Singing a duet with Nancy Griffith must make you feel like a million dollars. She sings so well and pays such attention to her partner. And her harmony work is the best in the world. Great job by Will.
Five years later, these few quiet, intentse, soulful performances on a national late-night hit show like Letterman's hopefully encouraged other younger performers to choose this path.
I saw Nanci sing this live 4 times and many more times on tape. She ALWAYS felt the lyrics! She usually ended up teary eyed. Love her and love this Townes GREAT song!
I started watching this video and it was about a minute in when I realized "hey wait a second, that isnt Emmylou Harris, is it?". Then I read the description. I still have no idea who this girl is, should I? She sure studied Harris. I get the impression she was a fill-in guest. She's also quite good. BTW, when I was writing the word description I wanted to write it as 'discription' really badly even though I'm an excellent speller. Its enough to make one paranoid about dementia. ( in my 40's? ). Turns out its more likely to be something called wordnesia. - The act of mispelling common, relatively easy words. Well at least lets hope that's what it was.
@@dongiller Sorry, that turns out to be true. Id never heard of her and searched up Nancy with a 'Y' and came up with nothing, it was when i spelled it correctly that I saw her extensive body of work. My bad ( and Dave's intro of her being 'a favorite around here' ). Turns out she won a Grammy the following year for this album. Boy is my 'ignunce' showing.
Don made a compilation of all Nanci's appearances on Dave's shows, which he posted the evening of Nanci's passing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7l9jAD9S4Ro.html
