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A really great series of 20 photos from last night’s interview / performance.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/LvliFSyHhb0/New+Yorker+Festival+2012+Lucinda+Williams
lwj
“[Blonde] hair and black leatherMy favorite color scheme”. . .
Thanks, lwj. Anyone with comments on the verbal component of this event?
@LWjetta wrote:
A really great series of 20 photos from last night’s interview / performance.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/LvliFSyHhb0/New+Yorker+Festival+2012+Lucinda+Williams
lwj
photos won’t cut it. now what about the audio? 🙂
the regular smiley face – i.e. : + ) – in this forum is utterly depressed: 🙂
i should always remember to go for 😀 –> that’s a hearty smiley face. but it is a bit smug. it beams too much.
:+) is another option, but you’d think the nose is broken or hurt.
that’s all i have to say, really.
@stoger wrote:
“[Blonde] hair and black leatherMy favorite color scheme”. . .
Thanks, lwj. Anyone with comments on the verbal component of this event?
A short blog from the Back of the House.
Last night I was lucky enough to be treated to The New Yorker Festival’s conversation with Lucinda Williams. I wasn’t her hugest fan, but appreciate her music and Southern heritage. Lucinda was being interviewed by Ariel Levy, who I am now equally infatuated with (more on that later). There wasn’t any wine being served, and after being at a 3-year-old’s birthday party in Long Island all day, I was a little afraid I was going to nod off. But, as soon as Lucinda came on stage, I was captivated by her laid back, content approach to the interview, and really, to recounting her life in general.
She didn’t really start pushing her music unapologetically until she was in her mid-thirties, didn’t get married until she was 50 (without a wedding in the South no less), and was wearing extremely chic black denim. Though she has had her share of hardship to wade through (her mother was mentally ill, both of her siblings currently are), a long list of failed dirtbag relationships (many who had ended in death), she never once positioned those experiences in an overly negative light. There wasn’t any need for pity, she didn’t make any excuses for her past. This was merely her life, and here she was, still creating, still penciling on black eyeliner.
As an unwed, creative, emotionally-exposed woman in her thirties, it was inspiring to see someone who has lived and was still living such a full life on her own terms. It was refreshing to listen to someone speak respectfully of her life, not operating on a societal timeline. A nice reminder that if you are lucky, there is a lot of life to be lived.
After the interview, Lucinda performed the song above—Side of the Road. She had to restart it three times because she was a little under the weather, which resulted in me on the verge of sobbing uncontrollably. I’m happy to report she is still rocking this hairdo in 2012
http://backofhouse.tumblr.com/page/2
lwj
@punchdrunklove wrote:
the regular smiley face – i.e. : + ) – in this forum is utterly depressed: 🙂
i should always remember to go for 😀 –> that’s a hearty smiley face. but it is a bit smug. it beams too much.
:+) is another option, but you’d think the nose is broken or hurt.
that’s all i have to say, really.
pdl. How about these smiley faces from the New Yorker Festival ?[attachment=0:1s2mje77]Tom and Lu at New Yorker Festival.jpg[/attachment:1s2mje77]
Sorry, no can find any videos of the show.lwj
ooh, that’s a beautiful photo. i doubt team lucinda/tom has a nicer one. shame that the AP logo is all over it.
Copied from Lucinda’s Facebook for tonight in DC
LUCINDA TO PERFORM NEW SONG CO-WRITTEN WITH WOODY GUTHRIE AT KENNEDY CENTER IN DC:
At tomorrow night’s Woody Guthrie 100th Birthday finale at Kennedy Center in DC Lucinda will be performing a never before heard Woody Guthrie composition cal…led House Of Earth. The lyrics, from 1947, were sent to Lucinda several months ago by Nora Guthrie, who wanted to know if Lucinda was interested in putting music to the long lost words. Written from a female perspective, more specifically a prostitute, the dark House Of Earth is unlike anything Woody had ever done and Lucinda was thrilled to be asked to bring these lyrics to life. As mentioned of above this will be the first public performance of the song.
House Of Earth is also the title of the upcoming previously unpublished Woody Guthrie novel being released thru Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley’s new publishing venture, but apparently that is all the book and the song have in common.-Lucinda mgmt
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