“Did you ever get caught up in that Austin country music movement?” What a dopey question to ask a country music artist from Austin. “Yeah, I was ensnared in it before I knew any better. But I managed to escape that loser scene to the big time in Nashville where I get to be interviewed by class acts like you. Could we talk some more about my anklets?”
I miss her being in the world. Her smile was so contagious and her voice sweet as honey. My favorite album was Dust Bowl Symphony. The Wing and the Wheel makes me think of her smile and then I smile but it's a bittersweet smile. The world lost a passle if innocence when we lost this fine lady.
Wow. I cringed at Ralph Emory's questions which seemed to focus on how "different" Nanci was from the Nashville norm. I mean, Anklets! The indignity! Ralph just couldn't really understand why she was even on the show. I mean, she plays Folk Music! My god. Of course, Ralph being the idiot he was, was blissfully disparaging the music from which country music was born. I am a life long country fan, excluding the schlock that gets labeled country whenever there is a buck to be made using that label. Don't get me started. It's fitting that Nanci will be remembered as a premier artist, with a staggering catalog and generations of ardent followers, both fans and musicians. While Ralph will be remembered, if he is remembered at all, as a second rate talk show host with a long track record of mediocrity.
Indeed. Ralph Emery (the host) was a notorious chauvinist and perv in Nashville. He represented everything wrong with Nashville (and still does). I cringed when I noticed he was going to interview Nanci. Ralph did a notorious interview in the early 90's with the singer/songwriter Suzy Bogguss where he didn't mention her music at all and just commented on how he appreciated that she "dressed like a woman" with her short skirts and that he could see why Chet Atkins wanted to work with her. It was disgusting. But that was Ralph. There was also the story of when Gram Parsons nearly punched him in the mouth.
Thank you for sharing! It seems this show was recorded shortly before Nanci started using the term 'folkabilly' to describe her music. The performances of both songs are typically terrific!
I'm not a big fan of the interviewers questions either...questions about hair and attire would not be asked of a man, and have NO PLACE on a music show, the questions asked were very sexist, treating Nanci as an oddity.
And immediately commenting on her appearance by comparing her looks to another female artist to the male guest 🤦🏼♀️ although thankfully his response was great, he recognised Nanci as a unique musician with her own sound.
I was fortunate enough to see her once in concert in a small theater. Great singer, songwriter and storyteller. I dont think she ever got the recognition she truly deserved. She is gone waaay too soon. Thank you Nanci for sharing your gifts with the world.
Love Nanci's music still...Only saw her live once, many years ago...outdoor event on a very hot and humid day and she gave her crew hell from the stage because her guitar had gone a little out of tune (guitar sitting out on stage waiting on her to actually get out on that stage on that HOT and HUMID day)...too bad she didn't have the basic skill of tweaking the tuning on her guitar while she made some comments...then she proceeded to bitch about the presence of local law enforcement that was there to ensure her safety...very beautiful woman and outstanding performer but didn't seem so beautiful on the inside....maybe she was just having a bad day, but with her display of unsavory behavior from the stage I never paid to go see her perform again.
Wow, I hope after you have done a million amazing things which I'm sure you're going to do in your lifetime, and you're dead, someone will come out and produce a Litany of stuff that I see no one out here corroborating, about you. Wow. Hope your life gets better.
