Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Griffith kind of quietly did her thing for decades without ever cracking the top forty at radio, or without having much the conventional "success" we're conditioned to expect from a musician, but she was a deeply talented singer, musician, and songwriter. Ironically, despite being such a talented songwriter, her most famous single song is "From a Distance", which she didn't write but was the first person to record (and her version is far better than Bette Midler's), and her most famous album, which she won a Grammy for, is an album of covers, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Per her wishes, no information or statement about her death has been released yet. I know she hadn't released an album in nearly a decade so I wonder if she has been in bad health for quite some time.

Nanci Griffith, Folk and Country Songwriter, Dead at 68