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LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Hollywood 2015 [no label, 2CD]
Live at The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA; February 25, 2015. Very good audience recording.
On September 30, 2014, Lucinda Williams released her 11th studio album - and also her first album album, Down Where the Spirit Meets The Bone. It is the first album on Williams’ own Highway 20 Records, named for the road that runs through “all the towns I grew up in when I was little: Jackson, Vicksburg, Macon…”
Regarding the new album, Williams told Rolling Stone:
My writing reflects where I am in my life at that time, so you could say it revolves around maturity and wisdom, with a little bit of wistfulness. Of course, there’s a sadness and wistfulness in dealing with my dad’s Alzheimer’s, and I think it’s just age and experience. And confidence. I’ve been blessed with is this ability to keep growing, no matter how old I get. My voice is better than it’s ever been. Over the years, I’ve learned to write songs more for my voice, which I didn’t use to do. For a lot of these songs, I was sitting down and I picked a key that felt real relaxed, sort of like in the old days when jazz singers sat down and sang in the studio instead of belting it out all the time. They sang a little closer to the mike…
I’m fascinated with the idea of God and Satan, good and evil… [”Sometimes I dream I am in a house and I am afraid to go into a part of the house, because there is a ghost or demonic force.”] Yeah, I had that dream a few different times. I think it comes from being a writer, and growing up in the deep South with an imaginative mind, and reading Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty and absorbing all that when I was young, like 15 and 16. I just got obsessed with Southern gothic literature and read everything I could get my hands on, because I identified with it. I saw it in real life. And it was dark. There’s just something mysterious and beautiful about it. A lot of that deals with the Pentecostal, deep South biblical stuff. I grew up riding down along the highway and seeing those signs that said, “Repent! Repent! Jesus Saves.”
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Thanks to Falconidave (David Sell) for recording and sharing the show at Dime.
Lineage:
AT853 cards > Naiant Tinybox > Sony PCM-M10 (24/96) > Adobe Audition CS6 (normalize, resample/dither to 16/44.1) > CDWaveEditor 1.96 > TLH > Flac
Location: 30′ from stage, DFC
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Disc 1
Track 101. Something Wicked This Way Comes * 5:05 (8.5MB)
Track 102. Protection * 4:21 (7.5MB)
Track 103. Right in Time 5:14 (8.8MB)
Track 104. People Talkin’ 5:50 (9.8MB)
Track 105. Drunken Angel 4:04 (6.8MB)
Track 106. Burning Bridges * 6:58 (11.7MB)
Track 107. Compassion * 3:32 (5.9MB)
Track 108. Hickory Wind 3:34 (6.0MB)
Track 109. Side of the Road 4:26 (7.5MB)
Track 110. West 5:12 (8.7MB)
Track 111. Cold Day in Hell * 5:42 (9.6MB)
Track 112. Are You Down 8:22 (14.1MB)
Track 113. Out of Touch 6:55 (11.6MB)
70 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Foolishness * 7:10 (12.1MB)
Track 202. Unsuffer Me 6:11 (10.4MB)
Track 203. Essence 6:28 (10.9MB)
Track 204. Joy 6:29 (10.9MB)
Track 205. Honey Bee 7:22 (12.4MB)
Track 206. I Live My Life 2:33 (4.3MB)
Track 207. Hot Blood 5:44 (9.6MB)
Track 208. Long Way to the Top 7:23 (12.4MB)
Track 209. Cross to Bear 5:33 (9.3MB)
Track 210. Rockin’ in the Free World 7:24 (12.4MB)
63 mins
* Tracks from Down Where the Spirit Meets The Bone.
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