Once in a Very Blue Moon

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
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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.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nanci Griffith; except where indicated

  1. "Ghost in the Music" (Griffith, Eric Taylor) - 2:49
  2. "Love Is a Hard Waltz" - 3:10
  3. "Roseville Fair" (Bill Staines) - 2:59
  4. "Mary and Omie" - 4:31
  5. "Friend Out in the Madness" - 2:41
  6. "I'm Not Drivin' These Wheels (Bring the Prose to the Wheel)" - 3:17
  7. "Time Alone" - 2:01
  8. "Ballad of Robin Winter-Smith" (Richard Dobson) - 3:15
  9. "Daddy Said" - 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" - 2:28
  13. "Spin on a Red Brick Floor" - 2:48