Storms

Griffith moved toward mainstream pop and brought in Glyn Johns, a producer known for rock records. It reached 42 on the US country albums chart and 99 on the pop albums chart. Bernie Leadon, Albert Lee and Phil Everly played or sang on it.

It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go, the sixth track, is an explicitly political song inspired by her visits to Northern Ireland, and she considered it the most important song she had written. Listen to the Radio is a tribute to Loretta Lynn, and the closing Radio Fragile is about Phil Ochs.

Robert Christgau gave it a C+. Writing years later for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer noted that purists did not welcome the change of style but said she "unfurled some of her finest musical stories to date."