Americana Awards 2021 Video
 

Hi all. I don't really post on here but was clearing out some files off my phone and came across this from February 2021. I've never seen this circulating online as far as I'm aware, so I thought id share with fans rather than delete it.

apologies for the shoddy quality. I've watched the Americana awards online for a few years now and filmed this from my phone as it's always impossible to re watch the ceremony afterwards.

enjoy!

https://we.tl/t-9VT1kz95hc

Hey you….thank you so much for sharing that. Damn….she looked really good then. I remember some other interview she mentioned she was off on a safari.
I’m just gonna go and have a lie down and a little cry now :(

wow that made me emotional. she looked good. i knew she did one safari, didn't know about the second! good for her. thanks for sharing that..

--Lis

"I don't know if my trail is blazing as much as it used to."

With pithy one liners like that it's no surprise she can write a song at a drop of a hat!

Ok, wow—just watching her and listening to that lovely lilt! Did she ever go on the second safari trip?

Btw: she sounds so much better here than she does on the BBC doc, where she appears frail and possibly medicated.

i wonder if she ever did. nice that she enjoyed the 1st one so much.

was this clip actually from feb 2021?? or maybe earlier?

--Lis

She won the award in 2021 (I checked). So, it has to be from that time.

This was amazing, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for checking. So that may be the last clip that we have of her..? Was there any video clip etc in 2022?

Yeesh. So sad. She looked healthy and happy. :(

-Lis

I don't think we have any 2022 footage of her. I do know that she gave a phone interview with RS in (I think) May or June of that year. But nothing beyond that.

Gosh, I miss her!

I wonder how long she knew that she had cancer?

I was wondering the same. And reading Lindsey's statements about "no fingers to point" and his feelings about the band, and assuming Chris was in enough good health, I wish there could have been a BuckVie vol II in 2020-21.

"This might be the last tour that I can enjoy.."

What a gut punch. This could very well be the last public video of her.

I'd give anything for a BuckVie II.

From what I heard, it was not long at all. Maybe a few weeks? she may have lasted a little longer if not for the stroke. But she was able to be at home for nearly all that time and they brought in help.

Also heard she kind of leaned towards holistic type care and maybe did not get medical tests done or check out possible concerns until it was already too late, by then it had spread everywhere. You would think with what happened with John she might have been more on top of that but i guess we all make our choices.

One of my friends recently lost her mom to an aggressive form of lung cancer. she was diagnosed with it after having some chest pain and then was gone two weeks later, there was no treatment that would do any good and the decline was *really* fast. just mainly palliative care at that point, to keep her as comfortable and as pain free as possible. anyway that all made me think very much of what happened with chris...like it was enough time to get your people around you and maybe make some final decisions about certain things. is that better than lingering and worrying for months? I don't know. maybe. :(

--Lis

I truly appreciate the information you bring to this board. I hope the time between learning of her prognosis and death was brief.

I suppose the short time frame is good? I'd personally like 3-6 months notice. To give away important belongings, etc...

I've had a couple friends die of cancer, and chose holistic care. They didn't seem to last as long as people who chose traditional medical treatment. But if it's definitely terminal, I agree, it's just a matter of personal choice. My mom's oncologist said that women are usually the ones who fight, and choose chemo/ radiation. Men are the ones who say, "I'm not doing that stuff", and just bide their time.

If the end is inevitable and lingering for months comes with hard pain, believe me, it's far better to leave soon. Cause the long suffering is so painful for the patient and also for the family. I know.

thank you. I truly appreciate having the info, believe me.

another thing i forgot to mention before, that i recently learned, was that chris had been scheduled to attend a party at julien's auction on Nov. 30th. One week before that, she had called to let them know she couldn't make it.

so for me it was nice to know she was still completely cognizant and well enough to make that call herself just a week before she passed. She could not have been in horribly awful shape, which hopefully meant that most of those days that she *did* have were not spent suffering. and of course, in my mind, knowing john was there with her for all that time overrides everything else.

these days when i watch that video of when mick was too sick to play, when they're all having their little meeting at the side of the stage about what to do...the way john's got his hand on her shoulder the whole time always gives me a lump in my throat. such a beautiful, quietly reassuring love.

--Lis

Wow...it must have all hit her like a lightening bolt. I'm glad there wasn't a long period of suffering/pain.

I had a family friend who was recovering from a knee replacement. She randomly collapsed during physical therapy, weeks after the surgery. At the hospital they discovered cancer that had spread everywhere, she passed within 24 hours.

That would be the ultimate!