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One of the bits of news (at least it was news to me) was that Lucinda had written a song for Connie Britton to sing on the TV series “Nashville”. (If I’ve gotten that part mangled in recollection, shame on me.)
She mentioned she’d sent the song in and T Bone Burnett had then asked her if she couldn’t add some more to it. What came out had a bridge which she said she said that she had to admit sounded better. At any rate, a Lucinda Williams song may make it to ABC’s program, bridge and all.
Wow! What a wonderful show! Lucinda and Doug made magic. I thought their version of “Jailhouse Tears” was much better than the campy version on the album and “Essence” hit a new high. The whole show was a delight.
I think this was something like the set list, but I probably got the sequence scrambled as the card I was scribbling titles on in the dark filled up and I ended up having to rely on memory for order later.
Lake Charles
Can’t Let Go
People Talkin’
Place in my Heart
World without Tears
Metal Firecracker
Blue
I Envy the Wind
Over Time
Make the World Go Away
Drunken Angel
Bitter Memories
Jailhouse Tears
Joy
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Changed the Locks
Essence
Honey Bee
Crescent City
This Old Guitar
Blessed
Get Right with GodI remember how I worked on the song „ brine of Charles “ (from the album “Car wheels on a gravel road”, Ed.) and showed him for the first time this song text in whose refrain the line “Did an angel whisper in your ear” seems. He said to me: „ I think, you should not use the word “Hinge”, because you have used this already in the song „ Drunken of hinge “ (from the same album, Ed.).
Well, that was definitely fun! The English words translated as if they were German, rendering “Lake Charles” as “brine of Charles” and “Drunken Angel” as “Drunken of hinge”.
Kent
Well, that can’t help record sales. It’s sort of like an endorsement from Charles Manson, isn’t it?
Kent
For some reason, Led Zeppelin’s version of the Howling Wolf song “Killing Floor” popped into my head today. I’ll bet that Buick 6 could do something absolutely fantastic with that, too.
Kent
Lefty, thanks for that.
By the way, just as a funny footnote, when I did a bit of googling of “Mama You Sweet”, I discovered that not everyone hears the same lyrics. One website was publishing the lyric that Lucinda sings as:
And the scars in my heart
And this burden on my hipsin this really odd version:
And there’s scars in my heart
And there’s burn on my hipsKent
You know, one thing that strikes me about both Buick 6 and of course Lucinda Williams is that they both have a lot more musical ideas in them than they get a chance to perform or record in the normal course of things.
I wonder if the best suggestion I can make as to what song I’d like Buick 6 to do would be “anything that interests them at the time”. I think it’s important to give artists and performers some creative space and that Is what I’d like. I’ll bet we’d all get something surprising out of it.
Listening to Lucinda’s recordings, I get the idea that she has a much wider range of genres or ideas that she could draw from to make art if she felt that her fans were along for the ride. I’m perfectly willing to let the trip go wherever that road leads.
Kent
My CD arrived yesterday and today it played through several times. Loved it and wished the tracks were all twice as long.
Kent
I’ll bet that Buick 6 would do a fantastic version of Bo Diddley’s “Who do you love?”. (I’m thinking of the Quicksilver Messenger Service version as a sort of benchmark.) At any rate I’d love to hear an extended jam version from them. Come to think of it, if Lucinda were interested in reworking some of the lyrics, she could make that song her own. Keep the rattlesnakes and barbed wire, lose the 22-year old.
By the way, If they are working up something around the Perry Mason theme, after hearing “Pipeline” I’ve got to think that the music from “Hawaii Five-O” would be a natural. (The extended version that The Ventures do is a point of reference.)
I know, these are strange suggestions, but I’m also thinking of a Carlos Santana version of “The Girl from Ipanema” (the one that he actually never played and never recorded, as far as I know) . Taking the cross-genre hybrization a bit further, what would Buick 6 do with ” ‘Round Midnight”?
Kent
(I just got my copy of the Buick 6 CD today and am really enjoying it. Their version of “Pipeline” is just tremendous.)
Okay, I have questionable taste, but I’d like to hear what they could do with Johnny Rivers’ “Secret Agent Man”, with “Runaway”. or just about anything in the Chantays’ catalogue.
Someone else has suggested Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” which I heartily second.
Kent
It’s worth noting that more than a few people have been struck by the odd combination of loud and detached that characterized the Buick 6 opening sets. My first impression when I saw their warm-up in Austin was that it almost had the quality of watching them in a room by themselves. That isn’t intended a slam, just a description. I have to wonder whether it is more of a (US) West Coast thing to just show up on stage and play as if there isn’t an audience assembled to listen, as if the music is what is there, the musicians some invisible figures moving the sounds around.
Kent
Excellent. Just as a footnote to the misadventure in on-line commerce: I found that I was able to log in to the Lucinda Williams Store and order the Buick 6 CD … on another machine, one running Windows Vista.
I have to wonder whether the log-in scripts weren’t executing properly with my version of IE7 running in Windows XP Pro. I sent the support people a note to let them know what my experience had been, but at this point, with the chances of actually receiving what promises to be a jewel of a CD suddenly looking vastly improved, I guess things have worked out. At least until it’s time to order something else, that is.
Kent
That’s great to hear, Tom. If my experience isn’t just some isolated fluke, finding and fixing the problem may lead to a significant improvement in revenue from the site. I suspect that most of us would prefer to buy as close to directly from the artist(s) as possible.
Kent
Thanks for the info. It takes the edge off to know that the universe hasn’t singled me and my browser out for a hard time just trying to buy what looks as if ought to be a great album from Buick 6.
By the way, I had read your review on the band’s website and particularly enjoyed:
Norton sounds like he’s riding the drum kit down a flight of stairs, never missing a beat, with Sutton right behind him.
(Somewhere on the web, there’s a video of Butch Norton playing some plastic bubble wrap, the metal case of some dead appliance, and some other found percussion instrument. It’s a classic.)
Kent
Greg:
Yes, definitely go for the live concert recordings made in 2007 in New York and LA. They’re gems, some of my favorites. I’d have a hard time choosing between NY and LA, but I’m not so sure I wouldn’t rather have the live recordings over the brilliantly polished and carefully faceted studio work.
That’s just me, though. I like the human touch in things, including the necessary imperfections that result from the happy fact that people aren’t … machines. The choice between studio and live is probably a false choice, anyway, since both are maybe a part of the creative evolution of each song.
Kent
