(Track: 03) Lucinda Williams - Lake Charles

[wafflancakes]

Yay! I love my Town.

[LJBroussard]

The song is about Clyde, a real person -- a beautiful song about a real & beautiful person by a real & beautiful person -- anyone who doesn't like the music should listen to something else and not write mean things. I'm from Louisiana but met Lucinda when she worked at a greeting card shop a thousand lifetimes ago on Congress Avenue in Austin: the girl is a genius, always has been and always will be, her.

[boltonsgirl1]

Out of tune, terrible absolutely terribe. total rubbish!

[adorav]

@boltonsgirl1 would you even know in tune if it hit you on the head?

[TheHeliumkid]

i'm proud to say this song is about an old friend of mine...

[seapro17]

CCR is from Frisco ? Really... I would have never guessed that. I got to look this up. No way !

[spw143]

love this song...it was in the background after Sookie saved Bill and they were chatting by that big tree...nice southern atmosphere.

[TheSarahfran]

do any of you know this song was not written for or about True Blood? It's a heart -on-her sleeve tribute to a real-life person she lost way too soon?

[AnamichelApted]

@TheSarahfran Obviously. Most of the music on True Blood was not written for the show.

[MatrixBear]

This song takes me to the times when my dad was alive, my mum and he were married, and alltogether a family... I miss those days...

[hamhockdoc]

CCR and Van Morrison are "carpetbaggers"

[Ebie16]

now this is what I call music :)

[MsRuby44]

I am aware of that, thank you though, what I meant was that CCR and Van Morrison both make music that sounds like the deep south, or at least they do to me. I love all of them.

[MsRuby44]

right up there with CCR and Van Morrison, Lucinda represents the "Deep South" which is where I'm from, the music is in a class by itself.

[AMRadioOfficial]

@MsRuby44 'cept Van Morrison's from Ireland and CCR's from Frisco...great artists, though. Just not sure they "represent" the south.

[marci1966]

two of my fave things...Lucinda and True Blood....

[locojohnston]

pretty sure every musician in nashville has incredible talent

[buggadugg]

What? Red Necks don't know good music? .... Just had to say it. Ha.

[XOMartha44]

I always cry when I hear this song. It's my favorite LW.

[JiveDadson]

This is one of my favorite songs, period. I wonder if the lyrics are about an actual person, and if so what happened to him.

Lucinda Williams oozes sincerity. Hers is a voice with True Grit. And the lyrics! "In a yellow El Camino ... " To a native of East Texas who used to drive with fellow teenagers to Lake Charles in the 60's, to drink and listen to soul music (both eye-colors) at The Big Oaks, The Showboat, and Lou Ann's, that is an evocative image. Maybe you had to be there.

[Mya181617]

I'm from Lake Charles!!!! :D

[cajunsteph2003]

LAKE CHARLES

TO OUR PAPA NUJIE, WE LOVE AND MISS YOU!!!

[xxReachingOutxx]

half of my family lives in Lake Charles, LA...

[aquanette123]

what part was this played in the show?

[Kelly2k1]

@aquanette123 Hi It was played in TB season 1 ep 1 it was played after Sookie saved Bill from the Ratrays

[Tyreall101]

Different song............ lOl

[PaisleyBisiani]

Love the True Blood soundtrack; what a great way to listen to lots of different music with a red-necky theme to tie it all together.... :)

[dgteika]

@PaisleyBisiani couldn't agree with you more!

[aquanette123]

@PaisleyBisiani aint that the truth!

[tcelikel]

@PaisleyBisiani This is not red-necky music. I take exception to that. Lucinda and others on the album represent some of the best music to have ever come out of the American South. Nashville is red-necky. This is genius.

[skinnyblink7]

@tcelikel Thank you for that comment! This song (and her whole album 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'), turned me on to so many new artists that I was missing out on. Her voice...damn.

[spencermillion]

@tcelikel "red-necky" does not have to be a bad thing. it's been given awful connotations, but it derives from a term describing field laborers and became negative due to classism. Nashville is certainly not rednecky--it's bourgeois and shallow and flashy as all hell, and that's why a genuine artist like Lucinda is superior to it. it ultimately comes down not to social standing but character and talent.

[JiveDadson]

@PaisleyBisiani Not red-necky. Swamp-ratty, maybe. But not red-necky. Before the interstate highway system, before the internet, regions were more distinct. I hear pure East Texas/West Louisiana in this music. Of course the lyrics are kind of a give-away. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road takes the listener on a tour of points east - all the way to Jackson. It is a ride you should not miss.