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@tonyg wrote:

Ok so I heard the new record. I don’t know how I did, but I did. Maybe it was a dream, but it seemed real. I was minding my own business, watching the Clemson-Alabama game, when I was mysteriously transported through time and space to a room full of people who looked vaguely familiar yet I was not exactly sure who they were or what they were saying to me. Someone handed me a piece of pizza and said to me “that gum you like is back in style”. Puzzled, I washed my pizza down with wine and sat in the corner. I shuddered with cold as if an alien presence had passed through me. I could hear my heart beat as loud as a drum. I peed in my pants a little.

Music began to play and I realized through the fog of my dream-like state that it was the new Lucinda record, The Ghosts of Highway 20. Lu was singly softly to the tender guitar playing of Bill Frisell. Song after song was melancholy but accompanied by delicate guitar interplay by Bill and Greg Leisz. Towards the end of disc one there was an upbeat number followed by 2 long sad pieces, the latter of which was the title track. A couple of songs performed live last year, Bitter Memory and Factory, followed. The most haunting song was If My Love Could Kill, a sad song about the death of a father. The disc 2 closer was a departure from the mood and sound of the rest of the record.

The record is an emotional experience and quite different from the last one. When the music ended I opened my eyes and I was home, in bed. Maybe it never happened?

What prose, my friend! That urination detail alone is worth the read and the log-in/impulse to reply. Go Tide. NIce to see a pro-Pettibone man like yourself acknowledging the greatness of Sirs Leisz & Frisell. Royce Hall 4 March? Wish I could join you. You’ve heard “Doors of Heaven” before too, I feel sure–though I think the arrangement on the record is a departure. I don’t understand the phrase “the disc 2 closer,” since this is a single album–but we can dream it’s a double. May the gods of sweet reverie produce another vision for us soon.

@Lafayette wrote:

I forgot about High Road touring. 😮

Wahoooo!

Philly X 2 now listed there too. . .

@swisschris wrote:

Oh yes, I love “Port Arthur” as well! Would really be wonderful to have a proper recording of it…

And here’s another find:
The credits of all the songs on “The Ghosts of Highway 20″…
http://alleyesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/clients/lucinda-williams/Album%20Credits%20TGOH20.pdf

And the lyrics of all the new songs:
http://alleyesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/clients/lucinda-williams/Lyrics%20-%20Ghosts%20of%20Hwy%2020.doc.pdf

Just printed out credits and lyrics: thanks so much. I know I’ve heard 6 of the 14 live, though I suspect that “Bitter Memory” and “Doors of Heaven” and maybe “Factory” have been rearranged a fair amount. Possibly I’ve heard one or two of the other songs live also; I should be sure but am not.

This is a huge find, Chris, thanks. “Doors of Heaven” goes way back; I got to hear it live a few times several years ago. “Bitter Memory” I’m glad to see here, and let’s hope “Port Arthur” gets some consideration for the next one. I’m pumped.

@tonyg wrote:

I think that is David’s microphone behind his head Mr. S.

the photo in question seems gone now anyway.

Whoo hoo: great night, sounds like. Is that a rented cig in the bassist’s mouth as well? Hard to think an upright was available for one-night use, but maybe it wasn’t needed. Kudos to all the guys, all the songs, and Lu.

@vmorris wrote:

I *think* that Lu participated in Jimmy Page’s Founders Award ceremony and benefit at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle last night?? I’m not finding press mentioning Lu, so I thought the collective wisdom of the FF would be the place to ask…

“Page will be honored on November 19th with the EMP Museum’s Founders Award as part of an annual fundraiser for the institution’s youth programs. Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall of Alice in Chains, former Black Crowe Rich Robinson, Brian Wheat of Tesla, Lucinda Williams and Page’s former bandmate in The Firm — and Bad Company frontman — Paul Rodgers are among the guest performers, while Seattle-bred Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagen and drummer Barrett Martin of Mad Season and Screaming Trees anchor the house band.”

Not a bumper supporting cast in my view, but I am surprised at the non-trek.

Holy crap! Am I going to have to divert my flight between Amsterdam and Memphis to land in sunny FL instead? Could be. Heck, may as well get on a cruise ship too, right ddinj?