Dead or Alive.
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bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 01:12 AM)
I always thought it would be interesting to meet Hunter Thompson (dead) and Stephen King (alive). I'd like to meet Steve Earle (alive). I would have liked to have met Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe (both dead) and Phil Caputo (alive).
Back in the '90s I really wanted to meet Lucinda Williams, and I actually did meet her. -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 01:35 AM)
She is a folk singer/song writer, and I guess she may not be famous unless one is a fan of hers. back in the late '90s she finally got some recognition for her Car Wheels On A Gravel Road CD, and prior to that, famous artists (Tom Petty, Mary Chapin Carpenter) had covered a few of her songs.
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bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 01:46 AM)
I suppose her fame is severely limited.
Particularly in the UK.
It took her a while to get on the radar screen here in the US, and for the most part, she probably never really did.
But she was/is famous to me, and I actually got to meet her a few times.
Unlike Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams kind of seems to avoid interacting with her stalker fans.
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bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 02:00 AM)
On youtube I found a concert from 1998 in Austin when she was touring the Car Wheels CD. This was about the time I started to get seriously obsessed with her. I was looking for something earlier, because I am sure some feel her sound was better in the late '80s.
Regardless, she is not everyone's cup of tea. Seeing as how it appears to be the full concert, you can skip from song to song if you feel like it. However, I have a feeling she may not do much for you.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=lucinda+williams+in+concert+on+youtube&&mid=70772E32B838CC59DA5270772E32B838CC59DA52&FORM=VAMGZC -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 02:56 AM)
Here is one I really liked from her self-titled album which I think was released around 1988. She had a different sound back then. I couldn't find a live performance of this, and sadly there is no video accompanying this one.
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If you are interested (and it's okay if you are not) here is a more recent video (2015) of her at a radio station in Seattle. She has put on some weight; in 2020 or so he had a stroke, but she is still performing and recording, I gather, from the youtubes I am seeing.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=youtube+of+lucinda+williams+performing+the+nights+too+long&&mid=DFF1E9A087B37007375FDFF1E9A087B37007375F&FORM=VAMGZC -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 20, 2026 12:02 AM)
Alternative folk is what I believe she is classified under.
Although he earlier CDs do have a country sound to them.
She always seemed to be a fan of the blues. Her very first CD on the Smithsonian Folkways label was all blues covers. I never cared for that particular CD of hers. -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 21, 2026 01:01 AM)
No doubt about it!
I had never heard of this guy until just now and thanks to you, but this is REAL country, not the country pop of today. I did a cursory search on him, and he dates way back to the golden days of country music. -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 02:41 AM)
Here's another video, one song, from a couple of CDs later (I think sometime before '05 and sometime after 9/11). That lady used to like to change her hair around; I don't know if she still does.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=youtubes+of+lucinda+williams+performing+in+the+UK&mid=8E5A8F892BC843137CDD8E5A8F892BC843137CDD&FORM=VIRE
As far as the Car wheels On a Gravel Road CD, I did a search and it was a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album she got. -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 03:19 AM)
Townes Van Zandt (dead). Another one who never got as famous as he should have, but another great song writer that many famous folks got songs from.
And I'd like to meet Willie Nelson (alive for now) who recorded Pancho And Lefty which Townes wrote. -
bitchsurn — 1 month ago(February 19, 2026 03:36 AM)
Here's one more.
I am actually thinking that you will get a kick out of this one.
It is not Lucinda; this is Steve Earle performing a song, live, in the late '80s or very early '90s, and the reason I think you'll get a kick out of it is that this was back when he was a pure party animal (heroin and coke) and it seems quite obvious that before he came back out to do this encore, he and the boys were back stage getting crazy for coca puffs
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=youtube+of+steve+earle+live+in+austin+doing+san+antonio+rose&mid=00A978FB709F4775BC7600A978FB709F4775BC76&FORM=VIRE