Perhaps it couldn’t be otherwise after a tornado ripped apart her house and then a stroke ripped her body. Perhaps this is not a particularly gender-sensitive thought. But the kind of defiance, nostalgia, cultural uneasiness that Lucinda Williams exudes here at seventy, in songs like “New York Comeback” or “This Is Not My Town,” is more what you’d expect from a man his own age who doesn’t immediately say, that everything used to be better (but often thinks so).
This big Rock’n’Roll heart only finds solace at the “Jukebox” next door
So it’s fitting that alongside Angel Olsen and Margo Price, Bruce (with Patti) does the honors twice (and the proud curtain call “Never Gonna Fade Away” seems like a late variation of his “Fade Away”). This big Rock’n’Roll heart only finds solace at the “Jukebox” next door. The song could easily become a (country) classic in the Wurlitzers, which will no longer exist. She wants, Williams sings, to be where she can find a song. So you guys do another one, possibly as nice as “Hum’s Liquor,” a tribute to Replacements desperado Bob Stinson.
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