The Dust Bowl Symphony


The Dust Bowl Symphony is an album released by Nanci Griffith in 1999. It consists of songs Griffith had previously released on other albums, but re-recorded with an orchestral backing. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra. Darius Rucker duets with Griffith on "Love at The Five and Dime", and the album also has contributions from Sonny Curtis and Glen Hardin, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Griffith's own band, The Blue Moon Orchestra. The song "Waiting for Love", written by Griffiths, from Blue Roses from the Moons was picked out by Griffiths as giving the singer a "brief moment of being Edith Piaf".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nanci Griffith except where indicated.
  1. "Trouble in the Fields" 4:36
  2. "The Wing and the Wheel" 4:56
  3. "These Days in an Open Book" 3:30
  4. "Love at The Five and Dime" 4:53
  5. "It's a Hard Life " 4:20
  6. "Late Night Grande Hotel" 2:48
  7. "Tell Me How" 3:02
  8. "Not My Way Home" 4:27
  9. "1937 Pre-War Kimball" 4:10
  10. "Waiting For Love" 3:35
  11. "Nobody's Angel" 3:50
  12. "Always Will" 2:52
  13. "Drops From The Faucet" 3:51
  14. "Dust Bowl Reprise" 2:19

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