Stockholm [Sweden] @Cirkus 5.26.13

Thanks; maybe Side & Fruits are tour debuts?

Lucinda Williams, Circus
May 26, 2013
Score: 4

When Lucinda Williams in an interview in 1996 was asked what she is most afraid of, she replied “to die and to fly.” I do not know what triggered the panic attack that hit her on KB’s scene in Malmö on Thursday, but probably she did not come suddenly to worry about the flight home. Such an attack is normally not something you just shrug off, and I can only imagine the stress inside when it is done in the full glare.

At Circus this ösregniga Sunday marked none of this when Williams piloted out of the darkness and alone begins to sing “Lake Charles.” Already in the second song, “Side Of The Road” from the 1988 self-titled album, the concert highlights more notch to a level that subsequently get slumps. With him she bassist David Sutton and troföljaren and guitarist Doug Pettibone, both belonged to her band for many years. On tour poster reads An intimate evening with Lucinda Williams, and right attachment without drums gets her own attributes to shine even stronger: the scratchy, drawling voice, sydstatsdialekten, vibrato. And above all, the timeless songwriting.

Thematically, the most sexual undertones, Southern USA, highways, religion and life in general darkness. Three of tonight’s number was written to deceased friends, just such a thing. The newly written “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and Skip James Covern “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” Williams demonstrates his skills in singing the blues, but on the whole, is the most melancholy country rock that apply, which is to her advantage because it is where she sounds best. “Blue” is just as beautiful as I hoped, “Fruits Of My Labor” as well. When she sings a wistful road trip in the “Jackson” I look up towards the lone spotlight in the middle of the ceiling above the audience that shines down like the moon on a clear night on a deserted country road. Right there and then pedal steel the main instrument in the world.

“Blessed,” the fine title track from their latest album, is one of three encores. Blessed are both Lucinda Williams and we saved in the audience with such a talented guitarist who mentioned Pettibone, who without trying to outshine the songs picks up their own – pardon the pun – essence, something that requires both humility and talent beyond the ordinary. Blessed is also this Sunday evening with a concert containing a series hallelujha moments. Amen.

@stoger wrote:

“‘Blue’ is just as beautiful as I had hoped”

This is identical, in both tntracy-speak and tn-tracy-assisted Google translation.

Indeed. You know me too well, friend. Almost undoubtedly my favorite Lucinda song! 😉

Tom