Once in a Very Blue Moon

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Once in a Very Blue Moon
Studio album by Nanci Griffith
Released	1984
Recorded	Jack Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country
Length	38:38
Label	Philo Records
Producer	Jim Rooney and Nanci Griffith
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Nanci Griffith chronology
Poet in My Window (1982) Once in a Very Blue Moon (1984) The Last of the True Believers (1986)

Once in a Very Blue Moon is singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith's third album. The sounds have become a little more country and a little less folk than her previous albums. Her first two albums were backed sparsely with instrumentation, but starting with this album, the whole complement of country-styled instrumentalists can be heard. Noted country musicians performing on the album include banjo player Béla Fleck and champion fiddle player Mark O'Connor.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ghost in the Music" (Nanci Griffith/Eric Taylor) - 2:49
2. "Love Is a Hard Waltz" (Nanci Griffith) - 3:10
3. "Roseville Fair" (Bill Staines) - 2:59
4. "Mary and Omie" (Nanci Griffith) - 4:31
5. "Friend Out in the Madness" (Nanci Griffith) - 2:41
6. "I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring the Prose to the Wheel)" (Nanci Griffith) - 3:17
7. "Time Alone" (Nanci Griffith) - 2:01
8. "Ballad of Robin Winter-Smith" (Richard Dobson) - 3:15
9. "Daddy Said" (Nanci Griffith) - 2:35
10. "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (Patrick Alger/Eugene Levine) - 2:34
11. "If I Were the Woman You Wanted" (Lyle Lovett) - 3:57
12. "Year Down in New Orleans" (Nanci Griffith) - 2:28
13. "Spin on a Red Brick Floor" (Nanci Griffith) - 2:48