Death, Sex & Money - Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants
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🗓️ 7 September 2022
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In her sixties, musician Lucinda Williams is more successful than ever. But with age has come a lot of loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. What you're about to hear is an episode from 2016 with musician Lucinda Williams. I love this conversation. It feels like we're all just sitting together in her yard listening, here for whatever songs and stories she feels like sharing. And there are some pretty good ones. Lucinda lays it all bare. |
| 0:22.4 | She's funny and real, |
| 0:25.3 | and I hope you love hearing from her as much as I did. |
| 0:29.5 | Who was it that Catherine Hepburn or Betty Davis or Lauren McCall, one of them said, |
| 0:31.5 | you know, at my age I can say and do whatever the hell I want to say or do. |
| 0:37.9 | Is that how you feel now? |
| 0:39.2 | Pretty much, yeah. |
| 0:43.6 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:48.6 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:52.3 | and need to talk about more. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 1:01.5 | Am I too blue for you? |
| 1:09.0 | Am I too blue? |
| 1:11.6 | When I cry like the sky, like the sky sometimes, am I too blue? |
| 1:20.6 | This Lucinda Williams song, Am I Too Blue, is from her self-titled album, which came out in 1988. |
| 1:28.3 | It's one of my favorites of all time. |
| 1:31.3 | It's tough, sexy, and refuses to gloss over the pain of loss. |
| 1:37.3 | Lucinda's in her 60s now, but all her life she's been writing songs about death, sex, and money. |
| 1:43.3 | Or at least death and sex. |
| 1:48.3 | Do I have any songs about money? |
| 1:50.6 | Let's see. |
| 1:51.9 | I feel like... |
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