Other Voices, Other Rooms (album)

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Other Voices, Other Rooms
Cover album by Nanci Griffith
Released	March 2, 1993 (US)
Recorded	Nashville, Tennessee, Dublin, Ireland, and Los Angeles, California
Genre	Country, Folk
Length	1:02:08
Label	Elektra Records
Producer	Jim Rooney
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1] Rolling Stone link
Nanci Griffith chronology
Late Night Grande Hotel (1991) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993) Flyer (1994)

Other Voices, Other Rooms, Nanci Griffith's tenth album, is unusual in the singer-songwriter's catalog in that none of its songs was written by Griffith. Here she pays homage to other songwriters who have influenced her own career by covering their songs. Guest artists who appear in their own compositions include Frank Christian playing guitar on "Three Flights Up," Bob Dylan playing harmonica on "Boots of Spanish Leather," and John Prine lending harmony vocals on "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness." The album rose into the #54 position on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1993, although it had no charting singles.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Across the Great Divide" [with Emmylou Harris] (Kate Wolf) - 3:57
2. "Woman of the Phoenix" [with James Hooker] (Vince Bell) - 2:41
3. "Tecumseh Valley" [with Arlo Guthrie] (Townes Van Zandt) - 4:29
4. "Three Flights Up" (Frank Christian) - 3:31
5. "Boots of Spanish Leather" (Bob Dylan) - 5:17
6. "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" [with John Prine] (John Prine) - 4:20
7. "From Clare to Here" [with Pete Cummins] (Ralph McTell) - 5:11
8. "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" [with Carolyn Hester] (Tom Paxton) - 3:16
9. "Do-Re-Mi" [with Guy Clark] (Woody Guthrie) - 2:52
10. "This Old Town" (Janis Ian/Jon Vezner) - 3:00
11. "Comin' Down in the Rain" [with Lee Satterfield] (Buddy Mondlock) - 3:45
12. "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder" [with Iris DeMent] (Gordon Lightfoot) - 2:40
13. "Morning Song for Sally" (Jerry Jeff Walker) - 4:55
14. "Night Rider's Lament" [with Don Edwards] (Michael Burton) - 3:57
15. "Are You Tired of Me Darling?" [with Iris DeMent and Emmylou Harris] (G.P. Cook/Ralph Roland) - 3:11
16. "Turn Around" (Malvina Reynolds/Harry Belafonte/Allen Greene) - 3:19
17. "Wimoweh" [with Odetta, Indigo Girls, Kennedy-Rose, John Prine, James Hooker, Holly & Barry Tashian, John Gorka, Dave Mallett, Marlin Griffith (Nanci's father), Jim Rooney (Solomon Linda) - 1:47

[edit] Awards and recognition

Griffith won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms.