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@tonyg2756 wrote:
Thx for the link Tim. What version of Car Wheels is playing when you go to that site?
In the upper left hand corner is a player loaded with songs spanning her career. You can click manually through. When I opened the link, a song from upcoming record was playing.
@Lafayette wrote:
@tonyg2756 wrote:
Thx for the link Tim. What version of Car Wheels is playing when you go to that site?
In the upper left hand corner is a player loaded with songs spanning her career. You can click manually through. When I opened the link, a song from upcoming record was playing.
Oops, my bad, it was “Righteously” that was playing…
@Disco Stu wrote:
I’m very interested to hear Well Well Well w/Charlie Louvin and Jim Lauderdale, and also interested to hear how Jailhouse Tears turns out. I like Elvis Costello and have a lot of respect for him, but I can’t help thinking that I’d have picked a lot of other singers above him for that particular song.
DiscoStu, I agree. i’d have preferred someone else — more raw and gritty — on this song. But i’ll wait and see. I know EC has been a Lucinda supporter for a long time. Saw him join her onstage about 10 years ago at Count Basie Theatre in red bank, nj, and I thought that was pretty cool at the time. Hey, i wonder if Mellencamp was considered for Jailhouse Tears?! (i might be kidding!) Definitely happy about that pairing with Jim Lauderdale and Charlie Louvin.
Once famous for taking her time between albums – there was an 8-year gap between her second and third releases – Lucinda Williams has made good on her promise to make a swift follow-up to last year’s West with a new release scheduled for October. Little Honey not only collects some of the leftover songs from West that didn’t fit into that record’s heavy themes of death and betrayal, but also includes some much older songs that never made it out of the studio such as the 23-year-old ballad ‘Circles & Xs’ and ‘Well Well Well’, a fresh recording of an old demo Lucinda cut for her 1992 album Sweet Old World.
Though it is most striking for its considerably more upbeat feel than much of her recent material – largely due to newfound contentment with fiancé Tom Overby, who co-produced the album with Eric Liljestrand – Little Honey also features some star guest turns. Paste Magazine have already heralded her duet with Elvis Costello on ‘Jailhouse Tears’ as among the top five all-time greatest country/rock duets, while bluegrass singers Jim Lauderdale and Charlie Louvin give a new flavour to ‘Well Well Well’. Elsewhere, ‘Little Rock Star’ was improbably inspired by Pete Doherty – or as Lucinda puts it, “an empathetic look at self-indulgent, little-brat rock stars” – and features Susanna Hoffs and duet partner Matthew Sweet on harmonies.
Perhaps even more improbably, the album ends with a cover of AC/DC’s ‘It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)’. Little Honey is released on October 13th through Lost Highway.
Little Honey
01 Real Love
02 Circles & X’s
03 Tears Of Joy
04 Little Rock Star [feat. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs]
05 Honey Bee
06 Well Well Well [feat. Charlie Louvin & Jim Lauderdale]
07 If Wishes Were Horses
08 Jailhouse Tears [feat. Elvis Costello]
09 Knowing
10 Heaven Blues
11 Rarity
12 Plan To Marry
13 It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll)http://wearsthetrousers.com/2008/08/09/trouser-press-lucinda-williams-pj-harvey-and-more/
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Little Honey not only collects some of the leftover songs from West that didn’t fit into that record’s heavy themes of death and betrayal, but also includes some much older songs that never made it out of the studio such as the 23-year-old ballad ‘Circles & Xs’ and ‘Well Well Well’, a fresh recording of an old demo Lucinda cut for her 1992 album Sweet Old World.
Now that is interesting, assuming it’s true. I’ve always hoped that Lucinda would revisit certain songs of hers; a couple of them that never made it to albums are still among my favorite songs. “All I Want,” in particular, I’d love to hear her take on now, either in performance or on an album.
i dont know if this is the real album cover or not, but if you go to cdnow.com and search for lucinda williams, they have a cover art for little honey. i tried to post it here but i am at work and not able to, so somebody else might be able to……..
I checked it out. I bet that is the artwork. It has a different feel than her other covers. I like it![/img]
Looks great, thanks for the link.. can’t wait to hear this new stuff – its out in the UK
the same day as in US. Just in time for a little road trip 8)
http://tinyurl.com/648mjb
In the Studio: Lucinda Williams Cures Her Blues
8/13/08, 12:08 pm EST“Whatever record I’m doing reflects my life,” says Lucinda Williams with a smile, sitting in Los Angeles’ Village Recorder studios. And guessing from the sound of the singer-songwriter’s ninth album, Little Honey, an upbeat disc of bluesy rockers and contented love songs, Williams is feeling pretty good these days.
The sunny vibe clearly comes through in the rowdy arrangements on the 13-track set — co-produced by Eric Liljestrand and Williams’ manager-fiance, Tom Overby — which bring the lively playing of guitar ace Doug Pettibone and her road band, the Buick 6, to the forefront.
Though Little Honey sounds strikingly different from 2007’s downcast West, the majority of the songs were originally written for that album. And some of the material goes back even further. The ballad “Circles and Xs” dates to 1985; “Well, Well, Well” is from the demos for 1992’s Sweet Old World and is revived here with bluegrass singers Jim Lauderdale and Charlie Louvin. Other guests include Elvis Costello, who plays the part of a drunken degenerate on “Jailhouse Tears”; and Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs add harmonies to the trippy, six-minute “Little Rock Star,” inspired by seeing Pete Doherty in Rolling Stone. “It’s an empathetic look at self-indulgent, little-brat rock stars,” she says. “He’s great, and you want to say, ‘Snap out of it!’ ”
To close the set, Williams covers AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll).” “At first, I didn’t dig it,” she says. “But I gave it a shot. And what do you know? It seems to have worked!”
[Photo by Sam Comen]
[From Issue 1059 — August 21, 2008]
• More From Issue 1059
Not sure if I’m looking forward to Costello’s honking voice on Jailhouse Tears. Anybody else at all would have been better.
I agree with you, padchio. Doug Pettibone has done a tremendous job singing this song in concert for three years! Yet, they go with a big name to sell a few more records. What a shame!
Oh c’mon. Neither Elvis Costello or Doug fit with this song at all. Doug is one of my favorite guitar players and I think he does an amazing job on backing vocals but he can’t sing Jailhouse Tears. I will always love Elvis for The Pogues Rum,Sodomy and The Lash and his own Imperial Bedroom which remain two of my favorite albums ever, and I will always love Dougy P, but Jailhouse Tears screamed for a gritty serious vocal with perhaps a tongue in cheek humor. Lucinda should have gotten Keith Richards or Hank 3, or someone that could do the song justice or just not recorded it at all.
I also don’t see what the big fuss is with the CMT Elvis and Lucinda show, yea Lucinda is amazing on her own songs and provides amazing vocals to Elvis’s songs (especially indoor fireworks), but Elvis can’t sing with her. The only person I have ever been satisfied with singing along with Lucinda in a great fashion is Jim Lauderdale. Not saying that he should have done the duet on Jailhouse Tears, but it really takes a special talent to augment Lucinda’s voice like she has done to so many other countless artists throughout the years.
I love Elvis, but I hated their duet when they did it live, and I can’t imagine I will like it anymore on the album.
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