Photos: Remembering singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, 1953-2021
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas, has died. She was 68.
Nanci Griffith performs at the Rainbow Push Coalition Labor Day Rally in Charleston, W.Va., on Sept. 6, 2004. Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. A statement from her management company on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, confirmed her death, but no cause of death was provided. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock, File)
Nanci Griffith, Jim Rooney, center, and John Prine hug after a performance by Nanci Griffith and John Prine at the Americana Music Association awards show in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
Nanci Griffith, left, and John Prine perform at the Americana Music Association awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson, File)
Singer Nanci Griffith plays a song at the beginning of family funeral service in the Texas State Cemetery for former Texas Gov. Ann Richards in Austin, Texas, Monday, Sept. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Larry Kolvoord, Pool)
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" celebrated the South, has died at 68.