{"id":6274,"date":"2018-12-26T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T08:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2018-12-25T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:07:02","slug":"cover-me-lucinda-williams-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/26\/cover-me-lucinda-williams-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Lucinda Williams: Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucinda Williams has been covering Bruce&#8217;s music in her concerts for years (and teaming up with him on stage once as well), but she&#8217;s only recorded one of his songs in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>On her 2016 album,\u00a0<em>The\u00a0 Ghosts of Highway 20<\/em>, Lucinda recorded her cover of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/roll-of-the-dice-factory\/\">Factory<\/a>.&#8221; Her arrangement transplants the song from New Jersey to a lonely western town, but she finds and keeps tight hold of the purpose and the price that&#8217;s at the heart of the song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_EQYjzWAjs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>By the time she recorded the song in 2015, Lucinda had already been performing &#8220;Factory&#8221; in her concerts. If you were lucky, you might have caught one of those shows, like this one in Perth from 2013:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wspZI6rzBSs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucinda Williams covers Bruce in concert often, but she&#8217;s only covered him in the studio once. Take a listen to her version of &#8220;Factory&#8221; from her 2016 album, The Ghost of Highway 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2039,38],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-lucinda-williams","tag-the-rising"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/lucindarising.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-1Dc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6177,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/meeting-across-the-river-lucinda-williams-and-bruce-springsteen-disgusted\/","url_meta":{"origin":6274,"position":0},"title":"Meeting Across the River: Lucinda Williams and Bruce Springsteen, Disgusted","author":"Ken","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One time only: Bruce joined Lucinda Williams and her band on stage in London to perform a cover of Melvin Jackson's \"Disgusted.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jackson.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10476,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/cover-me-the-deep-dark-woods-factory\/","url_meta":{"origin":6274,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, The Deep Dark Woods: Factory","author":"Ken","date":"June 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian band Deep Dark Woods turns in a faithful cover of Bruce's minimalist musing on the meaning of work.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/factory.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/factory.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/factory.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/factory.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/factory.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":61328,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/kingdom-of-days-november-10-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6274,"position":2},"title":"Kingdom of Days: November 10","author":"Ken","date":"November 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Not one but *two* Springsteen box sets were released on this date: Live 1975-85 and Tracks. 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