It is almost thirty year year ago that the from Seguin, Texas originating singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith her debut made with "There's A Light Beyond Thesis Woods" (1978). Many flat followed and furnished was found of Griffith, that with her music on the border area of doll, country and folk, a large and faithful multitude supporters and in Ireland even the status of superster. As appeared in 1999 the album "The Dust Bowl Symphony", a plate that she together made with the London Symphony Orchestra. Symphonic country, if it were. Old numbers were arranged normally again, by which the orchestra had a clear serving role, and that worked above expectation very good. Outside the lake personal numbers on the album "Clock Without Hands" (2001) find we on this plate mainly songs over the trip that she made through Vietnam. Griffith was all single years concerned hit via The Vietnam Veterans Or America Foundation by the campaign for a landmine world, hence her songkeuse on this album. But fact is that, Griffith of all markets home is and that after a large number of records for MCA and Electra, Griffith back is by the label on which they in 1978 made one's debut: Rounder. Already in 2002, we could want to enjoy on this the album "Winter Marquee", a live-cd with special contributions of Emmylou Harris and Tom Russell, what made of this album a welcome addition on her studio-albums. On 14 November becomes by Rounder her new album of "Ruby’s Torch" brought out. "Ruby's Torch" state fully with numbers that self in a kind of nightclub-setting play. Intimate arrangement and a surprising tracklist. Songs of an unprecedented high quality and contain actual precisely the tijdloosheid of this miraculous sorrow rag genre in which vocale arts and emotion centrally stand. Accompanied through a complete ironing orchestra worked Griffith nine classics and two own songs. On the album, o. a stand. "When I Dream" (Crystal G ayle), "In The Wee Small Hours Or The Morning" (Frank Sinatra), "If These Walls Could Speak" (Jimmy Webb), "Brave Companion Or The Road", "Late Night Grande Hotel" and three covers of Tom Waits "Ruby’s Arms", "Grapefuit Moon" and "Please Call Me, Baby". We looked at thus with particular interest from this new album and Griffith exceeded our wildest dreams, this is actual the dreamt rootsplaat since her career. Griffith set with this new plate temporarily the crown on her work. Many has also to make with the production, for nobody less then Trina Shoemaker (Whiskeytown, Queens or the Stone Age, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow) names place behind the buttons. It yields a fantastic produced plate. Shoemaker loves a delicious sound, but this exaggerates fortunately nowhere. Griffith's beautiful songs drown about that not in an excessive production, but get through precisely the right accents just that bit extra that a cd necessarily has from can grow till a masterpiece. And that is it, for also Griffith itself exceeded on "Ruby’s Torch" with a series fantastic songs. Briefly: On "Ruby’s Torch", we are spoiled again with beautiful music. In eleven songs, late Nanci Griffith again hear that at that status, that by superster, what us concerned not unstitched becomes. Again a class plate of this fascinating singer of which the power of her music hides in the simplicity.