_In 1993, Nanci Griffith released Other Voices, Other Rooms, an album on which she covered many of the great folk songs that had influenced her life and music.

She got the idea for the record on New Year’s Eve in 1992 when she and Emmylou Harris had a talk “about how there were a lot of great songs getting lost.”

“At some point, some executive, or an owner of a chain of radio stations somewhere, said that commercial music cannot tolerate folk and that folk music can’t be played on the radio, or that it doesn’t sell,” Griffith said in a 1993 interview. “We all know that it sounds just fine on the radio.

“I would love to see radio go back to a time where it was an open format, because young people are not exposed to any sort of variations and diversity musically. I can’t imagine what [I] would be as a songwriter, if I hadn’t had that cross-cultural advantage of open radio, when you could hear Loretta Lynn back-to-back with Frank Sinatra, back-to-back with the Everly Brothers and Woody Guthrie. You have to be able to read before you can write, and you have to be able to learn to listen before you write music.”

Five years after the release of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Griffith has returned with another thoughtfully produced collection of material from some of her favorite artists and writers, called Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful). It is her fifteenth album.

“I just thought it was time that these writers from this lost generation of folk art be paid tribute to. Without them, I would not have become a songwriter...Even doing ten albums like this wouldn’t be enough to adequately pay tribute to them.”