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It's the first ACL show from 1989 -- where her hair is blonde and she's playing with the original band. Gurf Morlix on guitar. 

Thanks, @stuartk  .  I would have loved to seen her back then.  As I typed previously, it wasn't until sometime after SOW I discovered her.  Actually, it was because of her vocal work on Terry Allen's Human Remains (specifically it was the track Room To Room that I first heard off of that) that started my obsession.  But back then I was too stupid to check the credits and see whose voice that was.  So it wasn't until I bought Steve Earle/I Feel Alright that I made the connection.  And then I bought every Lucinda CD I could find, which were far and few between back then.

So I didn't get her "White Album" until it was reissued and released the same time as Car Wheels.

@immatthewj 

My introduction to her was "Car Wheels..."

I don't recall whether I bought the "white album" before or after having seen the ACL broadcast. I have the 2CD version that includes live performances. 

These two remain my favorite L. Williams recordings. 

@stuartk  , ah, I misunderstood you, I was thinking you had seen that performance live.  She had a great voice back then (not that she still doesn't, but it has gone through the changes).  After I finally figured out whose voice it was that I was liking so much on those Terry Allen and Steve Earle CDs I referenced, the first Lucinda CD I bought was Happy Woman Blues; I get the feeling that it did not get great critical acclaim, but I loved it then and still do today.  Great writing and imo great vocal work.  I was frontrow at center stage at The Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh for the Poetry Said/Poetry Sung she did with her father.  That was the highlight of my life for a while.

@immatthewj 

Seen her live?   I wish !  

Saw EmmyLou in '76, though, with the original Hot Band. That was special.  

@stuartk , always good to talk to another Lu-natic! (I am not the originator of that term.) EmmyLou in ’76? Not far removed from the look and sound she had on her cameo at The Last Waltz, huh? I bet that was special. I got to see her with Spy Boy during The Wrecking Ball tour at a little 500 seat general admission joint--as always I was right up front and center .That was an older Emmy Lou.

Back in my Junior-Groupy days I had the good fortune to see Lu an even dozen times. The first time was like a religious experience for me--that same 500 seat general admission club (front & center again) that I saw Emmy Lou at--Jim Lauderdale was the opener and then played with Lucinda and the band. The next time was almost as much of a religious experience at a club right next door that held about 1200 standing, and, of course, I was standing front and center leaning against the stage. I was so close I could almost read the folder on the floor that she would flip through with one of her cowboy boots. Patty Griffin opened for her that time and I remember Kenny Vaughan was wearing a Flaming Red tee-shirt.   Man oh man but those were the days and I used to feel good about life.

Oh well, ramble on. . . . Keep on rocking in the free world!