Song of the Day

Early Lucinda Williams, live in Austin.

I’ll admit I was into Lucinda Williams when she was a nearly complete unknown, meaning more than 30 years ago, long before Car Wheels and etc. She’s had some serious health issues lately but is still at it. Below from her first appearance on Austin City Limits, in 1989, with a song that I believe most women can really relate to…in my experience. Lucinda was still a little nervous on a major stage, kind of endearing. Another from same show here, and rocking later here.

This is just day #4 of my new Song of the Day concept and you can catch up with the previous three at my Substack home page (Louis Armstrong, George Jones with Emmylou Harris, and Jason Isbell.) If it matters, I was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy for nearly all of the 1970s. Enjoy, and if you haven’t subscribed—for free—here is your chance. Let your morning become eclectic!

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s atomic bomb movie twisted by the White House and Pentagon), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His 2021 film, Atomic Cover-up, drew extraordinary acclaim, and his current one, The First Attack Ads, aired over hundreds of PBS stations this past fall. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.