Will reply to Elle's post in a bit..
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It's a song that represents a drugged out part of her life she she prefers not to revisit.
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While I agree with this quote and the post overall, if this was 100% true, why would she bring back other deep cuts from Tusk like Storms, and Beautiful Child? Those have references to her self-doubt and drug abuse (if veiled), and if it's the old-school witchiness, then Rhiannon could never be played..
It's like she sees Rhiannon as satisfying that vein of song, and with that being a hit and a fan favourite (I guess?), it gets precedence over SOTM.
Now I will say, instead of the snarky Rhiannon comment I was going to make, I saw Rhiannon live a week ago and it was really well-done, with the piano intro. No comparison to 2003/04/09 where she dug her own grave and shoveled in while singing, this was proper Rhiannon (of course Lori/Sharon help!!!).
Anyway. I would love SOTM. But for some reason, even Straight Back (an obscurer, less well-liked song) would have more chance. And I would love SB, too, I'm just saying, it's weird SOTM will never happen.
Mezzoforte's ironic point about us "getting" Soldier's Angel might be pretty prophetic too, high chance of that I would say. Although, like Rhiannon, any snarky comment I normally would make at this point has softened, since I saw SA live a week ago and it was eons better than the album version, performed with heart and good singing/guitar, with a good before and after story, if a little much.