LES COVERS, Quand les autres reprennent Le Boss (sujet unique)

bill horton a écrit:Lucinda Williams emmène Springsteen faire un tour dans le bayou (où il y a une Usine un peu comme dans les swamps of Jersey)

Tom Overby a écrit:There were some nights in the studio when we would get one song finished and Lu would want to keep going but she wouldn’t want to start something new that she didn’t think we could finish that night. As a result - we would record a song that she liked or a song that we had played live a few times. We had played this Bruce Springsteen song several times in the previous year so everyone knew it well and we cut this in probably less than an hour. Bill Frisell’s guitar is so haunting and just perfectly conveys the mood of the song. He just pulled that opening riff out of thin air and all of us in the control room just looked at each other with amazement.

A few months after recording this my father (Lucinda’s father in-law) passed away after a long struggle with dementia. He loved music, which meant my interest in music started very young - we always had some great records around the house. He worked for 31 years at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota. The line “men walk through these gates with death in their eyes” is only too true. I grew up seeing it firsthand. This song became a tribute to him, but I didn’t know if it should be on the record based on what it meant to me. Thankfully, I was quickly outvoted by everyone else involved with the record - most importantly Lucinda. They all felt that this song absolutely had to be on the record and I’m glad they did. In memory of Cal Overby 1933-2014.