Like, the immediate reaction I saw to the Ryan Adams revelations was a general "yeah, this dude is bad news" and "I'm glad this is coming out," but you only had to peel one layer deeper to find A LOT of people excusing all sorts of things.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 February 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/bloodshot-records-co-owner-nan-warshaw-officially-resigns-amid-harassment-scandal/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
Sounds like she's close to wrapping up an album. Thank goodness, she's great.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
Yay! meanwhile:@lydia_loveless kicks this off:From 2016: Indigo Girls, Wynonna & the Big Noise, Patty Larkin and Lydia Loveless on Mountain Stage (radio radi-oh, don't wait for the podcast post on Tues.) https://mountainstage.org/radio/Pages/ontheradio.aspx?ontheradioid=95(Wynonna killin it too)
― dow, Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
This is only ok, imo, but it's great to have a summer that finally sees the return of Loveless, Kathleen Edwards, Gillian Welch and heck, even the Dixie Chicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cmPQ3BcnQ
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
I would agree it's not exceptional, but solid...feels like a side 2 album track.that said, I love how she sings and the way she puts songs and lyrics together.Really happy she's back.
Real grows in my estimation more and more as time passes.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Saw her opening to tMG last year and enjoyed it very much, so I happily preordered this and will await results.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
yeah, excited to hear this album. SOMEWHERE ELSE is a classic, and REAL is great, too.
(that new album cover, though ... not great.)
― alpine static, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
How do I unsee this album cover?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
Real has slowly become my favorite
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Taking pre-orders, her first self-release, Sept. 25 (she recently tweeted pic of a cake her friend made, with this cover art https://lydialoveless.bandcamp.com/album/daughter
― dow, Sunday, 26 July 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
New one's her best.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
oooh thanks!
― Indexed, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
i hope that's true but there's no way it's better than Somewhere Else
― alpine static, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
will report back if i am proven wrong
― alpine static, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
The title track is a particular stunner.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 September 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
oh so this is just a re-release of the Boy Crazy EP and a handful of singles & bsides? the Boy Crazy EP is indeed fantastic. not sure I'm familiar with these other tunes in the second half. Wouldn't really compare this to her proper albums (Somewhere Else is my favorite, too).
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/boy-crazy-singles
― Indexed, Monday, 21 September 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
No, it's a whole new album of originals:
https://lydialoveless.bandcamp.com/album/daughter
― alpine static, Friday, 25 September 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
lol I was so confused. Alfred way ahead as usual. Very excited for this one!
― Indexed, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and Boy Crazy + Single(s) is good too. Before I forget, the xpost doc is on nicely priced DVD (and Prime stream) here*, with lots of pleased purchaser reviews:https://www.amazon.com/Lydia-Loveless-Who/dp/B074QVPDPQ/ref=sr_1_4?crid=34ORI9S6140VV&dchild=1&keywords=lydia+loveless&qid=1601053495&s=music&sprefix=Lydia+%2Cpopular%2C186&sr=1-4
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81WZHdqs81L._SL1200_.jpg
*(also a sep listing for vinyl soundtrack)
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
"September" is gorgeous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
So the new one returns to her consistently Columbus-to-Chicago urban country jangle, though now all in the searching, introspective singer-songwriter mode, though certainly more concisely compressed, candidly judicious than most such albums; she's not letting fly like "Idiot Wind" and bridge-barn-burning Natalie Maines. She's past that, going deeper/further/along in this remarkably shitty, damaged and damaging time, having apparently broken with her mate and Bloodshot too:In a second floor apartmentThe heat does riseIt’s a sensory bombardmentSweat and tears in your eyes
Well isn’t this what everybody doesGo out on their ownI was the one who wanted moreNow I’m just sitting at home---but even the most developmental tracks, incl. the strongest ones, "Daughter"There’s never been a better time to be aliveThe arms of opportunity are spread wideI wanna be a part of you but it’s not enoughIf I gave you a daughter would you open up
Oh to be like Mary full of graceYou’d be worshipping my body and my brainCuz I know you never take me at my wordIt’s always something you’ve already heardWhy can’t I show you this side of meAnd prove to you who I could be
There’s never been a better time to be a wifeI wanna show you something you can’t memorize---and the equally eerie finale, "Don't Bother Mountain," so far seem anchored tp Phil Collins-recalling drum atmospheres, though with her own deft production touches, and gray Morning After sources: no bad tracks, but I miss the headbanging sweat-it-out breakthroughs of yore---some wailing on "September," and her voice is strong, committed, all through, but overall effect so far a bit frustrating. I hope there will be more remixes.
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
Words can be amazing, music not as much.
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
It's all pretty slow, is what I mean.
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Too cautious.
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
But I'll keep listening, prob get more involved in details, to some extent.
― dow, Friday, 25 September 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
"Never" -- fabulous.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the new one is really good.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
This is the first year in ... years that I have not been able to keep up with all the good records I don't just think I need to hear but *want* to hear.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
My first impression based on yesterday's afternoon listen is that her voice is too mix forward or something and kind of overpowers the rest of everything in a not great way. It's like a wet blanket.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
First time through and agree with much of what's been said. I'm listening on shure iems and there are a few tunes, most notably "Can't Think," that sound super muddy beneath her vocals (somehow made even worse by some studio tricks in the last twenty seconds?). New producer/mixer appears to have done all the Jeff Tweedy associated production for the last decade, so surprised (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-schick-mn0000934331). I thought the Bloodshot "sound" suited her well.
On the songwriting side, I like the second half more than the first. Side A has some downtempo tunes that lack the emotional gut punch of an "Everything's Gone." Side B has:- "Never" - successful marriage of heartland rock and synth pop- "When You're Gone" - really interesting structure without a clearly defined chorus (?) but still feels like a sing a long- "September" - piano and cello ballad with some call and response help from Laura Jane Grace that works
― Indexed, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
All that to say, very hard to imagine Somewhere Else ever being impeached as my favorite of hers.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
I will fall asleep and have fewer nightmares of death once I know that a Killer Psychiatrist is tucked away safely in a mental institution and led to believe he works there.
LL copes with late night-on-tour-to-quarantine anxieties via old faithful Lifetime:https://www.nodepression.com/spotlight-lydia-loveless-on-leaning-into-lifetime-movies/?mc_cid=6035ce295f&mc_eid=b850f832a1
Might not have helped with the album though.
― dow, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Enjoyed your review Alfred
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
Just skimmed this thread enough to be intrigued and really liking her stuff so thanks all.
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
Thank, ums!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah. Wish I heard it more that way, maybe eventually.
― dow, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
okay now I do, should have stood by, as the President requests, and listened some more before maiden post. Helps that I came back to it after bandcamp streaming Boots 02: The Lost Songs Vol.2, by Gillian Welch, who is much closer, or more obviously (to this simple male mind) close to being a full-time inhabitant of this guarded, weathered truck garden of love and regret, the one with no-frills flights on a leash (and both artists' current sets sport fine September ramblin' bridge songs), but now I get that Loveless is more confrontational, just as intimate, but in a clinch, noting the marks she's leaving and has and will leave---and though, no "headbanging sweatbox catharis" as I prev. missed these flights do achieve liftoff into that LL narrative momentum: I can’t believe the worst kinds of people achieveEverything they wantBut it takes medication to get me off
So sick and tired of living in a rut
Love is not enoughI wonder if it ever wasI shouldn’t have to bleed you dry to fill me upNot that she's letting him off the hook---ooo, always wanting her tp provide a little "sun," like,"Smile more often, " like the Bossman say---and the way she gets from opening with:What is my body worth to youWithout your blood in itto closing time:If I gave you a daughter would you open up, and all points in between, as ZZ Top would put it, via LL wide-awake dream logic, relentlessly articulate---is true grit poetry, LL as hell, incl. Loretta Lynn talking points.And seems more like To Be Continued than total closer (she's tweeted something about pregnancy).The music, as written, arranges and performed-inhabited, now carries me through the words much more than on first listen, and the last track's dark groove, pushing on falling back pushing on, also seems like something To Be Continued---still hoping for more remixes, for one thing.
― dow, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Tangential to Loveless, but I had no idea the extent of this mess:
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bloodshot-records-nan-warshaw-rob-miller-royalties-sale/Content?oid=84834310
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 December 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
ugh
― Indexed, Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
Forgot about all that for a little bit
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Warshaw’s excuse for not doing anything about her partner’s harassment is pathetic.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 10 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah this is revealing:
Nearly two years before Loveless's post, she says, Miller told her "out of nowhere" that a female Bloodshot artist had confided in him that Panick was sexually harassing her. He didn't initially name the artist or get into specifics about Panick's misdeeds. Warshaw says those omissions left her powerless to rectify the situation and set her up to appear unsympathetic...He adds that Warshaw should've known the allegations he'd originally shared involved Loveless. "I said it was an artist at our South by Southwest showcase that year," he explains. "Lydia was, that year, the only female artist. I assumed, falsely, that Nan could extrapolate that I didn't mean that the Waco Brothers were being harassed."
He adds that Warshaw should've known the allegations he'd originally shared involved Loveless. "I said it was an artist at our South by Southwest showcase that year," he explains. "Lydia was, that year, the only female artist. I assumed, falsely, that Nan could extrapolate that I didn't mean that the Waco Brothers were being harassed."
― Indexed, Thursday, 10 December 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Stiener says that Loveless had only recouped $2,000 after three albums
― dow, Friday, 11 December 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
@lydia_lovelessThis is super corny, but I had a dream last night me and the band were on tour with DBT. It was one of those I am sad that isn’t real/sort of keeping me positive today dreams. I hope one day we can actually live real life again.5:30 PM · Jan 31, 2021
― dow, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
@lydia_lovelessAlso I wish I could say I am using this time to write the album of my dreams and be there for people, I’m actually consuming art and making it in a way that is equivalent to standing in front of the fridge naked and blasting reddiwhip into your mouth. I am not ok. But will be.
― dow, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
Lydia Loveless@lydia_lovelessI’m currently at a school for audio engineering surrounded by people ten years younger than me and I’m amazed thinking about all the older people trying to bang me at that age. Please let young adults be young adults they are the future
― dow, Sunday, 27 June 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
Lydia Loveless@lydia_lovelessJust got divorced and now have reached the age where all my peers are getting Christmas engaged lol7:46 PM · Dec 26, 2021
― dow, Monday, 27 December 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
Every time she tweets about her divorce there's a mob of reply guys.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 27 December 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
Lydia Loveless@lydia_lovelessI’ve been really hard on myself my entire life and it hasn’t really done me that much good. There was a decade or so where flogging myself internally furthered my career but now I’m just thinking maybe gentleness is what I need. New ye201ar more oily mental masturbation is my mantra8:28 PM · Dec 31, 2021210 likesLydia Loveless@lydia_lovelessJust lubing up my sore brain and easing back from the ol socials and will see you when I’m a big sexy oil can again.8:30 PM · Dec 31, 2021112 likes
― dow, Monday, 3 January 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link