Tuesday March 06 05:00 AM EST
Lucinda's Butterfly Will Fly
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Lucinda Williams' new album, Broken Butterflies, is in the mixing process. The
singer-songwriter's long anticipated sixth album is the follow-up to her Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,
which was released in 1998. Fortunately, Broken Butterflies did not have the difficult birthing process that its predecessor
did -- Car Wheels took six years to complete because of Williams' supposed rampant perfectionism, and revolving door of
producers.
This time out Williams used the production services of Charlie Sexton, the Texas guitar whiz who cut his teeth in Joe Ely's
band and went on to pair up in the studio and onstage with the likes of Bob Dylan, Don Henley and Keith Richards. The
threesome began working in a Minneapolis studio in October and just finished last month.
Sexton is not only behind the boards on the record, but he also plays guitar, along with a stellar team that includes Bo
Ramsey, Neil Young cohort Jim Keltner, Tony Garnier, Reese Wyans and David Mansfield. "Essence," the first single from
the album is slated to go to radio on March 27th, with the album tentatively scheduled to hit stores on May 22nd.
Williams is also ready to hit the road. She'll play March 13th at Fort Worth, Texas' Caravan of Dreams, followed by a stint
at this year's South by Southwest at the Austin Music Hall on March 14th and 15th. On March 30th, she'll take the stage
with her father Miller Williams -- the 1997 Presidential Inauguration poet -- at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
JAAN UHELSZKI
(March 6, 2001) |
