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She's mentioned in 10 other threads here but has none of her own... until now!
So, Lu's latest cd WEST debuted at # 14 on the album chart. Some good stuff there if you skip the last 5 minutes of the 9-minute "Wrap My Head Around That".
The cd was a surprise Valentine's gift for me from my bf... I had no idea it was coming out. He did really good there!
In other Lu news, I recently burned an 18-track cd of my favorites from SWEET OLD WORLD, CAR WHEELS..., ESSENCE, WORLD WITHOUT TEARS and WEST. Couldn't fit everything I wanted on there. This calls for a second burning!
And, in the REAL Lu news, she's coming to Memphis April 23. I have tickets!! I'm VERY excited!! This will be my third time to see her live.
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If you got yourself an iPod, you could probably load everything she's done on it...
So where are you seeing her play, Lashie? A laerger venue'd be nice for Lu's wallet, but I'm hoping it's an intimate club show. Just 'cause it's for you.
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A 900-seat auditorium at UofM, so it will be fairly intimate.
Last time I saw her at the New Daisy, which was GREAT because it isn't big at all and we were right on top of her almost, but it was standing-room only on the ground level.
It'll be nice, especially for my parents, to be able to see the show seated, although I personally will miss the beer!
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Despite years of hearing about her from a certain most-beloved member of all time/space/internet, I finally heard her voice a year or so ago on a duet she did with Flogging Molly (my favorite band). Her voice is unlike any I've ever heard before...I kind of like it!
Now I must make a reminder to get my 18 year old brother to *somehow* get some of her music off the internet for me and load it onto my Ipod!
(18 year olds = masters at digital piracy)
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If he can, tell him to focus on the funner stuff first-- such as "Can't Let Go", "Drunken Angel", "Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings" or "Right In Time".
You're far too new at this to handle Lu's depressing stuff yet! Songs such as "Overtime", "Reason to Cry", "Jackson" and "Sweet Old World" might melt your face!
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I must first engage in laughter with my music before I cry in the dark listening to it! Thanks for the suggestions Lash!
I'll have him get a few the next time I'm at my parent's and will inform you of new developments!
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As always Lash is right. Lu deserves her own thread. (What Legionnaire would she be, by the way?)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is one of my top 5 albums, ever. I grew up in Texas, and while there was a LOT I didn't like about the place (I left at 18 and never went back to stay), I fondly remember the quirky, funky, rootsy, fishin', drinkin', lovin', losin' quality of real East Texas natives. Car Wheels takes all of that essence and turns it into music. No matter how many times I listen, I'm always transported back to a late Texas summer day, stopped at some roadhouse restaurant on the way from nowhere to nothing. It's a remarkable set of music, as brilliantly put together as any album I've ever listened to.
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Haven't heard the new album yet but I'm biding my time. Have you heard the Live at the Filmore 2 disc set? You know how some artists are better recorded and some are better live? This album kicks so much ass. The live versions of her songs just sound, I dunno...better.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: ...she's coming to Memphis April 23.
Almost there! You getting excited yet, Lashie???
quote:Originally posted by Uranus Lad: Have you heard the Live at the Filmore 2 disc set? You know how some artists are better recorded and some are better live? This album kicks so much ass.
Amen to that, UL.
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All good things in life flow from National Public Radio. My partner, David, and I decided during the first gulf war to boycott television for a while because we were turned off by the cable news coverage. Our main source of information, for a time, became NPR. NPR remained a stable in our house after the boycott ended. We still wake up to NPR each morning. One morning in 1992, NPR did a little interview with Lucinda and played a bit of her music when "Sweet Old World" came out. David ran out and bought the CD that day, and we've both been hooked ever since.
It's hard to believe that it took until 1998 for "Car Wheels on A Gravel Road" to come out. Lucinda again did an interview for NPR. This time it was me who ran out to buy the CD. I couldn't take it off the CD player and the lyrics to each song became lodged in my brain. We were living in Columbia, Missouri at the time. It's a small college town, and Lucinda played at a local club called the Blue Note about a month later. She was just beginning to break big and the show sold out quickly. People drove in from all over the midwest to see her. Some were following her from town to town. Several people brought bouquets of roses. I was shocked by the size of the crowd and their enthusiasm. I was standing in the front row just a few feet from Lucinda. She smiled at me several times. I was able to sing along to each song, and was amazed that most of the people in the crowd also knew all the words so soon after the album's release. Lucinda seemed touched by the response. She laughed a lot and kept shouting, "Man, this town rocks!" between songs. That was the night she did the seven song encore that I mentioned in the other thread.
David's cousin moved to Mississippi about that time. We had some close freinds move to Athens, Georgia, and we started taking fairly regular trips to New Orleans and Austin. That all added up to a lot of time driving through the south. Driving through the south with Lucinda on the CD player became something of a religious experience for me. It's hard to explain, but Lucinda fans will know what I mean.
"Essence" became much more meaningfull to David than to me. "World Without Tears" was very personal for me. I always seem to be feeling scorpians under my skin when I'm heating a can of soup since that one came out.
We got to see Lucinda once more in Columbia before we moved to New Mexico, and saw her once in Santa Fe. Both shows were great. When David got a job offer in Tucson, we were very torn on whether or not we wanted to move again. He asked me to start looking for signs. I picked up "West" at Borders on the day it came out and listened to it on the drive home from work. I took it home and told him that we had our sign. He listened to it and called the next day to accept the job offer in Tucson.
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It all began in the late 90s before even the formation of the LMB, and I was in a dark part of my life, a place where I realized all the plans I had had were meaningless, everything had fallen through and everything was coming apart.
So I spent a lot of time at a local hangout/bar, drowning my sorrows with others in the same boat (though most of them were a lot older than I was).
Anyhoo, on such an afternoon as this, a beautiful song bagan on the jukebox... one that was so simple yet so dripping with sorrow, drenched in sadness... I felt it grip my heart. I also felt I recognized the voice... "That's Emmylou Harris". Now Emmylou's album "Quarter Moon In a Ten-Cent Town" is a masterpeice than any Lu fan would love and should own, but at this point all I had was an old worn out 8-track of it, I hadn't listened to it in years.
So, almost as if a higher power was guiding me, I got up from my seat and staggered over to the jukebox to verify my self-proclomation that Emmylou Harris was the singer of this song. That song was entitled "GREENVILLE", referring to podunk little Greenville, Mississippi.
I was stunned to realize the singer wasn't Emmylou, but some chick named Lucinda Williams.
"Who is thish, and why does she shound so much like Emmylou?" I asked myself drunkenly.
Well, I was intrigued. I decided to sample 3 more songs-- all at random-- from this cd on the jukebox, a test to see how much like Emmylou she might sound on other tracks.
Those other tracks I selected at random were "RIGHT IN TIME", "DRUNKEN ANGEL" and "JACKSON".
That was it. I was hooked, heart and soul.
I went out and bought the cd the next day. I can't remember who it was who played "Greenville" on the jukebox that afternoon but I sure owe them a world of thanks.
(I was also pleased to note Emmylou DID sing with Lu on "Greenville"... in a way, I owe my love of Lu to that old Emmylou 8-track ("Quarter Moon...") that I have since bought an expanded CD version of)
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A bar is actually the perfect place to discover Lucinda. Emmylou is a once in a generation talent. A true national treasure. Her genoristy toward Lucinda, Rosanne Cash, and Nanci Griffith makes me love her even more. I'm a fan of all these ladies, and Emmylou has helped promote them, and recorded some of their songs on her albums to get them some royalty money.
Do you listen to Nanci or Rosanne, Lash?
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Rosanne Cash was one of my earliest loves... I still have her first 3 albums (vinyl!) in near-mint condition... I can remember hearing "No Memories Hanging 'Round" on the radio... saw her in concert in the 80s... "Blue Moon With Heartache", what a song... "Second to No One" can still make me cry... I loved the rest of that late-80s album with "Hold On" and "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" on it...
I will admit to not being as familiar with her more recent stuff... for which I need to be smacked, and hard. Wanna give me a mini-review of her last couple-three CDs? I miss Rosanne.
Nancy Griffith... I'm almost certain I should know something about her... wanna give me some potentially memory-boosting highlights? I unfortunately pretty much fell completely away from the country music genre from about 1987-88 or so to about 1996-97 and know I missed some good stuff.
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