I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
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| "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" | ||||
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| Single by Lucinda Williams | ||||
| from the album Lucinda Williams | ||||
| B-side | "Something About What Happens When We Talk" | |||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Recorded | June 1988 | |||
| Studio | Mad Dog (Venice, Los Angeles) | |||
| Genre | Blues, Folk, World, Country | |||
| Length | 2:25 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Songwriter | Lucinda Williams | |||
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"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1989 as the third single from her self-titled third album (1988).
The song appeared in the fourth episode of the Amazon series One Mississippi, which aired on September 9, 2016.[1] Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell covered the song on their duet album The Traveling Kind (2015).[2]
Country music website The Boot ranked the song No. 5 on their list of the best Lucinda Williams songs, describing it as a "upbeat, organ-swirled song", writing "After starting off rather innocuously (I drove my car in the middle of the night/I just wanted to see you so bad), the brisk, twangy song evolves into something more like obsession: 'We'd always talked on the telephone/But I'd never been with you all alone,' Williams casually sings, before letting it slip that the visit is perhaps a surprise. 'I got off on the seventh floor, I just wanted to see you so bad'."[3]
A retrospective review of Lucinda Williams by The Austin Chronicle stated the song "still jumps from the speakers as if we're hearing it for the first time", calling it a "glittering example of what exemplary roots rock can be."[4]