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From the Tampa Bay Tribune, a review from the Capitol Theatre.
Here’s the headline and the last 2 sentences of the article.
Lucinda Williams keeps outlaw country aliveWilliams longtime band members were tight and her voice — as she recently told Rolling Stone Magazine in an interview — is “the best it’s ever been.”
The crowd was not disappointed, and clapped and whooped after every well-crafted melody.The full article.
http://tbo.com/news/breaking-news/lucinda-williams-keeps-outlaw-country-alive-20140524/lwj
Good god.Pretty unbelievable that that show would be called “outlaw country”- or any kind of country (is there an in-law country also?). There wasn’t anything about that set that would beg that description. Hard to take issue with a positive review but I find that kind of writing lazy, un knowledgable and complete mis-information, which ends up being unfair to the artist. Outlaw country by the truest definition was Waylon and Willie (and the boys) – and by my recollection Lucinda didn’t exactly do a cover of Luckenbach, Texas. I guess at this point, Lu could do a whole show of Metallica songs and it would still get called outlaw country. I’ll bet the fantastic sold out audience didn’t even realize that they were at an outlaw country show until they read it today.
There’s my Sunday afternoon bus rant.
Last night WAS a great example of an audience that really connected and lifted up Lu and the band from note one- she was talking about how great that was. Thanks Clearwater for a great night.@TomOverby wrote:
Good god.Pretty unbelievable that that show would be called “outlaw country”- or any kind of country (is there an in-law country also?). There wasn’t anything about that set that would beg that description. Hard to take issue with a positive review but I find that kind of writing lazy, un knowledgable and complete mis-information, which ends up being unfair to the artist. Outlaw country by the truest definition was Waylon and Willie (and the boys) – and by my recollection Lucinda didn’t exactly do a cover of Luckenbach, Texas. I guess at this point, Lu could do a whole show of Metallica songs and it would still get called outlaw country. I’ll bet the fantastic sold out audience didn’t even realize that they were at an outlaw country show until they read it today.
There’s my Sunday afternoon bus rant.
Last night WAS a great example of an audience that really connected and lifted up Lu and the band from note one- she was talking about how great that was. Thanks Clearwater for a great night.Rant on, bro! And a setlist from the middle FL gig would not go unread.
Just another Memorial Day rant while the bus is enroute to Atlanta.
One of my favorite channels on Sirius XM is 60 to hear Lu while on the road, along with KCRW in LA.when I’m at home.
Maybe a DJ from Sirius wrote the Clearwater article.Outlaw Country’s bio:
What You’ll Hear
Renegades, rebels, rabble rousers and roguesArtists You’ll Hear
Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams Jr., Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Drive-By Truckers, Old 97sThe website:
http://www.siriusxm.com/outlawcountry
Also Lu’s running mate from Blackberry Farm, Ms. Elizabeth Cook has a daily show on this channel.
So have a happy holiday today.lwj
Well, I’m willing to acknowledge that journalists don’t craft their own headlines so was prepared to give the guy a pass, but upon second reading all that about “whiney sing-song” voice followed by “strong voice” a couple of paragraphs later doesn’t wash.
So Lu played “Something About What Happens When We Talk” in Clearwater?!? Sweet.
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