Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty Lucinda Williams

• 1 Rebels 04:57
• 2 Runnin' Down a Dream 04:40
• 3 Gainesville 04:12
• 4 Louisiana Rain 04:49
• 5 I Won't Back Down 03:12
• 6 A Face in the Crowd 04:08
• 7 Wildflowers 03:27
• 8 You Wreck Me 03:25
• 9 Room at the Top 05:53
• 10 You Don't Know How It Feels 03:56
• 11 Down South 03:30
• 12 Southern Accents 04:21
• 13 Stolen Moments 04:53
• Total Runtime 55:23

Info zu Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty

Das amerikanische Alternative-Country-Urgestein Lucinda Williams bringt die erste Ausgabe ihrer "Lu's Jukebox"-Initiative auf den Markt, bei der sie Songs eines einzelnen Künstlers covert und den Erlös an angeschlagene unabhängige Veranstaltungsorte spendet. Runnin' Down A Dream" markiert den siebzigsten Geburtstag von Tom Petty und enthält dreizehn Titel aus seiner Karriere.

Anknüpfend an die Grafik von Full Moon Fever und wenige Tage vor seinem Todestag (am 2. Oktober 2017) erinnert Lucinda Williams mit diesem für Highway 20 Records aufgenommenen Tribute-Album mit dem Titel Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty an die verstorbene Persönlichkeit von Tom Petty. "Wir wollten eigentlich schon lange eine Cover-Serie machen, hatten aber bei meinem Tourneeplan nie die Zeit dazu", erklärt Lucinda Williams. "Ich denke, der Silberstreif am Horizont war, dass ich in der Lage war, mich in die Songs einiger meiner Lieblingskünstler hineinzuversetzen - zu sehen, wie sie ticken. Meine Hoffnung für dieses Projekt ist, dass wir so vielen Veranstaltungsorten helfen können, wie wir können. Sie sind unser Zuhause, als Künstler. Wir müssen uns um sie kümmern, um der kommenden Live-Musik willen." Lucindas wunderbare Stimme und die luzide Genialität von Tom Pettys Musik sollten eine unglaubliche Mischung ergeben und Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty zu einem wirklich unüberhörbaren Album machen.

"Natürlich lebt Runnin' Down A Dream auch von den klasse Vorlagen Pettys, kann Williams bei Songs wie ›I Won’t Back Down‹, ›Wildflowers‹ oder ›Southern Accents‹ ihre bekannten Stärken bestens zur Geltung bringen.​" (Good Times)

Lucinda Williams, Gesang
Stuart Mathis, Gitarre
Joshua Grange, Gitarre, Keyboards
Steve Mackey, E-Bass
Fred Eltringham, Schlagzeug
Lauren Farrah, Hintergrundgesang

Lucinda Williams
was born in 1953 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to a professor of literature and a pianist. Lucinda’s earliest influences in music encouraged her to learn to play the guitar and sing, and by the time she was in her early twenties, she was performing in bars and clubs in the Houston area. Williams’s debut album, Ramblin’, was recorded and released in the late 1970’s, but it did not garner much attention. Neither did the follow-up, Happy Woman Blues, but Lucinda Williams was not discouraged.

Lucinda moved to California in the early 1980’s and began performing around the Los Angeles area. By the latter part of the decade, she’d signed with a record label and released Lucinda Williams, which spawned the single “Changed the Locks,” the song for Lucinda to earn some major radio play. On the strength of this single, Williams began to build a fan base and by the time she released Sweet Old World in 1992, she’d become far more established. Another single from her record label debut, “Passionate Kisses,” actually became one of her biggest achievements, not for Lucinda’s recording of it herself, but after Mary Chapin Carpenter covered it, the song earned Lucinda Williams a Grammy for Best Country Song in 1994.

Since then, Lucinda Williams has continued to release a number of successful albums, including: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998), Essence (2001), World Without Tears (2003), West (2007), and Little Honey (2008.) In addition to her Grammy for “Passionate Kisses,” she has also earned Grammys for the albums Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence, World Without Tears, and Little Honey, and for the singles “Can’t Let Go,” “Essence,” “Get Right with God,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Lately,” and “Come On.” Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is considered to be Lucinda Williams’s mainstream breakthrough, in part due to the song “Still I Long for Your Kiss,” which was featured in the blockbuster hit The Horse Whisperer.

Most recently, Lucinda Williams released the album Blessed in 2011. She continues to record and perform.

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