Lucinda Williams – I Lost It
Happy Birthday Lucinda.
I know. She’s not like Cher or Adele.
She has a last name.
But when someone says, “Lucinda,” you know who they mean, don’t you?
And now I have to choose ONE song from SO MANY great ones.
The one I’m choosing is so good she recorded it twice.
The first version — from 1980’s “Happy Woman Blues” — is a jaunty, fiddle-backed country version.
The version I chose is from “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” (1998), and there’s nothing jaunty about it.
It’s raw and visceral. Electric guitar with the distortion and reverb turned way up. Drums that don’t hide in the background. Background accordion (and then a solo) that roots this song in Zydeco country.
And a vocal performance that is one of Lucinda’s greatest — soulful and soaring. Confident and vulnerable at the same time.
This song gives me chills (the good kind) every time I hear it.
Today’s Song
Title: I Lost It
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Album: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
YouTube Link:
Lyrics
I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can’t replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I’m never gonna find
Another one to compare
Give me some love to fill me up
Give me some time give me some stuff
Give me a sign give me some kind of reason
Are you heavy enough to make me stay
I feel like I might blow away
I thought I was in heaven
But I was only dreaming
I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can’t replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I’m never gonna find
Another one to compare
I just wanna live the life I please
I don’t want no enemies
I don’t want nothing if I have to fake it
Never take nothing don’t belong to me
Everything’s paid for nothing is free
If I give my heart
Will you promise not to break it
I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can’t replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I’m never gonna find
Another one to compare
Money can’t replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I’m never gonna find
Another one to compare
Here are the Playlists:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xYKtYparrdJRYAjBj9kjx?si=eb6c3ebc30484204
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/ware-house-concerts-song-of-the-day/pl.u-Ggz26cZlAVLj
