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For me, it’s the simplicity, and at the same time the complexity of her songwriting. How can someone take as few as two or three chords and write such beautiful music?
On another note, I also love how some of her songs can sound “country” yet the guitar work can be off the wall feedbacked laced rock driven punk. (For lack of a better description)
These two elements shouldn’t fit, yet they work perfectly in Lucinda’s songs.
Dirt Red Girl…I’ve seen Lucinda at the Pageant, and I agree..great shows. My first knowledge of Lucinda was when she opened for Neil Young during his Greendale tour at UMB bank pavillion, or whatever they’re calling that place these days?
(Ahem) Maybe we could meet next pageant show? Just a thought? You’re a musician, right? Same here.
I’ve only seen the one YouTube video where Elvis sings with Lucinda.
Doug does a much better job, IMO, but Elvis has more name recognition, so it could help album sales?
Half the time Elvis is unintelligeble. At least in the video.
Take at least 3 weeks to pick a favorite….no hurry. I still need to listen to it again myself.
It’ll be easier on the later albums because I think we should make it 2-3 favs from each CD.
Sorry all, my modem fried last Friday…these things only seem to last 1-2 years. As Neil Young would say…”Piece of Crap.’
Anyway, I’ll continue this polling tonight.
Ok, so far we have 2 votes for “Satisfied Mind,” and one vote each for “Jambalaya, Me and My Chauffer, Disgusted, and Make Me a Pallet.”
Someone needs to break this tie, because I’d like two songs to advance to the next round, but let’s face it…I doubt if a Lucinda cover song has a chance in hell of being picked as her greatest song.
It has to be one of her many great original pieces. Right?
So, if you’re reading this and you haven’t voted…go ahead and vote!
It’s your duty as a Lucinda fan…it’s your right!I planned on leaving the voting up through Sunday.
On Monday, we can vote on our favorites from “Happy Woman Blues,” which I believe was her next release….unless of course, this poll starts taking shape from the powers that be…those who run and operate this web site?
In which case, I will acquiesce with a big thank you to those that maintain this site for us.
Well, I count 8 Lucinda albums, not counting the live material…
” 1. Ramblin, 2. Happy women blues, 3. Lucinda Williams, 4. Sweet Old World, 5. Car Wheels, 6. Essence, 7. World Without Tears, and 8. West.”
If we advance two songs from each CD to the next round, this leaves the perfect format…16 songs, after which I was randomly going to pit 2 songs against eachother….the winner advancing to the round of 8…etc.
Eventually this would leave us with the favorite Lucinda track of all time…at least based on the voters in this forum.
If we want to make this a poll, that’s fine…I didn’t expect a ton of votes on “Ramblin” as this may not be as familiar to the casual listener as some of Ms. Williams later work?
At any rate, for coming up with this idea, I expect to be sent a password to allow me to buy Lu tickets early when she next comes to the Pageant in St. Louis, and a back stage pass would be nice, or even better, allowing my band to open up for her…Haha LOL!
As far as this vote, I’m voting for “Me and My Chauffer.” There’s just something about Ms.Williams voice…the song makes me laugh, and it has a great guitar break in the middle.
This could be one of those CD’s where whichever song gets 2 votes advances, because so far I believe we have one vote for about 4 different songs?
I expect the voting and comments to pick up when we get into more familiar territory.
I think I have it narrowed down to “Me and My Chauffer, Motherless Children, Drop Down Daddy and Satisfied Mind?”
I have to admit…those songs where Lucinda goes into that brief falsetto always grab me.
We actually did this same experiment on a Kinks board years ago.
Just for everyone’s information, the definitive Kinks song, or however one wants to describe it, turned out to be “Waterloo Sunset.”
I had no complaints about that song winning the competition.
@LikeARose wrote:
I’m interested to see everyone’s favorite songs.
For me, on this album it’s Satisfied Mind. Love the wisdom and raw acheyness dripping from her voice.Good choice. I was always a big fan of the Byrds, and a spin off of the Byrds was a band by the name of The Flying Burrito Brothers.
The Burritos did a great version of “Satisfied Mind,” in fact, that’s probably where I first heard the song.
I’ll listen to ‘Ramblin’ this week, and make a decision.
@tonyg2756 wrote:
Stan, I haven’t listened to “Ramblin” in a long time. Give me a week and I will vote.
No problem, Tony….this is just for fun, no rush. I need to go back and listen to it, too.
Great story nvythewind….thanks for sharing.
I hope one day you make a new love, and I hope it’s a true love.
There’s supposed to be what many consider a true R& R hall of fame in Seattle, but it doesn’t get the press.
anyway, I’m glad for the Ventures…they deserve it, and they’ve been a tremendous influence on my playing…and not be be persnickity, but although the Ventures became known for doing songs like “Apache,” that was orignally a number by the British group the Shadows.
( Don’t mind me, I’m a big instrumental, surf/rock nut)
On another note, when I was very young I never cared for Buck Owens that much, until I had a reel to reel tape with Buck on one side, and the amazing instrumental prowess of the Buckaroos on the flip side.
Gave me a much better appreciation for ‘chiken-pickin.’
I can’t pick my top 5 songs by Lucinda because the list would change every day of the year…however,
The song that keeps running through my head lately is “Rescue,” from ‘West.’
Lucinda’s last show in StL, she started the evening with this song, and it blew me away.
“Rescue” is not the type of song one would normally associate with the start of a performance, most might think a ‘rocker’ would be better, but the song worked perfectly.
This is an old adage from musician circles…I’ve always heard your best song should be played 3rd, or fourth, in the opening set, not first.
The logic being…when you start to perform, the audience is interested anyway, because they’re finally hearing some music.
By the 3rd or 4th song, the band is getting warmed up and you can rock them with one of your best, or better known, numbers.
I’ve used this principle for years and it always seems to work.
I’m not saying this to belittle “Rescue,” because it’s probably my fav song off ‘West,’ but it’s certainly not one of her better known songs.
I’m sure a few people in the audience only had one or two cd’s by Lucinda, so they were waiting for the more recognizable songs…like ‘Car
Wheels..Righteously..etc.’But, I love the song ‘Rescue.’ As a guy, the song seems to tell women that happiness is within yourself, and don’t expect men to supply that happiness for you…you have to do it.
I don’t have the lyrics in front of me, so I’m paraphrasing..
“What can he do? Tie some ribbons in your hair, tell you that he’ll always care, that’s all he can do.”
Lucinda, my dear…you have to come back to the Pageant, in St. Louis.
You know the acoustics in there sound better than any place in the country.
Only this time…please look to the right and left more often instead of staring straight ahead.
I’d like to believe, in my warped little mind, that you glanced my way.
As far as Doug…he seems to stare a hole in my wife at every performance. That’s ok, as long as you give me a glance.
( Just kiddin’ around with you..except for coming back to The Pageant)
