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LONG ISLAND WEEKLY Lpublished by Anton Mediai Group • Mwarch 23 - 29, 2016 Vol 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. And while a cover of Bruce off. It’s so different than when you’re drink to the salt of the earth.” On her (bass) and Butch Norton (drums) were Springsteen’s “Factory Man” suggested reciting a poem and you have to come new 2-CD set, The Ghosts of Highway joined in by guitarists Bill Frisell and by her manager/husband Tom Overby up with some sort of refrain, hook or 20, Lucinda Williams sings and writes Greg Leisz. The latter duo, who played had some interviewers nitpicking that line,” she said. “But now I’m excited about many of these same types of folks. on Williams’ 2014 double-CD set, a cover by a New Jersey-based artist because I feel like I’ve kind of figured Feeding off the inspiration of the many Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, didn’t fit in with the southern motif of out the formula, sort of.” towns her family lived in along that wound up bringing a very ethereal the others songs, for the singer-song- And while Williams and Overby have rural interstate due to her late father’s ambiance to the tone of the current writer, the contributions of Frisell and both gone through the heartache of Leisz and the song subjects wound up losing parents, the love the two have making for a perfect for each other has sparked a prolific marriage. creative streak for “It’s such a Williams that has great-sounding yielded a pair of solid record. Everybody double CDs in the past loved the last one— four years. It’s quite a it’s great too, but this leap for someone who one has this thing unfairly gained a reputa- where people are tion as a perfectionist and saying it’s so deep. slow worker because of I was doing a radio the six-year gap between interview with her fourth and fifth albums Steve Earle for Sirius XM and he in the 1990s. said, ‘The thing I think with this album “I’m not really sure [where this is that I’ve never heard you sound like creative burst] has come from. It’s this before’” she recalled. “[The Ghosts this period in my life and being in this of Highway 20] represents working place where I feel where I’m com- class people and the struggles they go fortable. It’s given me more freedom through, Tom’s family went through being happily married and in that and my family went through. My dad kind of situation that’s forcing me to didn’t work at a factory but I grew up push myself to find other things to wearing hand-me-down clothes and we write about besides unrequited love,” had secondhand furniture. I shopped she said. “I have to be in a certain at thrift shops and we lived in rental state of mind to feel like writing. The houses. We never owned a house until other side of it all is that you can draw we settled in Fayetteville, AK in 1971.” on those things that created the pain. Looming large on this record is the I just look at it like an endless well ©2016 California©2016 Closet Company, Inc. All rights reserved. operated. independently owned and Franchises spirit of Williams’ late father Miller, a where I dip into it and pull stuff out poetry and literature professor who that goes all the way back into my California Closets creates custom storage solutions for every passed away from Alzheimer’s disease childhood and not just my own life. room in your home. Visit our showroom or call today to on Jan. 1, 2015. Not only does she It’s really been liberating to be in that arrange your complimentary in-home design consultation. sings of the “Slayer of wonder, slayer of place as a writer.” words/Murderer of poets, murder of Visit www.longislandweekly.com MANHASSET 981 Northern Blvd. songs” in the aching minimalist shuffle to read a review of the new Lucinda “If My Love Could Kill,” but she took Williams album The Ghosts of 516.334.0077 californiaclosets.com 147000 C 147000 one of her father’s poems and set it to Highway 20. NY146_AntonNews_4.2x5.5_0116.indd 2 12/23/15 1:14 PM 3 LongIslandWeekly.com • March 23 - 29, 2016 • Published By Anton Media Group • 516-747-8282 3A Songs Lucinda Williams Loves To Cover BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO rather unusual song choices she has [email protected] chosen to cover over time. Whereas For as rightfully revered as Lucinda Williams’ early career found her Williams is in being regarded the going down a path of cutting songs by Queen of Americana, she has always traditional blues and country artists been and continues to be a huge music like Sleepy John Estes, Hank Williams, fan. Between Williams’ insatiable The Carter Family and Robert Johnson, love of other people’s music and the recent years have found her dipping encouragement of manager/husband into the non-roots rock canons of AC/ Tom Overby, the critically acclaimed DC and The Clash. Here are five of the singer-songwriter has cast a net of Louisiana native’s favorites. (Photo by David McClister) David by (Photo The Velvet Underground It’s on another album and I don’t even Wall Street gig at the Fillmore. It’s kind “The words are written by Wayne 1“Pale Blue Eyes” from The know if it’s still in print. It was right after of one of his protest songs and a great Coyne of the Flaming Lips and Velvet Underground (1969) I moved to Los one at that. I love that it’s making a Thievery “I’ve always Angeles in the statement.” Corporation loved that song mid-1980s and I wrote the music. and the Velvet was asked to do a Gnarls Barkley “Who’s I played that Underground. song for some trib- 4 Gonna Save live with the That album that ute album that was My Soul” from band and I love the song comes songs from dead The Odd Couple it. Again, it’s a from is one of my folk singers, people (2008) topical song. favorite albums of like Nick Drake and Tim Hardin.” “I love the melody of ‘Marching the heat ma- all time. I love the melody of it and the this song along with chines into the sun...’ What a beautiful imagery.” Marvin Gaye the feeling of singing line. The imagery and the melody are 3“Inner City it and also what it beautiful (starts singing it)…It’s almost Nick Drake “Which Will” Blues (Make says. I also love the refrain of it.” anthemic.” 2 from Pink Moon (1972) Me Wanna “I recorded this one...The reason Holler)” from Thievery Corporation fea- Visit www.longislandweekly.com to for that is that I discovered him in What’s Going 5 turing Wayne Coyne of the read a review of the new Lucinda the early ‘80s and I love all of his On (1971) Flaming Lips “Marching the Williams album The Ghosts of stuff. I actually cut that song before “I love doing that Hate Machines (Into the Sun)” Highway 20. To read a full feature on song. We worked up for the Occupy I recorded it [for one of my records]. from The Cosmic Game (2005) Lucinda Williams, go to page 8A BUY SELL MOVE LIVE YOUR LIFE Ranked Top Selling Agent in Zip Code 11576 C 150962 East Hills, Roslyn, 516.639.9596 Roslyn Harbor [email protected] & Roslyn Estates Licensed Broker Associate Senior Global Residential Specialist Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist, SRES, CLHMS, CBR * Based on all sales in 2015 according to Real Pro Advantage. All Figures Approx. 49 ANTON MEDIA GROUP • MARCH 9 - 15, 2016 17A Real Estate for Sale Real Estate for Sale Lucinda Williams: COUNTY OF NASSAU OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR (516) 571-5911 Conjuring Up The www.nassaucountyny.gov (CLICK ON COUNTY DEPARTMENTS, THEN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR) Spirits Of The South P U B L I C A U C T I O N The Office of the Nassau County Public Administrator is offering the following Lucinda Williams –The Ghosts properties for sale at public auction.
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