THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road finds the veteran southern singer-songwriter putting her own stamp on a dozen classics by The Fab Four: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The set list includes classic hits such as Can’t Buy Me Love, With A Little Help From My Friends and Something, though Williams and her band also take on beloved deeper tracks such as I’m So Tired, I’ve Got A Feeling and Yer Blues. Being raised on the blues in the South, the latter is a song Williams was clearly meant to sing.
Recorded at Abbey Road, The Beatles’ legendary studio in London, the new collection serves as Vol. 7 of her celebrated Lu’s Jukebox series, and is the first new volume in almost four years. While many great artists have recorded in the hallowed facility, as it turns out, Williams was the first major artist to record Beatles songs there — aside from The Fab Four themselves, of course.
As an acclaimed, award-winning singer-songwriter for more than four decades, Williams’ music has been highly influential and covered by a multitude of artists. Williams is also an extraordinary interpreter who, like all great interpreters, has the ability to inhabit a song and make it her own. She does just that throughout this selection of Beatles tracks, as she has done on each Lu’s Jukebox instalment.”
