Grammy-Winning Folk Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies

Grammy-Winning Folk Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies
Nanci Griffith performs during a concert in New York, on Oct. 4, 2004. Julie Jacobson/AP Photo
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68.

Her management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, said Griffith died Friday but did not provide a cause of death.