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Lucinda Williams, one of the most revered artists of the folk-rock scene, the alt-country diva, the queen of rock roots, finally in Spain.
Never before had trod the stage of our country and when fans learned that the woman passed Bob Dylan made our country the excitement embargoes.
Stop by the Sea Music on their second date in Spain, this being his first festival. The performance will be tomorrow, Thursday July 16 at 23:00 pm in Artillery Park.
Earlier, at 20:00 pm will be the turn of the Rolling Stones in North Africa, the legendary Nass El Ghiwane reach the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Lucinda Williams is a musical reference for many.
Paradoxes of business: in 1984, when they first arrive to Los Angeles from Nashville, found that while the CBS label in Nashville considered too rock for country, CBS saw too country for rock.
Lucinda is the daughter of Miller Williams, the poet who read one of his poems in the second inauguration of Bill Clinton.
You have not lived over two years in the same house.
And although it takes time in southern California, in the last three have been moved three times already.
Born in 1953 in Louisiana, and, of course, has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, but also in Arkansas, his father was a professor of creative writing at the university, and Texas.
She was 14 when he saw action at Peter, Paul & Mary.
She was left speechless.
Remember that before so I wanted to be like Joan Baez and later wanted to write like Dylan.
In 2002, Time magazine said it was the best songwriter "U.S..
Songs that have recorded people like Emmylou Harris ('Sweet old world'), Tom Petty ("Changed the Locks") and Mary Chapin Carpenter ("Passionate Kisses" with Lucinda Williams won the Grammy for best country song in 1994).
It is considered a feminist very interested in relationships.
And think you're going to keep writing about it until he dies.
With songs like 'Changed the locks' "of his album 'Lucinda Williams' (1988) - which is the breakdown of a relationship, began to earn the appreciation of critics.
In 1978 he recorded in Jackson, Mississippi, his first album, 'Ramblin''for Smithsonian / Folkways Records, a collection of cover versions of country and blues.
In 1980 he published "Happy Woman Blues', and with his own compositions.
'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' (1998)-awarded the Grammy for best contemporary folk album, "I opened the door to success.
One of the songs from that album, 'Still I Long for Your Kiss ", was included in the soundtrack of Robert Redford's film' The Man Who The Horse Whisperer '. In" Essence "(2001) found' Get Right With God ', a song that gave him his third Grammy for best female rock performance.' West '(2007), co-produced with Hal Willner, and dedicated to his mother, who had just died, is marked by a stormy breakup sentimental. And his last album, 'Little Honey' (2008), contains a duet with Elvis Costello, a song about the waste posed by music stars in the gossip magazines - read Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty? - and an issue of AC / DC. Surprise: it ensures that in recent years his favorite records are in the vein of Thievery Corporation and Gotan Project.
Lucinda Williams has worked on albums by Willie Nelson, Graham Parker, Tony Joe White, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, Ramblin 'Jack Elliott ...
And participated in tributes groups: in 1994 'Tulare Dust: A Songwriter's Tribute to Merle Haggard', in 1998 'Wolf Tracks: A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf ', in 1999' Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons' - sings a duet with David Crosby's song that gives title, "in 2001 'Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt."
His favorite guitar is a Martin D-28.
Has it since 1979 and says that since then, she has written all the songs.
Not out on stage.
Previously served a good drink before going out to sing, but has long preferred the herbal tea.
He has talent and charisma: a perfectionist who knows very well, in musical matters, at least, what he wants.
NASS EL Ghiwane
It is said that Martin Scorsese, one of his songs used in 'The Last Temptation of Cristo'-the Rolling Stones described as a North African.
Since then nearly as long lived as the group of Jagger and Richards.
And his impact was so notorious throughout North Africa who became a major reference for young people ('cheb') Algerian rai musicians.
Its name comes from former members of a Sufi sect: the 'Ghiwane' known for their probity, had his wisdom from village to village with songs and poems.
The hypnotic music of Nass El Ghiwane-labeled as "chaabi'-implied a break with tradition as it is fed from different sources, including the poetry of 'malhun'-and used instruments like the banjo.
With songs like 'Alrada Alrada', 'Alkassam', 'Palestine', 'The Maana', 'Essiniya' or 'Ouach Hna Houma Hna'-Khaled and Rachid Taha even recorded some who, according to Juan Goytisolo, "expressed uncertainty and anxiety about a deteriorating socio-historical situation and unfair, the loneliness of the man condemned to wander in a world corrupted and no horizons. "
Nass El Ghiwane autocratic born in a country where a simple comment could lead directly to the author to the station.
With poetic words Nass El Ghiwane reflected the Moroccan youth unrest and the oppressed underclass.
The group gathered in the early seventies in one of the slums of Casablanca.
There were four neighborhood friends who accompanied a group of theater: Laarbi Batma, Omar Sayed, Boujemaa YaaL Hagour and Alal, who joined Abdelaziz Tahiri-to return to his hometown Marrakech to found the group Jil Jilala and was replaced by Abderrahmane Paco.
On the cover of his album 'Nass El Ghiwane', the five went with the long hair and rock clothing.
Today, Omar Sayed (vocals, bendir)-the only one left of the original, is their leader, and with him are Allal YaaL (vocals and banjo), Rachid Batma (vocals, percussion) and Hamid Batman (voice and Guembri) .
Two of its founders are no longer with us, Boujemaa, died in October 1974 and Laarbi, who left in 1998 just fifty years and was always the favorite.
His brother Rachid that still receives condolences over the death of Laarbi Batma.
"What I had noticed this man is that he was the same person in the neighborhood of Hay Mohammadi in the Club Med in Agadir in the Cannes festival, where we present the film 'Al Hal' ('Trance') "Ahmed has told Maânouni, who directed the 1981 documentary about Nass El Ghiwane.
More recently, in 2006, is the book of Abdelhai Sadiq 'Nass El Ghiwane.
Protest song marocaine. "
And there is a autobiogafía of Laarbi Batma, published in Arabic in two parts: 'Arrahil' ('The Journey') and 'Al-Alam' ('Suffering').
Forty years later, despite all the sorrow, Nass El Ghiwane keeps the flame of justice and freedom.
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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