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What are your favorite Lucinda cover songs?
Mine are Nick Drake’s “Which Will”
from her Sweet Old World album, which is bittersweetly beautiful.Also I love her rendition of Greg Brown’s “Lately” from his tribute album Going Driftless.
Her voice shimmers with loss and longing on this song.can’t say ‘all of them’ i suppose!
guess i’d say ‘make me down a pallet on your floor’, the mississippi john hurt song(listed as trad.) on ‘Ramblin’. the robert johnson numbers are incredible as well.
i know lucinda has grown as an arist over the years, and her own work is beyond brilliant, but it’s sometimes fun to go back to that record.
the version of skip james ‘hard times, killing floor’ she’s still performing on this tour is pretty sweet too!!!Cold Cold Heart from Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute. One of my favorite tribute album. You must hear Keith Richards sing You Win Again, it’s amazing.
You Don’t Have Very Far To Go is by far my favorite. I was really let down by Roseanne Cash’s cover but Lucinda’s is amazing. I also love The Angels Laid Him Away an Which Will.
I’ve definitely got to agree with antetomic: Cold, Cold Heart is my favorite cover she’s done. A close second would be some of the versions of Positively 4th Street from the early ’90s.
The studio version of this Howlin Wolf cover is fine (found on the Howlin Wolf tribute cd), but her live take is much, much better. I first heard it earlier this year at her Austin show and had to hunt down a few boots that featured that track. Check out Boston, ’99. Superb sounding show and her take on Come To Me Baby is absolutely one of her best performances (and the band delivers too….).
1) Which Will
2) Satisfied Mind**I’m pretty sure this song was covered by someone before Lu (correct me if I’m wrong, or you know who did it), but I know it was later done by Jeff Buckley on “Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk.”
Which Will is my favorite even though it rips my heart out every time I hear it. There is something very beautiful about that song but I have yet to get through it without the kleenex box.
If we’re talking about songs of other people that Lu has covered, mine is “Main Road” from the Sweet Relief album. There’s a soothing kinda strangeness-of-familiarity to Victoria Williams writing, and paired with Lu’s voice the song is a perfect musical experience.
Hi, I am new here, my favorite by far is Memphis Minnie’s “Nothing In Rambling”. I also really like “Disgusted” which I had the pleasure to see her perform on the “World” tour a few years back.
Three of my favorites that have already been mentioned are: “Ode To Billy Joe” (when she played it at the Birmingham show, she said it was one of the greatest songs ever written), “Positively 4th Street”, and “Cold, Cold Heart”.
One that I really love that I believe is a cover (I am not sure who wrote it) that hasn’t yet been mentioned is “Factory Blues”. It is a great rockin’ blues song…
Tom
Lucinda covered Kate Wolf’s song “Here in California” on the “Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf” album in 1998 that won a Grammy Nomination. This was over a decade after Kate passed on from leukemia. It starts as Kates mother giving advice to her daughter about love. Lucinda’s voice sounds great and its such a sad sounding song.
Oh boy…this is definitely a tough one. I’d probably go with Cold, Cold Heart (probably the first Lucinda song I ever heard when I got the Timeless album); I was actually introduced to that song through Norah Jones’ cover of it, right before I got into Hank Williams, and while I still love her version (and of course his), Lucinda’s really adds something to the song. I love songs where you can appreciate multiple covers because they all add something unique of their own.
I also like Gentle on My Mind, and Positively 4th Street from the early ’90s.
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