Little Love Affairs

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1988 studio album by Nanci Griffith

Little Love Affairs

Studio album by

Nanci Griffith

Released| 1988
Recorded| August 1987
Studio| Soundstage Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre| Country
Length| 36:15
Label| MCA
Producer| Tony Brown, Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith chronology
| Lone Star State of Mind
(1987)  | Little Love Affairs
(1988)  | One Fair Summer Evening
(1988)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Chicago Tribune| (positive)[2]
Robert Christgau| B+[3]
Rolling Stone| [4]

Little Love Affairs is Nanci Griffith's sixth studio album. It peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and topped the UK fortnightly country album chart for six weeks. It was also Griffith's first appearance on the main UK albums chart, where it reached No. 78. It spawned three charting singles on the Hot Country Singles chart, with "I Knew Love", "Never Mind", and "Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool" reaching No. 37, No. 58, and No. 64 respectively. The album marks the beginning of Griffith's long association with keyboardist James Hooker, who would appear on every album until 2006.

## LP track listing[edit]

### Side one[edit]

1. "Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool" (Nanci Griffith) – 2:39
2. "I Knew Love" (Roger Brown) – 3:17
3. "Never Mind" (Harlan Howard) – 3:42
4. "Love Wore a Halo (Back Before the War)" (Griffith) – 3:23
5. "So Long Ago" (Griffith) – 4:10
6. "Gulf Coast Highway" duet with Mac McAnally (James Hooker, Griffith, Danny Flowers) – 3:06

### Side two[edit]

1. "Little Love Affairs" (Griffith, Hooker) – 3:08
2. "I Wish It Would Rain" (Griffith) – 2:38
3. "Outbound Plane" (Griffith, Tom Russell) – 2:39
4. "I Would Change My Life" (Robert Earl Keen, Jr) – 3:08
5. "Sweet Dreams Will Come" duet with John Stewart (John Stewart) – 4:25

## Personnel[edit]

* Nanci Griffith - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
* Charlie Bundy- backing vocals
* Sam Bush \- mandolin
* John Catchings - cello
* Béla Fleck \- banjo
* Dan Flowers - slide guitar, backing vocals
* Pat Flynn - acoustic guitar
* Jon Goin - classical guitar, electric guitar. hi-string guitar
* Lloyd Green \- dobro, piano
* James Hooker \- piano, synthesizer
* David Hungate \- bass guitar
* Roy Huskey Jr. \- upright bass
* Lucy Kaplansky - backing vocals
* Mac McAnally \- gut-string guitar and duet vocals on "Gulf Coast Highway"
* Rick Marotta \- drums
* Mark O'Connor \- mandolin, viola, violin
* John Stewart \- electric guitar and duet vocals on "Sweet Dreams Will Come"
* Billy Joe Walker Jr. \- acoustic guitar

## Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1988)  | Peak
position

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UK Albums (OCC)[5] | 78
UK Country Albums (OCC)[6] | 1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[7] | 27

## References[edit]

1. ^ AllMusic review
2. ^ Chicago Tribune review
3. ^ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
4. ^ Rolling Stone review[dead link]
5. ^ "Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 26 March 1988. p. 25. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
6. ^ "Top 20 Albums: Country" (PDF). Music Week. 2 April 1988. p. 8. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
7. ^ "Nanci Griffith Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. April 15, 1988. Retrieved March 6, 2020.

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Nanci Griffith

Studio albums|

* There's a Light Beyond These Woods (1978)
* Poet in My Window (1982)
* Once in a Very Blue Moon (1985)
* The Last of the True Believers (1986)
* Lone Star State of Mind (1987)
* Little Love Affairs (1988)
* Storms (1989)
* Late Night Grande Hotel (1991)
* Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
* Flyer (1994)
* Blue Roses from the Moons (1997)
* Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (1998)
* The Dust Bowl Symphony (1999)
* Clock Without Hands (2001)
* Hearts in Mind (2004)
* Ruby's Torch (2006)
* The Loving Kind (2009)
* Intersection (2012)

Compilation albums|

* The MCA Years: A Retrospective (1993)
* The Best of Nanci Griffith (1993)
* Country Gold (1997)
* From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith (2002)
* The Complete MCA Studio Recordings (2003)

Live albums|

* One Fair Summer Evening (1988)
* Winter Marquee (2002)

Other|

* More than a Whisper (2023)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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