TEXAN singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith concludes her 11-date British tour at York Barbican next Friday, brandishing her most angry album in years, Intersection.

“It’s emotional for me, and it’s personal, and it makes my heart pound, thinking I’m going to be totally exposed here,” says Nanci, as she prepares to perform such sings as Hell No, I’m Not Alright.

“At some point, you have to get it out. I couldn’t walk around with the anger. I didn’t write these songs to punish anybody. I thought I wrote them to get these things off my chest. But now I’ve taken them on the road, and every night when I sing, ‘Hell no, I’m not alright,’ and I see my audience come to their feet, I understand exactly why I wrote this.”

Everybody seems to have an investment in Intersection, Nanci notes. “So many people are at an intersection in their life, with the way the economy is, with foreclosures and downsizing,” she says.

For me, Intersection is my musical crossroads.” The album was recorded at Nanci’s Nashville home last year with multi-instrumentalist Pete Kennedy, singer-songwriter Maura Kennedy and percussionist Pat McInerney in an environment devoid of studio clocks.

“I’m usually quite solitary, just me and my dogs, but I spent the summer of 2011 with my house full of people,” she says. “It was a great experience for me, to be able to go downstairs, watch All My Children, go back up and go to work.”

For tickets for next Friday’s performance at the Barbican, phone 0844 854 2757.