Live From Austin, TX '89

Live From Austin, TX '89

This is a real musical treasure Lucinda Williams very first appearance (of three) on Austin City Limits, recorded October 13, 1989, and one of the highlights of the 15th anniversary season. She was riding the wave of her hit song, Passionate Kisses, that buoyant paean to desire and hope that appeared on several rock critics best of lists the year before. In fact, it seemed like everybody was wild about Lucinda. What was it about her the songs, full of raw emotion? The voice exuding longing, desire, passion? All that and more. It s not like she was the new kid on the block, having released her first record in 1979 on Folkways. But her self-titled album Lucinda Williams, the year before this performance, blew the doors wide open. Maybe music fans were starving for the kind of tell-it-like-it-is honesty that Lucinda delivers in spades. As The New York Times noted, she s got her finger on her audience s pulse, a pulse that runs straight to the heart.

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