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==Awards== Griffith won the 1994 [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album|Best Contemporary Folk Album]] for ''Other Voices, Other Rooms.'' She was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 1995.<ref>[https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2021-08-13/powerful-folk-and-country-songwriter-nanci-griffith-has-died-at-age-68/ Powerfully Poetic Folk and Country Songwriter Nanci Griffith Has Died at Age 68], austinchronicle.com, Aug. 13, 2021</ref> Griffith was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the [[World Folk Music Association]] in 1995.<ref name="noble">{{Cite book|title=Number No. 1 : the story of the original Highwaymen|last=Noble|first=Richard E.|publisher=Outskirts Press|year=2009|isbn=9781432738099|location=Denver|pages=265–267|oclc=426388468}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Americana Music Association]] awarded her its Lifetime Americana Trailblazer Award.<ref>"In 2008, the Americana Music Association gave her a Lifetime Americana Trailblazer Award." in: [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/arts/music/nanci-griffith-dead.html ''Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68''], nytimes.com, Aug 13, 2021</ref> [[Lyle Lovett]], who contributed backing vocals to her third album, ''[[Once in a Very Blue Moon]]'',<ref>"Doster played guitar on Griffith’s first album in 1978, and joined her in Nashville for her third, “Once In A Very Blue Moon,” six years later. By then, Griffith had a record deal with folk label Rounder, and a lot of friends and musical collaborators to call on. Her acoustic sound had been amped up a notch, with stalwart Nashville players like Béla Fleck, Roy Huskey Jr. and Mark O’Connor – and a lanky guy she knew from the Texas music scene named Lyle Lovett, singing harmony." in: [https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/remembering-nanci-griffith-she-was-just-a-good-good-good-songwriter/ ''Remembering Nanci Griffith: ‘She Was Just A Good, Good, Good Songwriter’''], by Shelly Brisbin, texasstandard.org, August 16, 2021</ref> had won it before her. In 2010, Griffith received a Lifetime Achievement Award at [[BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/folk/2010/02/lifetime-achievement-award-for.html ''Lifetime Achievement Award for Nanci Griffith''], bbc.co.uk, Feb 1, 2010</ref> Griffith was posthumously inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association's Hall of Fame in February 2022 at the [[Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas)|Paramount Theatre]] in Austin.<ref>[https://eu.austin360.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/08/27/nanci-griffith-obituary-austin-singer-songwriter-dead/8188421002/ ''Remembering Nanci Griffith, the greatest Austin-raised singer-songwriter ever''], by Peter Blackstock (Austin American-Statesman), austin360.com, Aug 27, 2021</ref><ref>[https://musicrow.com/2021/05/lefty-frizzell-nanci-griffith-lightnin-hopkins-mark-james-to-join-texas-songwriters-hall-of-fame/ ''Lefty Frizzell, Nanci Griffith, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mark James To Join Texas Songwriters Hall Of Fame''], musicrow.com, May 28, 2021</ref><ref>[http://www.ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=85&num=124739 ''Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association announces 2022 Hall of Fame inductees''], ntxe-news.com</ref>
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