Lucinda Williams - KGSR-FM, Austin, Texas, December 3, 1991
Inevitably, [Mavis] will bring up Bob Dylan’s name and say: “Well, I just saw Bob the other day, he’s doing such and such.” One day, we were talking, and someone in the press had called me the female Bob Dylan, which had somehow got back to Bob; Mavis couldn’t wait to tell me. Fast-forward to the [2025] Outlaw Music festival, where Bob and I were both playing, and I was able to speak with him for a few minutes. I said, very sheepishly, “You remember that thing about the female Bob Dylan?”, and he stopped, smiled so big, and said, “Is that you?”, before adding, “Well, who else would it be?” That was the highlight of my year.
Of course, Lucinda doesn't need to be the female anybody ... she's Lucinda Williams. I was listening to this short/sweet KGSR-FM performance from late 1991 (via the valuable 3 Cameras and a Microphone channel) and knocked out all over again by the pure strength of her of her songs and singing. With a semi-stripped down band behind her, she rolls through a bunch of her early catalog, plus previews of the then-in-progress Sweet Old World. "Tu le ton son ton," Lucinda sings in a gorgeous opening "Crescent City," harkening back to Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco. Every now and then, things just sound absolutely right.
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