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I noticed a photo of gun holster on the new website, on exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. West Words and I went to view the exhibit last year while we were in Nashville for the AMA’s. It’s extensive and well worth the cost of admission.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/149655-various-artists-the-lost-notebooks-of-hank-williams
“The tracks that truly stand out are the ones that you can feel. The heartfelt “I’m So Happy I Found You” is regaled so preciously by Lucinda Williams it’s as if she wrote it herself. You can practically hear her choking back tears as she sings the chorus, ‘I’m crying / ‘Cause I’m so happy / I found you’.”
Ron Rosenbaum for Slate on “I’m So Happy I Found You” & Lucinda in general (including a yenta-like match-up that never came to fruition)…
Tom
TT–Thanks for posting this-I think between the show last night and this piece, it inspired some real babbling from me over in the other thread. I just wanted to add that his supposition that she chose this particular Hank song because it was a very unusual “happy” song -at least for Hank, was dead on. She got the letter in the mail with all the song choices-and it was first come first serve and she chose that one right away. In the next day or so she sat down and worked out the melody etc. -I think it took her a whole two hours. She recorded it a couple months later around the time of the West sessions with Doug, Jim Keltner and Tony Garnier but that didn’t quite work so she came back the next day and recorded it solo and killed it. Again it took a couple of hours and that was it.
It then sat in the can for the next 5 years.It then sat in the can for the next 5 years.
i’m not a fan of public compliments, but here’s to your restlessness. the amount of concerts this year, LW’s output since i’ve been close to her art. while i can’t physically enjoy the former, it doesn’t mean i don’t appreciate the effort. thanks.
grab a beer & cheers.
Here is an interesting read regarding the “Lost Notebooks…”, some one year after it’s release. Unbelievably, there seems there was some “push-back” regarding the project from some country music “purists”.
As a response, I like the quote that ends the piece:
Holly Williams could have some good advice for critics of the Notebooks album. She’s made a quote of her grandfather’s into a personal motto, “I don’t know what you mean by country,” he said, “I just write songs.”
As always, Hank, well put.
Tom
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