She’s Got Reissues « p.72 extra steps. But we wanted to tie it in to the anniversary. SD: Going back through that album, were you struck by any differences in the person or artist you were when you originally made it? LW: Oddly enough, the songs on that album have really stood the test of time. I do have some older songs from my early career that I don’t really like now. But I still do a lot of the songs from that record in my shows. But there are some that I don’t feel comfortable doing now.
SD: How did you arrive at that revelation? LW: I looked a lot at Bob Dylan’s career, how his earlier albums were so metaphorical and deep and crazy, and nobody understood ’em. But right before I made Essence, he put out that album with Daniel Lanois, Time Out of Mind, which I thought was brilliantly simple and eloquent and just beautiful. I saw him kind of go to that place where he had already painted his masterpiece and he was just writing what he wanted to write. And not everybody liked it. He got a lot of criticism. But over the years I’ve given myself permission to do different kinds of songs and different kinds of things. It’s just a matter of growing and being more mature.
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SD: You have a double album due out in September and then another record possibly six months later. one of the things people like me often say about you is that you take SD: So was the latest batch of songs your time writing, almost to a fault. written all at once? What spurred the sudden burst of LW: Not really. I’ll start songs and it writing? might take a while for me to finally finish LW: It was pretty unprecedented. But them. In fact, a couple of songs on the I think that’s gotten better over the new records are several years old. I just years. Back when I started, I wasn’t hadn’t recorded them yet. One of them used to the process: was a song I wrote writing, recording, years and years ago touring, writing, that I didn’t think recording, touring. was good enough You’re expected to to record. And put out an album [husband Tom every year. And I Overby] found it on hadn’t recorded an old cassette-tape that much. When demo and he said, the Rough Trade “Wow, this is great. version of [Lucinda LU CinDa WiLLiamS We’ve got to cut Williams] came this.” And I said, out, I’d had so “Really?” So I cleaned it up a bit and we much time to write, because I hadn’t recorded that. been signed to a label and wasn’t in that process. I already had all the songs. All of SD: So you really are your own worst a sudden, I had to come up with a whole critic, huh? bunch more songs, at least as good as LW: [Laughs] I really am. But the new those, for the next album. And I had a material was really a combination of problem with that, too. It was too soon. resurrecting old material I had almost I was my own worst critic. I went and forgotten about and writing new stuff. said, “Well, I don’t have enough good SD: You worked with a friend of songs. I can’t put an album out yet.” When I went to record Sweet Old mine, Jim Rooney, on John Prine’s World, I pulled the plug and went back duets album In Spite of Ourselves. and wrote more songs, one of which was How did you find working with Jim? the title song. I didn’t want to just put LW: Oh, yeah! The thing I remember out anything. In that regard, people call about Jim is that he likes to work me a perfectionist. But it wasn’t really quickly. I remember sitting with John and I think we did a few takes and he that. I was just nervous. that’s a wrap!” He likes The real change came after Car was, like, SCAN“OK, THIS PAGE YOUR LAYARand get it done. But he in there Wheels on a Gravel Road. There was to getWITH TEXT TO WATCH A VIDEO easy to work with and all this pressure because it had done so was real HEREsuper SEEm PAGE 9 well and I didn’t know how I was going friendly. to follow it up. I just had to get to a point where I just said I wasn’t going to try to copy Car Wheels. And you can see that. inFo I started giving myself more freedom to Lucinda Williams Band, Kenneth Brian write songs like “Are You Down.” I had Band, Saturday, June 28, at 8 p.m. to tell myself that not everything had to at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $9.50/39.50/46.50/79.50. be this narrative masterpiece.
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