After recently releasing her first concert album, “Live @ The Fillmore,” Lucinda Williams says the double-disc set opens more doors than it closes.
“There’s a pretty good selection of stuff but I would have had to put out a box set in order to really get everything,” Williams tells Billboard.com. “So, we we’re talking [about how] we’ll just have to put out another live album at some point and try to keep it going, like have Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.” One of the songs she feels is egregiously missing from the release is the title track to her 1998 disc “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.”‘
As far as the decision to release the live Lost Highway record, which was recorded in San Francisco over three nights in early 2004, the singer/songwriter says her current backing band — Doug Pettibone (guitars), Taras Prodaniuk (bass), Jim Christie (drums) — was just too good not to capture on tape.
Oddly enough, Williams didn’t want the pressure associated with making a live album so she asked her management not to tell her which shows were being recorded with a mobile unit. While this means there won’t be any video accompanying “Fillmore,” Williams’ 1998 Austin City Limits performance was recently released as a DVD by New West Records.
Notorious for taking her time between album releases, Williams says she has two dozen songs already written and recorded in a rough mix state for her next studio project, which is tentatively titled “Knowing” and may be released in early 2006.
Source billboard.com.
