Nanci Griffith

"In Virginia, 1958/They found love amongst the hate," sings folk-country stalwart Nanci
Griffith on the title track to her 19th album. There is undoubtedly a fine song to be written
about Richard and Mildred Loving, the couple whose landmark Supreme Court case ended
the ban on interracial marriage. Griffith's plodding ode is not that song. Elsewhere, she
warns, "Maybe you can't see/But it's clear to me/Money changes everything." Go... More >