Nanci Griffith, a singer, songwriter and Grammy winner known for folk songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” and for the original version of “From a Distance,” which would later become a Bette Midler ...

But it was Griffith’s original material that helped boost the careers of Kathy Mattea, Suzy Bogguss and many others. In 1994 on the album Dulcinea, Toad the Wet Sprocket singer and songwriter Glen ...

Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning self-described "folkabilly" singer who was the first artist to record "From a Distance," died Friday in Nashville. She was 68. She died of undisclosed causes, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. Her ...

Singer Kathy Mattea recorded a four-minute novel called “Love at the Five and Dime” in 1986, and the song became a hit and a calling card for the country star. She still sings it 35 years later. The ...

Nanci Griffith, a singer, songwriter and Grammy winner known for folk songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” and for the original version of “From a Distance,” which would later become a Bette Midler ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. Her ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. Her management ...