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And the hits just keep coming, this one the JJ Cale cover that closes the record:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6251380/lucinda-williams-song-premiere-hear-a-cover-of-jj-cale-magnolia-from-her-new-double-albumCredits on “Magnolia”:
Lucinda Williams – Lead Vocal and Acoustic Guitar
Bill Frisell – Electric Guitar
Greg Leisz – Electric Guitar
Drums – Butch Norton
Bass – David SuttonAll nine-plus minutes of it!
If this is what we can look forward to on the next record (rumored to have more Frisell, Norton and Sutton), I’m already shamelessly pining for it. What a way to close the new epic double album.
Speaking of that next record, if you didn’t read the Billboard record, you missed these tantalizing tidbits:
“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.”
The result is “the next album that comes out, the one that’s not quite ready yet but we pretty much know what’s going to be on it,” Williams says. It will include a 15-minute gospel/blues/reggae treatment of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “Saving Grace,” recorded in Los Angeles with musicians from a Rastafarian church.
In the meantime, I can honestly say there hasn’t been even an average (for Lucinda) track among these previews – all of them stellar, to my ears. Seems like Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is going to be well worth the wait. Beautiful work by all of these musicians, and AMAZING guitar work by all of these guys (McCallum, Mathis, Frisell, Leisz, Wilson – still waiting to hear Doug’s contribution).
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