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maybe the nicest of all memories i relate to lucinda, this one unites one of her songs to landscape, and there’s no better song for it than ‘jackson’ and no landscape more stunning than rio’s coastline. i hummed/sang quietly last year, during a bus ride in town. i didn’t need to listen to it, the song simply started – and went on and on. i must have included more cities and more ‘actions’ for the ‘i don’t think i’ll’ motif or i just repeated everything out of order. i was a newcomer fan then (and still am!), i don’t think i knew the lyrics way back, but ‘jackson’ is a pretty friendly/easy song for newcomers. anyway, it stayed with me for more than 20 minutes.

right now, i’m a west-fanatic. which means that verses and melodies from most of the songs pop up unexpectedly. the amazing thing is that was my least liked album by lucinda until recently. there’s just one song i can’t quite wrap my head around, but that’s bound to change.

‘big red sun blues’ is one of the catchiest lucinda tunes, imo. ‘passionate kisses’, too. but the RT album has the INSANELY enjoyable, a frenzy, maniac masterpiece, ‘i just wanted to see you so bad’. that one tops everything. maybe the chorus repetition has something to do with the spell it casts.

i watched the first episodes from season 1 and didn’t like much of it (except lake charles, in the pilot episode, but it could barely be heard!), i’ll make an exception for this one.

when i told my friend that lucinda wished that her song was played during a “torrid sex scene” between sookie and bill (two main characters), she said that there was indeed a torrid sex scene between the two (which she also described as vicious), but KLYK was put to better use to enhance the intimacy of a bittersweet talk after sex. her words, i’m just translating. in fact before posting i asked her if “sickening” would be appropriate to describe the sex scene, and she said “no, no”, then she came up with “vicious”. so there you go.

copenhagen and seeing black right in the middle of the album and one after the other should be devastating.

thanks for answering, tom. the idea of one hundred hours of footage sitting out there is both wonderful (it exists!) and sad (it doesn’t exist for us). i hope you can pull off a documentary, but since the RT album is in the imminence of being reissued, i’m confident that a package including a dvd with one of the nights would be an extraordinary addition to an already pretty special release.

was this ever done before? a record plus a dvd with a special performance of said record? seems like a very original way to honor the earlier material.

she was persuaded to sit at the piano and sing a song.

which song… maybe galveston?

jim carrey is a wise wise man.

i’ll see if our german bootleg fan has any of these two demo sessions (plus the couple of shows from the other thread).

For any curdmudgeons still on the fence about expanding their cyberspace world ~ I was all a twitter when Lu opened a twitter account last year, however, she has really wrapped her head, so it seems, around facebook. I recommend, if you don’t have a facebook account, or if you’re not following her if you have a facebook account, to open a facebook account and follow Lu! There’s something about what happens when Lu actually posts on facebook. Very cool.

i see what you mean, laffayete. twitter makes it impossible to estimate the vast amount of followers lucinda has (although, quite ironically, twitter is the network with categories such as “followers” and “following”). some of the messages people leave is really nice – i liked one that mentioned that it’s possible to hear her songs coming out from people’s homes in venice, california. and there’s some messages from worldwide fans, from croatia, italy and, uh, brazil (and those only in the first couple of pages).

just now someone posted a nice photo of her from the 80s: http://www.facebook.com/LucindaWilliams#!/photo.php?pid=1086026&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=12788249188&aid=-1&id=1495268455 (is that gurf morlix with the white t-shirt?)