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Fact #152086

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Short story:

Nanci Griffith begins recording her third album, Once In A Very Blue Moon, at Jack Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Full article:

Jim Rooney (producer) : I recorded an album in 1984 with Nanci Griffith called Once In A Very Blue Moon, which used a mix of acoustic with steel guitar, electric guitar and drums. The sound worked and, shortly after that, that sound started showing up on other records. Randy Travis was one of the first to use it.

When I mixed a second album with Nanci, Last Of The True Believers, Allen (producer Allen Reynolds) heard it a lot. He had just started working with Kathy Mattea, and he recorded a track from that album called Love At The Five And Dime with Kathy which was her first top ten hit. He also recorded Going Gone and that was Kathy's first number one single.

That sound, a folk and country combination, just started to blossom. Woe started a publishing company and discovered a young songwriter called Hal Ketchum. We saw him primarily as a songwriter but when we did some demos with him, in a simple guitar, bass and drums setting, we were very impressed with him as a performer. We got him a record deal. We were in the middle of an album and released a song called Small Town Saturday Night which became the most-played single of 1991. He went on to have two more hits from that album.
(Source : interview with Andy Bull in his book Coast To Coast, 1993, Black Swan)