Lucinda Williams Stories -Tim Easton Remembers Touring With Lucinda
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- Tim Easton shares stories about getting to tour with Lucinda Williams. Lots of great insights and stories about being around Lucinda. You should go subscribe to Tim's youtube channel right now. / mrdarkwatson
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Lucinda Williams
Time Easton - Hudba
What's your favorite Lucinda Williams song?
Pineola but they are all pretty great.
"Drunken Angel" and "Essence".
"Essence" was the first song by her that I ever heard. I was doing merch for a buddy of mine, and being just a general hang around, back in Texas circa 2002. We were driving back from Austin to Houston at 3 in the morning with his drummer, and I was sleeping in the back of the Durango with all of the equipment when I was woken up by that song. I immediately asked, "Who is this? This is amazing."
After that I jumped into her music feet first and was able to see her play 2 times. Both killer shows.
I also love "Drunken Angel". It's what introduced me to Blaze's music.
“Side of the Road”. By far. Love it.
So many! “Still I long for your kiss” has to be my favorite.. “Blessed”, “world without tears”
@@sayeager5559 Pineola, for sure. Good call...
Naming a favorite Lucinda Williams song is like asking me which me of my kids that I love the most....just can’t do it.
Always had great musicians with her-particularly guitarists. One of our icons. When you think of great American songwriters-she is in there with Townes VanZant, Dylan, Earle, Clark, Hank, Dolly, Loretta, Bacharach, Webb, Joni, Young, Lightfoot etc. A great gift to the World!
So many songs but I really love "Side of the Road". Just seems simple and to the point. Easy music.
I've been turned on to more good music by this channel in 6 months than 40 years of the radio. Thanks.
Thank you, Jim!
I can believe she doesn’t require sound checks or vocal warmups because her style of singing is so conversational. And her writing is phenomenal.
I used to dance around the living room with my cat in my arms singing to him. What did I sing? "Passionate Kittens."
Tremendous! : )
I grew up in Houston and used to see Lucinda in the 70s. I was 17 and she was 22. She wore a big floppy straw hat and a sundress. Didn’t hear from her for many years until she started putting out records.
Use to see her playing on the drag floppy hat sundress playing the blues mid 70's Austin Texas
I have been listening to Lucinda Williams since her first album in '78; thank you Otis and Tim Easton. I hope Lucinda will be making a full recovery from her stroke.
Of my favorite songs of Lu's one of many, I'll pick Crescent City from "Lucinda Williams" . Just because of her description of being with her brother in New Orleans, where I've never been, but it makes me want to go there someday
Excellent answer, Neville!
Yes, have seen Lucinda twice in FLA my dream is to hear her in Louisiana, been to New Orleans and was the 1st place I ever knew I wanted to go back to as the plane landed
Doggone! Forgot to add Crescent City to my list of faves!
I first found Lucinda when she sang on “You’re still standing there” on Steve Earles “I feel alright” album. I was instantly hooked and sought out all her stuff.
I found her with the album Happy Women Blues, thought hey that sounds like me, been hooked ever since
Same here
Found her same way........went to the local record store ( when we had them ) found an album and have enjoyed several more since.
+Kick Start that album "I feel alright" is one of my desert island albums. Every song is gold, can just let it play from start to finish
OTTIS I allways enjoying starting the day with one of your storys for us...thanx much friend
I really love Lucinda,i bought a cd in Italy because it was cheap (i knew nothing about her) and i liked it,so i started to collect her albums. I heard she's got some health issues, i hope for the best, she and Emmylou are my heroines
I belong to a Townes Van Zandt Facebook page and this question came up about Townes' songs. When someone mentioned their favorite Townes song I'd agree, yep, me too. Then 10 minutes later someone would mention a different song. Again I'd agree, yep, me too. It's similar with Lucinda Williams. Someone mentions their favorite song from Lucinda and I'd be yep, me too. And the next... and the next. The first that came to mind was "Passionate Kisses", but all 13 on "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" are also my favorite.
That was a quick edit my friend! Way to turn it around so fast. I just went over 1000 subscribers on the ol' CZcams myself so here I come with more stories and songs and I have even figured out how to make it sound better than that first CZcams show I did last week! I shall return, every week, right through the Alaska tour! See you around the neighborhood people! God bless Lucinda Williams. So happy she is returning to the stage soon with Mr. Isbell. My favorite Lucinda song lately is "People Talking."
Thanks again for being part of this, Tim! : )
Hey Tim, I saw you open for Lucinda in Portland and chatted with you after your set. I blew your mind and you mine when we discovered we both were connected through our mutual pal J.p. Thanks for that night and a great story I still tell people about. Love hearing your music. Hope to someday see you and J.p. playing sometime!
Righteously ! Sends me !!!
Sweet Old World and Over Time, two best songs ever sung.
It’s hard to beat “Are You Alright?” Thank you gentlemen
How about every damn song on the "Lucinda WIlliams " LP on Rough Trade.. I bought it on vinyl when it came out before vinyle was cool. Bought it on CD and later on iTunes. I can't get enough of those side of the road stories
Good interview... I figure all life is art. Most of us just don't know it. We get twisted and tangled by things that we forget our original authenticity. That's what artists like Lucinda remember and live... be yourself. It's sure is a hard lesson for something so easy. Thanks Otis and Tim. I get to remember this lesson for a little while.
At the moment probably Are You Alright. Talk about direct and two chords (and the truth). But you too, Gibbs, your writing and I really dig how you present these things. Folks seem to emerge from the shadows to share these little presents.
Thank you, Jim!
That song is to her estranged brother. A few of her songs are. They are cries out to him that she's there, thinking about him and there for him if he needs her. Also kind of like what happened, I loved you, took care of you?
"Essence" is the song that has the most emotional impact on me. The rawness of it.
Lucinda Hank
Mind: blown 🔥👍💫
Lucinda's self-titled album for Rough Trade was special to me. I was a new DJ at the time and it was my first time hearing her. The album seemed to be one great song after another and, weekly, it was hard to pick a single song to play. I can't tell you how many times I "accidentally" let it track into the next song. I'm gonna say "The Night's Too Long," because it was the one that pulled the most requests from the start, and as a rookie DJ I really appreciated getting the feedback.
(Side note: I did meet Lucinda at a songwriter showcase at Slim's, in the mid or late 90s. The show wound up going across the street to the Paradise Lounge after hours, where I wound up spending most of my time with Doug Sahm.)
Otis: "Big Whiskers," that was your song for me. Not only as a DJ, but as someone who came from a family that fished.
One of the best vids I have viewed in awhile. I love me some Lucinda; one of the greats!
Hi, Otis. My favorite Lucinda song, by far is 'Essence'. The first time I played it for a girl I was seeing, she kept hitting the repeat button and It soon became 'Our' song. It kind of mirrored our relationship in ways. I first me her in 7th grade. I really liked her and thought she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. Back then, I didn't know how to talk to girls at all, so here's what I did at school one day. She had a cheap lock on her locker, I broke it off and put my combination lock on it. I stood back and waited until she tried to open it. She just stood back, trying figure out if she had the right locker, that's when I walked up and opened it for her. She told me (when we were dating) she was so mad at me she wanted to hit me, but that I was so cute, lol We never did date until almost 50 years later. She still looked as beautiful as she did in her youth, now even more so. We told this story at a class reunion party and all the woman swooned and said how romantic it was. We dated for 7 or 8 months, but found we were just too different and parted ways. She still had the lock and I still remembered the combination. I've always used music to remember the timeline to my life. Yesterday it was 50 years exactly that I saw Led Zeppelin at Tampa stadium. (May 5th, 1973) I still remember that day as if it were only yesterday. Sorry this was so long. I'm kind of a recluse now and don't talk to too many people.
Hey Otis.......jason isbell is throwing another shoalsfest this year on the weekend of october 2.........lucinda will be there along with all the drive by truckers.....it should be a hell of a weekend....if your close by you should come experience an amazing festival along the singing river!!!!!
I hope she's better, after the stroke
Fruits of my Labor is my favorite due to how that song is Country, old slow Rock and Roll, and Blues all in one song.
You should subscribe to Tim's channel and go watch some of his videos right now. Tell him Otis sent ya! czcams.com/users/MrDarkwatson
Love Lucinda! Her voice with her writing always seem to put me in that place and time. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten and Can’t let go are always in rotation around here. Great content for some Sunday morning coffee Otis, love from Texas!
Thanks, Jon!
My favorite Lucinda song is whatever the last song I heard her sing was. Most recently it was “Lake Charles.”
Silly rhetorical question Otis! Asking which Lucinda song is my favorite is like asking which bite of filet mignon is my favorite…or which sip of coffee…or which breath of air…I can tell you this, my life BEFORE Lucinda was 2 dimensional and merely shades of grey…I didn’t know it at the time, but once I heard her, I KNEW!
Pineola is supposed to be about the poet Frank Stanford, a favorite of mine, but I always go back to Joy.
I love all her songs and her delivery.
Thank you Otis this was a nice good story I’m gonna look for Lucinda Williams right now I’ll see if I can catch something about her anyhow thanks for all your lovely stories that really make up my evenings not all of them but most of them and just once more thank you thank you thank you!
🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Another one of favs, Ashley Mcbyrde named 3 of her favorite song that she would love to sit down with, 2 out of the 3 are mine also, Lucinda and the Late, Great John Prine
Writers
Great interview & an unexpected treat on a Sunday morning. Fave by Lucinda: Passionate Kisses, Drunken Angel, Car Wheels On A Grave Road.
Plus a lot of other truly remarkable songs. I’m old school… I buy all her albums on vinyl. Thanks as always, Otis!
thank you
I first got turned on to Lucinda via the album "Happy Woman Blues". Love that album! "I Think I Lost It" is a kitschy favorite from that album. Not a criticism - I once did a "drag show" dance to that song; love it, it's so joyous. Also - and probably my favorite, too - "Sweet Old World; a - yes - very emotionally impactful song. Real poetry!
Thank you Tim great stories...
"Side Of The Road"...dang!
Checked out Lucindas 1998 Austin City Limits performance. Could find no reason, what little I listened to due to time, why Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, didn't find me back then. Or, get radio play, if it did, hmmm. I'm sure there's more for me to discover. Thanks as always.
At one of the first AmericanaFests, probably 20 years ago, I hung out with Tim at an eastside Nashville bar. One of the nicest guys I ever met in the music biz. Thanks for grabbing him for a video, Otis!
Tim's good people, Mitch!
You are as well, sir. I still remember BS-ing with you on the back porch of The Basement at AmFest a few years back. Stay safe, Otis.
Your channel, and "Tales" From The Tour Bus" tell the story that makes me love the music even more.
Today and most days it's Drunken Angel. Can't really describe how that song moves me. John Prine/Billy Joe Shaver level work.
Something about the way we talk.
Sweet Old World. Makes me cry, thinking about ""Her".
Can’t do it. I can only say that I was lucky enough to see her in Seattle in the ‘90s ..
Essence!,!!❤
one of the best!! Gave Tim a hitch in Alaska one time! Thanks, Otis!
That's tremendous, Seth! Thanks for giving Tim a lift. : )
So many great songs. Some of my all-time favorites in no particular order: Lake Charles, Joy, Ventura, Sweet Old World, Crescent City, Something About What Happens When We Talk....oh, I could go on and on.
mind blown, Thankyou !
Playing Drunkin Angel on the streets 3 years long was a real pleasure because I got to meet a lot of Lucinda Williams fans and there's a ton of them out there.
love your show
A Lucinda Williams song cost me 700 dollars one time when I left my girlfriend in the east and was out on the West coast hustling work as a musician. I was sitting in my room and listened too late at night and not too clear thinking to the songs the Nights too Long and Changed the Locks. I got upset and bought a plane ticket to fly back across country to surprise her. Turns out, she was not pleased to see me. My favorite stuff from Lucinda now is songs like Greenville and the songs all of them on Ghost of Highway 20 , I find her mature work deeper listening but always satisfying.
Ouch! That's a rough one for sure. : )
what a great interview
This is a amazing story !! Love it ! Man I hate to ask but could you call Todd and tell him to take it easy ! Sorry to do that but I just think it should be done .. love y’all ! Wish I could make it to indi somebody come get me in fort worth !! Thanks Otis may we cross paths and I hope to not let you down ! ☮️💜🌸
Go with your gut. Love that.
I am sure I'd heard her before, then there was a thing in life and I heard her again and stopped in my tracks. Shes better live.
Pineola. One of the best songs ever written.
Lu could read me the phone book of China and it’d be great. She’s a treasure. Not only one of the best singer/songwriters ever she’s one of the very sexiest humans that ever existed. No matter what era, age or now ailment she’s beautiful. She’s Rock n Roll. She’s up there with Mick, Keith, Pete, Lou, Roger, Paul…she’s there.
Great episode …Car Wheels is still my favorite!
wow otis you did it again!...thank you...yeah me an a friend, him guitar me singing sweet ole world, i had to hold back the emotions to give what the song gave. it was a lesson which i found in the song...i love what you are doing and share it with friends and family...this link will go to my sister... she is huge lucinda fan and yes I always thought her and hank were connected...god bless and keep em coming..dougie from Canada...
Thanks, Doug!
"Something About What Happens When We Talk" OR "Lines Around Your Eyes" OR "I Just Wanted To See You So Bad" ... at least those are certainly among my favorite Lu tunes.
Much love to ya, Al! : )
Thank you Otis for another great video My favorite Lucinda tune is "Protection" and it is a standard on my set list. Her song writing is down to the bone outstanding and always gets folks up and dancing too!.
Jeez Otis you really nailed it with this one, Tim Easton is an outstanding storyteller. 'Fruits of my Labor' would be my current favourite LW song.
Morning Otis😜
Morning, Penny!
How bout that! Columbus’ own Mr. Easton!
Nice one Mr. Gibbs, Thank You Both,
Clyde
Thanks, Clyde!
As I am wont to do when encountering my heroes, I nearly embarrassed myself the first time I met Lucinda Williams. It was the late 90's and I was volunteering at the Kerrville Folk Festival. I would do anything asked of me just to hang, and that day my task was sweeping up the stage before the evening show. It was still early when, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a woman wearing a worn-out straw hat pulled down over her eyes. Assuming she was a Festival attendee who had wandered backstage, I headed toward her to see if I could help her find her way. Thankfully, as I was walking by, Rod Kennedy grabbed me by the arm and asked me to show Ms. Williams to the Judge's Panel, as she was judging the NewFolk Competition that year! So, with that brief instruction, Rod transformed a potentially horrible embarrassment into one of the great honors of my life...to escort Lucinda Williams to her reserved seat and make sure she was welcomed and comfortable. What a night.
Late-comer to Lucinda Williams, big fan these days.
Pretty sure that Lucinda is my favorite song, I can listen to her all day, every day...
Thanks for the great interview and 'behind the scenes' look... ❤❤❤
Thanks, Scott!
❤️ beautiful video
Thank you, Cindy!
You kill me every time 👊💣
Thanks Otis! ...have to say Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is still my favorite!
Thank you, Michael!
Haiku blues. Genius.
Being a product of rural Iowa, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road.
There are so many, so hard to pick one 🤔 The one that moves me more then any other is",Death Came" wow !! heavy 😞. I love Lucinda so much !
Hard to choose, Lucinda moves me like no other....my daughter and I saw her once at The Pageant in St Louis. Still to this day, (with the exception of experiencing 80 year old BB King) I remember being transferred to a higher state of being- we all were. There wasn't a soul in the house that night that didn't connect. Powerful and pervading, great to hear these stories...it rings true that she is present masterfully.
I'm with ya, Terry! : )
Loved that Otis. Anything about Lucinda! I've been a fan of Lu's since I heard "Howling at midnight" on the Alexis Korner show and still have the cassette I recorded it on. First seen her in London on the Car Wheels tour. Btw, would be great if you could get Doug Pettibone on, he's my number one electric player. (Well him and Buddy Miller). ❤️
“Something About What Happens When We Talk”, and “Pineola”
Otis I hope you read her book and do a. video on your thoughts of it.
Lu and David Crosby recorded one of my songs. What a thrill ‼️
Ok Otis, sign me up ol son.
Everyone hit the Like button
This made me wanna be friends with Lucinda damn
Big Red Sun Blues and Ghost of Hwy 20. XXXOO
Being an Austin original my favorite Lucinda Williams song would have to be drunken angel about blaze fully a highly interesting talented Austin song writer who passed away tragically .
Blue
when i look at the world
" Joy "
Best song writer in last 30 years in my opinion was Elliot smith. He could take a $300 Yamaha & mesmerize a room full of people.
words fell
Something About What Happens When We Talk
So many but today I’ll go with Side of the Road……but also Hot Blood…..no wait it’s……..
I always thought "Still I Long for Your Kiss" is the best Stones song the Stones never recorded.
"Over Time." Reminds me of "Most of the Time" by Dylan with its irony. Also what is "2 kool 2 B 4 gotten" about?
Joni Mitchell had that output too..
Bus to Baton Rouge
Honey Bee!
Greenville
Hot Blood , it's simple and silly but I get it . Probably cause I'm simple and silly too.
Stan
Copenhagen....
Drunken Angel. By a country mile.