Death, Sex & Money - Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

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🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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At 63 years old, musician Lucinda Williams is more successful than ever. But with age has come a lot of loss.

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0:00.0	Who was it that Catherine Hepburn or Betty Davis or Lauren McCaw, one of them said, you know, at my age I can say and do whatever the hell I want to say or do?
0:11.7	Is that how you feel now?
0:13.0	Pretty much, yeah.
0:17.3	This is death, Sex, and Money.
0:21.5	Dead is dead.
0:23.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:26.8	Do it?
0:27.9	Right here in a parking room.
0:30.4	And need to talk about more.
0:32.5	Pay that man his money.
0:34.9	I'm in a sale.
0:38.6	Am I too blue for you?
0:42.9	Am I too blue?
0:46.8	When I cry like the sky, like the sky sometimes, am I too blue?
0:55.6	This Lucinda Williams song, Am I Too Blue, is from her self-titled album, which came out in 1988.
1:02.6	It's one of my favorites of all time.
1:05.1	It's tough, sexy, and refuses to gloss over the pain of loss.
1:11.2	Lucinda's in her 60s now, but all her life, she's been writing songs about death, sex, and money.
1:17.2	Or at least death and sex.
1:22.1	Do I have any songs about money?
1:24.3	Let's see.
1:25.9	I feel like...
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