Drunken Angel

@punchdrunklove wrote:

btw, everybody here should see TREME and simon’s tv show before that, the wondrous THE WIRE.

There was a LuSong also played in an episode of The Wire.
“2 Cool 2 Be 4-gotten” I think.

Loved Seeing Lucinda on Treme and the comments made by Davis and Annie about the lyrics of “Crescent City.”

Emmylou Harris’s Hard Bargain will be released April 26 on Nonesuch Records. The album follows Harris’s acclaimed 2008 release, All I Intended to Be, which received widespread acclaim—Newsweek called it an album that “shows that Harris is still the stalwart songbird at the top of the roost.” Hard Bargain, which comprises 11 new songs by Harris as well as two covers, was produced by Jay Joyce (Cage the Elephant, Patty Griffin). A deluxe edition of the album includes a DVD featuring six performances interspersed with interviews. Nonesuch Store pre-orders of both editions include an exclusive manuscript lyric sheet of the song “The Road,” a number of which will be signed by Harris.

“We did the whole record in about a month, which is quite unusual for me. But I had all the material beforehand. I’d written 11 of the 13 songs and I really wanted to include two more by other writers,” Harris explains. “One of the covers is Ron Sexsmith’s ‘Hard Bargain,’ which I absolutely love. The other is by Jay Joyce, called ‘Cross Yourself.’

“We did the whole thing with just three musicians, me being one of them. Jay, the producer, and Giles Reeves play everything between them. It’s not a stripped down record though; there’s only one song that’s a little bare bones. I’m basically a slow ballad-y person, but Jay managed to really move the songs up a bit. But they still have the same emotional feel.”

Two of the album’s songs look back at relationships that were central to Harris’ creative life. She wrote “Darlin’ Kate” for her close friend and collaborator Kate McGarrigle, who died last year of a rare form of cancer, while “The Road” casts its eye further back to the formative time Harris spent with country/rock icon Gram Parsons at the beginning of her career.

A 12-time Grammy winner and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris’s contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to countless fellow artists’ recordings. In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

HARD BARGAIN TRACKLIST
1. The Road
2. Home Sweet Home
3. My Name Is Emmett Till
4. Goodnight Old World
5. New Orleans
6. Big Black Dog
7. Lonely Girl
8. Hard Bargain (Ron Sexsmith cover)
9. Six White Cadillacs
10. The Ship on His Arm
11. Darlin’ Kate
12. Nobody
13. Cross Yourself (Jay Joyce cover)

“The Road” is available for free download at http://www.emmylou.net.

Looking forward to this album.
T Rogers

Mission Bell will be streamed in its entirety starting this Tuesday (Jan 18) at The Listening Booth at MSN.com music.

The whole album is incredible. Don’t just go directly to the cut with Lucinda. Start from the beginning and build up to it.
Trust me.

Judging from the tour schedule, it look like Amos will be ending his tour at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on April 9. I will definitely be there. See you there, tntracy?

LWj –
I remember reading that article before. Very, very interesting and informative.

And that video was great. Thanks for posting it!

@Lafayette wrote:

It’s her delivery. Nobody does it better than Lu. Gets you in the gut, everytime.

You’re absolutely spot on.

Video of her performance:
http://www.youtube.com/user/luvnashville#p/u/12/SrN9Wgh5Aic

Thanks, West Words.

Hate that I missed the song.
Too busy to try and catch the rebroadcast today.

One day last week it was Six Blocks Away.

This may just get it started again.
But that’s okay.

….dirty old street….