Absolutely my favorite country song. Even more than my old country heroes. Its profound. The excellent band makes it perfect. Im usually crying by " his momma believes in the pentacost ".
The lyrics…just straight, simple, consequences. No interpretation, no resolution, no background, no moral. All we need is an unadorned description of what went down. And from that, we get the full picture and impact. Genius. God bless.
HOW IN THE WORLD does this only have 800ish likes.... this country man.... geez... Lucinda is a NATIONAL TREASURE and most people have never even heard of her. what a fuu cked up series of events.
Her family were tight with a poet laureate. Its said he and Lucinda had their own relationship for a time. Here she doesn't sing about any of that. Instead she writes poignantly ofthe aftermath of his suicide and how it affected different people without interjecting herself more than superficially. Magnificent.
Kenny Vaughn is one of my favorite guitarists to listen to........ he's in touch with tasteful most of the time........ very good feel for the song.......
Great poet, Frank Stanford, "The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You," died much too soon. But not forgotten. Thanks, Lucinda, for this tribute to your friend.
Two out of three firearm deaths in the US are suicides. White middle-aged rural men are vastly over-represented in that total. I wonder how many of them have their gun pried from their cold dead fingers.
What a friggin ensemble. Then she starts belting this country dirge. I saw her with a 3 piece band couple of years ago. None of these fine gentlemen. The guitarist was a young buck who was exceptional.
Premier morceau du formidable concert de décembre 1998. Lucinda Williams est parfaite. Jim Lauderdale est la deuxième voix. Les deux guitaristes sont super. Déjà vingt ans, Lucinda avait 45 ans, elle était superbe !
Actually, despair might never pass. And the “forever” part is sometimes the most tempting thing about suicide. But the thing is, like this song illustrates, it doesn’t matter: we just can’t do it to the people who love us.
There are three fantastic guitar players on that stage: Kenny Vaughan probably is best known but Jim Lauderdale on acoustic is no slouch. However, I think that’s John Jackson playing that awesome slide on the Strat. He also plays that electric mandolin guitar on other tracks.
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