Lucinda Williams Covers

I just came from the Lucinda Williams concert. She is celebrating 30 years since she released her first album on Folkways. So in the concert she started with her first album and did about two songs from each succeeding album, ending up with Honey Bee. This provided a lot of variety, since the first two album were blues and country and then she progressed on to more Rock & Roll

I had decided to post these videos before I went to the concert, but she mentioned at the concert that there are only three people in Nashville who would touch her songs. So here they are.

Patty Loveless performing "The Nights Too Long".



Mary Chapin Carpenter performing "Passionate Kisses".



Emmylou Haris doing "Crescent City".




Finally, Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller performing "Sweet Old World". This is a more recent video than the previous three.

Lucinda Williams Gets Married

Lucinda Williams got married on September 18 during one of her concerts in Minneapolis. She credited Hank Williams as her inspiration to do this. It is coincidental that my posts last week were about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Sister Rosetta staged here third marriage during a large concert at Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. I think that was sometime during the 50's. As far as I know there is no film of Sister Rosetta's wedding, but this being the 21st century Lucinda's is on YouTube.




I am going to see Lucinda on Tuesday night when she comes to Baltimore. The last time I saw her she gave a four hour performance. I am not expecting that to happen again, but I am hoping that she does her song "Side of the Road", which she did not do when I saw her before.


The first line is missing from this clip. It is "You wait in the car by the side of the road">





She has so many good songs that it is hard to have a favorite. But here is another good one, "Bus to Baton Rouge".




And to include something from her latest album, here is "What It".

Rock & Roll

Since we started the week of with the beginning of Rock & Roll, I have decided to post a couple songs about Rock & Roll to end the week.

First, Tina Turner & Mick Jagger singing "It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)"



Another great duet, Etta James & Chuck Berry performing "Rock & Roll Music".



I wanted to include a video of Bob Seger doing "Give Me That Old Time Rock & Roll". The only video of that I can find with decent audio, includes Tom Cruise in his underwear, so I have decided to skip that. Instead here is the audio of Jerry Lee Lewis & Jimmy Page doing the Led Zepplin song "Rock & Roll". This is from an album of duets that Jerry Lee Lewis recorded a couple years ago.