It’s far too easy to draw a line betweenEmmylou Harrisand contemporary artists likeKacey Musgravesand leave it at that. There are a hundred more young, female singer-songwriters who didn’t win the Grammy or get to book an arena tour after chasing the muse instead of the dollar. She dir...
Watson: The song had been recorded like seven times before that … and the song didn’t do nothing. I decided I was gonna sing it just like it was written. DB: Like Howard was talking about, in that era you could have deeper lyrics than you can now. Now things are more suppressed ...
The lyrics fare little better, with mixed metaphors (“We all rode the wave/Of that crazy parade” on “Bitter End”), clichéd images (“I can change like colors on a wall” on “Everybody Knows”), sloppy internal repetition (the overuse of “I’m mad as hell” on lead single “...