Great Divide:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>It’s a Hard Life:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>Speed of the Sound of Loneliness<\/p>\n

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It’ll be the third time Elly and I have seen Nanci: Allentown, Pa., circa 1984 and Minneapolis, Minn., circa 1988 being the other two. (Opening act in the Twin Cities was a young James McMurtry backed by a much older David Bromberg.) Way too long since we’ve seen her and way too many YouTubes to … Continue reading “Nanci Griffith, State Theater, Ithaca, 9\/11”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}