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Lucinda Williams takes on The Beatles in her latest jukebox entry

Danny Clinch
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courtesy of the artist

Many, many people have covered The Beatles, but only one other artist has recorded their songs at Abbey Road studios in London.

Lucinda Williams released Lu's Jukebox Vol. 7 — Lucinda Williams sings The Beatles from Abbey Road at the end of last year, and today, you'll hear her talk about what it was like working in that legendary studio, why she loves The Beatles, and how they've influenced her own work.

Williams also talks about how recording her own version of these well-known, beloved songs gave her new insight into The Beatles' songwriting, and sometimes even surprised her.

Set List

  • "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  • "Can't Buy Me Love"
  • "Yer Blues"
  • "Something"

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

Raina Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, comes to World Cafe from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where she was host and writer for the daily live, national morning program Mornings on CBC Music. She is also involved with Canada's highest music honors: Since 2017, she has hosted the Polaris Music Prize Gala, for which she is also a jury member, and she has also been a jury member for the Juno Awards. Douris has also served as guest host and interviewer for various CBC Music and CBC Radio programs, and red carpet host and interviewer for the Juno Awards and Canadian Country Music Association Awards, as well as a panelist for such renowned CBC programs as Metro Morning, q and CBC News.
Miguel Perez is an assistant producer at KERA. He produces local content for Morning Edition and KERA News. He also produces The Friday Conversation, a weekly interview series with North Texas newsmakers.