Lucinda Gets Americana Tribute

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and now writer/director of award-winning films. He was also a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy.

Lucinda Williams, a favorite of mine for thirty years, has won several Grammys but, far as I know (there are so many categories now) she is not up for one in the ceremony on Sunday. But you might want to check out a live stream tonight from the fabled Troubadour in L.A—it costs $10 and will be available for two days— where Americanafest will be holding its annual fundraising event on Grammy weekend. Various top music folks will cover her songs. Here is the link. (Lucinda is still recovering, but still performing, after a stroke not long ago.)

A few Lucinda tunes below, some of which will no doubt get played at the event. Look for her memoir coming this spring from one of my publishers, Crown. Our usual cartoon way down the page. Subscribe please, it’s still free!

Loved her first appearance on Austin City Limits 1989, with “I Just Wanted to See You So Bad,” about the time I became a fanboy.

After Car Wheels became album of the year she was back on ACL with “Right on Time.”

Will someone dare cover her even more explicit sex song “Essence” from a few years later?

Her classic “Sweet Old World,” with Emmylou and Neil Young

An alternate, perhaps superior, version of “Still I Long for Your Kiss”

Early demos with some songs that became well-known later.

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