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i was not so lucky, could only read half or so of it. maybe because i don’t buy too much there.
also, i discovered that this article was included in a collection of some of the best profiles published in that magazine (“Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker”).
i find it impossible to believe that the vast majority of those european venues are seated. sitting must be very unconfortable at least in the last 7 or 8 songs of every setlist from this europe tour.
is it my impression or in concerts lucinda doesn’t play “are you alright?” often?
i’ve also never seen “mama you sweet” in a setlist.
@Lafayette wrote:
@tntracy wrote:
Well, stoger, I confess – not to sending you that message, of course, but to the fact that I went (i.e., to the Twitter link Lafayette posted above), and yet I still do not get it. Three messages were displayed there, none of which made any sense to me. Maybe it’s a generational mental block or something similar that I suffer from?
Tom
I can fill you in tnt. I’m guessing “lucinda” did a search and saw a post from semionato . She made an @ reply to him/her asking what language did they speak ( that reply goes back to that particular twitterer.) He then made an @ reply back to her, and in turn, she responded “very funny” to something that only she can see in her @reply inbox from semionato. Apparently, semionato is from Brazil and tweets about Lu daily. Very big fan. Right, semionato ? Oh, he speaks Portuguese and very bad English. Yes, I learned this by going back and forth on his twitter account.
that’s about right. i’m semionato. i guess lucinda was equally terrified and surprised that people talk about her in a foreign language (and do that using “car wheels on a gravel road” and “striptease” in the same sentence!). here’s a brazilian kid, a very, very recently converted fan (less than 2 months of very heavy listening), talking about her in portuguese in what is supposed to be (is in fact) an in joke (a dj friend of mine listened to car wheels and told me that he couldn’t play it on his sets because people would immediately take their clothes off. and that’s probably a compliment.).
fake account or not, i was thrilled for her first 3 twitts. and i really really don’t believe that anyone except her would take into account a weird young fan. after all, if you’re just pretending why bother with little-fish-fans(*)?
and some of my friends still believe that i’m the responsible for the whole thing.
(*) that doesn’t make a lot of sense in english.
what about this: https://twitter.com/HappyWoman9
i’m being “followed” by her (and that’s got to do with the fact that i’m the only person that twitts about lucinda on a daily basis, and in a foreign, bizarre language). i don’t think this is a fake account. the thing that puzzles me is the lack of updates. maybe i’m just a blind fan.
come to brazil, lucinda.
hm, i always wondered about that until this:
2. Lucinda Williams: “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten”
Peter: This came on in Alabama. Her music is such a product of its environment that it really couldn’t have been more perfect. Lucinda is one of the best songwriters of our time, and I think this is one of her best. The first lines are “You can’t depend on anything really/ There’s no promises, there’s no point/ There’s no good, there’s no bad.”
But before you could wonder how such a simple sounding song could dare to be so brazenly high-concept, the line closes with “in this dirty little joint,” bringing the scene back home, philosophically intact but tactile and visceral. A perfect, pillow-familiar country melody leads us from the existential to the biblical, all in the course of describing a bar in Mississippi.
Ben actually did a little research and it turns out this song is based on a Birney Imes photo: the title is on a sign in the background; the subject is a group of guys around a pool table in a Juke Joint in Mississippi. And my favorite lyric ever– “Junebug versus hurricane, hey hey”– is also a reference to booze. I think I had a Hurricane in New Orleans once; never had a Junebug but apparently they’re real.
http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6114-mobius-band-ten-songs-or-albums-from-a-15-seat-van/
makes sense, right?
