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Lucinda Williams played Rough Trade & 'Fallon' (pics, video)

photos by PSquared

Lucinda Williams @ Rough Trade 9/29/2014
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On past albums Ms. Williams has portrayed herself at moments of rage, excess and grief; now she prefers stability. Her songs are fully aware of wounds and pitfalls, but they’re more likely to be looking back or looking outward. Ms. Williams shows her kindly side in songs like “Temporary Nature (of Any Precious Thing)” “Stand Right by Each Other” and “When I Look at the World,” which admits, “I’ve been a total wreck” before it goes on to cherish “the world and all its glory.”

The surly, righteously wrathful Ms. Williams hasn’t disappeared. She’s still seething, and revealing some lingering pain, in “Cold Day in Hell” and “Big Mess,” each a good riddance to an ex. And she’s still thinking about loneliness: in “Wrong Number,” which gradually reveals a tale of trouble and abandonment, and in “This Old Heartache,” an old-fashioned honky-tonk tune that conceals neat craftsmanship behind the tearful scrape of her singing. – [NY Times]

Lucinda Williams celebrated the arrival of her first self-released album, the double-length Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone at Rough Trade on Monday (9/29). (Rough Trade, the label, put out Lucinda’s acclaimed 1988 self-titled album.) Accompanied by guitarist Stuart Mathis (who played in The Wallflowers), Williams performed stripped-down versions of songs old and new. Pictures from the Rough Trade show, including one of the setlist, are in this post.

While in NYC, Williams stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform “Protection” and video of that is below. Lucinda will be back in NYC to play at Beacon Theatre on November 17 with The Kenneth Brian Band, part of her fall tour. Tickets are still available.

More pictures from Rough Trade and the Tonight Show performance video, below…

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