1 LONG ISLAND WEEKLY LPublished by Anton MediaI Group • MWarch 23 - 29, 2016 Vol. 3, No. 11 $1.00 LongIslandWeekly.com EXCLUSIVE SouthernAmericana bard Lucinda Gothic Williams SEE OUR 2016 SPRING CAMPAIGN INSIDE ON THE BACK COVER. BROADWAY’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH PARIS GERMAN FOOD IS WUNDERBAR AT PLATTDUETSCHE SPECIAL SECTION: BANKING & FINANCE YEARS 4A ANTON MEDIA GROUP • MARCH 23 - 29, 2016 Visiting The Ghosts Of Highway 20 Lucinda Williams takes a musical trip into her past Lucinda Williams (Photo by David McClister) BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO vocation as a visiting college professor— project. It’s particularly effective on music. It’s an exercise she did on the last
[email protected] places like Vicksburg, MS, and Minden, character-driven fare like the sleepy record via the gorgeous acoustic opener LA—Williams has recorded 14 songs jazz arrangement that tells the tale of a “Compassion.” As she admits, transpos- In the 1968 song, “Salt of the Earth,” populated by the same kinds of blue junkie in “I Know All About It” and the ing from a poem to a song is an inexact the Rolling Stones once sang, “Let’s collar individuals she came to know bluesy “Doors of Heaven,” which finds science she’s getting the hang of. drink to the hard working people/ growing up in the Deep South. Williams taking on the world-weary “That’s the thing, when you’re Let’s think of the lowly of birth/Spare a The Louisiana native and her long- voice of a dying person ready to singing, the words kind of have to roll thought for the rag taggy people/Let’s time rhythm section of David Sutton move on.