![]() ![]() ![]() The Invisible Woman traces what happens when women age and get ignored (she loved being “the belle of the ball”), while Lubrication uses a greasy metaphor to raise eyebrows (“gotta take care of moving parts … they’re easily irritated”). Seeger can also be bluntly irreverent in lyric and musical mood (Randy Newman’s clownish swagger and Dolly Parton’s country smartness are present throughout). Other songs slip-slide gorgeously between magical realism and memory, such as Lullabies for Strangers, The Puzzle and Tree of Love, written for her partner of 30 years, Irene Pyper-Scott. Dandelion and Clover presents a little girl waiting for a little boy to come round to play a year later he dies, but then later he marries her. ![]() ![]() Her spry, lively vocals and her writing burrow into many territories: digital communication, environmental collapse, feminism, love and time, the latter nestling closest to the folksongs for which she became known. It’s apparently her last album of originals, written and recorded with her family (musician sons Calum and Neill, and Neill’s partner, composer Kate St John). ![]()
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