I was listening to Victoria Williams' "Loose" album the other day and was shocked to discover that it is 30 years old. Where has the time gone?
"Loose" was Queen Vic's third album and the first after the MS diagnosis that has increasingly limited her ability to record and tour in the years since (although she is still active and was well enough to play a few gigs last year).
I fell in love with "Loose" on first hearing and I am still smitten with it now. Unfortunately not many other people felt the same way at the same time and commercially it did absolutely nothing. Maybe like the Century Plant its time to bloom has yet to come.
"Century Plant" - Victoria Williams
"Sunshine Country" - Victoria Williams
"Hitchhiker's Smile" - Victoria Williams
If you could only pick one track from the album it would probably have to be "Crazy Mary". Here's the Great Lady performing it live while trying to ignore the strange man in a loud green jacket mumbling away next to her.
As you say Queen Vic!
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