Wine, Writing and A Woman Named Lucinda

One man’s take on how Lucinda’s music helps him find his passion to write.

Last night I attended the Lucinda Williams show in downtown Houston. She was amazing, and a lot of her lyrics have been running through my head ever since. One song in particular seems to be playing on a loop in my cranium, maybe because it seems to strike a chord with me for a variety of reasons. More on that after the lyrics to the song.

Before playing the song she said that she wrote it as a joking response to the old “I Found It” bumper stickers that were popular some time back. I love this song because it seems to encompass so much of what I think makes her great. Although she claims to have written it jokingly, and it certainly has a whimsical element, it also combines intelligence, sweetness, toughness, sadness, longing and tenderness to almost heartbreaking effect. In other words, a typical Lucinda Williams song.

It also describes how I was feeling around the time I began this blog. I had, and thankfully still have, a wonderful family and a great job but I felt adrift. I had lost IT. I couldn’t have told you what IT was, but I had definitely lost it. Looking back, I think maybe IT was a combination of things.

To read more, check out HoustonWino’s post at Another Wine Blog