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The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 1:13 pm

Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 1:22 pm, in reply to "The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 2:21 pm, in reply to "The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Oh Harriet Wheeler ...drool.

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic was a great album and they were very good live.

The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 3:11 pm, in reply to "The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Thanks for sharing music, Morrissey. It's one of the most evocative and powerful forces in the world.

The Lucinda Williams song means a lot to me since I've been periodically suicidal my whole adult life. Her song is comforting and puts things into perspective.

Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 3:29 pm, in reply to "Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Thanks for the thread, Morrissey.
Love Lucinda's stuff.
Had the great pleasure of seeing her live a couple of times, too.
I'd like to give Iris Dement a mention too.

Nanci Griffith takes me back to such bitter sweet memories and regrets!
RIP, Nanci.

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"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2025, 11:33 pm, in reply to "Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Oooh, Iris DeMent, thanks for the reminder! Spectacular weepy voice and so... odd at the same time. This old Transatlantic Sessions performance always brings a tear to my eye. Emmylou Harris backing vox and a considerable volume of hair on the the old stalwarts Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas & Phil Cunningham:

Nice thread, Morrissey, thx

And sorry to hear of your troubles, Jackie.

Peace,
I

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Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 23, 2025, 1:03 am, in reply to "Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

Those old Transatlantic Sessions...wow, they take me back!
Great description of Iris: "Spectacular weepy voice and so... odd at the same time." Spot on!

Aly Bain...a bit in a class of his own with the fiddle, I always thought.

One for you, Ian...one of my favs from the series, a Christy Moore song, I believe.
Love the Uilleann Pipes in this.

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"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

Nice one Ed, thx. Agreed on the pipes, love wincing on those bends they do! (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 23, 2025, 11:09 pm, in reply to "Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

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Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 23, 2025, 6:16 am, in reply to "Re: The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

We're quite an anonymous bunch and occasionally at each others throats but I'm positive everyone here would be ready to help any way. We're always here to listen; you are never alone.

The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

If you like Iris this will knock your ass off :)

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 24, 2025, 10:28 am, in reply to "The Sundays, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou, Dolly, The Beths, Pete Molinari, Nanci Griffith"

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The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

Not to mention this banger. Garth Brooks she ain't!

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 24, 2025, 10:33 am, in reply to "If you like Iris this will knock your ass off :)"

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Living in the wasteland of the free

We've got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
And their speech is growing increasingly unkind
And they say they are Christ's disciples
But they don't look like Jesus to me
It feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
But that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
But they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
To some third-world country across the sea
And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
Where the poor have now become the enemy
'Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones'
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

We got little kids with guns fighting inner-city wars
So what do we do? We put these little kids behind prison doors
And we call ourselves the advanced civilization
That sounds like crap to me
Feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got high-school kids running around in Calvin Klein and Guess
Who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
But if you ask them, they can tell you
The name of every crotch on MTV
And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin
But he's standing up for what he believes in
And that seems pretty damned American to me
And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
Where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

While we sit gloating in our greatness
Justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free

The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

Re: Not to mention this banger. Garth Brooks she ain't!

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 24, 2025, 5:53 pm, in reply to "Not to mention this banger. Garth Brooks she ain't!"

You put up a couple of my favs, there, Rask.
The first from those great Transatlantic sessions with Aly Bain, in the mix too, what's not to like?

As for Wasteland Of The Free, Iris went well up in my estimation.
My only criticism of the released version is the musical accompaniment...not a fan of those crashing drums and electric guitars, especially in an Iris song!
There is a live version on Youtube of this with just her and her guitar but it is of very bad sound quality...a pity as I bet it sounded great if you were there.

On Garth Brooks...what can you say?
Laughed when I heard Steve Earle refer to him as "The Anti-Hank".

"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

Wow, hardcore! Thx, hadn't heard that one before (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 24, 2025, 11:41 pm, in reply to "Not to mention this banger. Garth Brooks she ain't!"

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You want a hardcore critique? You want the late great Charlie Rich.

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 24, 2025, 11:46 pm, in reply to "Wow, hardcore! Thx, hadn't heard that one before (nm)"

That's not hardcore...

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 25, 2025, 9:12 pm, in reply to "You want a hardcore critique? You want the late great Charlie Rich."

...this is hardcore:

(or 'post-hardcore' apparently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dead )

'My walkabouts no longer take me
Beyond a choice of different gaols
Why should I have to choose a state
When every one of them has failed?' - https://genius.com/Million-dead-after-the-rush-hour-lyrics

Sorry to kill the country vibe!
I

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Magnificent!

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2025, 4:38 am, in reply to "That's not hardcore..."

Thanks for that!

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Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2025, 11:33 pm, in reply to "Magnificent! "

No probs

Singer Frank Turner went on to a reasonably successful acoustic folk/punk career fyi: https://www.youtube.com/@FrankTurner

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Re: Magnificent!

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 26, 2025, 11:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Magnificent! "

Apologies. Any lyrics? Ta.

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