Nanci Griffith and Darius Rucker make a very odd couple. She´s the skinny, angel-voiced troubadour of Texas coffeehouses, while he´s the brawny, gruff-voiced leader of Hootie and the Blowfish. Yet they both benefit from their duet on Griffith´s 1997 album, Blue Roses from the Moon. She rarely gets to hear her songs delivered with such soul-flavored power, and he rarely gets to sing something as well written as Griffith´s loving description of the Texas landscape, "Gulf Coast Highway。