New Orleans Song - Video Debut

[LiamMcConville]

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[daniellaaarisen]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! Such a refreshing way to end the American leg of this tour.

Plus, hope of new material is always exhilarating :)

[Songbird4]

Thanks for posting this!!

~Kim

[RockALittle250]

Finally, we see the debut of this gorgeous song. I don't think Stevie is going to let this one just sit in the vault, I truly believe that she will release it when she has the time to fully commit to it. For Stevie to do something so rare as premiering a new song on a "greatest hits" tour is very promising, and judging by the audiences' reaction, she knows everyone wants this song!

[Enchanted_Stevi]

:eek: THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!! I really hope she records it!

[Musicman408]

Love love love love it!!!! I really really do hope that the Mac puts out an album of new material. I would eat it up in a heartbeat!!!!

[vivfox]

Great find Liam! Now hopefully she can feel how excited we are for new material.:blob2:

[michelej1]

The audience really erupted when they heard the words "Bourbon Street."

Michele

[David]

Maybe she'll record it for iTunes or something.

Or "More Crystal Visions."

("Crystal Double Visions"?)

[SandyMac]

OMG, I am so glad this sound clip surfaced. Stevie sounds so good there.
This could be such an awesome song if released.

[Hawkeye]

Thank You so much whoever recorded this. And thank you Stevie for that AWSEOME 20 second performance. She sings thos danmed words with so much effort and feeling, the best is the way she sings "Feathers and Lace" Its such a stark contrast to how she warbles through a song like Rhiannon. It's weird how excited that 20 seconds has me. 6 years since i've heard new words written by Stevie has us all really thirsty. If that 20 seconds has me this excited a whole album would maybe send me into cardiac arrest.

[CADreaming]

Maybe she'll record it for iTunes or something.

Or "More Crystal Visions."

("Crystal Double Visions"?)

Crystal Double Visions = Bourbon Street+Vampires

Hmmm...it is all becoming much clearer....

[trackaghost]

Thanks Liam! I bet this is the most we'll ever hear of this song.

[RockALittle250]

Thanks Liam! I bet this is the most we'll ever hear of this song.

Thanks for sending out that nice, positive energy...

[RockALittle250]

Maybe she'll record it for iTunes or something.

Or "More Crystal Visions."

("Crystal Double Visions"?)

It's funny you mention Crystal Visions, because according to Stevie, she was going to put this song on there, but pulled it because she didn't feel it was ready to be released yet.

[Hawkeye]

It's funny you mention Crystal Visions, because according to Stevie, she was going to put this song on there, but pulled it because she didn't feel it was ready to be released yet.

I think that was a big mistake by Mama.

[trackaghost]

Thanks for sending out that nice, positive energy...

Are you kidding? Well, thanks for the bitchy response to my post. That was uncalled for.
I didn't realise I was only allowed to post positive opinions.
For the record, I would LOVE her to release this.

[RockALittle250]

I think that was a big mistake by Mama.

I don't. If it wasn't ready, it wasn't ready. I just think people are thirsty for new material, but it's worth waiting for if it's something really meaningful, like this song. I think it will knock everyone off their feet when it does come out, and it'll be used to help out the city in the right way.

With all the hype that the song has built up since she first mentioned it 2 years ago, that will only help the song sell better when it is finally released, and it will be able to better help the city if everyone is biting at the bit to buy it.

[RockALittle250]

Are you kidding? Well, thanks for the bitchy response to my post. That was uncalled for.

Just sick of all the "Negative Nancys" coming in and bringing down threads that are really up and positive. I was just being honest...i didn't say anything mean or offensive.

[trackaghost]

Just sick of all the "Negative Nancys" coming in and bringing down threads that are really up and positive. I was just being honest...i didn't say anything mean or offensive.

I didn't say anything negative about the song, I just voiced my fears about it being released, and you responded with a bitchy, sarcastic post. Personally I think that's mean.

[RockALittle250]

I didn't say anything negative about the song, I just voiced my fears about it being released, and you responded with a bitchy, sarcastic post. Personally I think that's mean.

I didn't think it was. There are folks on here who have said a lot worse to me about looking at things in a positive light. If you were that offended, i apologize, but it just seems these threads can get steered in a new direction if people start to look at the glass half empty.

[trackaghost]

I didn't think it was. There are folks on here who have said a lot worse to me about looking at things in a positive light. If you were that offended, i apologize, but it just seems these threads can get steered in a new direction if people start to look at the glass half empty.

You don't think writing sarcastic posts to a simple opinion is offensive? Fine.
And so what if people have said a lot worse to you? I've personally never said anything to you. Apparently you think it's terrible to be negative towards Stevie but it's okay to act that way towards other Ledgies.

[RockALittle250]

You don't think writing sarcastic posts to a simple opinion is offensive? Fine.
And so what if people have said a lot worse to you? I've personally never said anything to you. Apparently you think it's terrible to be negative towards Stevie but it's okay to act that way towards other Ledgies.

Wow, one simple response to one simple opinion, and all of a sudden, i'm being persecuted? You are offended by one little simple sarcastic comment...Come'on, just move on already. You act as if i made a degrading disrespectful comment and used offensive language. I mean, really? And now i'm acting a certain way towards Ledgies? Ohh man...

[louielouie2000]

Finally, we see the debut of this gorgeous song.

How do you know if it's a gorgeous song if all we've heard are 20 seconds of a shaky, live, a cappella performance? :shrug: I'm not trying to be a 'negative nancy' at all, I just haven't heard enough of the song to make a judgement. The tiny fragment of lyrics I heard sounded a bit hokey to me, but I can't call the entire song hokey because I haven't heard it :) .

I do hope the song finds light of day though, in whatever fashion, because it clearly means a lot to Stevie. She's been talking about it for years, and whenever Stevie feels really confident about a song, I think that's a really great thing :thumbsup:. I think that's why there are a big contingency of 'negative nancy's' in the Stevie/Mac world these days... we all feel she has a lot to share, but she just isn't giving those songs a vehicle to see the light of day.

[louielouie2000]

I think that was a big mistake by Mama.

I might be inclined to agree. It could have added new material to CV, which was sorely lacking. And it could have been a single. Possibly with the whole Katrina/NO situation fresher in the minds of the world, it could have garnered a good amount of attention, and spurred fresh confidence in Stevie, resulting in more new music (which she seems to lack confidence in making currently). Hopefully she'll have another Tom Petty/That Made Me Stronger type epiphany, gain confidence, and get back to recording new material. It could be Mac or solo at this point, I just want to hear from an old friend again :wavey:.

[RockALittle250]

How do you know if it's a gorgeous song if all we've heard are 20 seconds of a shaky, live, a cappella performance? :shrug: I'm not trying to be a 'negative nancy' at all, I just haven't heard enough of the song to make a judgement. The tiny fragment of lyrics I heard sounded a bit hokey to me, but I can't call the entire song hokey because I haven't heard it :) .



Ugh...i knew someone else was going to use my own words against me. :rolleyes: I was going by the passion in her voice, and i love her delivery of these lines. Like someone else said before, there was more passion in her voice here than in some of her greater versions of Rhiannon...or something along those lines.

I do hope the song finds light of day though, in whatever fashion, because it clearly means a lot to Stevie. She's been talking about it for years, and whenever Stevie feels really confident about a song, I think that's a really great thing :thumbsup:. I think that's why there are a big contingency of 'negative nancy's' in the Stevie/Mac world these days... we all feel she has a lot to share, but she just isn't giving those songs a vehicle to see the light of day



I completely agree with you here. Stevie has a huge backlog of unreleased songs that if she released even in their most infantile form, we'd all be more than thrilled with, but she just hasn't yet.

[louielouie2000]

Ugh...i knew someone else was going to use my own words against me. :rolleyes: I was going by the passion in her voice, and i love her delivery of these lines. Like someone else said before, there was more passion in her voice here than in some of her greater versions of Rhiannon...or something along those lines.

Haha, bane of the existence of message boards :). I absolutely can respect and like the passion in her voice here. She's given up a lot of that passion in her classic material, so it certainly is refreshing to hear that aspect again. She got a pretty wild response from the crowd, so I can only hope that will give her the confidence booster to find a way to get this tune recorded :thumbsup:.

[iamnotafraid]

it just seems these threads can get steered in a new direction.

Don't worry, this song will see a release on the upcoming Cyrus' "Miley & Stevie,
Best Friend's" release. They are working on finishing the album during the FL. Mac
break.

Street date: Oct. 31, 2009

[GoldDustBoy]

Thank you so much for posting that. I just woke up 5 minutes ago, and what a nice surprise... 20 seconds of the song sunga a capella , but it has THE SOUND OF STEVIE!!! :blob2:

[wildheart048]

So awesome to have the promise of something new on the horizon! Thanks so much for sharing it!!!

[ILoveFM]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[ricohv]

At about the :11 sec mark, where she sings "I wanna wear feathers & lace" her voice gets just a little deeper and vibratto for the "& lace" part in a way that is so uniquely Stevie. Sometimes I can get on the bashing bandwagon when I think I'm all fed up with this fandom and then I will hear a little snippet of something new like that part in the song, and all of a sudden I remember why I have loved her for so long. No one sings quite like her-and when she's good, like this little acapella or surprises like Call On Me For Magic-she is really good!
Ricoh
p.s. does anyone catch all the lyrics she sings here? can you post them here if you do? or do we have the full lyrics anywhere? thx

[shackin'up]

well, calling this gorgeous based on this crappy vid IS very odd. After hearing the audio in Brian's thread in the Rumoursforum, I must say it sounds very pretty. But it is definately no song. It's a verse. With the wrong melodyline in a chorus, bridge or verse it can easily be butchered.

Oh in a positive view: with a gorgeous chorus, bridge or verse this can easily be gorgeous. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Moz]

p.s. does anyone catch all the lyrics she sings here? can you post them here if you do? or do we have the full lyrics anywhere? thx

Sounds like:

I want to sing in the streets of the French Quarter
I want to dress up, I want to wear beads, I want to wear feathers and lace
I want to brush by the vampires that go down Bourbon Street

[ricohv]

Sounds like:

I want to sing in the streets of the French Quarter
I want to dress up, I want to wear beads, I want to wear feathers and lace
I want to brush by the vampires that go down Bourbon Street

Thank you! Ricoh

[RockALittle250]

well, calling this gorgeous based on this crappy vid IS very odd. After hearing the audio in Brian's thread in the Rumoursforum, I must say it sounds very pretty. But it is definately no song. It's a verse. With the wrong melodyline in a chorus, bridge or verse it can easily be butchered.

Oh in a positive view: with a gorgeous chorus, bridge or verse this can easily be gorgeous. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Yea, thanks for that little rip...

[BombaySapphire3]

well, calling this gorgeous based on this crappy vid IS very odd. After hearing the audio in Brian's thread in the Rumoursforum, I must say it sounds very pretty. But it is definately no song. It's a verse. With the wrong melodyline in a chorus, bridge or verse it can easily be butchered.

Oh in a positive view: with a gorgeous chorus, bridge or verse this can easily be gorgeous. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Yeah..would it have killed them to do the entire song?In exchange she could have let Lindsey do Love Runs Deeper.

[wheart]

Thank You so much whoever recorded this. And thank you Stevie for that AWSEOME 20 second performance. She sings thos danmed words with so much effort and feeling, the best is the way she sings "Feathers and Lace" Its such a stark contrast to how she warbles through a song like Rhiannon. It's weird how excited that 20 seconds has me. 6 years since i've heard new words written by Stevie has us all really thirsty. If that 20 seconds has me this excited a whole album would maybe send me into cardiac arrest.

yes, that's why part of me is glad the tour is, for the most part, finished. Hopefully, some creative juices will start flowing and she'll get the itch to record some new stuff!!

[Tango]

Thank you for posting this! Anyone think the vampire reference could be a nod to Anne Rice/"Interview With A Vampire"?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2730302048_a36fae9b3c.jpg

[gldstwmn]

Thank you for posting this! Anyone think the vampire reference could be a nod to Anne Rice/"Interview With A Vampire"?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2730302048_a36fae9b3c.jpg

It crossed my mind.

[gldstwmn]

Yeah..would it have killed them to do the entire song?In exchange she could have let Lindsey do Love Runs Deeper.

And then I might have gone to a show this tour...

[strandinthewind]

Thank you for posting this! Anyone think the vampire reference could be a nod to Anne Rice/"Interview With A Vampire"?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2730302048_a36fae9b3c.jpg

That house is soooi beautiful. I knew the owner of it before Anne Rice. Note - thr First St. House (pictured) was the setting of The Witching Hour.

[vivfox]

Anyone think the vampire reference could be a nod to Anne Rice/"Interview With A Vampire?
No. I think she got the idea from Tom Petty. After all she did cover the song herself: All the vampires walking through the valley......

[RockALittle250]

No. I think she got the idea from Tom Petty. After all she did cover the song herself: All the vampires walking through the valley......

Yea, as soon as I heard her say "vampires", Free Fallin' immediately came to mind.

[steviefan59]

hey guys...the vampire reference is about the l8 niters who do walk around in capes in new orleans...they are known as vampires by the locals...i thought it was cool that stevie was aware of this and put it in her song which i really like btw...i think it would have been a mistake to put it on crystal visions as that was all the videos from her career and this song is new...it deserves to be put on a new album or at the very least as a single on itunes...hugs pat

[vivfox]

Yea, as soon as I heard her say "vampires", Free Fallin' immediately came to mind.
Great minds think alike!

[louielouie2000]

Well, we all know she was at the premier for Interview With a Vampire, and I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if she were and Anne Rice fan. I wouldn't think it'd be a stretch at all the she was referencing that. It was the first thing that came to my mind actually.

[strandinthewind]

^^

I, too, think she is referencing Anne Rice's work. The vampire in Petty's song has nothing to do with NOLA. Anne Rice's loved and lived there and the city is famous for it and that image.

[louielouie2000]

That house is soooi beautiful. I knew the owner of it before Anne Rice. Note - thr First St. House (pictured) was the setting of The Witching Hour.

Have you been past the house lately? The new owner painted it BEIGE! BEIGE! :mad::mad::mad: I've never gotten into the vampire series, but the Witching Hour series is like the Bible to me... I've read them at least a dozen times, all 3000 pages :laugh:.

[strandinthewind]

I loved TWH - I read while living in NOLA in what was a rather glorious time of my life. I, too, read it often as it reminds me of my beloved NOLA and those wonderful times.

Are you living in NOLA?

[David]

I, too, think she is referencing Anne Rice's work. And by extension Sting's "Moon Over Bourbon Street"

Sting's first solo album was on the tape deck a lot during the RAL sessions. See the Modern Producer interview with Iovine.

[louielouie2000]

I loved TWH - I read while living in NOLA in what was a rather glorious time of my life. I, too, read it often as it reminds me of my beloved NOLA and those wonderful times.

Are you living in NOLA?

I really love TWH too... it captures all aspects of NOLA better than any book I've read set there (all classes, and parts of town OTHER than the Quarter). And of course anything witch or southern gothic related, I'm all over! :D I can imagine NOLA was quite glorious to live in! I just love it's very gritty, soulful nature... I currently live in the BEIGE antithesis of that: Charlotte, North Carolina :eek:.

[David]

Yea, as soon as I heard her say "vampires", Free Fallin' immediately came to mind.But those vampires live in the San Fernando Valley.

[omshiva]

can someone post a mp3 please ? thanx