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Great review, really sums up why I/We love Lucinda, and really appreciate the upcoming Scottish date,
cause lets face it 20 years is far too long to wait.That’s probably the best summation of Lucinda’s work that I’ve read on the forum. Great review. I hope the show is everything you want. I have seen the magic several times. Thanks. 😀
Looking back, that first album and show also started a shift in my thinking about music. It took something special to pierce my hand-me-down Anglophile indie rock snobbery and embrace that most parodied of pop music, country. But soon came the American alternative country movement which owed as much to the Beatles as Hank Williams. And Williams was no straight twang act, she continues to mix blues, gospel, and rock into her sound. And then there was her voice with its world-weary timbre.
This is so appropriate. Most of the Lu fans I know were all big punk followers in the 70’s, if you told them back then that they’d be listening to more country music than anything they would’ve had a good laugh 😆 It’s like any genre – you have to look a bit further than the fluff at the top, and also not worry about labels. I always thought the Lu comment about being “too rock for country, and too country for rock” a great message about how f**ked up the music industry is.
Anyhow – waiting patiently for Russell Baillie’s review of Friday night, maybe it’ll be in Monday’s paper….
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