The places are, admittedly, occasionally known. I’m just the postman, I deliver the songs.” And here is Lenker’s current online biography in full: “songs of all sorts from places unknown”.
From blood-soaked birth to teenage nightmare, via “waddling around, looking at birds”, well: “thank god we made it through.”ĭylan once said, “It isn’t me, it’s the songs. Everything that happened – to me, to us, to anyone – was just a prelude to this. But the song’s conceit is not conceited: it is a way of understanding the magnitude of love. That effortless audacity is characteristic. In its first two lines, Lenker dispenses with the entire history of the universe up to her birth (“After the first stars formed, after the dinos fell/After the first light flickered out of this motel…”).
‘After the dinos fell’: the world of Adrianne Lenker
It may also be the straight-up sexiest thing that Lenker has ever sung (“Take me to the back of your pick-up truck,” she implores at one point, “show me a thing or two.”).Īnd now here’s the other way to think about ‘Born for Loving You’: no-one else on earth could have written this song. That influence hasn’t been as pronounced since (manifesting merely in the odd cover, with Lenker slipping back into Lucinda-voice), but as the band prepares to tour with Williams this summer, here’s a song – co-written with drummer James Krivchenia – that in its feel and its hook could be seamlessly snuck into Williams’ setlist. The simple way first: when the band’s frontwoman, Adrianne Lenker, was a student at Berklee, her music showcase betrayed the powerful influence of the husky, highway-fixated alt-country chanteuse, Lucinda Williams, right down to the very voice she was affecting. If you want to understand it, there is a simple, biographical way. There is a song that Big Thief have recently started playing called ‘Born for Loving You’.
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