from 2005.
Cat Power spends the day singing lonely songs in a bucolic meadow in this mysterious film directed by Mark Borthwick.
DVD Speaking for Trees (directed by Mark Borthwick) includes an 18-minute out-take from the You Are Free sessions, Willie Deadwilder, with M Ward on guitar.
It's a strange rambling love song - "This is a four hour song/And it will go on and on... /I don't care/I love to share/I love to sing along" - apparently about a couple who quit their trailer and hit the road to be happy, with "God on his side/No matter what", and then about Chan and some imaginary boyfriend who she is pleading with not to let her go - "I'm on the same side as you/I'm just a little bit behind".
There are references in WD to Bob Dylan singing To Ramona, another long rambling love song on which this one is perhaps modelled, about another lover who is thinking of leaving - "I can tell you are torn/Between stayin' and returnin' ", but Dylan-being-Dylan is less than concerned, singing at the song's end "Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do / And someday maybe, Who knows, baby, I'll come and be cryin' to you.".
This is a great product. DVD is THEE way to see the pre- dianetics Chan at her prime and the 18 minute "Willie Deadwilder" is perfect and hypnotizing.
And HERE is the 18 minute live Willie Deadwilder.
3/26/10
Speaking for Trees/ Willie Deadwilder extended
from 2005.
Cat Power spends the day singing lonely songs in a bucolic meadow in this mysterious film directed by Mark Borthwick.
DVD Speaking for Trees (directed by Mark Borthwick) includes an 18-minute out-take from the You Are Free sessions, Willie Deadwilder, with M Ward on guitar.
It's a strange rambling love song - "This is a four hour song/And it will go on and on... /I don't care/I love to share/I love to sing along" - apparently about a couple who quit their trailer and hit the road to be happy, with "God on his side/No matter what", and then about Chan and some imaginary boyfriend who she is pleading with not to let her go - "I'm on the same side as you/I'm just a little bit behind".
There are references in WD to Bob Dylan singing To Ramona, another long rambling love song on which this one is perhaps modelled, about another lover who is thinking of leaving - "I can tell you are torn/Between stayin' and returnin' ", but Dylan-being-Dylan is less than concerned, singing at the song's end "Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do / And someday maybe, Who knows, baby, I'll come and be cryin' to you.".
This is a great product. DVD is THEE way to see the pre- dianetics Chan at her prime and the 18 minute "Willie Deadwilder" is perfect and hypnotizing.
And HERE is the 18 minute live Willie Deadwilder.
