Description
Nanci Griffith – Working In Corners – 4 Vinyl Record Box Set
Re-release of the first four Nanci Griffith albums in reproductions of original sleeves (with slight modifications to reflect this release) with 12×12 booklet.
The vinyl edition of Nanci Griffith’s Working In Corners is a 4LP box set from Craft Recordings (release date September 8, 2023) that’s designed to function like a curated “early years” archive rather than a greatest-hits package. It brings together her first four albums—There’s A Light Beyond These Woods (1978), Poet In My Window (1982), Once In A Very Blue Moon (1984), and the GRAMMY-nominated The Last of the True Believers (1986)—so you can hear, in sequence, how her songwriting voice sharpens from Texas folk-club intimacy into the more expansive, character-rich country-folk style she became known for. The physical presentation is very much part of the appeal: the set uses reproductions of the original sleeves (with small modifications for this edition) and includes a 12″×12″ booklet, plus expansive liner notes credited to producer Jim Rooney and writer Holly Gleason, along with rare photographs—so it reads like a scene document as much as it plays like a record stack.
If you’re deciding how to approach it on turntable, a lot of listeners get the biggest “click” by starting with Once In A Very Blue Moon or The Last of the True Believers (where her melodic confidence and narrative focus feel fully locked), then looping back to the earlier two LPs to appreciate the roots: the simpler arrangements, the club-room immediacy, and the way her eye for detail is already there even when the sound is still forming. That arc—early craft becoming unmistakable identity—is basically the story the box set is built to tell.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
There’s A Light Beyond These Woods
I Remember Joe
Alabama Soft Spoken Blues
Michael’s Song
Song For Remembered Heroes
West Texas Sun
There’s A Light Beyond These Woods
Dollar Matinee
Montana Backroads
John Phillip Griffith
Poet In My Window
Marilyn Monroe / Neon And Waltzes
Heart Of A Miner
Julie Anne
You Can’t Go Home Again
October Reasons
Wheels
Workin’ In Corners
Waltzing With The Angels
Trouble With Roses
Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown
Poet In My Window
Once In A Very Blue Moon
Ghost In The Music
Love Is A Hard Waltz
Roseville Fair
Mary & Omie
Friend Out In The Madness
I’m Not Drivin’ These Wheels (Bring The Prose To The Wheel)
Time Alone
Ballad Of Robin Winter-Smith
Daddy Said
Once In A Very Blue Moon
If I Were The Woman You Wanted
Year Down In New Orleans
Spin On A Red Brick Floor
The Last Of The True Believers
The Last Of The True Believers
Love At The Five & Dime
St. Olav’s Gate
More Than A Whisper
Banks Of The Pontchartrain
Lookin’ For The Time (Working Girl)
Goin’ Gone
One Of These Days
Love’s Found A Shoulder
Fly By Night
The Wing & The Wheel
