Lucinda Williams - Long Way from Home - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2010)

I've been busy for the past week or so, but I hope to make up for that with some more posts in the next few days. Here's the next in my long series of stray tracks albums for Lucinda Williams.

Basically, if you liked the previous albums in this series, you'll like this one too. Five of the songs (tracks 3 through 7) are live performances of rare songs taken from bootlegs. The sound on those are all pretty good. The rest come from the usual mix of songs from soundtracks, tribute albums, duets on other peoples' albums, and the like. 

Nearly all of the songs are covers, including famous songs by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams, Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, and Jimmy Webb. (What great taste in music she has!) But I believe "Port Arthur (Difficult Child)" is an original, and "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" might be one too.

She did the Hank Williams tune "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" on her 1979 album "Ramblin'." But that's a little-known album for her, and this is a differently done version, so I decided to include it.

There's one bonus track, "Ball and Chain." It's a cover of a song Janis Joplin also liked to cover. It actually comes from the exact same concert recording of one of the songs I did include, "Port Arthur (Difficult Child)." But that song was done in a solo acoustic format, which is more forgiving to bad acoustics. This song was played with a full band, and there was a bit too much murk and echo for me.

01 Positively 4th Street (Lucinda Williams)
02 Don't Let Me Down (Susan Marshall & Lucinda Williams)
03 The Things that I Used to Do (Lucinda Williams)
04 Happy (Lucinda Williams)
05 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Lucinda Williams)
06 Angel (Lucinda Williams)
07 Port Arthur [Difficult Child] (Lucinda Williams)
08 Somebody Somewhere [Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight] (Lucinda Williams)
09 The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (Lucinda Williams)
10 Long Way from Home (Lucinda Williams & Ray Davies)
11 Galveston (Jimmy Webb & Lucinda Williams)

Ball and Chain (Lucinda Williams)

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The cover art photo was taken at a concert in Denmark in 2009.