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I’m jealous, sounds like an awesome venue, your wife is lucky. I’m bummed, because we will actually be in Maine the end of August. I would have driven from Bar Harbour to see Lucinda. I’m also jealous, because I love your state. It’s such an awesome craggy coastline, and beautiful backwoods country. We get up there as often as we can.
Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams he worries did he hear a good-bye or even
HelloNeil’s friend Stephen wrote the most beautiful piece of alliteration in English literature in this song (my opinion).
OK OK Rainydayman, I admit it. I thought it looked alot like Doug, but wasn’t completely sure. So I was trying to confirm it by searching for who he would have been there with and came across the photo of him and Kat Lague. You have to admit though she looks similiar to the lady next to Doug in the photo.
Sioux,
Well of course its Doug. To his right i his friend Katheen Lague (Kat) She is the real Lakers fan. Here is a pic of them with Lucinda,
http://kathleenlague.com/katpicsnew/neworleans_lrg.jpg
I’m not sure a full list exists, but we fans can start one here. I like her duet with Elvis Costello on his Delivery Man album called “There’s a Story in Your Voice”. She has also done the Stones “Wild Horses” and “Changed the Locks” duets with Elvis live in concerts. I also like Lucinda Williams & David Crosby “Return Of The Grievous Angel” But there are tons of duets out there if you look for them.
Good Luck
Lucinda covered Kate Wolf’s song “Here in California” on the “Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf” album in 1998 that won a Grammy Nomination. This was over a decade after Kate passed on from leukemia. It starts as Kates mother giving advice to her daughter about love. Lucinda’s voice sounds great and its such a sad sounding song.
Stan – I saw Lucinda on that same tour in Columbus and she started the concert with Rescue there too, and like you I think it was a great song to open the evening with and has become one of my favorites because it draws me back to that geat show.
I think my five favorite Lucinda Williams songs are dependant on which CD is playing. The first I remember was her Lucinda Williams album and from there:
I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
Big Red Sun Blues
Like a Rose (Probably my all time favorite)
Am I Too Blue
Something about What Happens When We talk (Top five also)And then an old high school crush, who is credited for turning me on to Lu showed me Essence. Which has some great songs.
Essence (One of my favorites as you can tell by the signature)
Steal Your love
Lonely Girls
I Envy The Wind
Bus to Baton RougeBut of course Car Wheels was the Grammy winner and is packed with great songs. I know its not five but these are the best here:
Right in Time
Drunken Angel
Metal firecracker
Still I Long for Your KissI saw Lu in San Diego at a place I think was called Humphrey’s by the Bay after she put out World Without Tears. And what I like best about that show was how passionate she was about these songs:
Rightously (Totally sexy)
Those Three Days
Minneapolis (Number three favorite)I’m not sure why the last Album I bought (Besides Happy Woman Blues which is excluded here) is Sweet Old Worldbut I think it my favorite. So many good songs here and I see many love this one too.
Which Will (It still breaks my heart when she says “If you wont choose me” – last top five)
Six Blocks Away
Little Angel, Little Brother
Lines Around Your EyesDid I excede the limit of five? Can I have twenty top five favorites?
I saw Lucinda warm up the crowd at Niel Young’s Greendale performance at Germain amphitheater in Columbus Ohio. And yes the crowd was still milling about and hardly anyone was in their seats. But the devoted fans of Lucinda were there enjoying her music and acknowledging one another. There were a group of women to my right totally enjoying her performance just like me.
So I have my tickets to Lucinda opening for John Cougar Mellencamp at Riverbend in Cincinnati. I imagine I’ll watch her perform and then see the beginning of John’s show and stay until I get bored. I don’t really agree with Pit Bull’s comparison of him to Barry Manilow (Thats a Stretch). Not sure what the point of being hostile to other folks musical inerests is but I’ll listen and decide if its entertaining.
Enjoy,
Look at the lower right text “NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELOS RECORDINGS AVAILABLE NOW IN THE OFFICIAL RECORDINGS STORE” That will take you to the selection of the live concert performances of her best 5 albums.
And yes she does an intro of each song, some more detailed than others, about what the song is about, the people that inspired, produced, covered it, or helped her write it, and how her father (poet Miller) reacted to some of the songs.
My first exposure to Lucinda was with her self titled album, so the El Ray Theatre version is the first one I bought. One of my favorite songs on that album is “Like a Rose”, so I was thrilled to hear her get to the end of a great performance of that song and say “You know what, we did that song in the wrong key. We have to do it over again” and she proceeded to sing it again even better than the first time.
I’ve bought three of them so far, and I already know I’m going to get at least one of each album, if that tells you anything about the quality of the performances and recordings.
Enjoy!
