“Going Back to Georgia” by Nanci Griffith with Adam Duritz

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Old pal Nanci Griffith teams with Counting Crows frontman, Adam Duritz on Nanci’s fine original tune, “Going Back to Georgia” aka “Traveling Back to Georgia;”  the former being the correct song title. 

Nanci has been such a fine songwriter and steady performer, through thick and thin, since she rode her LBJ pin out of the Lone Star State some thirty years back.  No one had done more to put the Austin/Texas/Americana/songwriting scene on the musical map than Nanci and fellow Texan (by way of Oneonta, New York), Jerry Jeff Walker. 

If the Governor’s of Texas weren’t just right wing Republicans, Nanci might let them honor her for all she has done.  When I think of the Texas that I think Nanci has cared about, I think of Molly Ivins, Sam Rayburn, Jim Hightower, Governor Ann Richards, and Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson.  And I think of Nanci.  Now that she lives partly in the Nashville area and partly in Ireland, she doesn’t have to deal with the current Texas officeholders.

Nanci played a significant role in the development of FolkTree, my old concert company, and I liked her, and her music, from the first time I heard “There’s A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)” back around 1980.  She started with FolkTree at the old Arlington Town Hall and ten or twelve years later Nanci was selling out three nights consecutively at Boston’s Symphony Hall.  As FolkTree grew from humbler beginnings, so did Nanci’s FolkTree audience.

Adam Duritz, Nanci’s partner in crime on this duet, is, of course, the lead singer of the Counting Crows and he has a friendly and easy to listen to voice.

Enjoy, “Going Back to Georgia,” a Nanci Griffith tune and our song of the day.   HL