Lone Star State of Mind

Studio album by Nanci Griffith

Released

1987

Recorded

July 1986, Soundstage/The Back Stage Studios, Nashville, Tennessee

Genre

Country

Length

35:48

Label

MCA Records

Producer

Tony Brown and Nanci Griffith

Nanci Griffith chronology

The Last of the True Believers
(1986)

Lone Star State of Mind
(1987)

Little Love Affairs
(1988)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	B ^[2]

Lone Star State of Mind is Nanci Griffith's fifth album, and her first with a major recording label. Griffith's music took a turn from her original folk music base into more commercially viable country music. For this album, she enlisted the talents of veteran country producer Tony Brown. The album garnered her first appearance on the Billboard Country charts, rising to #23 on the Country Albums chart, and is her highest charting album. The title track, "Lone Star State of Mind," became the first of only three Griffith singles to enter the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It peaked at #36, while two other singles from the album, "Cold Hearts/Closed Minds" and "Trouble in the Fields", reached #64 and #57 respectively. "From a Distance" failed to chart because it was released only as a promotional single in the USA.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Nanci Griffith, except as indicated.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lone Star State of Mind" (Fred Koller, Patrick Alger, Gene Levine)	3:56
2.	"Cold Hearts/Closed Minds"	2:40
3.	"From a Distance" (Julie Gold)	4:10
4.	"Beacon Street"	2:49
5.	"Nickel Dreams" (Mac McAnally, Don Lowery)	2:48
6.	"Sing One for Sister" (Robert Earl Keen, Jr.)	3:20
7.	"Ford Econoline"	2:10
8.	"Trouble in the Fields" (Griffith, Rick West)	3:18
9.	"Love in a Memory"	3:17
10.	"Let It Shine on Me" (Paul Kennerley)	2:59
11.	"There's a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)"	4:21

Personnel

Pat Alger - acoustic guitar, hi-string guitar
John Catchings - cello
Phillip Donnelly - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Béla Fleck - banjo
Emory Gordy Jr. - bass guitar, mandolin
Lloyd Green - dobro, pedal steel guitar
Nanci Griffith - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
John Barlow Jarvis - piano
Lucy Kaplanski - background vocals
Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion
Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mark O'Connor - fiddle, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, viola, violin
Rick West - acoustic guitar

Chart performance

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	23

References

↑ Thom Owens. "Lone Star State of Mind - Nanci Griffith | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
↑ "CG: nanci griffith". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
↑ "From a Distance by Nanci Griffith (Single): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 2016-06-20.

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Studio albums	There's a Light Beyond These Woods (1978) Poet in My Window (1982) Once in a Very Blue Moon (1984) The Last of the True Believers (1986) Lone Star State of Mind (1987) Little Love Affairs (1988) Storms (1989) Late Night Grande Hotel (1991) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993) Flyer (1994) Blue Roses from the Moons (1997) Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (1998) The Dust Bowl Symphony (1999) Clock Without Hands (2001) Winter Marquee (2002) Hearts in Mind (2004) Ruby's Torch (2006) The Loving Kind (2009) Intersection (2012)

Compilation albums	The MCA Years: A Retrospective (1993) The Best of Nanci Griffith (1993) Country Gold (1997) From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith (2002) The Complete MCA Studio Recordings (2003)

Live albums	One Fair Summer Evening (1988)

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