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Your manhood to me constantly
I know you're the man can't you see
I love you Righteously
Why you wanna dis' me
After the way you been kissin' me
After those pretty things you say
And the love we made today
When you run your hand
All up and run it back down my leg
Get excited and bite my neck
Get me all worked up like that
Think this through
I laid it down for you everytime
Respect me I give you what's mine
You're entirely way too fine
Arms around my waist
You get a taste of how good this can be
Be the man you ought to tenderly
Stand up for me
Flirt with me don't keep hurtin' me
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
(repeat)
you gotta stop talking to yourself
at least out loud
Great! :-)
Someone is really killing it with the guitar work. Nice!
Check this out:
Live version on YouTube
What is all this crap about whether her accent is real or not? What kind of criterion is that? She has a twang, so what? And, if she intensifies it here, it's for a purpose. Besides which, if you haven't heard people who talk like this then you don't get out of the city enough, southern or northern. Does the song seem repetitive--well, ever had your heart broke? The pain IS repetitive. Listen to the poetry of the pounding, repetitive lyrics, and feel the visceral angst. Gawd, I get so sick of the smug, docrinaire, pseudosophisticate shit that people throw out here sometimes. And pardon my accent.
I agree with you mostly, but she over-uses the twang at the end of a rhyme is annoying. It's like she's being sarcastic or making fun of someone else...
Hope this is not more sickening "pseudosophisticate shit" for you.
Someone is really killing it with the guitar work. Nice!
It could be her or Doug Pettibone, they play guitar in that album
So many of you out there should do a little dugs or have a drink, or take a day and go to the beach or something. Anything to chill out, take the stick out of your a**es, relax and stop being so nitpicking. I can't believe anybody would put Lucinda down because she sings with a twang!! How about seeing the forest for the trees and realize that she is one of the greatest singer song writers of her genre and has been for the last decade and a half. Geeshh!!!!
I wonder if she was a loose Linda?
Sexy as hell. End of story.
Great song, artist and guitar work.
Why all the hate?
you gotta stop talking to yourself
at least out loud
Bravo!
The last group bigots still feel obliged to disparage: poor white folks.
Sexy as hell. End of story.
And a great singer
After those pretty things you say
Cut you down to size...
much better
I just can't abide her vocals ... they just don't do it for me.
is it her "accent?" because that's my issue. it seems to get more enhanced/pronounced with each song. not my bag either.
What a brainless d@@k
Lousy song.
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
Coltrane. The fashionable name to be dropped by musicians who otherwise know nothing about jazz.
Coltrane also rhymes with who cares.
After those pretty things you say
Cut you down to size...
"I'm all sticky"
such a smoking little number with a huge blues guitar.....
I don't get her either. My loss.
This just sounds like a crib of the Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" to my ears, untrained though they are.
As mentioned earlier, I'm happy to PSD and move on.
this one of hers I don't mind. Others are painful
Doug Pettibone on Guitar.
He must still be judging by the sound of her new stuff. i went straight to the comments to see if someone posted who was on lead. i knew a RP fan had me covered. Thanks!
I don't get her either. My loss.
This just sounds like a crib of the Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" to my ears, untrained though they are.
As mentioned earlier, I'm happy to PSD and move on.
Doug Pettibone on Guitar.
All you haters, just hit the PSD, and move on.
+1 to 7 on this one today, just cuz of the Coltrane line...Long Live RP and musical references within music selections BillG plays prompting music suggestions!
uh oh...another +1 for neck biting lyric...call it an 8
Just say no to dugs. I love Lucinda.
When you run your hand
All up and run it back down my leg
Get excited and bite my neck
Get me all worked up like that
FWIW, I was born in Rome, Georgia, and my accent has come and gone depending on where I lived and the accents around me. And -- like any Southerner worth a nickel -- I can wind it up really tight if necessary.
So why does hers bother me then?
I think because it's not authentic .... this flat appalachian 'a' repeated-rhythmic-percussive thing, like she had just watched "O Brother Where Art Thou?".
She's sitting down with her manager, and her manager is saying, "Lucinda, you can fill this niche, you can OWN this niche." And so she tries. That's partly why it doesn't sound authentic. She tries too hard.
I guess being born in Loozianna (about as Southern as you can get) entitles her to speak with a Southern accent, no? I love her stuff. Thanks to RP for introducing me to her!
And how is it that you know that Lucinda knows nothing of John Coltrane? The answer, of course, being that you don't.
Per Lucinda from a 2018 interview: "Though she rarely displayed it in public, Williams had a secret love for jazz that paralleled Charles Lloyd’s love for Americana. “When I was growing up,” she says, “my dad listened to Hank Williams, but he also listened to Coltrane, Miles, Chet Baker and Dinah Washington. As an adult, I listened to Coltrane’s Ballads, Joao Gilberto, Latin music and all that. With my band, we recorded this primal, slowed-down, scary version of a Frank Sinatra song, ‘The Summer Wind,’ for that TV show Ozark. Afterward I said, ‘I want to do a whole album of this stuff.’”
...the more you know.
Okay, so maybe that post wasn't one of my greatest hits. That said I think the point remains true: I believe some musicians/composers drop Cotrane's name only because of his iconic status and don't otherwise know much about him or his music.
Here is a partial list of artists who have used Coltrane's name in a song: Bow Thayer, Cowboy Junkies, The Dream Syndicate, Eric Burdon and War, Earth Wind & Fire, Sheryl Crow, Mae Moore, Michael Franks, Gil Scott-Heron, Primitive Radio Gods, Uncle Kracker, Bon Jovi, Therapy? U2, Elvis Costello, Ian Drury and the Blockheads, Damon Albarn, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Gang Star, Jamie Cullum...
Gil Scott-Heron is above reproach. Others on that list? I have my suspicions.
Please, prove me wrong!
Country?? Son this ain't country, don't recall a Coltrane reference in any country song. But you are right about that hook!
Doug Pettibone. Awesome player. And I don't use that word lightly
I rated this a 2, and thought to myself...did I leave a comment? 16 years between comments on this song. Giving it a 3 for longevity (on both our parts).
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
Coltrane. The fashionable name to be dropped by musicians who otherwise know nothing about jazz.
And how is it that you know that Lucinda knows nothing of John Coltrane? The answer, of course, being that you don't.
Per Lucinda from a 2018 interview: "Though she rarely displayed it in public, Williams had a secret love for jazz that paralleled Charles Lloyd’s love for Americana. “When I was growing up,” she says, “my dad listened to Hank Williams, but he also listened to Coltrane, Miles, Chet Baker and Dinah Washington. As an adult, I listened to Coltrane’s Ballads, Joao Gilberto, Latin music and all that. With my band, we recorded this primal, slowed-down, scary version of a Frank Sinatra song, ‘The Summer Wind,’ for that TV show Ozark. Afterward I said, ‘I want to do a whole album of this stuff.’”
...the more you know.
Indeed. If it was any hotter it would be burning down the house...
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
Coltrane. The fashionable name to be dropped by musicians who otherwise know nothing about jazz.
Or people that know nothing about Lucinda Williams.
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
Coltrane. The fashionable name to be dropped by musicians who otherwise know nothing about jazz.
HA! Yeah....the sound basically says (to me) "Come over here I'll SHOW you some Coltrane!"
Why all the hate?
So why does hers bother me then?
I think because it's not authentic .... this flat appalachian 'a' repeated-rhythmic-percussive thing, like she had just watched "O Brother Where Art Thou?".
She's sitting down with her manager, and her manager is saying, "Lucinda, you can fill this niche, you can OWN this niche." And so she tries. That's partly why it doesn't sound authentic. She tries too hard.
True that!
Manager: Lucinda, I gotta fever, and the only cure is more diphthong!
12 year old comment and still true as ever.....
So why does hers bother me then?
I think because it's not authentic .... this flat appalachian 'a' repeated-rhythmic-percussive thing, like she had just watched "O Brother Where Art Thou?".
She's sitting down with her manager, and her manager is saying, "Lucinda, you can fill this niche, you can OWN this niche." And so she tries. That's partly why it doesn't sound authentic. She tries too hard.
It's funny, I was just thinking that the other day.
I made this comment on her song "Are You Down" yesterday. It applies here as well.
Music: pretty cool. Lyrics: dumb.
Does she ever drop it inadvertently? If not, then there's a chance that, as accents go, this one is idiosyncratic, no? Even otherwise, is there anything really wrong with employing elements as molecular as accents, or as atomic as individual words, with accent, from an arbitrary sub-culture or sub-group of society — so long as it's done systematically?
at least out loud
snigger!
She and Mick are drawing from the same well.
Agreed. Everyone has a right to their own music preferences and if Lucinda's not for you that's fine. However, those who criticize her accent as inauthentic might be surprised to learn that:
"Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist, Lucille Fern Day. (...) Her father worked as a visiting professor in Mexico and different parts of the United States, including Baton Rouge; New Orleans; Jackson, Mississippi; and Utah before settling at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville."
— Wikipedia: Lucinda Williams, Early life
Peace
I rebelled against my parents' country music in the south for a buncha years, and probably would have hated it back then, but I thoroughly enjoy older country, with its powerful memories, and she does this to me. Not a fan of most new country, but mannnnnnnnnn. Thanks for continuing to turn us on to awesome music all day long!
White country trash. Get rid of this garbage!
you gotta stop talking to yourself
at least out loud
The anticipation of having to hear this is enough to get me sprinting across the room for the PSD button. As to whether the production aspect is good or not, I have no idea, as I cannot get past the accent 'thing'.
dynamo_humm wrote:
I agree with you mostly, but she over-uses the twang at the end of a rhyme is annoying. It's like she's being sarcastic or making fun of someone else...
Hope this is not more sickening "pseudosophisticate shit" for you.
Get off your lazy butt and find some video interviews of Lucinda... she's the real deal (accent and all).
Oh... and you're an ass.