There's a Light Beyond These Woods

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There's a Light Beyond These Woods
There's a Light Beyond These Woods cover
Studio album by Nanci Griffith
Released 1978
Recorded Pecan Street Studios, Austin, Texas
Dec. 1977 & Jan. 1978
Genre Folk
Length 37:03
Label B.F. Deal Records(1978)
Featherbed Records(1982)
Philo Records/Rounder Records(1986)
Professional reviews
Nanci Griffith chronology
There's a Light Beyond These Woods
(1978)
Poet in My Window
(1982)

There's a Light Beyond These Woods is singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith's début album. It was recorded live to two-track over four days, December 9 to 11, 1977 and January 3, 1978 in Austin, Texas. Griffith wrote most of its songs, as she would on almost all of her subsequent albums.

Contents

[edit] LP track listing

All songs written by Nanci Griffith except as otherwise indicated.

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Remember Joe" - 4:23
  2. "Alabama Soft Spoken Blues" (Griffith/Maggie Graham) - 3:47
  3. "Michael's Song" - 4:01
  4. "Song for Remembered Heroes" - 3:23
  5. "West Texas Sun" - 3:43

[edit] Side two

  1. "There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)" - 4:35
  2. "Dollar Matinee" (Eric Taylor) - 4:51
  3. "Montana Backroads" (Bruce Carlson) - 4:59
  4. "John Philip Griffith" - 4:06

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