LUCINDA WILLIAMS Room & Board Studio, Nashville TN
Nov 12, 2020
3 minutes
LAURA BARTON
APPROXIMATELY two bars in to her rendition of Tom Petty’s 1985 song “Rebels”, one begins to wonder why anyone other than Lucinda Williams ever covers Petty. There is a similar consistency to their voices – a viscosity, almost, and a shared looseness to their demeanour. From their earliest meeting, she says in her opening monologue, “I was taken with him.”
Subtitled Running Down A Dream: A Tribute To Tom Petty, this is the first instalment of Lu’s Jukebox – a series of six streamed-and-ticketed live performances organised by Williams, with proceeds going to independent
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