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You Don’t Have Very Far To Go is by far my favorite. I was really let down by Roseanne Cash’s cover but Lucinda’s is amazing. I also love The Angels Laid Him Away an Which Will.
@All I Ask wrote:
Why does anyone care what a performer needs to put on a good show ? Everybody is different and some folks have better memories than others. I myself have written songs (some up to 20 years old) and I’ve forgotten lyrics, melodies and chord patterns when I don’t play ’em for a while.
Ripley, a song can be written in an hour or over years and if you don’t use it, you lose it. Your comments always seem to be negative. Is this because of your affiliation with telemarketing?
*sigh* it’s a quote from the movie Transamerica.
I just get negative around “can do no wrong” type fanbases. They frustrate me because they go so far out of their way to defend bullshit things artist can do.
I think it makes Lucinda less of a performer for using such an obvious form of lyric prompting. If she is such a perfectionist than shouldn’t she care more about coming off as stiff and unprepared during her live shows? I mean on half the songs she does she is completely reading the lyrics word for word like shes at some karaoke bar or something.
She’s not that damn old to be this forgetful. And its not like she shakes up her setlist that much she always does the same 2 songs from s/t., SOW, Essence and the same ones from WWT and CWOGR. Even when she does requests they always seem to be staples. Like when she did Sweet Side in Florida, that is a song she does all the time anyway. It’s not like she busts out Like A Rose or Lines Around Your Eyes.
@Stan wrote:
Coming from a musician, my quick take is…once you record a song, you tend to forget it. You move on to other material.
considering musicians spend weeks writing a song I think this is BS. 🙄
I saw Loretta Lynn recentyl and sure she flubbed lyrics but at least she had her dignity.
I was really embarassed to see Lucinda using lyrics sheets. The only other person I’ve seen use one was Courtney Love (circa 2004 at the height of her second drug problem).
It wouldnt have been so bad if it wasn’t that she was obviously reading them line by line. And to boot, she actually did flub the lyrics (no beer smokin).
I’d rather her be more spontanious and less concerned with a perfect show. Perfect shows are boring. If I wanted perfection I’d listen to the cd.
In your endless summer night
I’ll be on the other side
When you’re beautiful and dying all the world that you’ve denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep tonight,
When the glitter fades in morning
Turn away and you will find my empty eyes
Your beauty blinds.1. Like A Rose
2. Greenville
3. Fruits Of My Labor
4. Something About What Happens When We Talk
5. Jackson
6. Crescent City
7. Ventura
8. Sweet Old World
9. Maria
10. Still I Long For Your Kissnot including any of her covers, because if I did “You Don’t Have Very Far To Go” would rank very highly.
I really hate Joy. It gets on my nerves so bad. I don’t like most of her more hard rock songs (which is funny because most of what I listen to is hard rock) but Joy, Righteously, Atonement, Come On are all in my very bottom tier.
So far I’m not getting into it. There are three songs I love (Words, Fancy Funeral and Are You Alright?) and two songs that I detest (Wrap My Head Around That and Come On) but the album might grow on me more. I actually hated WWT when I first got it but now it’s my third favorite begind Car Wheels and LW. I don’t care for Essence much and this record seems to be getting a lot of comparison to it so maybe that explains things a little. I think Essence is nice but nothing off of it is jaw droppingly good. Although Lonely Girls and Blue are nice to hear every now and again.
Anyways, so far Im not sold on West.
