- Her former husband Singer-Songwriter Eric Taylor , born Atlanta, 25 September 1949 died 9 March 2020, Austin.
- Griffith had a backing band which she referred to as the Blue Moon Orchestra.
- At the age of 14, she did her first professional gig at the Red Lion Cabaret in downtown Austin.
- Her career spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she termed "folkabilly.".
- She was inducted into Austin Music Hall of Fame in 1995.
- She was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
- Griffith was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association's Hall of Fame in February 2022 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin.
- Other artists have occasionally achieved greater success than Griffith herself with songs that she wrote or co-wrote. For example, Kathy Mattea had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover of Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" and Suzy Bogguss had one of her largest hits with Griffith's and Tom Russell's "Outbound Plane".
- Nanci's debut album, There's a Light Beyond These Woods, was released in 1978, with a cover designed by her father.
- Nanci Griffith began her career as a singer performing in a local coffeehouse, aged 12.
- Griffith was a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.
- Griffith's high school boyfriend, John, died in a motorcycle accident after taking her to the senior prom, and subsequently inspired many of her songs.
- Nanci's mother Ruelene was a real estate agent and amateur actress, her father, Marlin Griffith, was a graphic artist and barbershop quartet singer.[.
- Nanci Griffith won In 1994 a Grammy Award for the album Other Voices, Other Rooms.
- In 1994, Griffith teamed up with Jimmy Webb to contribute the song "If These Old Walls Could Speak" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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