Littlebear

anyone knows Joy Lynn White? such a great singer!

yeah but it's not 25 posts to say West is great - if you read the whole thread you'll see I posted about many other things

Sorry? Twenty-three posts to express how I enjoy it? No, sir. I must have posted five (six? seven? why should I count) at best to put my point, and I turned my point differently each time. If you find me "extremely tiresome", I find you pretty disrespectful towards me. Wow.

I made an effort to express how I enjoy it, I think it's more interesting and less annoying than people just saying "it's disappointing".

It's not the same kind of album. I personally prefer the latest stuff. The first one is certainly great but not easy to listen to, it's really raw, her voice too loud at times (to my ears at least).

"Goddamn HIV"...

Great album! It's in line of the previous two, 1000 Kisses and Impossible Dream, maybe even better. I must be romantic, can't stop playing "Heavenly Day' and many other gems (Railroad Wings, Burgundy Shoes, etc). What a voice. She's got soul.

Maybe some of you want "great songs" and don't find them here. But maybe West is more a full album than a collection of songs? Just a thought. I can't say right now if there are great songs here or not, I'm just taken by the album's stream, and Lu's voice.

Come on, people, listen to the music... do you ever listen to ambient or space music? Lucinda did never record so beautiful music in my opinion... it's in line of Essence, but the textures are more rich. Why don't you hear it? Let yourself flow in it, it's easy... As I said earlier, it's close to what Matthew Ryan does, too. Did you listen to the latter's magnificent latest album, From a Late Night High Rise? Lucinda also sang with him on one song of his albums, Concussion I think it was. I get the feeling that people disappointed in West are those who were expecting something more alt.c

Lovely, isn't it? I didn't know that band, by a guy named Jason Quever, based in San Francisco - it's his second album.

looks like you did it already, judging by your avatar

what kind of music is it?

Thanks for your input. To tell a bit about me, I went to US roots music, americana and all that, from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. It's an album that marked my life. I also got the net around the same time, went to her discussion list, made some contacts with cool American posters, and one of them especially sent me a lot of CDR compilations that lead me to many American singer songwriters such as Townes Van Zandt, Steve Young, Billy Joe Shaver, Iris DeMent, David Olney, etc... And country music is probably the music that moves me the most from many music genres I learned to like (blues, fol

Great post. You basically said everything I wish I could say in my second language.

I mean that the power of her voice does cross the language barriers. But anyway, it's the same in French for me. As early as you sing some lyrics, you give them more power than what they just mean on the paper.

I confirm what I said: West is a masterpiece. No problem with that. We certainly have different criteria to make our respective appreciations. Your problem, on the other hand, is to be so sure of your points, and speak of "schooling" me, using "we" as if you were part of a majority, whereas this majority is just based on old and narrow-minded certitudes.

There's no way to compare Lucinda to Bob Dylan, really. There's no point. Lucinda is an artist of her own. Everytime a singer songwriter writes folk songs on guitar and plays a harp, he's compared to Dylan. It's been the case with Loudon Wainwright III, John Prine, Butch Hancock, and so on. It's just ridiculous. I prefer Loudon Wainwright to Dylan, for instance. I prefer hundreds of singer songwriters to Dylan. You say Lucinda isn't up to Dylan upon lyrical criteria, I assume? Well, I can reply to you that Dylan doesn't sing like Lucinda, he's not sensual, and he'll never make my joy like

Masterpiece!!!

To boot, I'm pretty sure we all here have different criterias and references. All the critics of the world can't agree on one unanimous masterpiece. In my opinion, the most interesting takes are argumentative interpretations, that's usually what I like to read on forums or anywhere else.