“Passionate Kisses” by Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams wrote "Passionate Kisses" herself and put it on her self-titled third album in 1988, and in 1989 it went out as the record's fourth single. It's a song about wanting the whole deal: a soft bed, enough to eat, a rock band and, on top of all that, the kisses of the title. The Boot later called it a modern feminist anthem, and The Guardian's Robin Denselow heard a rousing country rocker.

Williams produced it with Gurf Morlix, who also plays guitar and sings, with Dusty Wakeman co-producing and engineering, John Ciambotti on bass, and Jim Lauderdale and Pat Quinn on backing vocals. She made a video for it in August 1989 and then stayed out of her own videos until "Rock n Roll Heart" in 2023. Rolling Stone put the song at No. 437 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2021.

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