The Loving Kind
by Nanci Griffith
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Nanci Griffith bestography
The Loving Kind is ranked 19th best out of 23 albums by Nanci Griffith on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nanci Griffith is Little Love Affairs which is ranked number 6255 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 213.
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Overall rank: 47,445th | 2000s rank: 8,896th | 2009 rank: 976th (Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2024 | henrygreen0203 | Top 41 Music Albums of 2009 | 3/41 | 5 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 64 Music Albums of 2009 | 45/64 | 2 |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Nanci Griffith Studio Albums Ranked | 10/18 | - |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Mickey, Nanci, Bruce and Mary - Complete Discography | 57/68 | - |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Decades of Texas Singer-Songwriters | 27/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Artists Through the Decades pt 2 | 9/45 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 15 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/19/2022 06:55 |  zags7000 | 20,558 | 64/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2021 02:21 | henrygreen0203 | 870 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/15/2021 07:33 | LosWochos | 47,314 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/29/2020 09:32 |  jnfbn | 8,878 | 81/100 |
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henrygreen0203 08/25/2021 02:21 | #272812
"What the hell was I doing there in that fast food parking lot?"
The Lov noing Kind is the seventeenth studio album by Nanci Griffith, released in 2009 on Rounder Records. The Loving Kind signals a shift to a hefty honky-tonk old school country music sound, way more "country" sounding than her MCA debut "Lone Star State of Mind" and its follow-up "Little Love Affairs." Those records were folk albums, touched up with contemporary Nashville production and marketed as commercial country albums. The Loving Kind is an odd honky tonk record with lyrics about specific social justice events (see Loving Kind and Not Innocent Enough).
The charm of Griffith's pop, with dashes of country but folk to its core, comes with heartfelt lyrics. The political touches, though unique, do not bring out the emotions of the listener, unless you streaming protest and justice songs regularly. The stories are nice, but the lyrics just don't snap and dazzle like the songs she consistently put out until the end of the century. Still, its an improvement over the rest of her 2000s material.
Track Pick: One of These Days
Gems: Up Against the Wind, Cotton's All We Got, Still Life
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