Steve Earle Performs A Tribute to His Late Son, Musician Justin Townes Earle | In My Room

Steve Earle Performs ‘They Killed John Henry,’ ‘Harlem River Blues,’ and ‘Last Words’ as a tribute to his late son, musician Justin Townes Earle.
arun-kuchibhotla-New Orleans Avenue with townhomes-unsplash-scaled

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten · Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road ℗ 1998 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 2006-01-01 Producer: Twangtrust Producer, Co-Producer: Lucinda Williams Producer, Additional Producer, Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Accordion, Organ: Roy Bitten Studio Personnel, Mixer: Rick Rubin Studio Personnel, Mixer: Jim Scott Associated Performer, Electric Guitar: Gurf Mortix Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: John Clambotti Associated Performer, Drums, Percussion: Donald Lindley Associated Performer, Electric Guitar: Charlie Sexton Composer Lyricist: Lucinda Williams

2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

 

This is hands down, the best song in the Lucinda Catalog. Lucinda describes the inspiration for this song coming from a book of photography by artist, Birney Imes (out of Oxford Mississippi), entitled Juke Joint.  One image includes a few guys playing pool in a juke joint. The background wall is tagged with the core inspiration for 2 Cool to be forgotten. “too cool to be forgotten, June Bug vs. Hurricane”.

“Sorry, no credit. Don’t ask. House Rules. No exceptions: No bad language, No gambling, No fights. June Bug vs Hurricane”. June Bug vs. Hurricane, hey hey.

Try to paint a more vivid portrait of a moment in timelessness.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group

2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten · Lucinda Williams

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

℗ 1998 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Vinyl

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road[LP] LP

Mercury proudly announces the signing of Lucinda Williams, and the release of her 1st album in 6 years. One of the most acclaimed singer/songwriters in the past 10 years, her songs have been covered by Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, and Mary Chapin Carpenter (“Passionate Kisses”) among others. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was produced by Steve Earle; “Right in Time” is a perfect example of Lucinda’s trademark songwriting and will be launched to AAA and Americana radio.

Amazon.com

Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides–she delivers a polished tone in a coarse manner. On the superb “Concrete and Barbed Wire,” soft acoustic guitars are punctuated by electric slide, accordion, mandolin, and Steve Earle’s harmony. Williams’s deeply personal stories are matched with bluesy rumbles, raunchy grooves, and plaintive whispers. The entire Deep South is reduced to a sleepy small town filled with ex-lovers, dive bars, and endless gravel roads. –Marc Greilsamer

Review

…Williams sings in a voice that aches and soars, her Dixie drawl giving her tunes a twang of red clay and piney woods authenticity. — People

Car Wheels is her masterpiece, a meditation on the past, suffused with love, anger, remorse, resilience and, above all, a dreamy sensuality. [The album] captures both geographical landscape and emotional mind-set better than any album since Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind. — New Musical Express

Williams combines economic melodies, evocative lyrics and a big but unsentimental voice in clingy songs charged with determination, regrets and bittersweet recollections. — USA Today

Williams has rarely sounded better. And when her voice meets a first-rate song (and some accordions and Dobros), few country-folkies more acutely evoke the elementary highs and lows of daily life. — Entertainment Weekly

Steve and Lucinda

 Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, fine artists each on their own. Lucinda has a special emotional place in my heart for the Car Wheels on a Gravel Road release. If you have not yet listened to the entire album, start to finish, stream it this weekend. You will not regret the aural experience. Those more adventuresome may want to purchase the Austin City Limits live concert performance of this entire release (video included below). Steve Earle deserves our full attention.  I have not given him his just due, yet we start at the beginning with Copperhead Road (see below) and take it to his Death Penalty opposition period, with Ellis Unit One.

There is a Lucinda track from the new release, Good Souls Better Angels,  especially attention worthy,  entitled, “When the Way Gets Dark”.  It is a simple plea, helpful to all, when the way gets dark, don’t give up.  This heartfelt encouragement is especially needed at this difficult time of stupendous uncertainty, change, tumult and big decisions. Thank you Lucinda for expressing this in such a sweet and beautiful way.

Lucinda Williams – Austin City Limits 1998 – Full Performance

Lucinda Williams – Austin City Limits 1998 – Full Performance.

Lucinda Williams (vocals, guitar), Kenny Vaughan (guitar, backing vocals), John Jackson (guitar), Richard “Hombre” Price (bass), Randy Leago (Hammond B3, Accordion), Fran Breen (drums), and Jim Lauderdale (acoustic guitar, backing vocals).

1. Pineola (0:19)
2. Metal Firecracker (5:00)
3. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (8:38)
4. Right in Time (13:19)
5. Drunken Angel (17:58)
6. Greenville (21:21)
7. Still, I Long for Your Kiss (25:43)
8. Lake Charles (30:13)
9. Changed the Locks (35:42)
10. Disgusted (39:31)
11. Jackson (42:45)
12. Sweet Old World (49:02)
13. Passionate Kisses (54:12)
14. Something About What Happens When We Talk (56:54)
15. Joy (1:00:54)
16. Can’t Let Go (1:09:33)

Steve Earle – Ellis Unit One


 
Performed on Sessions At West 54th show. Recorded October 1998. The concert included songs with the Del McCoury Band.


[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider="off" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"] [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider="off" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][/et_pb_divider][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" custom_padding_last_edited="on|desktop" admin_label="Video Section 6 - dark background" _builder_version="4.16" background_color="#2a3443" custom_margin="||20px|" custom_padding="64px|0px|64px|0px|true|false" custom_padding_tablet="64px||16px||false|false" custom_padding_phone="48px|0px|16px|0px|false|false" bottom_divider_height="316px" bottom_divider_flip="horizontal" locked="off" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row column_structure="1_2,1_2" custom_padding_last_edited="on|desktop" _builder_version="4.16" custom_margin="||20px|" custom_padding="45px|0px|25px|0px|false|false" custom_padding_tablet="0|0px|0px|0px" custom_padding_phone="0|0px|25px|0px" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="4.16" background_color="#ffffff" custom_padding="|||" border_radii="on|4px|4px|4px|4px" box_shadow_style="preset1" box_shadow_blur="3px" box_shadow_spread="1px" box_shadow_color="rgba(81,88,115,0.13)" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_video src="https://youtu.be/5riUF4T-AHs" _builder_version="4.20.2" global_colors_info="{}"][/et_pb_video][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="1_2" _builder_version="4.16" background_enable_color="off" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text admin_label="text h2 title body p" _builder_version="4.20.2" text_font="Nunito Sans||||||||" text_text_color="#cbd5e0" text_line_height="28px" header_font="|||on|||||" header_text_color="#57c3f0" header_font_size="22px" header_line_height="33px" header_2_font="|800|||||||" header_2_text_color="#bdbdff" header_2_font_size="30px" header_2_line_height="33px" header_3_text_color="#bdbdff" text_font_size_tablet="" text_font_size_phone="20px" text_font_size_last_edited="on|phone" locked="off" global_colors_info="{}"]

 

[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="text body p only" _builder_version="4.20.2" text_font="||||||||" text_text_color="#bdbdff" text_line_height="28px" header_font="Nunito Sans|700|||||||" header_text_align="center" header_text_color="#ffffff" header_font_size="45px" header_line_height="1.3em" header_2_font="Nunito Sans|700||on|||||" header_2_text_color="#57c3f0" header_2_font_size="22px" header_2_line_height="33px" module_alignment="center" custom_margin="||0px||false|false" custom_padding="||20px||false|false" text_font_size_tablet="" text_font_size_phone="20px" text_font_size_last_edited="on|phone" border_color_all="rgba(87,195,240,0.64)" border_width_bottom="2px" border_color_bottom="rgba(207,215,223,0.25)" locked="off" global_colors_info="{}"]

Jan 15, 2016
We met up with the legendary Charlie Sexton at 4Sound in Malmö and talked about his life and career as a musician and what it’s like working with the icon Bob Dylan.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.20.2" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.20.2" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_video src="https://youtu.be/j7JKgZlAgRU" _builder_version="4.20.2" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.20.2" _module_preset="default" header_3_text_color="#bdbdff" global_colors_info="{}"]

YETI Drifting Podcast: Charlie Sexton

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]