Lucinda Williams

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Lucinda Williams is a three-time Grammy Award]]-winning Texas singer-songwriter. Her musical style is country-alternative folk with a bit of blues. Some of her more popular songs include Passionate Kisses, Changed the Locks, I Lost It, Jackson, Drunken Angle, and 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten. Her style has been compared to Nanci Griffith, Taj Mahal and Beth Nielsen Chapman, and she has been called the "female Bob Dylan" and "female Townes Van Zandt".[1].

Williams was born in Lake Charles, LA, in 1953 but her family moved often as her father took new teaching assignments around Louisiana, Gorgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Mexico and Chile. She was influenced by Hank Williams and especially by artists known for writing challenging lyrics, such as Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. She moved to Austin, TX ins 1974 and joined the Austin and Houston, Texas music scenes. She released Ramblin' on My Mind (later renamed Ramblin') in 1979 and Happy Woman Blues in 1980. After moving to L.A. in 1984, she released Lucinda Williams and was hailed as a major talent by music critics and musicians. Patty Loveless covered her song The Night's Too Long into a top 20 country hit. After touring together, Mary Chapin Carpenter covered Lucinda's Passionate Kisses which shot up to the country music Top Five in 1993 and earned Lucinda the Grammy Award for Country Song of the Year. Other artists followed: Emmylou Harris covered Crescent City and Sweet Old World and Tom Petty covered Changed the Locks for the movie She's the One. In 1995, she and long-time guitarist/co-producer Gorf Morlix parted ways and Lucinda partnered up with Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy in Nashville to produce Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. However, Lucinda felt the album was "overproduced" and she then remixed the album a again. After many delays, the album finally came out earning Lucinda a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop survey. Lucinda won her third Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal for the song Get Right with God.

West - 2007

  1. Are You Alright?
  2. Mama You Sweet
  3. Learning How to Live
  4. Fancy Funeral
  5. Unsuffer Me
  6. Everything Has Changed
  7. Come On
  8. Where Is My Love?
  9. Rescue
  10. What If
  11. Wrap My Head Around That
  12. Words
  13. West

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [Deluxe Edition] - 2006

  1. Right in Time
  2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
  4. Drunken Angel
  5. Concrete and Barbed Wire
  6. Lake Charles
  7. Can't Let Go
  8. I Lost It
  9. Metal Firecracker
  10. Greenville
  11. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Alternate Version]
  12. Joy
  13. Jackson
  14. Down the Big Road Blues
  15. Out of Touch
  16. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Alternate Version]
  17. Pineola [Live]
  18. Something About What Happens When We Talk [Live]
  19. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [Live]
  20. Metal Firecracker [Live]
  21. Right in Time [Live]
  22. Drunken Angel [Live]
  23. Greenville [Live]
  24. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Live]
  25. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten [Live]
  26. Can't Let Go [Live]
  27. Hot Blood [Live]
  28. Change the Locks [Live]
  29. Joy [Live]

Live @ the Fillmore - 2005

  1. Ventura
  2. Reason to Cry
  3. Fruits of My Labor
  4. Out of Touch
  5. Sweet Side
  6. Lonely Girls
  7. Overtime
  8. Blue
  9. Changed the Locks
  10. Atonement
  11. I Lost It
  12. Piñeola
  13. Righteously
  14. Joy
  15. Essence
  16. Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
  17. Are You Down
  18. Those Three Days
  19. American Dream
  20. World Without Tears
  21. Bus to Baton Rouge
  22. Words Fell

World Without Tears - 2003

  1. Fruits of My Labor
  2. Righteously
  3. Ventura
  4. Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
  5. Over Time
  6. Those Three Days
  7. Atonement
  8. Sweet Side
  9. Minneapolis
  10. People Talkin'
  11. American Dream
  12. World Without Tears
  13. Words Fell

Essence - 2001

  1. Lonely Girls
  2. Steal Your Love
  3. I Envy the Wind
  4. Blue
  5. Out of Touch
  6. Are You Down
  7. Essence
  8. Reason to Cry
  9. Get Right With God
  10. Bus to Baton Rouge
  11. Broken Butterflies

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - 1998

  1. Right in Time
  2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
  4. Drunken Angel
  5. Concrete and Barbed Wire
  6. Lake Charles
  7. Can't Let Go
  8. I Lost It
  9. Metal Firecracker
  10. Greenville
  11. . Still I Long for Your Kiss
  12. Joy
  13. Jackson

Sweet Old World - 1992

  1. Six Blocks Away
  2. Something About What Happens When We Talk
  3. He Never Got Enough Love
  4. Sweet Old World
  5. Little Angel, Little Brother
  6. Pineola
  7. Lines Around Your Eyes
  8. Prove My Love
  9. Sidewalks of the City
  10. Memphis Pearl
  11. Hot Blood
  12. Which Will

Ramblin' - 1992

  1. Rambling on My Mind
  2. Me and My Chauffeur Blues
  3. Motherless Children
  4. Malted Milk
  5. Disgusted
  6. Jug Band Music
  7. Stop Breaking Down
  8. Drop Down Daddy
  9. Little Darlin' Pal of Mine
  10. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  11. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  12. Great Speckled Bird
  13. You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
  14. Satisfied Mind

I Just Wanted to See You So Bad - 1989

  1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
  2. Something About What Happens When We Talk
  3. Sundays
  4. Changed the Locks
  5. Like a Rose

Passionate Kisses - 1989

  1. Passionate Kisses
  2. Nothing in Rambling
  3. Goin' Back Home
  4. Disgusted
  5. Side of the Road

Lucinda Williams [Bonus Tracks]] - 1988

  1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
  2. The Night's Too Long
  3. Abandoned
  4. Big Red Sun Blues
  5. Like a Rose
  6. Changed the Locks
  7. Passionate Kisses
  8. Am I Too Blue
  9. Cresent City
  10. Side of the Road
  11. Price to Pay
  12. I Asked for Water (He Gave Me Gasoline)
  13. Nothing In Rambling [Live]
  14. Disgusted [Live]
  15. Side of the Road [Live]
  16. Goin' Back Home [Live]
  17. Something About What Happens When We Talk [Live]
  18. Sundays [Live]

Lucinda Williams - 1988

  1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
  2. The Night's Too Long
  3. Abandoned
  4. Big Red Sun Blues
  5. Like a Rose
  6. Changed the Locks
  7. Passionate Kisses
  8. Am I Too Blue
  9. Cresent City
  10. Side of the Road
  11. Price to Pay
  12. I Asked for Water (He Gave Me Gasoline)

Happy Woman Blues - 1980

  1. Lafayette
  2. I Lost It
  3. Maria
  4. Happy Woman Blues
  5. King of Hearts
  6. Rolling Along
  7. One Night Stand
  8. Howlin' at Midnight
  9. Hard Road
  10. Louisiana Man
  11. Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet)

External links

Official Lucinda Williams webpage [2] AOL site for Lucinda Williams [3] AOL Biography of Lucinda Williams by Steve Huey [4]

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