Prior to performing a swerving version of Lucinda Williams’ “Drunken Angel” for an intimate dinner party in Nashville on Monday night, Jason Isbell remarked how some songwriters just can’t write a good song anymore. But Williams, he said, was so unfailingly talented that she could restart her career right now and in 10 years “we’d be right back here.” Here was the BMI Troubadour Award celebration, which honored Williams — the first woman to receive the award — for decades of songwriting greatness.
The BMI Troubadour dinner is one of Nashville’s most gloriously low-key events,...
The BMI Troubadour dinner is one of Nashville’s most gloriously low-key events,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
A few days before Thanksgiving last year, Lucinda Williams was in the bathroom of her Nashville home getting ready to take a shower when she began to have trouble keeping her balance. She stumbled a bit and couldn’t stand up straight. Even more frightening, Williams couldn’t walk. She called out to her husband, Tom Overby, who happened to be on the phone with their primary care physician. When he relayed Williams’ symptoms to their doctor, he was told to quickly get her to a hospital.
The Americana singer-songwriter,...
The Americana singer-songwriter,...
- 5/3/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has released an ensemble rendition of Bob Dylan’s 1964 classic “The Times They Are A-Changin,'” including Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, the War and Treaty, and Steve Earle.
The all-star group of artists trade off verses on Dylan’s immortal song for this charity single, the proceeds of which will benefit Feeding America.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band lead singer Hanna begins and ends the song on lead vocals, but each guest adds their own vocal approach to their respective verse. Isbell’s brings a country-folk...
The all-star group of artists trade off verses on Dylan’s immortal song for this charity single, the proceeds of which will benefit Feeding America.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band lead singer Hanna begins and ends the song on lead vocals, but each guest adds their own vocal approach to their respective verse. Isbell’s brings a country-folk...
- 2/5/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, our new podcast on Amazon Music, we dive into Lucinda Williams’ 1998 masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, an album that helped define modern roots music and got Williams’ long-overdue recognition as one of America’s greatest songwriters. The album took three years, four producers, and some label drama to make, but Williams’ perfectionism resulted in, arguably, a perfect album.
Williams joins Rolling Stone Country‘s Joseph Hudak to tell the stories behind songs like “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten” (about a...
Williams joins Rolling Stone Country‘s Joseph Hudak to tell the stories behind songs like “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten” (about a...
- 12/1/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Lucinda Williams isn’t into appointment songwriting. She stays up late, wakes up even later, and writes when the spirit moves her. She also holds on to everything: a possible lyric scribbled on a piece of paper here, a song title in a notebook there. Williams turned 67 in January, moved from L.A. to Nashville, and finally got organized.
“I put them all into files and named each one,” says Williams, calling from her new house in Nashville, which she shares with her husband, collaborator, and manager, Tom Overby. “I...
“I put them all into files and named each one,” says Williams, calling from her new house in Nashville, which she shares with her husband, collaborator, and manager, Tom Overby. “I...
- 5/11/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“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,...
“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,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“I’ve tried hard to leave here but never did could,” Rodney Crowell sings in “Deep in the Heart of Uncertain Texas,” a shuffling, picturesque highlight from his latest LP Texas, a musical tribute to the Houston-born singer-songwriter’s roots. Willie Nelson, Ronnie Dunn, and Lee Ann Womack, a trio of fellow Lone Star State luminaries, join Crowell on the song’s chorus, a highlight of the new album produced by Crowell with Ray Kennedy.
“It’s interesting to me — and I consider this a success — that so many high-profile...
“It’s interesting to me — and I consider this a success — that so many high-profile...
- 8/14/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Knight has offered a preview of his forthcoming album Almost Daylight with the gritty yet sweet story-song “I’m William Callahan,” which premieres today. The tale of an older man looking back on his youth as a freight-hopping teenager who leaves home to ride the rails and meets his wife along the way, the song’s nostalgic tone is set against Knight’s muscular vocals and blues-rock instrumentation. “I’m William Callahan” was penned with songwriter Tim Krekel, Jimmy Buffett’s former guitarist who succumbed to abdominal cancer in...
- 8/1/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-songwriter Chris Knight, who released his major-label debut 20 years ago and has since gone on to issue a handful of independent albums, will release his first new music in more than seven years this fall. The musician who came to prominence during the birth of the Americana movement toward the end of the last century – and has since become one of its most influential progenitors – will issue the LP Almost Daylight on October 11th.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Ray Kennedy, the Grammy-winner behind acclaimed projects from Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Lucinda Williams,...
Produced, mixed and mastered by Ray Kennedy, the Grammy-winner behind acclaimed projects from Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Lucinda Williams,...
- 7/15/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Rodney Crowell, who has chronicled his Texas roots in song as well as in print, has enlisted a host of fellow Texans, including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Lee Ann Womack, Ronnie Dunn, Steve Earle, Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons and Randy Rogers, for Texas, an album of collaborations. The project will also feature such non-Texans as Vince Gill and Ringo Starr, the latter of whom was the first to reach out to Crowell to express interest in recording with the Houston native.
“For the last few years, I’d been...
“For the last few years, I’d been...
- 4/11/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
When Guy Clark recorded his 1988 album Old Friends, he enlisted a bevy of musician buds to fulfill the title, from Rosanne Cash and Vince Gill to Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Those last two appear on Steve Earle’s new version of the LP’s title track, the latest song released from his upcoming tribute to Clark, Guy.
In the hands of Earle and his band the Dukes, “Old Friends” is a solemn prayer, with Harris harmonizing with Earle on the opening verse. She did likewise on Clark’s original recording of the song,...
In the hands of Earle and his band the Dukes, “Old Friends” is a solemn prayer, with Harris harmonizing with Earle on the opening verse. She did likewise on Clark’s original recording of the song,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In 1974, just months after Steve Earle hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville, he wound up taking over bass-playing duties from Rodney Crowell in Guy Clark’s band. Forty-five years later, Earle, aided by his longtime band the Dukes, will pay homage to the profound influence the late songwriter and mentor had on his life and songcraft with Guy, a 16-track collection of tunes penned by Clark. The first release from the album, “Dublin Blues,” is out today.
Out March 29th on New West Records, Guy was produced by Earle and...
Out March 29th on New West Records, Guy was produced by Earle and...
- 1/9/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Ely and his wife, Sharon, have lived on the same ranch outside Austin, Texas, for 38 years, and in that time they’ve accumulated enough memorabilia to fill an entire building on the property. So it’s ironic that Ely’s latest “lost album,” Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, came not from his own personal effects but from those of his longtime pedal steel player, Lloyd Maines.
“He found this record just about a year and a half ago in a cardboard box,” says Ely, sipping a cup of coffee...
“He found this record just about a year and a half ago in a cardboard box,” says Ely, sipping a cup of coffee...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Lucinda Williams will mark the 20th anniversary of her Grammy-winning LP Car Wheels on a Gravel Road with a 10-city tour this fall. Launching November 2nd in Collingswood, New Jersey, the trek includes a two-night stand at the Paradise in Boston, with stops in New York, Chicago and Toronto, Ontario. Williams will perform the critically acclaimed album in its entirety, followed by a second set of songs from throughout her career.
The late Nineties recording — then shelving and re-recording — of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is now the stuff of legend.
The late Nineties recording — then shelving and re-recording — of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is now the stuff of legend.
- 8/20/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
On January 25th the Museum of the Moving Image held a special screening of Phantom of the Paradise with Paul Williams in attendance, and we have for you here all the highlights of the Q&A.
Last year the documentary Paul Williams: Still Alive championed the cold hard fact that Paul Williams was, indeed, not dead. You know, Paul Williams. He wrote songs for The Carpenters and The Muppets (even Muppet Otters). He co-starred alongside Jackie Gleason in all the Smokey and the Bandit movies. He was a staple on Carson’s couch during the 70’s.
With his diminutive height, blond pageboy and glasses, he looked like an unlikely star. And by "star" I mean huge—Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar winning and a sex symbol to boot. But we horror folks remember him best from Brian De Palma’s 1974 box office failure-cum-cult classic Phantom of the Paradise. Not only...
Last year the documentary Paul Williams: Still Alive championed the cold hard fact that Paul Williams was, indeed, not dead. You know, Paul Williams. He wrote songs for The Carpenters and The Muppets (even Muppet Otters). He co-starred alongside Jackie Gleason in all the Smokey and the Bandit movies. He was a staple on Carson’s couch during the 70’s.
With his diminutive height, blond pageboy and glasses, he looked like an unlikely star. And by "star" I mean huge—Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar winning and a sex symbol to boot. But we horror folks remember him best from Brian De Palma’s 1974 box office failure-cum-cult classic Phantom of the Paradise. Not only...
- 2/23/2013
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
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