If you knew Blaze or you heard him talk about what he thought he had to go through to be the best songwriter he could possibly be then you'd understand why she asks 'why'd you ever let it go that far". That's not just another line in the song that rhymes - that line goes straight to the heart of Blaze's downfall. Lucinda absolutely captured Blaze Foley's persona with this song. And it was a tragedy in the true sense of the word. He should not have let it go that far....
Lucinda is one of those artists you just buy whatever she puts out. I own ALL of her CDs. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is such a stunning work. The Austin City Limits performance where she plays most of that album is available and well worth buying. I never get tired of watching it.
If you like "Car Wheels", you really owe it to yourself to sink into "Sweet Old World"!! I swear its even better - waaay better, actually!! : )) Happy listening : )) ruclips.net/video/VRtMZDJdIIU/видео.html
I cry every time I hear this song. He had the voice of an angel, took us to church, with it too. Thank yu Lucinda for capturing true heroes in song. Blaze Foley died too soon, a friend of his was on disability, and HIS son would come to his house on the first of the month when the old man got his check and the son would rob him. Blaze had decided he was gonna kick the kids' hind end, try to teach him a little respect towards his dad, a veteran, the kid wasn't man enough to take his licks, and when Blaze came after him, with only his fists, the kid shot him in the gut, and he died. Love you Lucinda and Blaze too. RIP Blaze, you were an honorable man.
Thank you for sharing and I share your feelings . I listen often to this song with Blaze's RUclips performances on my play list /Life Love Roots and Lucinda does him justice . I never saw Blaze but see Lucinda every chance I can . Like so many great True Artists they leave us too soon. Gram Parsons come to mind ... enjoy the gifts they leave us..Be well
I am so sorry! Just a heartbroken story. OMG! My love is with you and family and friends of this great tragedy of life taken. Thank you for sharing this. Yes RIP Blaze.
@@peterschancel7223 I was fortunate enough to see Lucinda in the summer of 2017 at knuckle heads in KC, oh man oh man what a kick ax concert! Lucinda is beautiful gracious and so uniquely talented, here lyrics straight from the heart, sometimes ripped from the heart, sometimes cajoled. She blew us away.
@@australopithecusss I agree I saw Lucinda Williams at the Calgary Folk Festival in 2004 and again same venue on the island in the Bow River 2015..The soul of roots music runs deep in her..We have put on some hard miles in life . She was my crush .. still is
you magnificent creature! this is a showcase of the man and your love for him. he's on the other side, but I'd bet anything he's right on your side. xo
First time I heard Lucinda was when I was living in Brooklyn and the WFMU dj put on "I Long for Your Kiss."" I thought--who is this woman with the wonderfully rough voice? Loved her individuality and her music ever since.
I like to drink beer, hang out in the bars I don't like buses, I don't like cars Don't like presidents Don't like stars Never had stitches but I do got scars I love to go to parties, I love my friends I got no books but I got book ends Think I'm crazy but that depends I don't seem that crazy to me. -Blaze Foley-
I have to say, this song is real and honest to the core. What a masterpiece, Lucinda Williams. My hats off to you and your band and all involved. Love this song, and all of you.
Grew up on punk and oi but my dad indoctrinated me on good country when I was in my first few years of life and I will always be a Appalachian hillbilly at heart that’s where I come from
I first heard her at U....1991, my friend played "Changed the Locks" off her self titled album of 1988....he played it three times in a row, and I still can't get enough.
She's got such a unique style and voice. I hadn't heard much about her until I saw her with Willy Nelson. I thought to myself how good she'd sound with Tom Petty. I'll be darned if she hadn't done so already.
well i listen to lucinda wiliams everyday , and show her beautiful talents to someone new every month, everytime i envolope the new unsuspecting child to her beautiful world , the reaction is always the same . how come i have never heard her befor , she is amazing ,oh my god , !!! how can i get this music , and say thesame thing over and over , when the mesenger is ready , you will recieve .. .
This song and Jim Carroll's poem song "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain" are relatives. Something in the guitar in this one reminds me of The Byrds. Lucinda, you are so real.
world without tears 111????if you can listen to that without any emotion you are wasting a good body and heart , shes not like anyone else but that's what makes me love her __________
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Love this song and truly very poignent about a great song writer who has almost been forgotten. Lost his life trying to do whats right. I hope the man who killed him is rotting away
so amazing to see Kenny Vaughan on guitar. Genius phanomenal +such a cool guy. he used to come into sunshine grocery. i was star struck. i saw him play with greg garing numerous times, they would do dueling guitar solos it was like a sonic war. completely amazing. his solo stuff is so good. check out the tulsa song. or a song about aint making money making love like they're paying at the factory/
I’m not a huge popular/modern country fan, but went to Nashville for the first time this year. Everytime one of the people playing in the bars asked for requests, I requested Lucinda. No one knew her!!! No one knew Waits or Nanci Griffith either. That just ain’t right. (My UBER driver did though, so there’s hope for that town yet 😉)
my mom used to listen to this women shes got a gift i mean all the other singers are all "Woop ur but woop my but its a party of the a** woop it yeah yeah woop it hard oooooooooo" thats the truth of wat kids listen to
There's a new documentary about Blaze Foley doing the film festival rounds at present. Gurf Morlix, who used to play with Blaze, is touring with it, singing Blaze's songs. Well worth catching, if you can.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I met Lucinda after she played mountain stage in Charleston, Wv-I was with a friend of hers so we went back stage and after we all went to the Marriott and talked for about 2 hours-I asked her about this song and she said she wrote it about a friend of hers, I believe in Texas-she was very nice and humble and what a kickin band back then-young guy played guitar, wonder what happened to him?
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
+Pamela Taylor Yeah, two of my absolute faves, but at least Lucinda didn't break my heart by becoming a religious fundamentalist and subverting her immense talent to a monothematic chorus of 'praise the lord!' (repeat forever) Hey, if religion makes her happy, that's her right, but there's sooo much more to life and so much more to sing about than 'praise the lord.' Lucinda is still wowing us. Michelle just, well sings (and preaches) to her own choir and hasn't done anything original in 20 years. So sad. Such a waste of genius. She was for a while my all time favorite artist. But I still have Lucinda and will see her perform in a few weeks. I have no dounbt I will be blown away.
@dientzy dientzy, I agree, the band is awsome, but with Lucinda's singing, hey, I have been with here since I first helped put her on a major stage, Mariposa, in Toronto, Lucinda has a unique voice, it is not like others, I guess that the best I could say is that all of us were drinking, Sunday morn, there is Lucinda on stage with a very drunken John Prine, and an audience of about maybe 6 half frozen souls, and it was one of the best things I have ever seen
I have known many drunken angels in my life...love them all...
Emmylou Harris once said she thought she'd heard all of country music - then she heard Lucinda Williams! This song is proof of that ability.
Drove 335 miles to see her the first time, helluva weekend coffee cigars and lucinda CD for 3 days
Car wheels on a gravel road for 335 miles?
Time well spent
bless Blaze, Townes and those of such spirit and rhyme
Kinda crazy two of the greatest song writers ever considered each other brothers thanks West Texas
@@williamcole60 over that state line lives John Moreland in Ok.
Been listening to this song for years, had no idea it was about Blaze Foley.
HER DAUGHTER SUE FOLEY,VANCOUVER ..AWESOME LIKE HER MOTHER.
Kasbian Vaulks Blaze was a King
Best compliment you can pay any young singer....She's got a Lucinda Williams vibe going on.
If you knew Blaze or you heard him talk about what he thought he had to go through to be the best songwriter he could possibly be then you'd understand why she asks 'why'd you ever let it go that far". That's not just another line in the song that rhymes - that line goes straight to the heart of Blaze's downfall. Lucinda absolutely captured Blaze Foley's persona with this song. And it was a tragedy in the true sense of the word. He should not have let it go that far....
Lucinda is one of those artists you just buy whatever she puts out. I own ALL of her CDs. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is such a stunning work. The Austin City Limits performance where she plays most of that album is available and well worth buying. I never get tired of watching it.
If you like "Car Wheels", you really owe it to yourself to sink into "Sweet Old World"!! I swear its even better - waaay better, actually!! : )) Happy listening : ))
ruclips.net/video/VRtMZDJdIIU/видео.html
@@lindacole7393 Have that one, too. Great album
I cry every time I hear this song. He had the voice of an angel, took us to church, with it too. Thank yu Lucinda for capturing true heroes in song. Blaze Foley died too soon, a friend of his was on disability, and HIS son would come to his house on the first of the month when the old man got his check and the son would rob him. Blaze had decided he was gonna kick the kids' hind end, try to teach him a little respect towards his dad, a veteran, the kid wasn't man enough to take his licks, and when Blaze came after him, with only his fists, the kid shot him in the gut, and he died. Love you Lucinda and Blaze too. RIP Blaze, you were an honorable man.
Thank you for sharing and I share your feelings . I listen often to this song with Blaze's RUclips performances on my play list /Life Love Roots and Lucinda does him justice . I never saw Blaze but see Lucinda every chance I can . Like so many great True Artists they leave us too soon. Gram Parsons come to mind ... enjoy the gifts they leave us..Be well
I am so sorry! Just a heartbroken story. OMG! My love is with you and family and friends of this great tragedy of life taken. Thank you for sharing this. Yes RIP Blaze.
@@peterschancel7223 I was fortunate enough to see Lucinda in the summer of 2017 at knuckle heads in KC, oh man oh man what a kick ax concert! Lucinda is beautiful gracious and so uniquely talented, here lyrics straight from the heart, sometimes ripped from the heart, sometimes cajoled. She blew us away.
@@australopithecusss I agree I saw Lucinda Williams at the Calgary Folk Festival in 2004 and again same venue on the island in the Bow River 2015..The soul of roots music runs deep in her..We have put on some hard miles in life . She was my crush .. still is
A great song, I have heard it many times. This version, with Kenny Vaughn on the 12 string is amazing. You can't get much better than this.
I think I was voted most Depressing DJ at WMWM Salem State College Radio in 1997 because of this song.
Her voice pierced my soul... This song is so true.
you magnificent creature! this is a showcase of the man and your love for him. he's on the other side, but I'd bet anything he's right on your side. xo
First time I heard Lucinda was when I was living in Brooklyn and the WFMU dj put on "I Long for Your Kiss."" I thought--who is this woman with the wonderfully rough voice? Loved her individuality and her music ever since.
First saw her when she opened for Neil Young in 04' in Lowell,Ma.Been a fan ever since....
She is iconic....... How about that guitar solo as well ???
Drunken angel lyrics
@@lonewanderer56ga29 Opening Act for Neil Young probably in 04 at Alpine Valley for the Greendale tour.
Lucinda is really something! magnificent artist!!!❤❤❤❤
I like to drink beer, hang out in the bars
I don't like buses, I don't like cars
Don't like presidents Don't like stars
Never had stitches but I do got scars
I love to go to parties, I love my friends
I got no books but I got book ends
Think I'm crazy but that depends
I don't seem that crazy to me. -Blaze Foley-
Darn good words
I have to say, this song is real and honest to the core. What a masterpiece, Lucinda Williams. My hats off to you and your band and all involved. Love this song, and all of you.
I am from Texas and lived in Austin but far to late to have met Blaze Foley. What a talent and a unsung songwriter. I love his work.
What a sweet tribute... From France.
I tried to leave Lucinda to explore other music, but she keeps drawing me back. Just love her. Wish she would come back to Australia 🇦🇺
What a voice! You can hear the feeling in every one of her songs! Beautiful,not polished just beautiful!
i listen to punk rock and play in a punk band and lucinda williams is incredible.
Grew up on punk and oi but my dad indoctrinated me on good country when I was in my first few years of life and I will always be a Appalachian hillbilly at heart that’s where I come from
Here here oi oi brothers what song for the future n past
One of the best songwriters/musician there is, imo.......
One of the best singer-songwriters of her or any other generation. imo. Thanks posting.
Egad ... I know you're kidding ... woman can write but cannot sing.
So prophetic. Got a couple brothers on the other side for living the same life.
Amazing song.
Can’t say I like it, but I understand.
She is without peer. One of the best ever.
Only Lucinda could write such an honest yet beautiful tribute to Blaze.
I first heard her at U....1991, my friend played "Changed the Locks" off her self titled album of 1988....he played it three times in a row, and I still can't get enough.
The soul in this song is unbelievable. Love her, Blaze & this song!
Lucinda knew great song writers ie. Blaze Foley-Bless her heart for writing this song for Blaze
Lucinda has a brilliant band as well...
How come this song is not on country stations because is too good! RIP Blaze
You said it. It’s too good.
DAM SHE NAILED THAT ! ALL THE WAY AROUND!!
God I love this song. Reminds me of someone I used to know. Always gives me chills to listen to it. Thanks so much for uploading this.
She's got such a unique style and voice. I hadn't heard much about her until I saw her with Willy Nelson. I thought to myself how good she'd sound with Tom Petty. I'll be darned if she hadn't done so already.
I love this lady! She is amazing.
Blaze is a legend❤... Lucinda is also 🎉
I always come back to listen to this song. It just does something to me.
SUPER CHILL!!!
Lucinda Williams is an artist for the ages, period, end of story.
Cheers!
FrankC32
well i listen to lucinda wiliams everyday , and show her beautiful talents to someone new every month, everytime i envolope the new unsuspecting child to her beautiful world , the reaction is always the same . how come i have never heard her befor , she is amazing ,oh my god , !!! how can i get this music , and say thesame thing over and over , when the mesenger is ready , you will recieve .. .
Lucinda is the BEST.
Kenny is now playing lead guitar with Marty Stuart and The Supurlatives on the RFD channel each week.
Shes such a badass...seen lu n lauderdale after a 3 yr stay n the jail....her music got me thru it...keep it up chic..im 60...love you
thankyou lucinda....such magnificent music and lyrics....i love you...to the moon...
Perfect tribute
Blessing to all
Even the ones who never had the privilege to meet the the master
Been in love with Lucinda for 20 years now
life
Have really just started listening to Lucinda. She's a different sound for sure, deep soul kinda stuff.
welcome aboard.
Me too. But now its all day every day...
Listen to a lot! No deeper to be found. My favorite to turn people on to.
This song and Jim Carroll's poem song "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain" are relatives. Something in the guitar in this one reminds me of The Byrds. Lucinda, you are so real.
Reminds me of maggie may the guitar
Its the 12 string your hearing
I love the byrds I can totally hear what you mean
One of my favorites.
Got this on CD - one of Lucinda's everrr lasting ones - text & musicians) and performance. Top
world without tears 111????if you can listen to that without any emotion you are wasting a good body and heart , shes not like anyone else but that's what makes me love her __________
If wasnint for blaze and towens
Not sure if we would have any good music
Amen
And rest in peace
Gone. Still with us living
Great song, great work.
I heard her interviewed on NPR yesterday. Her music, unplugged anyway, belongs in a coffee house. I'd never even heard of her till yesterday!
This song is a masterpiece.
what a fantabulous tribute.. LOVE YOUR MUSIC!!!
Awesome lyrics, too true. Brings tears to my eyes, a lump in my throat. It makes me remember W.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Love this song and truly very poignent about a great song writer who has almost been forgotten. Lost his life trying to do whats right. I hope the man who killed him is rotting away
love her voice and she's got Blaze pegged to a tee with respect and truth
so amazing to see Kenny Vaughan on guitar. Genius phanomenal +such a cool guy. he used to come into sunshine grocery. i was star struck. i saw him play with greg garing numerous times, they would do dueling guitar solos it was like a sonic war. completely amazing. his solo stuff is so good. check out the tulsa song. or a song about aint making money making love like they're paying at the factory/
What the freak! Beautiful!
I Love Lucy...one of the best songs ever about wasted talent.!
Thanks. She is great.
Great song, great artist. Thx for posting! Cheers.
she mixes me up......I love her real music...keep rocken on!
shes singin about another great
Some of us just have inner turmoil we can’t explain, Lucinda, and because of how we cope we tend to let everyone down one way or another
RIP BLAZE FOLEY.
Lucinda-loved meeting you at mountain stage with your friend scott-great kick ass band!!!!!!
This song breaks my heart.
WHAT A SONG !! HER BEST I THINK.
I’m not a huge popular/modern country fan, but went to Nashville for the first time this year. Everytime one of the people playing in the bars asked for requests, I requested Lucinda. No one knew her!!! No one knew Waits or Nanci Griffith either. That just ain’t right. (My UBER driver did though, so there’s hope for that town yet 😉)
my mom used to listen to this women shes got a gift i mean all the other singers are all "Woop ur but woop my but its a party of the a** woop it yeah yeah woop it hard oooooooooo" thats the truth of wat kids listen to
There's a new documentary about Blaze Foley doing the film festival rounds at present. Gurf Morlix, who used to play with Blaze, is touring with it, singing Blaze's songs. Well worth catching, if you can.
She feels it.
I like this version better than the other versions.
You GEAUX girl!
Been listening since '01
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
@magprob I can't think of a single better name for a guitarist than "Morlix". Priceless.
the best ever life changing song ever- lucinda your music is perfect....
Gonna see her this weekend over in M chusets. Can't wait.
Thank you
Got the tickets in hand. (Well, actually in the cell phone). Avalon Theater, Grand Junction, Colorado, September 5.
I met Lucinda after she played mountain stage in Charleston, Wv-I was with a friend of hers so we went back stage and after we all went to the Marriott and talked for about 2 hours-I asked her about this song and she said she wrote it about a friend of hers, I believe in Texas-she was very nice and humble and what a kickin band back then-young guy played guitar, wonder what happened to him?
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Beautiful
Cool vibe and interesting; will buy the new cd tomorrow
i love this awesome singer
beautiful
So great.🎸🎶🥃🚬☠️
She has the sexiest American accent, just love the way she rolls the "r"....😊
There's a sexy American accent?.....I had no idea.
I could never think of our accent as sexy bahaha 😂
Love your voice ❤️hope you can soon play guitar again
God we all got battles aint we Lucinda
Great song for a great man.
Lucinda Williams is my guitar hero
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Fabulous!!! -BAC
man.. she looked SO good here, best look for her IMO
Thank you for posting!!!
She affects me in a way that Michelle Shocked does. Great songwriters/performers. Glad I've seen both live in this lifetime.
+Pamela Taylor Yeah, two of my absolute faves, but at least Lucinda didn't break my heart by becoming a religious fundamentalist and subverting her immense talent to a monothematic chorus of 'praise the lord!' (repeat forever) Hey, if religion makes her happy, that's her right, but there's sooo much more to life and so much more to sing about than 'praise the lord.' Lucinda is still wowing us. Michelle just, well sings (and preaches) to her own choir and hasn't done anything original in 20 years. So sad. Such a waste of genius. She was for a while my all time favorite artist. But I still have Lucinda and will see her perform in a few weeks. I have no dounbt I will be blown away.
This was her best band i feel.
yes...this one is great
@dientzy dientzy, I agree, the band is awsome, but with Lucinda's singing, hey, I have been with here since I first helped put her on a major stage, Mariposa, in Toronto, Lucinda has a unique voice, it is not like others, I guess that the best I could say is that all of us were drinking, Sunday morn, there is Lucinda on stage with a very drunken John Prine, and an audience of about maybe 6 half frozen souls, and it was one of the best things I have ever seen
for you jr-true talent-missed