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Well just thought I’d share a couple of my faves,to set the scene(as it where) I was travelling alone in my old pickup heading from SW Oklahoma to visit friends in Alamagordo New Mexico,it was late in the afternoon and I’d just crossed in to N.M. heading out of TX,the country out there is shall we say a little bleak ? A very stark beauty.
Anyway as the sun was making its way down behind the distant mountains (and blinding me from time to time) I was listening to a Lu compilation,and being as all tracks are like old friends found myself dwelling on different parts other than just the “singing along” stuff…… found myself listening for the breaks/solos etc and rediscovered some…
The guitar solo in “Are You Allright” is amazingly beautiful, The Piano in “If Wishes where Horses” fits perfectly and my old fave “Something About What Happens” well still gives me chills.
Just seemed like a good combination of events,when all things seemed right with the world.The trip went well, good times and tequilla with old friends…….anyway just thought I’d share and see if anyone else has noticed any other little solo gems.Thanks for sharing your experience. A lonely road trip across the Texas Panhandle & through Eastern New Mexico at sunset in an old pickup truck listening to Lu. Gotta love it…
Tom
sometimes i whistle the opening of angels laid him away and jackson – and i can’t whistle properly, in fact i can’t whistle at all. i can’t think of a nicer compliment.
i’ve been listening to lucinda quite a lot in the last 11 months, and i have specific memories concerning tiny bits of each song.
i love the neverending “willing'” in the end of hard road, the la la las from out of touch and side of the road, the hey heys from 2 kool, the oh ohs from greenville, the way she sings “just for the love of someone, and a big red sun” (big red sun blues), “did they lay down a law and lock up your heart” (steal your love) and “every time i see you, i wanna fall in love again” (king of hearts); the storytelling of memphis pearl and pineola, the images that i get from car wheels (“cotton fields stretching miles and miles”) and minneapolis (“snow covers the street lamps and the windowsills”); the last “of mine” of “little angel, little brother”, the “i love you, mama you sweet” over and over, the “baby sweet baby” from fruits of my labor. love the opening of people talkin” (especially the “tryin’ to teeeear us apart” bit), the unbelievably sing-along quality of concrete and barbed wire and sweet old world.
you know what, the drums, the wonderful drums of 2 kool top everything. in my opinion the last part of this song contains the most striking attempt on lucinda’s part to make sense of an event that is in itself incomprehensible (to me), the whole “he asked me ‘would you jump into the water with me'” and “it’s your own death you see”. and then you just get another unsolvable enigma (“junebug vs. hurricane” stamped on a wall, a single photo from a book as an inspiration) and those very weird, very beautiful, very disturbing hey heys. i have no idea what to make of this song, but this is possibly the best i’ve ever heard.
i also love the gurf morlix version, it’s quieter and lovelier, but i don’t think it’s better. the album version just goes in a wondrous crescendo of a finale, while this one tries to “make sense” of everything by repeating the kind of conforting, just-let-it-go first lines “you can’t depend on anything really, there’s no promises, there’s no point” before the final hey heys.
it’s very hard to write in english. sorry for any mistake/misspell.
and, oh, come to south america one day, please! there’ll be a nice crowd awaiting, and a beautiful natural setting, nice bridges and rivers.
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