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Her best... My favorite
I'll start by saying that I have been listening to Nanci Griffith for my entire life.*(15 years)* That's because she is one of my mother's favorite artists, so I'm quite familier with her work. But out of of all her albums, Flyer is totally my favorite. I think that it's somewhat diffrent from her other albums, with more flow, and less, as I call it, twang. You know, that country sound. I like that. <
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> It's hard to name my favorite song. Most likely Southbound Train, or Goodnight to Mother's Dream. <
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> Southbound Train, to me, is everything lonely and sad whenever I hear it. The kind of sound that makes my heart twist around in this weird way, just listening to that piano and her voice. <
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>I'm sitting on a southbound train <
>Staring at the sky <
>I'm thinking of my childhood <
>And I'm trying not to cry <
>While a stranger sleeps against me <
>And it feels like I'm his wife <
>Towns and cities flutter past <
>Like the pages of my life <
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> And I love Goodnight to Mother's Dream, even though I'm not sure why. In a way, it just connects with me, the lyrics and music. And the chorus is beautiful. <
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> And the sailors on the water <
>...They all want the captain's daughter <
>They want her beauty and her youth <
>To grace their bow out on the sea <
>Me, I'm getting older and I'm plain <
>As plain can be <
>Got a bank full of mother's dreams <
>Maybe mother just didn't see <
>That love would be the only thing <
>Her daughter would ever need <
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> The rest of the album is just as perfect. "Always will," "Talk to Me While I'm Listening", "Fragile", And "On Grafton Street" are particularly amazing. Each of her songs are are like individual storys, and they all connect to me in a way that I can't really describe. Let's just say they touch you, and can stay with you long after you hear them. All of her music has always been deep and beautiful, but this album truly shines. In my opinion it's the best of her work, and most defenently my favorite. <
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>I would like to say more, do a page on every song, maybe, but I won't. But I'll say this: Rock on, Nanci.

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Can't live without it
I actually bought this CD again to replace the first one that I lost in a move. I went a few months without this CD and found myself missing it, like an old friend. This is classic Nancy at her best. Well written, well produced, well done. "Flyer" gives me goosebumps every time I hear it and I listen to it frequently.

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This great vocalist's best album!
I discovered Nanci Griffith whilst tuning into BBC Radio 2 one morning, on came this song called TIME OF INCONVENIENCE which is on this CD - great lyrics, great guitar riffing, great harmonies, then I went out and got hold of the CD. I've since got hold of many more and recently took my wife to see her live in Bristol on April 13th, truly a fine show! I am now hooked. Nanci is an inspirational person and has one of the finest and most unique voices in music you will hear. This LP begins with FLYER, a tale like many of her songs of lost loves and brief encounters during travels, which strikes a chord and themes the album - another good example is SOUTHBOUND TRAIN, a truly moving ballad with a piano accompaniment that brings a tear to my eye each time I hear it. More uptempo, rather rockier numbers include the aforementioned TIME OF INCONVENIENCE and ANYTHING YOU NEED BUT ME - I will say they remind me of REM purely because Peter Buck guests on guitar on this CD. You also have Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton from U2 and Marc Knopfler of DIRE STRAITS on DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME, one of the stand out tracks - so basically this will appeal to a wider audience than folk purists. You also get THE CHIEFTANS accompanying Nanci in ON GRAFTON STREET, inspired by her travels to Dublin - and the last track, THIS HEART you could be forgiven for thinking it is a Buddy Holly cover with its rockabilly riffing - Crickets member Sonny Curtis guests here on guitar as well! So all in all this is an album that no Nanci fan should be without. If you're new to her music, this is a great place to begin, then I would recommend BLUE ROSES FROM THE MOONS, LONE STAR STATE OF MIND and also her OTHER VOICES cover version albums which show the versatilty of her fine vocal talent as good starting points. Then as I am, get hold of the rest!