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here’s the link: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2000/06/05/2000_06_05_050_TNY_LIBRY_000020984
i’ve been searching for a copy of this article for about a month but to no results. so if anyone has access to this article please share (i think subscribe the new yorker is enough for being granted access).
according to robert christgau (responsible for some of the best writing on lucinda in my opinion):
“(…) Lucinda Williams was the subject of a grueling, penetrating, National Magazine Award-nominated New Yorker profile by Louisiana-born Granta founder Bill Buford. This isn’t merely the best thing ever written about an artist journalists have long adored. It’s a classic portrait, adulatory and unillusioned all at once, of a ‘genius’ (…)” (http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/lucinda-01.php)
besides christgau’s reviews of her albums, my favorite article about her was “lucinda williams is in pain” (http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/14/magazine/lucinda-williams-is-in-pain.html), which i would describe as gruelling and penetrating even though it’s nowhere near a profile.
This article is accessible thru Amazon.com. It is contained in a compilation entitled “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001” You can search inside the book online and read the entire article. I just finished reading it. Thank you for making me aware of it.
i was not so lucky, could only read half or so of it. maybe because i don’t buy too much there.
also, i discovered that this article was included in a collection of some of the best profiles published in that magazine (“Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker”).
Thanks to being made aware of this in another post, I read this online at Amazon some time ago.
I did get to what appears to be ‘the end’ of what you’re allowed to read, instead of using the arrows I changed (overtype it) the page number and with a bit of to’ing and fro’ing you can get through it all. (Inherent sneakiness of being a professional system tester 😉 )
Hope this helps as it was well worth it.
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