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@stoger wrote:
2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten [written in Knoxville one New Year’s Day–Lu makes a big deal of the junebug vs. hurricane line, perhaps in response to a nice blurb in Metro Pulse newspaper about this issue]
Details? Link? I Googled to no avail.
Thanks,
Tom
It’s nice to see in this cyber age that good old newsprint trumpts googling and links sometimes. I’ll just type the blurb in; it’s written by Chris Barrett, who I think is a freelancer rather than a Metro Pulse editor or staff writer.
“How best to prepare for a new Lucinda Williams recording? Little Honey, album number 10 for Williams, is scheduled to arrive on OCt. 14. Williams writes songs and makes music from which it’s difficult to keep your distance. Her stories, elegies, rants, come-ons, break-up, serenades, and fictional musical memoirs are not universal. Still, similar to the way Raymond CArver could conjure the next-door neighbor’s family with four words about a withered azalea, Williams drops just enough hints and details to make you think maybe, seriously, that guy behind you in line at the Auto Zone this morning might have been the loser ex she’s singing about. It’s rarely easy listening, because you become invested in the lives and deaths of the people she sings about. And the people she sings about don’t get the kinds of lives that are typically set to music. They get real lives and everything that comes with them.
“Back when people were shorter and lived near the water, Lucinda Williams spoke to me by phone in order to help me with a Metro Pulse concert posting very similar to this one. The recording of the moment was called Sweet Old World. She laughed and gave me a lot of shit because my first question was, ‘Are you OK’? She said, ‘They’re just songs. You don’t think people asked Flannery O’Connor that allthe time, do you? “Are you OK?”
“Maybe they should have, but that’s beside the point. The five fine albums between Sweet Old World and Little Honey chronicle the substantial progress of an artist and a person. Persistent threads of personal loss and hopelessness have given way to hope and humor, of all things. Ten years ago, on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Williams sang about ‘JUnebug versus hurricane.’ If she pulls that one out this week at the Bijou, there is much to suggest that these days Williams identifies a lot less with the junebug.”
by Chris Barrett, Metro Pulse Sept. 25, 2008
OK. Carolinas, where are you? It’s a big week for you; let’s hear.
Going tonight to the Belk Theater show in Charlotte. First Lucinda show for me and my wife. Second row. I’ll post you some mess after the show. Hope we’re not asked to sit down. It looks like a rockin’ affair from the 2008 tour set lists.
later, Jonesy
I’ll see you there Jonesy, row BBB center orchestra pit. You are going to have a blast, first timer.
Hey, thanks Stoger, for keyboarding that in by hand, the old fasioned way. Much appreciated. 3 paragraphs worth sharing. Thanks for your own reporting,too. 🙂
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