God I love Lucinda Williams.

[Maddy McCall]

What's your favorite Lucinda Williams album? Song?

I love EVERYTHING on the Car Wheels CD.

"Once I get to Baton Rouge, I won't cry a tear for you. All the way to Jackson, I don't think I'll miss you much."

And then "You Took my Joy."

I love this woman!

[Kenneth ken]

1. Sweet Old World

is the song which made me love her music.

Car Wheels is a great disc. Big Red Sun is another favorite song, but I'm blanking on which disc has that.

[Joe Power]

2. Sweet Side

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Me Too!

"Like a Rose" makes me cry every time.

[fishwax]

4. Metal Firecracker

that song never fails to perk my ears.

[GOPisEvil]

5. I met her publicist last South by Southwest.

He was really a nice fellow. LOVES Lucinda despite her...quirks.

I have to confess a soft spot for her, although I'm a bigger Patty Griffin fan. :D

[saltpoint]

6. The deepest rung of Hell is reserved for --

-- people who don't like Lucinda Williams.

She's absolutely top-drawer.

On many days I find myself playing over and over in my head lines like "It's only concrete and barbed wire."

What a talent.

I have Emmylou Harris to thank for mentioning her, on stage in Sarasota, Florida, some years back. Evidently the two were neighbors in Nashville for a time, and are still great pals.

[eyepaddle]

10. Well then,

I am in truly deep shit. I just don't personally have much use for pungent and world weary observations over sparse country/rock-inflected folk. That stuff bores the ever-loving hell out of me--we'll see if it's gonna be enough to offset my assigned fate tho'.

Personally I like busy, pretentious instrumental music where the musicians just totally show-off! :) About one third of the vocal music I own is in languages I don't speak, that way the singing is effectively just another instrument.

In closing, I ordinarily wouldn't intrude on somebody else's love fest, but the "lowest rung of hell" thing was just TOO good to let pass without comment! ;)

[saltpoint]

14. I'll pray for your soul.

: )

-----
I applaud your international music collection.

[eyepaddle]

16. Upon further review

I should clarify and say that one-third of what I currently have in my car--not what I own. Ooops my bad. I reccomend NorthSide music's sampler "Cheaper Than Food" series it's mainly folk-rock crossover from Scandinavia. The discs are bone cheap (Like six bucks or so) have about twenty tracks each and usually have a pretty wide variety on them. And mercy me! Those Finnish ladies can SING! The Swedes too as long as we're at it. I saw a few of the bands at a local festival and was pretty impressed.

I must confess when I've picked up complete CD's from the artises on the samplers....well, the results have been sorta mixed. Annbjorg Lien-awesome, Vartina...unnnhhh.

Plus people REALLY look at you funny if they overhear it (I don't generally crank my car stereo.

Ahh yes, emjoy that music folks! :)

[greendog]

20. Varttina...

... you just might avoid that trip to hell, after all. And If not, some of us Lucinda fans could take up a collection and send you some ice water.

Varttina rocks! "Seleniko" is favorite disk to "crank up" while driving down an empty highway late at night.

[eyepaddle]

21. Whew...now I can sleep tonight!

Seriously back to Lucinda though, while that real down tempo stuff isn't totally my bag, whenever I hear "Car tires on a gravel road" (which song does she mention St. Charles?) I think back to the couple of years I spent living in Lafayette Louisiana and the time my work sent me through St. Charles--a couple of times on a Greyhound Bus! If that isn't living the vibe of Lucinda I wanna hear what is!

Where would American folk be without trips on the "dog?"

(I promise you all that these last couple of posts were a minor scenic detour and NOT hijacking this thread :) )

[mr_hat]

22. That would be "wheels", hos'. Wheels.

[mitchum]

27. I enjoy much of her work, but your first paragraph accurately describes...

her work when she is just coasting (on a gravel road or elsewhere)
That was succinct and well done :)

[eyepaddle]

30. Awwww, now I'm gonna blush!

Thanks for the compliment!:puffpiece:

[greendog]

7. Me too, I have ALL of her albums...

...she's wonderful!

[Renew Deal]

8. kick

:kick:

[Schema Thing]

9. World w/o Tears

hell, who can pick though?

"Envy the Wind", yeah, that's my fave. Or is it "Those Three Days"? Wait!...it's "Lonely Girls", yeah...no... sorry, can't decide.

I love this woman too!

[ET Awful]

11. Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet)

You're the one you're my shinin star
You're the one I've been waiting for
Let's fly away to some foreign country
Where nobody knows who we are

I wish I had a ship to sail the waters
I wish I had about a hundred dollars
But I'll just stand with this glass in my hand
Feeling like nothing even matters

Your words run thru me like the blood in my veins
I could swear I knew your love before I knew your name
Before I knew your name

Everyday I miss your smiling face
No one here can ever take your place
The sun can shine down over my town
But it never shines in my days

I told all the stars above
I'm gonna shower you with my love
I won't demand you I'll try to understand you
My love is free as a dove

Your words run thru me like the blood in my veins
I could swear I knew your love before I knew your name
Before I knew your name

You're the one you're my shinin star
You're the one I've been waiting for
Let's fly away to some foreign country
Where nobody knows who we are

[HEAVYHEART]

12. ME TOO!!!!

God I love her!!! I love everything on the Car Wheels cd, but my favorite is You Took My Joy.! :yourock:

[BlueStateGirl]

13. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is my favorite album. Some of

my favorite songs are " I lost it", "Drunken Angel" and "Can't let go".

I also love " Those Three Days", "Essence", "Fruits of My Labor", "Just wanted to see you so Bad", "Passionate Kisses", "Side of the Road".

I adore her. My all time favorite female artist.

[ornotna]

15. Hey me too!

I have to admit I haven't heard everything she has done.
Love - "Car wheels on a gravel road"
"Hot blood"
"Lines around your eyes"
"Howlin' at midnight"
And many more. What a great singer. :thumbsup:

[Zomby Woof]

17. I've got "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"

Her Dad is an English professor (or was) at the University of Arkansas, and read a poem of his at Clinton's second inaugural.

"Right In Time" is a great opener on "Car Wheels...", but I like 'em all.

[hippiechick]

18. I LOVE "Righteously"

HippieSlacker WriterDude lusts eternally after Lucinda, and I gotta say, I'm ok with that.

At least he doesn't chase bimbo's.


:hippie:

[Zomby Woof]

19. Any song which mentions Coltrane

Is automatically cool.

[KG]

25. she's way fuckin' cool.

[graywarrior]

23. Essence.

Man! Or should I say, WO-man!

[mr_hat]

24. Lou's a bit of a case. Love her nonetheless, especially

with homeboy Bo Ramsey on guitar, as he was on the last tour.

If I had my way, she's to snap out of it and start to rock again. Enough with this fey-feelie stuff.

[mitchum]

26. I love her as much as she loves the bottle...

in other words...LOTS!

[Schema Thing]

28. She was seriously pimping Chuck Prophet

who opened for her at the last show of hers that I saw.

He was great live; anybody have opinions on his albums? I haven't been able to find much stuff of his to steal, and I pretty much like to know what I'm getting when I buy music.

[KG]

29. chuck prophet is a gas live

rocks harder live than on his albums.

[mitchum]

31. His best work was his guitarplaying on Green On Red records...

particularly the BRILLIANT "Gas, Food, And Lodging"