Record Reviews: Lucinda Williams, Kinky Love Triangle, Lloyd Cole, Michelle Ndegeocello, Samantha
The stark confrontation between music and life and its events results in works such as Stories from the heart of rock and rollwhich is an album in Lucinda Williams He sings for his motivating sources and the mystery that still surrounds songmaking. Life-giving work, wrapped in a halo of victory Given the delicate course, of a clinical nature, that preceded it.
We talked about the hurricane that destroyed his home, the covid-19 virus, and worst of all, He had a stroke in November 2020, which caused him to suffer from movement restrictions on the left side, which he tried to overcome little by little. Nothing slowed her down: a few weeks after the stroke she was already acting up again, and just a few days ago It can be seen and enjoyed at the Azkena Rock Festival.
Lucinda Williams, Wounded, but not defeated at allunable (for the time being) to play the guitar, but conveying the truth with her voice as a survivor, with character, and bright as a composer in The Beautiful and the Hard. stories Who tells us compliments and at the age of 70. Starting with that classic rock album opener, like the Stones or The Faces, called Let’s get the band back togetherwhere he sighs for the old soul Gang In the company of colleagues like Margo Price and Buddy Miller.
There is a lot on this record A tribute to the music that captivated her at the age of twelveand it’s hard to remain unmoved by songs like Rock’n’Roll Heartreferring to “a working-class boy in a defeated city & rdquor; that he was able to give meaning to his life thanks to the guitar. And when he says that if you have a ‘heart Rock and Roll Music” So you don’t have to be so clever / And you don’t have to be a work of art, because conveying emotions can be within anyone’s reach. SOUNDS Bruce Springsteen and Patty Scialvaas in another wonderful number, New York back.
Williams sings wistfully to the (strange) tunes of his life jukebox (With a sweet echo of Angel Olsen as a second voice) and transforms the song into a poetic character in it Where the song will find me. Summon two lost friends, Tom Petty stolen moments and Bob Stinson (of The Replacements) at They are wines. Find a rock ruckus, let half rest, and pay attention on occasions to sonic fibers and brushstroke steel pedalAnd all this accompanied by the scholars: the drummer Heartbroken Steve Ferrone; keyboardist Reese Winans (who was a member of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble) or the ill-fated Steve Mackeyand bassist for Pulp (and Dolly Parton).
And as a climax, this It will never fade in which they were seen Face to face with depression And as Neil Young paraphrases: “I’ll never disappear,” he repeats to us, merging with his craft and with the song itself, giving us a life lesson. – Jordi Bianciotto
