To say Stevie had ten years of consistently good-great songwriting is accurate. It’s also more than many musicians/singers/songwriters could hope for. Since 1985, each of her projects usually offers one or two fine songs, such as “Blue Denim” on STREET ANGEL or “Throw Down” and “Everybody Finds Out” on SYW. Again, in this regard, she has persisted more successfully than many of her peers of that era. Recording “lost” tunes like “Lady” and “Lady of the Mountain” has worked for her, too. She remains remarkably marketable.
But as a songwriter she has been fallow for at least two decades. Her last batch of (then) new-newish songs was on SYW. After that, it’s been more excavation than genuine expression. Her dismissal of the BuckVie project was thinly-veiled jealousy and outright fear cloaked as greed.
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