h/t Frank Beacham Lucinda Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist. Her music is rooted in Louisiana. In this bittersweet song, she sings about an old boyfriend in “Lake Charles,” from her 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. The song is about Lucindas one-time boyfriend, Clyde Woodward, who died long after theyd split up. Lucinda had married and divorced in the interim, but Woodward’s influence was so profound that when his deterioration from cirrhosis of the liver reached its final stages in August 1991, Lucinda jumped on a plane from Los Angeles to see him before he died. Woodward died as Lucinda was in transit and she didnt get to say goodbye. Woodward knew the Louisiana backroads of Ville Platte, Eunice, Cankton, Sulpher, and could paint florid descriptions of crawfish boils and backwoods French dances as if he were swamp born. He was a cultural chameleon capable of conjuring jaw-dropping magic. He knew the music of Louisiana from swamp pop to Cajun to New Orleans to zydeco to Dixieland and back. He swore no Jazz Fest was right unless youd had a Dixie beer and softshell crab poboy for breakfast. He taught writers how to eat like royalty at happy hour buffets for the price of a beer; knew how to build the best barbeque pits (you dig a big hole and get an ol refrigerator with the door off...) and could talk his way into the Palomino in L.A. He acted as Lucindas first agent. Hed bring club owners boudin and crawfish by the bagful when he and Lucinda would come back from gigs in Louisiana. This is Clyde’s song.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:04:31 +0000
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