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The problem with the link is that it has an extraneous [/url] tacked on to the end of it. It works if you remove it.
Thanks for the review, basil.
Basil your ‘concert report’ about the Lucunida Williams show in Ann Arbor is retarded bullshit. You devote most of your writing to complaints against those who choose to express themselves during lulls, saying ‘Most of the shouting was by middle aged men who are probably infatuated with Lucinda’. I heard men and women speaking up and saw some women dancing in the aisles. Lucinda ate it all up ! The problem here is you are ‘probably’ one of those blad headed old farts who never got laid and sit in front of you’re computer every night looking at porn and masterbating. Next time stay home and listen to the CD. Then you won’t have wonder why a great artist doesn’t comfrom to your narrow-minded assumptions about the use of a lyric notebook.
I thought the show was fantastic. About three years ago I bought a CD of Elvis Costello’s favorite songs at Starbucks and one of the songs was “Over Time”. This lead to the purchase of three of Lucinda’s CD’s over the next week.
My first impression, Lucinda can really play guitar. But she doesn’t play it as an end in itself, she plays it to convey what she is trying to express to the audience.
Second, I have read about her “vocal limitations”. I don’t know why people have said this. Her voice is awesome and real.
Third, she really gets out there on stage and puts her self on the line. She is both a phenomenal performer, and very human at the same time.
I didn’t have a problem with the hooting and all from the audience. I didn’t find it distracting. My view was that she had an audience of true fans who really knew a lot about her as an artist and person. In my mind, they made a good choice. She played a lot of really great songs.
My opinion: Lucinda Williams is everything she’s cracked up to be. If she were playing again in town tonight I would go back and see her again and the next night too. Just appreciate her qualities – she’s a real artist and fine musician. They don’t come along very often.Response to review by Basil:
Here’s my review:
Lucinda William’s did not play Too Cool to Be Forgotten in Ann Arbor Sunday night at the Michigan Theatre, though she succinctly left that song penned so many years ago like a scar in the ears of those who attended her sold out show in Ann Arbor Sunday night.
Lucinda (i shall call her by her first name Basil) left her cowgirl hat on the bus, but she brought along a sizzling branding iron that burned a slow orange phosphorescence in the auditory canals and hearts of those who came to relish the raw purity of her music.
Early in the night, Maestro Doug Pettibone (guitar) unleashed monstrosities from his truly functionally schizophrenic guitar; those monsters initially talked back like orange-headed stepchildren chock full of sugar, but they were soon quelled with the lushness of Lucinda’s poignant lyrics and authenticity. Throughout the night, Doug’s guitar spewed vulgarities and unbenounced surprises, and Lucinda met him eye-to-eye and note-for-note for many communion-like toasts.
Jim Keltner (drummer) kept it all together from his concentric perch like the true monk-choreographer he is by grounding all of them like a Whac-a-Mole champion at the State Fair; he suggested everyone play well with others; at times, he raised his voice, and during Come On , he actually proved that his words owned gravity with an eloquent and mean drum solo that would make a drummer boy’s mentor blush . He definitely got his point across, and he added several exclamation points in the process.
Tony Garnier (bass) played lookout from stage-right, he helped keep everyone in check (like he has with Dylan, Asleep at the Wheel, Tom Waits, Wainright, Paul Simon) with his steady, subtle, and sturdy strength of conviction.
Carrie Rodriguez joined the crew later unlacing her fiddle for a mean rendition of Lucinda’s Joy.
Once again, Lucinda enraptured her fans with a poignancy, rawness, and strength of conviction that is Too Cool to Be Forgotten.
signed,
half-awake
lansing, michigan[/u]by the way, i was the first one to whistle when she took her jacket off…i wish i could whistle louder.
Ummm – Jim Keltner and Tony Garnier were not playing with Lucinda. Get the facts straight before you spew your vulgarities.
Well, I wasn’t in Ann Arbor, but I strongly doubt that erstwhile studio musicians Tony Garnier and Jim Keltner (Essence) joined the band for this one night. I appreciate the struggle for evocative language which the last poster showed (and I haven’t read the controversial “Basil link” yet); most things were probably accurate. Still, it had to be David Sutton and Butch Norton in the rhythm section, no? I won’t resurrect the Christie/Produniak nostalgia here (jackstraw says it well), nor will I pine for Messrs. Heffington and Bryan. The backing musicians are more than serviceable, but the day Keltner and Garnier condescend to go on tour with our Lu is the day I’ll take notice bigtime.
OK–now I have read Basil’s report; I wouldn’t quite go so far as to deem it “retarded bullshit,” but there are some dubious statements. I’ll confine myself to the Carrie Rodriguez business, whose opening act I’ve seen three times on this tour. If you think her new song “Mask of Moses” is anti-Israeli, I suggest you try to make Buffalo or Columbus or Knoxville or Memphis or Louisville and listen once more. What it’s “anti” toward is the demented current policy of a nation much closer to us than anywhere in the Middle East, viz., the land of most of the people currently posting. As for an alleged dearth of cover songs, Rodriguez has only 35-40 minutes from night to night. Didn’t you get an instrumental fiddle tune in Ann Arbor which she identified as a cover? I can’t remember the title or the artist I’m afraid, but she threw in at least one such song. Beyond that, half of what you heard was co-authored with Chip Taylor, and it don’t get much better than that. . . .
fair enough – i really couldn’t hear the lyrics on the verses of the moses, so i could be wrong about the song. i’d like to read the lyrics, but i couldn’t find them anywhere on the Internet.
there may well have been an instrumental cover in her set, but i would have liked to hear a singing song to give me, as someone who’s never heard carrie rodriguez before, some context. maybe a hank willliams song. i don’t think that would have taken anythign away from her set and i think it could have made her some new fans.
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