Just wow. What a great song musically and lyrically. It's already amazing to begin with and then Loudon Wainright III gets acoustic guitar musical accompniment and backing from Richard Thompson no less. Adding a few tweaks, licks, and twists in all the right places, Thompson gives the song a kind of classy, understated, acoustic bluesy flavour.
Not the easiest of subject matter to write and sing about concerning his father's death. But I guess those of us that get to deal with this life event as adults, especially well into adulthood, rather than having to go through it as children, or never even having known your father, can count ourselves fortunate in that regard. The lyrics are extra relatable for me right now, as I've just been through this at the turn of the year.
There's many great songs from all of 3 the artists in this set, Suzanne Vega, Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainright III, and I greatly admire all 3 of them as singer songwriters and musicians.
Vega's takes of Luka and Marlena on the wall are just great. Her voice has just seemed to get better. Thompson performs some of the songs from his very strong 1991 solo album, Rumour and Sigh, including the outstanding 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. His playing and voice are on very fine form.
You can tell that all 3 artists admire and apreciate each others work as well, which is great to see.
This is the second songwriters circle set that I've listened to, and judging by what I've found so far it seems to be a great series. I've watched and enjoyed the first one I found many times already, featuring James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers doing a 20 minute acoustic set, with a couple of other musicians I don't know who they are tbh.