Even the four solo albums from 1978 get their due, and they fall heavily toward the Gene and Ace half of the band in terms of quality ("Radioactive" and "New York Groove" respectively) with Peter and Paul running way behind (only Kiss Army commanders will recall "You Matter to Me" or "Hold Me, Touch Me "). This is partly due to the set's rule of "one track from every major album release" so that demo checks off 2001's The Box Set while the live version of "Room Service" takes care of the woeful comp You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!. The track list is filled with classics and desirable extras with hits like "Nothin' to Lose," "Beth," and "Lick It Up" appearing in their original studio and/or singles versions, while other blockbusters appear in alternate versions like "Detroit Rock City" in its Kiss Symphony: Alive IV recording and "God of Thunder" in demo form. … Lucinda, keep making records and keep giving us hope that the world is a wonderful place for all of us.Released just weeks after the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame succumbed and put "the hottest band in the world!" on their honor roll, the Kiss 40 compilation landed in order to celebrate four decades of rock & rollin' all night, and partying every day. Her music has given me a backbone of steel to believe that and live that dream all these years. She gave me the hope that, even in my 70s now, you never give up, man. “When Lucinda said yes, I think that her saying yes to me made me once again believe that, like the old 13th Floor Elevators song said, the kingdom of heaven is within you… She has been vocal about what she loves. The only two artists who quickly agreed to contribute without asking who else was on it, he said, were both in the room: Gibbons and Williams. “Doggone it, man, I wish I’d said hello more back on the drag back in 1974,” he said.īentley talked about how, a couple of years ago, he put together the second of two tribute albums he’d compiled in honor of his hero, Roky Erickson, and how difficult it was to attract performers for the most recent one. He spoke about discovering Williams busking in Austin in 1974 while he was writing for a local alternative paper, and writing and publishing an entire article that only referred to her by her first name, because he’d failed to ask her her last. The most passionate speech came from Bill Bentley, the Austin-cum-L.A. Boo!” That vow seemed to augur well for some kind of surprise Plant appearance in Nashville during the coming week. You’re one of my heroes/heroines… I love you very much, and I’m going to see you a lot sooner than you think. Plant, who is nominated for an Americana award this week for his duo work with Alison Krauss, told “Lu” that “let’s face it, I think the whole world recognizes the beauty and the body of your work and your lyrics… You’re a really fine lady. And for someone like me who’s new to Nashville and my background is in soul and jazz and blues, and I ended up deciding to come over to rock and country and Americana, it was very important for me to have a representative like you who did that for us… Any time anyone asks how do you expect to do all of this with all these genres, I say ‘Well, if Lucinda Williams can do all this, then so can I.'” Said Edwards before performing her cover, “Lucinda Williams is an important woman for women like me, because she is someone who took the road less traveled in terms of music and genre. Photo: Erika Goldring for BMI ERIKA GOLDRING He’s running a record company, and yet he’s speaking the right way, for the people, by the people - smash the corporations.” After a pause, she added: “Well, I don’t want to smash BMI, though! Y’all are good.”īMI’s Clay Bradley and BMI’s President and CEO Mike O’Neill present Lucinda Williams with the BMI Troubadour Award in Nashville on Sept. “We hit it off right away because he started talking about the industrial workers of the world, and he gave me an album of the songs from the Wobbly era and Woody Guthrie and everything, and progressive Southern social democrats. “One of the reasons I signed with that label is (David Macias is) an old radical lefty,” she said. Williams, who was helped to the stage but appeared healthy as she continues to recover from a 2020 stroke, had plenty of appreciative words, starting off with effusive praise for her publicist, Jim Flammia - now there’s a rarity in an acceptance speech - but reserving the most for her current label, Thirty Tigers. Angel Olsen performs for BMI Troubadour Award honoree Lucinda Williams on Septemin Nashville, Tennessee.
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