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Last of the True Believers

The Last of the True Believers
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Studio album by Nanci Griffith
Released 1986
Recorded October 7-9, 1985 at Jack Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length 35:16
Label Philo Records
Producer Jim Rooney and Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith chronology
Once in a Very Blue Moon
(1984)Once in a Very Blue Moon1984
The Last of the True Believers
(1986)
Lone Star State of Mind
(1987)Lone Star State of Mind1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau B−

The Last of the True Believers is singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith's fourth album, and her last with the folk music-oriented Philo Records. The acclaim accorded her from her previous Once in a Very Blue Moon and the current album would gain her a contract with a major recording company after this album. Here, Griffith continues her turn toward a more country-oriented work than her first two albums, which were primarily folk-sounding. It also includes two songs which would later be hits for Kathy Mattea: "Love at the Five and Dime" from her 1986 album Walk the Way the Wind Blows, and "Goin' Gone", Mattea's first Number One, from 1987's Untasted Honey.

The photograph on the album cover contains several references to the album's songs. A couple can be seen dancing behind Griffith, standing in front of a Woolworth's store as described in "Love at the Five and Dime." The male dancer is Lyle Lovett who also appears on the album as a vocalist. The man standing at far left is John T. Davis, at the time a music writer for the Austin American-Statesman.

As with other Nanci Griffith albums she is pictured holding books by and/or about southern writers. On the front cover she is holding a copy of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto. On the album's back cover she is clutching Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.


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