Holy crap! They played a song of her’s on one of the Sirius stations earlier today and it was great. I decided to look for it on Youtube and can’t find it but I’m listening to some of her other songs to keep me entertained while filing stuff in work.
She puts on a great live show.
She wrote Passionate Kisses which Mary Chapin Carpenter made famous.
I first heard her when she did a duet with Steve Earle “You’re Still Standing There” and picked up “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”. I like it but can only listen to her so long before I need to switch to somthing else.
ETA:I think I’ll listen to that little bit now.
Yeah so far I’ve listened to a duet with Willie Nelson, Drunken Angel, Factory Girls (A song by Flogging Molley that she sings in), Essence, Austin City Limits, Are You Alright, Joy, Can’t Let Go, Blue and Hot Blood.
Blue is the only one I didn’t care for. It didn’t have that sound of hers.
She’s right up there with Kate Bush for me. As in someone that I *should *like but just don’t. She’s got all of the ingredients but the cake doesn’t rise. I like a couple tracks off of her self-titled album and I have heard all of her albums strangely hoping that she might just “click”.
She’s great. The only time I saw her live was at an Elvis Costello concert. She got on stage with him for a few songs.
Elvis announced her as his second favorite female songwriter.
Way. Way awesome.
There is an amazing song of hers called ‘Like A Rose’ on the Transamerica soundtrack. That is the extent of my Lucinda Williams fandom but based on that song alone, yes, yes she is quite awesome.
ETA: I’m fairly sure it’s a bit older than the soundtrack, but that’s where I first heard it.
I like Lucinda Williams a lot. I discovered her music via public radio many years ago and had to special order a CD because the stores didn’t have her in stock. Mainstream radio misses out on so many good artists.
For me, the best Lucinda albums were her early blues albums not the more pop-oriented ones. I feel that she derailed after “Sweet Old World”. Her next album “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” was OK but was the beginning of a road I didn’t like. I feel the same way about Bonnie Raitt and her hit album “Nick Of Time”.
Love her and have for years! Fantastic. I love Car Wheels. I saw her live with Neil Young - Wow! Enjoy:
I like her a lot better live than recorded. Her CDs don’t click with me so much either, stpauler, but at her live shows with her band, she is really impressive. Unlike a lot of acts, she has a knack for choosing her best material for performances, I think.
I enjoy her as a journey…woman songwriter and performer. She never had her Bonnie Raitt Nick of Time CD that broke through…
I think she’s a great songwriter. Her voice isn’t for everyone, but I love it. “Those Three Days” off of World Without Tears is probably my favorite of her songs. Just haunting and aching.
The first time I saw her, she was new in town. She wandered into The Old Quarter with a harp player whose name I’ve forgotten. I remember thinking that she had a very big voice. And wondering if she would ever learn how to sing on key.
She has written some pretty good songs.
I first saw her on Austin City Limits, I was impressed. She was playing songs from her Little Honey album.
I like her and have a few of her CDs. After I noticed that she talks about vomiting in more than one song, her lyrics sort of slid sideways for me, though. Vomiting is something I’d prefer not to hear about in a song.
She also talks about getting semen on her stomach and in her hair in “Honey Bee.” At least that’s my interpretation. Take that Katy Perry!