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Paste Magazine: The 10 Best Roots & Blues Albums of 2018

# 1 Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams:Vanished Gardens
Before he became a Fillmore-headlining jazz star in the ’60s, saxophonist Lloyd played in Howlin’ Wolf’s band. Before she became one of Dylan’s most obvious heirs in the ’80s, Williams got started by covering blues standards by Robert Johnson and Memphis Minnie. Those early apprenticeships enabled Lloyd and Williams to pull off the year’s most audacious album: a long overdue integration of Dylan’s innovations in the ’60s with John Coltrane’s innovations in the same decade. Williams’s moaning vocals lend language to the instrumentalists’ improvisations, and their musical inventions trace the implications of her literary forays. A landmark achievement. Read entire article online at Paste Magazine

This Sweet Old World Listening Party 9/29 – Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES: To celebrate the 25th Anniversary & re-recording of “Sweet Old World​,” we’ve decided to throw a little party! This exclusive, LIMITED TICKET event will take place at Swing House Studios in Atwater Village (LA) on street date, Friday, September 29th. Doors will open at 8pm, come mix & mingle with fellow fans & hear the new versions in a studio environment.
Around 8:30pm, Lucinda will take the stage to perform a short acoustic set of classics from the album! Special guests are expected to visit and join in. Each ticket also includes a CD & album download, CD’s will be handed out at the door. We can’t wait to celebrate the album with you! Get your tickets here at PledgeMusic now! http://bit.ly/LuListeningParty

Lucinda Williams Re-Records, Re-Releases 1992 Album ‘Sweet Old World’ – Rolling Stone Magazine

Lucinda Williams had a one-word response when her husband and manager Tom Overby suggested that she re-record her 1992 album Sweet Old World: “Really?”

Although Williams has consistently performed a few songs from the album over the years in concert, including the title track and “Pineola,” she felt that she had outgrown most of the others and was reluctant to revisit it. That was until she listened to the songs with fresh ears.

“After we got in the recording studio and we got going, I got really pumped up about it,” says Williams, who re-recorded the album in 10 days with her touring and studio band – guitarist Stuart Mathis, bassist David Sutton and drummer Butch Norton – and longtime friend and collaborator, legendary steel-guitar player Greg Leisz, who actually participated in the early sessions for the original LP. Williams will release the re-sequenced album with four bonus tracks under the updated title This Sweet Old World on September 29th via Thirty Tigers. (Listen to the opening track and first single, “Six Blocks Away,” above.)

READ MORE and and listen to new version of “Six Blocks Away,” off the updated 25th anniversary edition ‘This Sweet Old World’ HERE!

Listen to a nearly 10-minute cover of JJ Cale’s “Magnolia” from Williams’ forthcoming double album, premiering on Billboard.com:



By Gary Graff September 12, 2014

Lucinda Williams has raised some eyebrows by coming up with her first-ever double album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, due Sept. 30. The kicker? There’s more where that came from.

“We recorded enough stuff for three albums, actually,” Williams tells Billboard. “They weren’t all my songs. We cut a JJ Cale song, ‘Blond Hair and Blue Eyes.’ We recorded Bruce Springsteen’s’Factory.’ There’s a lot of tracks that were done with Bill Frisell. Then I had some older songs that hadn’t been put on anything yet. So it was a combination of things.”

Listen to a nearly 10-minute cover of JJ Cale’s “Magnolia” from Williams’ forthcoming double album, premiering on Billboard.com:

LISTEN TO THE COVER & READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE