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so weird to say that a song is PUNISHING. what does that mean?
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tom, you’re the one to make the 12-minute version of WRAP available to us. just go for it! 💡
I wish I could -but it’s buried somewhere in the multitracks -I don’t think we never printed off a copy of the 12 minute version-but I might go back and see what i do have.
I am a big fan of this song and I remember the night the band played it under the tent on the waterfront in Boston, another vacation show for me. The Charlie Louvin tour. Very hot that night.
i really, really love this album. i wasn’t sure at first, and it was a slow burn, but it has stayed with me and had hundreds of listens since its release, especially in darker times.
i think a lot of the negative reviews at the time were unfair and kind of missed the point. there seems to be this critical viewpoint that since car wheels lucinda’s songwriting has become “lazier”, which doesn’t seem fair at all. the melodies on west fit perfectly with the album’s content.
the title track has to be one of my favourite all time songs.
[quote=”TOverby”(i’ve always wanted to write a piece on why I think World Without Tears is one the riskiest records put out in a long long time-maybe ever)[/quote]
I swear, I was actually going to write a blog entry about this EXACT THING sometime soon, as World Without Tears has been in my car’s cd player constantly for about three weeks ago. It’s so honest it hurts.I wish the album version of Wrap had been 12 minutes long!
I have actually come to think that West is the definitely best Lucinda Williams album, it’s movement from rockers to ballads, both sweet and sad, with guitars and orchestrations, is gentle and spacious. The words have a meaning, and you feel it by heart, this is a real piece of not only brilliant music and art, it’s something as rare as a trip along someones road of life.
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