Lucinda Williams

[jayschool2013]

"Man Without a Soul"

[mr_lebowski]

1. I friggin love Lucinda ...

Car Wheels is in my top 10 records of all-time, and I've heard a LOT of music in my day ...

[jayschool2013]

2. Songwriter emasculates Trump in the first track off her upcoming album 'Good Souls Better Angels'

From Rolling Stone

“You can only guess who that might be about,” Lucinda Williams said after a scorching performance of her new song “Man Without a Soul” aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise last week. A droning, guitar-driven track, the song doesn’t mention its subject directly, but as Williams alluded, it’s impossible to not pin the lyrics to the impeached President Trump.

“You bring nothing good to this world, beyond a web of cheating and stealing/you hide behind your wall of lies, but it’s coming down/yeah, it’s coming down,” she sings in her idiosyncratic drawl, promising that the story, the presidency, or perhaps the life itself of the man in question won’t conclude in any positive way.

“How do you think this story ends? It’s not a matter of how, it’s just a matter of when,” she intones. “‘Cause it’s coming down/yeah, it’s coming down.”

“Man Without a Soul” announces Williams’ latest album, Good Souls Better Angels. Due April 24th via Highway 20/Thirty Tigers, the LP is the follow-up to 2017’s This Sweet Old World (a re-recorded version of Williams’ 1992 album Sweet Old World) and finds the Americana songwriter addressing an array of cultural and political issues, from social media persecution to a nonviable leader. Williams and her husband Tom Overby produced the album with Ray Kennedy, who engineered her 1998 breakout album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Well I can't wait then!

Ray Kennedy is a great producer ... worked with Steve Earle a lot too ... should be right up my alley.

[Bayard]

4. Can't wait to hear this!

Thanks!

[Catamount]

6. Thank you

So much for this great song by Lucinda!
I'm so glad that she has a new album coming out!
Can't wait!
Lots of hearts to you!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[Skittles]

14. and a heart for you my sweet

[Roland99]

5. Love her work!

Car Wheels was an instant classic

Nice post.

[djg21]

7. Just saw her perform the album on her last tour.

She’s always great live, and it was really fun hearing her tell how the songs came to be.

[Roland99]

8. Saw her in 1999 or so. With Kasey Chambers

Bogart’s in Cincinnati

That. Place. Was. ROCKING!

[crickets]

9. Amazing song! Thanks for posting this. K&R

[djg21]

10. Since we're posting new protest songs.

The Drive-by Truckers ‘the Unravelling’ is very good, and this song is really powerful.

[jayschool2013]

11. Nice

Thanks.

[lunatica]

15. Powerful

Thanks for posting this. It reminds me of all those school kids turning 18 this year who will vote.

[Norbert]

12. Awesome song. I expect nothing less from Lu

[Goodheart]

13. Lake Charles Lucinda...

My favorite song of hers is "Crescent City", of course.

[Norbert]

17. Mine is Right in Time

although I've been known to switch off.

[retread]

16. One of the best American song writers ever! n/t