Re: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 7:50 pm

sounds like it's going to be a delicate one.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:50 pm

This is why I hate you all.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 7:51 pm

Nightjar wrote:Yet, when I've introduced other elements of SR here it's been sneered at.

It's not what an artist does that matters. It's how they do it. box

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:52 pm

This sounds like ~~Nobbie~~ Bonnie Raitt a bit.

Only cause it's tilting at standard affections I guess.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:52 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Yet, when I've introduced other elements of SR here it's been sneered at.
It's not what an artist does that matters. It's how they do it.

Rubbish.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:53 pm

You're not getting a "like" for that rubbish, BTW.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 7:53 pm

This is a nice one.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:54 pm

Luckily you've got your 'broom boy'.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 7:54 pm

That last one was OK.

by Guest Mon May 04, 2020 7:55 pm

Is it over?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 7:56 pm

It is over.

That was a solid album that I feel could have achieved more, had it set out to. There is one genuinely outstanding track on it and several good ones. Its high points were whenever she played to her Number One strength, which is her ability to project honest feeling in a way few artists can. Few people do intensity like she does.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Mon May 04, 2020 7:57 pm

Well, it started off competent but boring.

It went on. It got more interesting, but by that stage it was more background listening.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 7:58 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 8:01 pm

That was OK.

Nothing I haven't heard before.

Nothing I haven't heard before and better even.

Still, by no means bad.

Funnily enough, as the Youtube playlist clicked over into a live number of the last song, you could see that she's quite likely a powerful and magnetic live performer.

That I suppose is what maintains the lasting appeal of artists who work in and around a, potentially hackneyed, genre.

Ultimately it didn't quite translate the power or charisma of the artist to the record, but to dislike it in any way would be churlish and, since I do love the Southern 'Rock' genre - the most culturally eclectic popular music genre of them all (Blues, Country, Funk, Folk, Soul, Rock, Bluegrass, Zydeco etc) - I could never say she let that genre or, doubtless, her own milieu and personal canon down.

by Guest Mon May 04, 2020 8:04 pm

Maybe if they'd cut out 20 minutes it would have been a bit more, errr.. engaging. shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 04, 2020 8:33 pm

Nightjar wrote:Funnily enough, as the Youtube playlist clicked over into a live number of the last song, you could see that she's quite likely a powerful and magnetic live performer.

There is no barrier between her eyes and her soul. scared

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 8:46 pm

It's called booze, Wendi.

Booze.

by Nightjar Mon May 04, 2020 9:25 pm

Her eyes are wet.

They glisten and glitter, but they're misted by booze.

It makes the eyes stare back inside in a pensive reverie.

by Guest Tue May 05, 2020 10:29 am

Nightjar wrote:
I do love the Southern 'Rock' genre - the most culturally eclectic popular music genre of them all (Blues, Country, Funk, Folk, Soul, Rock, Bluegrass, Zydeco etc) - I could never say she let that genre or, doubtless, her own milieu and personal canon down.

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