'and he says "Rhiannon, don't go"- Rhiannon- STAY'
-Rhiannon- roll over
-Rhiannon- play dead
-Rhiannon- good-girl!"
auggh... i'm still not numb to that training-a-puppy spoken command of "stay" --
it just lapses 'Rhiannon' into parody-land, i can't stand it. Many people and Stevie herself seem to love this rendering of Rhiannon, since 'The Dance' recording of 1997.
For me, the last really good 'Rhiannon' was the 'Street Angel' tour. I'm glad some of you thought this was a 'great' Rhiannon on Soundstage and won't try to change your mind.
So, enjoy this performance of it and hold on to your loving it as is, but aside from the "Stay"- i feel like i do for 5 good reasons: (because, because, because, because, because).
...as well as...
The ending minute and a half of the song cries for the committed use of her upper register, which she still has, but doesn't even come close to using in a satisfying way-
- No, don't shread the vocal chords as from '75 thru '82 or so, but 'all the same, all the same, all the same' sung in the flat monatone - oh why bother.
She could revisit the original 1975 recording, returning Rhiannon to being taken by the wind-- and finesse a tour-de-force replication of the trippy but vocally even LP or 45 version that wasn't so demanding on her in the first place.
This may be vulgar (you think?) but this 'Rhiannon' is like what you know is a really huge, gorgeous, incredible c*** that's been limp and unable to get hard for 14 years!
"RHIANNON---- Give it Up!"
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