Lucinda Williams wrote this bluesy tune just after the death of her father in 2015. "I broke down and cried when we tried to record it," she recalled to American Songwriter magazine. "It just came to me in that traditional form, like an old hymn.
The Lees Shore is named because it is to the leeward side of an approaching boat, has the wind blowing towards the shore. It can be dangerous, when the wind is pushing the boat inland.
